*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 8, Number 10 April 21, 1998 ----------------------------------------- Report on the Dayside Transients Workshop ----------------------------------------- From: "Zesta, Eftyhia" The one-day workshop titled "Dayside transient events in the high-latitude ionosphere and magnetosphere", took place on December 13, 1997 in San Francisco after the end of the fall AGU meeting. Transient signatures (less than 30 minutes duration) at the dayside magnetopause and its boundary layers and, in particular, their ionospheric response can provide crucial information about the mechanisms of the coupling between the solar wind and the magnetosphere. The main purpose of this workshop was to bring experimentalists, theorists and modelers together in a very informal setting and give them the opportunity to define the crucial issues and start collaborations. The workshop viewed dayside transients from a global perspective and tried to identify the causal links between transients in the solar wind, the bow shock and the magnetosheath, and the signatures of transients in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere. The workshop was very successful in being attended by about 30 scientists and by stimulating much discussion and many informal contributions. A full report on the results of the workshop is available at our web site http://www.dmi.dk/fsweb/miniworkshop/ or by emailing to the organizers. Eftyhia Zesta ezesta at sec.noaa.gov Therese Moretto moretto at dmi.min.dk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To add name to the mailing list, send a message to: editor at igpp.ucla.edu | |For message to whole GEM mailing list, send to: gem at igpp.ucla.edu | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html | |Please update your e-mail address. | |CAUTION: Do not send messages to gem at igpp.ucla.edu unless you want | | your message to go to everyone in the GEM mailing list! | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+