*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 13, Number 47 November 18, 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation in Defining the GEM Inner Magnetosphere Storms Campaign "IMS Challenge" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Anthony Chan (aac@rice.edu), Mike Liemohn (liemohn@umich.edu), Dennis Gallagher (Dennis.L.Gallagher@nasa.gov), Richard Thorne (rmt@atmos.ucla.edu), Reiner Friedel (friedel@lanl.gov), Brian Fraser (brian.fraser@newcastle.edu.au), and Mark Moldwin (mmoldwin@ucla.edu). Periodically, it is necessary to quantify the state of our ability to reproduce observed physical behavior in space plasmas. This involves establishing metrics that quantify success, assessing and documenting the results for each analysis tool, and suggesting directions for further research. At the Summer-2003 GEM Workshop, the Inner Magnetosphere Storms Campaign decided to pursue the possibility of issuing a community-wide challenge. The details of this "IMS Challenge" will be discussed during the IMS session (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.) at the GEM Mini-Workshop on December 7, 2003 in San Francisco. Challenges issued by other GEM campaigns have usually selected one or more data sets that modelers then try to reproduce with their computational tools. We would like to follow a similar pattern. However, due to the diverse nature of the modeling efforts within our campaign, we expect to select a number of data sets. The question of which data set for each type of model will be debated at the Mini-Workshop. In addition, the IMS Campaign has selected seven storm events for intensive, community-wide, comparative study. The choice of one or more of these events to be part of the IMS Challenge will also be debated at the Mini-Workshop. Therefore, the IMS Campaign working group chairs are requesting that members of the GEM community contemplate how they would like to see this Challenge defined, and then to bring your proposals, ideas, or suggestions before the group at the Mini-Workshop. Details of the GEM Mini-Workshop can be found at: http://gem.rice.edu/~gem We hope to see you there, Anthony Chan, Mike Liemohn, Dennis Gallagher, Richard Thorne, Reiner Friedel, Brian Fraser, and Mark Moldwin. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To subscribe GEM Messengers, send an e-mail to | | with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: | | subscribe gem | |To remove yourself from the mailing list, the command is: | | unsubscribe gem | | | |To broadcast a message to the GEM community, please contact Peter Chi at | | | |Please use plain text as the format of your submission. | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html | |Workshop Information: http://gem.rice.edu/~gem | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+