*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 14, Number 6 March 1, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- First CAWSES Space Weather Campaign from March 29 - April 03, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: D. Pallamraju The first CAWSES (Climate And Weather of the Sun Earth System) Space Weather campaign will be running in association with the campaign of CPEA (Coupling Processes in Equatorial Atmosphere) and the ISR World Days from March 29 to April 3, 2004. The focus of the ISR world days campaign will be the coupling between the high- and low-latitude ionospheres. The focus of the CPEA campaign (which runs through March-April 2004) is on the coupling from the troposphere up through the thermosphere in a strong convective region over Indonesia. The CAWSES campaign will draw together and expand these efforts by coordinating collaborating satellite and ground-based programs to produce a sun-to-Earth data set which dips down into the lower atmosphere. This campaign will also serve as the first testbed for a collaborative CAWSES/GEM/IAGA effort to combine international magnetometer chains to produce global maps of ULF wave index and magnetospheric density. There has been overwhelming response to the first CAWSES campaign announcement and several groups from satellite missions to ground instrumentation have indicated their interest in participating in this first campaign. You all are encouraged to participate and in case you have not already done so, please let the CAWSES Scientific Coordinator, D. Pallamraju (raju@cawses.bu.edu) know what instrumentation you will be planning to operate during this period to facilitate future coordination and establishment of databases. Updates and an evolving list of collaborating programs and individuals will be posted on the CAWSES website http://www.bu.edu/cawses . Stay tuned! +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+