*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 14, Number 30 June 6, 2004 -------------------------------------------------- IM/S WG 3 ULF Wave Sessions at GEM -------------------------------------------------- From: Brian Fraser Mark Moldwin The new working group established last year within the Inner Magnetosphere/ Storms Campaign has been developed to examine the role of ULF waves in particle acceleration, loss, and transport. This summer WG3 will have a number of sessions co-sponsored with the other WG groups within IM/S as well as one independent session to discuss ULF wave diagnostics. Efforts to develop a ULF wave index will also be discussed. We invite participation in all of the sessions. If you would like to formally participate in any of the breakout sessions, please contact the session co-chairs. Monday 10:35 - 12:10: Breakout sessions: IM/S: WG-2 &3: GEM Storm Analysis, contacts: Mike Liemohn and Ian Mann 1:30 - 3:15: Breakout Sessions: IM/S: WG-1 & WG-2: GEM IMS Challenge: Data , contacts: Dennis Gallagher and Mark Moldwin This session is devoted to presentations and discussion regarding the quantitative and qualitative observations that are available to quantify the changing state of the inner magnetosphere during the challenge storms of April 22, 2001 and October 21-23, 2001. Modelers may be expected to provide predictive descriptions of densities, fluxes, flows, temperatures and other properties of the ring current, plasmasphere, and ionosphere during these storms. Come help us assess how and where modeling results can be tested. 3:15 - 3:45: Break -- Location: Eldorado Lobby 3:45 - 5:30: Breakout Sessions: IM/S: WG-2 & WG-3 session: On ULF heating/transport, contacts: Brian Fraser and Mary Hudson This session is devoted to understanding the role of ULF waves on heating and transport of the energetic electron radiation belt population. Discussion on the development of ULF wave indices, new results of ULF wave surveys, and new ULF wave coupling model results will be discussed. Tuesday 10:35 - 12:10: Breakout sessions: IM/S WG-2, WG-3 : Quantitative of e- and ion loss rates, contacts: Richard Thorne and Paul O'Brien 1:30 - 3:15: Breakout Sessions: IM/S - WG3 session: ULF Diagnostics, contacts: Mark Moldwin and Brian Fraser We invite participation in the discussion of the different techniques that can be used to infer properties (e.g., mass density, the location of the plasmapause, etc.) of the inner magnetosphere from both ground-based and space-based instruments. 3:15 - 3:45: Break -- Location: Eldorado Lobby 3:45 - 5:30: Breakout Sessions: IM/S: WG-1, WG-2, & WG-3: Theory and Modeling, contacts: Scot Elkington and Vania Jordanova Wednesday 10:35 - 12:10: Breakout sessions: IM/S: WG-1, WG-2 &WG-3: GEM IMS Challenge: Radiation Belts, contacts: Reiner Friedel and Richard Thorne The entire campaign will hear WG2 proposal for implementing a radiation belt component to the IMS Assessment Challenge. It is expected that a consensus plan for the phase of the challenge will be formulated during this open discussion session. 1:30 - 3:15: Breakout Sessions: IM/S: WG-1, WG-2 &WG-3: GEM IMS Challenge: Assessment, contacts: Mike Liemohn and Dennis Gallagher In this session we will seek to evaluate what has been learned in our previous sessions. Very brief presentations recommending approaches to group-metrics for data-model comparisons and those proposing an assessment of the state of inner magnetospheric modeling would be appropriate. Most of the session will be devoted to an open discussion as well. The results of this year's challenge will likely influence challenges in the other working groups, so broad participation is encouraged. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+