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						     Volume 15, Number 40
						     June 15, 2005

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IM/S - Breakout: WG2 - Statistical and Empirical Models for the Radiation
bBelts - Call for Participants
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From: Reiner Friedel <friedel@lanl.gov>
      Paul O'Brien <Paul.OBrien@aero.org>

This joint WG2 Inner Magnetosphere / Storms campaign session will be held
on Tuesday, 28 June from 4:00pm to 6:00pm.

This session will focus on issues associated with building statistical 
and empirical models of radiation belt particle fluxes. During the 
session, we will survey existing data and recent developments in data 
calibration and statistical methods. If you are interested in presenting 
a short and informal talk in this session, please provide a title to 
either of the co-chairs.

This session will also solicit input to the COSPAR Panel on Radiation 
Belt Environment Modeling (PRBEM,
http://wwwe.onecert.fr/craterre/prbem/Working_group.html#progress). The 
working group consists of the following members:

B. Blake, Aerospace Corp., USA
C. Underwood, Univ. of Surrey, UK
S. Bourdarie, ONERA, France (Chairman)
R. Friedel, LANL, USA
M. Panasyuk, MSL, Russia
J. Cao, CSSAR, China
Y. Mijushi, Stelab, Japan

Upcoming actions of the working group are:

1. Agree on a set of user needs definition (radiation belt model 
   specification)
2. Data processing and analysis guidelines.

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