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                                                   Volume 21, Number 6
                                                          May 19, 2011
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Announcement from Radiation Belts and Wave (RBW) Modeling Focus Group
and Call for Presentations at Upcoming GEM/CEDAR Joint Workshop
   1) GEM Radiation Belt and Wave challenge
   2) RBW schedule
   3) RBSPb event list
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From: Y Shprits <yshprits AT atmos.ucla.edu>,
      J Bortnik <jbortnik AT gmail.com>,
      S Elkington <lkingto AT lasp.colorado.edu>, and
      C Kletzing <cak AT delta.physics.uiowa.edu>


1) GEM Radiation Belt and Waves challenge

The GEM Radiation Belt and Waves focus group would like to invite
modelers and data assimilators to participate in its first GEM
challenge, in which the pool of participants will be simulating a
specified set of events, using a common data set as input.

An outline of the challenge, the rules and the relevant data are 
hosted on the Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory website and can be 
accessed at: http://virbo.org/RBW#Challenge_Data

The comparison of models and observations will take place at the 2011
GEM summer meeting. For the explanation of rules please contact
"Jacob Bortnik" <jbortnik AT gmail.com>, "Scot Elkington"
<elkingto AT lasp.colorado.edu>, "Paul O'Brien" <Paul.OBrien AT 
aero.org>, "Kletzing, Craig" <cak AT delta.physics.uiowa.edu>.


2) RBW schedule

This year we will have 5 GEM sessions and 1 joint GEM cedar
session. We encourage participants to submit the titles of their
presentations to http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~yshprits/rbw2011.html  by
June 12th. Contributed presentations will be approximately 5 min and
include no more than 3 slides. Invited presentations will be limited
to 10 min and 7 slides.  Presentations submitted after June 12 and
walk-in presentations will be limited to 1 slide. We particularly
encourage participants to submit their presentations to the Joint
with CEDAR session: Remote Sensing the Inner Magnetosphere.


3) RBSPb event list

The RBSPb event list, page is now operational on ViRBO
http://virbo.org/RBSPb   . The web site design contains a list of 
storms, relevant papers, data, and figures.  We encourage 
participations of the RBW working group to email publication titles 
and data relevant to these events to virbo+RBSPb AT virbo.org.

For comments/ questions please contact "Drew Turner"
<drew.lawson.turner AT gmail.com>, "Michael Hartinger"
<mhartinger AT igpp.ucla.edu>, "Weichao Tu" <Weichao.Tu AT 
colorado.edu>, "Yuri Shprits" <yshprits AT atmos.ucla.edu>, "Bob 
Weigel" <rweigel AT gmu.edu>


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