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FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2018-12-26T18:14:28Z

Tu: /* 2018 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu)

==2018 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2018 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/41/2018_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_real.pdf

== 2018 GEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (QARBM) focus group will be ending this year and plan to have three final sessions at the upcoming GEM workshop.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''RB enhancement''".
:This session will focus on quantitative assessment of the relative contributions of the acceleration, transport, and loss processes to radiation belt enhancements, including both the traditional and newly discovered physics. We will start with an invited “scene-setting” talk given by Dr. Mary Hudson, followed by short and workshop-style presentations and group discussions.

*'''Session 2 (Thu, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM):''' "''RB dropout''".
:This session will focus on quantitative assessment of the relative contributions of the acceleration, transport, and loss processes to radiation belt dropouts, including both the traditional and newly discovered physics. The format will be the same as Session 1, including an “scene-setting” talk (invited speaker TBD), short and workshop-style presentations, and group discussions.

*'''Session 3 (Thu, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up and Future overlook''".
:We will first summarize the results from our RB Challenges, and then continue with panel and group discussions on the remaining open questions and future directions of radiation belt studies. Our panelists include Drs. Jacob Bortnik (confirmed), Allison Jaynes (confirmed), Wen Li (confirmed), Geoff Reeves (confirmed), Drew Turner (confirmed), and Sasha Ukhorskiy (TBD).

Since all the sessions will be organized in discussion-based workshop mode, we invite submissions of short and informal presentations to Session 1 and Session 2 (with 3-4 slides and no intro or conclusions needed). Please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Mon, June 11th, 2018. To reserve sufficient time for discussions, the talks will be scheduled based on relevance and the submission time. For the summary of RB Challenges, if you have published (or have in prep or presented at conferences) on our Challenge events, please send us the info as well. We strongly encourage you to participate in our fun group discussions in all three sessions. Thanks in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2017 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5a/QARBM_miniGEM2017_Talk_schedule_v2.pdf .

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
The overview of our challenge events, the currently available data files (DLL, EMIC and magnetosonic wave activity, chorus and hiss diffusion matrix, plasma density, etc.), and the README files for instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/28UnLpw .

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

File:2018 GEM QARBM talk schedule real.pdf

2018-12-26T18:14:11Z

Tu:

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2018-12-26T18:13:27Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu)

==2018 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2018 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2018 GEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling (QARBM) focus group will be ending this year and plan to have three final sessions at the upcoming GEM workshop.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''RB enhancement''".
:This session will focus on quantitative assessment of the relative contributions of the acceleration, transport, and loss processes to radiation belt enhancements, including both the traditional and newly discovered physics. We will start with an invited “scene-setting” talk given by Dr. Mary Hudson, followed by short and workshop-style presentations and group discussions.

*'''Session 2 (Thu, 10:30 AM-12:00 PM):''' "''RB dropout''".
:This session will focus on quantitative assessment of the relative contributions of the acceleration, transport, and loss processes to radiation belt dropouts, including both the traditional and newly discovered physics. The format will be the same as Session 1, including an “scene-setting” talk (invited speaker TBD), short and workshop-style presentations, and group discussions.

*'''Session 3 (Thu, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up and Future overlook''".
:We will first summarize the results from our RB Challenges, and then continue with panel and group discussions on the remaining open questions and future directions of radiation belt studies. Our panelists include Drs. Jacob Bortnik (confirmed), Allison Jaynes (confirmed), Wen Li (confirmed), Geoff Reeves (confirmed), Drew Turner (confirmed), and Sasha Ukhorskiy (TBD).

Since all the sessions will be organized in discussion-based workshop mode, we invite submissions of short and informal presentations to Session 1 and Session 2 (with 3-4 slides and no intro or conclusions needed). Please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Mon, June 11th, 2018. To reserve sufficient time for discussions, the talks will be scheduled based on relevance and the submission time. For the summary of RB Challenges, if you have published (or have in prep or presented at conferences) on our Challenge events, please send us the info as well. We strongly encourage you to participate in our fun group discussions in all three sessions. Thanks in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2017 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5a/QARBM_miniGEM2017_Talk_schedule_v2.pdf .

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
The overview of our challenge events, the currently available data files (DLL, EMIC and magnetosonic wave activity, chorus and hiss diffusion matrix, plasma density, etc.), and the README files for instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/28UnLpw .

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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'''Detailed Schedule'''

Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders and Research Area Coordinators. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

All other information about the 2018 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].

== Monday, June 18 ==

=== 0830-1000: Plenary Session ===

=== 1030-1200: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

==== [Joint] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere + Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====
'''ULF waves during particle injections and dipolarizations'''

*1. Discussion of Session Topic

*2. Bob Lysak -- Modeling Pi2 waves

*3. Toshi Nishimura -- Ionosphere observations of Pc5 ULF waves during 2018 HGSO conjunctions

*4. Xueling Shi -- Long-lasting poloidal ULF waves observed by multiple satellite and SuperDARN HF radars

*5. Jian Wang -- New RCM-I simulation results for buoyancy waves

*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of Buoyancy Waves

*7. Yan Song -- What Causes the Substorm Expansion Phase and Associated ULF Waves?

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [Joint] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere + Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====
'''Recent advances in ULF wave research'''

*1. Overview of focus group goals and recent progress

*2. Brief ULF wave poster overviews (Tuesday posters)

*3. Kazue Takahashi -- Observation of nightside ULF waves by RBSP and Arase

*4. Tom Elsden -- Broadband Excitation of 3D Alfven Resonances (FLRs) in an MHD Waveguide

*5. Boyi Wang -- 2-D structure of foreshock driven Pc5 ULF waves observed by the THEMIS satellites and South Pole imager

*6. Xiaochen Shen -- Foreshock transient-driven ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves with dawn-dusk asymmetry of wave power

*7. Chih-Ping Wang -- ULF waves possibly driven by tailward propagation of foreshock perturbations

*8. Allison Jaynes -- Fast diffusion of ultra-relativistic electrons in the outer radiation belt: 17 March 2015 storm event

*9. Rualdo Soto -- The Drift-Mirror instability in Earth's inner magnetosphere

*10. Martin Archer/Mike Hartinger -- Results from Sonification and Citizen Science of Magnetospheric ULF waves

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====
'''EMIC wave generation, propagation, and interactions''': Discussion leaders Alexander Drozdov and Maria Usanova

*1. Chae-Woo Jun -- EMIC waves associated with/without the injection inside/outside the plasmapause

*2. Naritoshi Kitamura -- Direct measurements of energy transfer from hot H+ to EMIC waves by MMS

*3. Mark Engebretson -- MMS, Van Allen Probes, and ground based magnetometer observations of EMIC waves associated with a modest interplanetary shock

*4. Bruce Fritz -- ELF Whistler Dependence on a Sunlit Ionosphere

*5. Alexander Drozdov -- Modeling of the radiation belts with EMIC waves using the VERB code

*6. Dedong Wang -- EMIC wave observations from Van Allen Probes and MMS

*7. Maria Usanova -- TBD

*8. Hyomin Kim -- Magnetic Induction Coil Array

*9. Sebastian Cervantes -- TBD

==== [Joint] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere + Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

=== 1730-1830: Plenary Session ===

== Tuesday, June 19 ==

=== 0830-1000: Plenary Session ===

=== 1030-1200: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory ====

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

==== [Joint] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

=== 1800-2100: Posters ===

== Wednesday, June 20 ==

=== 0830-1000: Plenary Session ===

=== 1030-1200: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [Joint] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====
'''ULF wave modeling challenge'''

*1. Brief ULF wave poster overviews (Thursday posters)

*2. Mike Hartinger: ULF wave modeling challenge event overview, discussion of challenge targets (continuing during session)

*3. Mariko Teramoto: ARASE ULF wave observations during challenge event

*4. Sam Califf: GOES-14 and 16 observations during the ULF wave challenge event, Data Discussion

*5. Toshi Nishimura: PFISR measurements of the 27-28 May 2017 ULF waves

*6. Dogacan Su Ozturk: The modeling study of the 27 March 2017 Event

*7. Xiaochen Shen: GEM Challenge Event: ULF wave-related electron and proton precipitation/negative dynamic pressure pulse driven EMIC wave

*8. Others discuss when their figures/summary plots in event overview pdf are presented…

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory ====

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

“Progress in Systems Science”. This session will be comprised of short oral presentations highlighting this year’s progress. Speakers will include Shin Ohtani, Lynn Kistler, Bob McPherron, Brian Walsh, Katariina Nykyri, Misha Sitnov, Alexander Lipatov, and Joe Borovsky

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====
This session will include talks on general validation topics, followed by a discussion of validation at GEM.

- Mike Liemohn: ILWS-CCMC “metrics for modeling geomagnetic indices” 
- Adam Kellerman: "Application Usability Levels: A framework for objectively measuring a projects progress towards specific applications.” 
and: "Verification of the UCLA real-time data assimilative VERB code over the 2016-2018 period of operation." 
- Lutz Rastaetter: New visualizations and metrics 
- Misha Sitnov: “Global MHD validation of substorms and implications for kinetic simulations” 
- Nathaniel Frissell: "Modeling Amateur Radio Soundings of the Ionospheric Response to the 2017 Great American Eclipse" 
- MM&V Co-chairs (presented by Katherine Garcia-Sage): GEM Validation - Issues and Ideas 

Following the speakers, we will have a discussion on ideas and issues for organizing validation at GEM.

==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

This is the final (5th-year) session of the GSS Focus Group. This session will be an audience discussion to assess the systems-science approach to understanding geospace and to consider new ideas for the future.

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====
1. San Lu, 3D global hybrid code

2. Lin Yu and Lei Cheng, Kinetic Alfven waves in 3D global hybrid code

2. Robert C. Allen: Cassini flyby of the magnetotail

3. Anton Artemyev, thin current sheet

4. Andrei Runov

5. Xiaochen and Quanqi Shi, Kelvin-Helmholtz waves in mid-tail

6. Jiang Liu, Field-aligned currents

7. Chih-Ping Wang

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====
'''Chairs:''' ''Weichao Tu and Steve Morley''

'''1. Mary Hudson (scene-setting talk, 15min)''': Recent Advances and Open Questions in RB Enhancements

'''2. Alex Boyd''': What Causes Radiation Belt Enhancements: A Survey of the Van Allen Probes Era

'''3. Hong Zhao''': Effects of Solar Wind and Magnetospheric Processes on the Ultra-Relativistic Electron Acceleration in the Outer Radiation Belt

'''4. Adam Kellerman''': Quantitative analysis of the radiation-belt electron phase-space-density response to stream-interaction regions utilizing the data-assimilative VERB code

'''5. Zhao Li''': Relativistic electron advection during CME-shock driven storms

'''6. Leng Ying Khoo''': On the Initial Enhancements of Energetic Electrons and the Innermost Plasmapause Locations During Storm Periods

'''7. Dedong Wang''': VERB Simulation for GEM Challenge Events

'''8. Ivan Vasko''': Electrostatic Steepening of Whistler Waves

'''9. Anton Artemyev''': Electron nonlinear resonant interaction with short and intense parallel chorus wave-packets

'''10. (walk-in) Scot Elkington''': Test Particle/SDE Simulations of a Stormtime Enhancement Event

'''11. (walk-in) Xiaojia Zhang''': Properties of intense field-aligned lower-band chorus waves: implications for nonlinear wave-particle interactions

==== [Joint] Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

== Thursday, June 21 ==

=== 0830-1000: Plenary Session ===

=== 1030-1200: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects ====

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====
'''Chairs:''' ''Jay Albert and Wen Li''

'''1. Sasha Ukhorskiy (scene-setting talk, 15min)''': Recent Advances and Open Questions in RB Dropouts

'''2. Seth Claudepierre''': Empirical estimates of electron lifetimes in the radiation belts

'''3. Zheng Xiang''': A statistical survey of radiation belt dropouts observed by Van Allen Probes

'''4. Joe Borovsky''': MeV-Electron Dropouts without MeV-Proton Dropouts

'''5. Luisa Capannolo''': Understanding the driver of energetic electron precipitation using coordinated multi-satellite measurements (24 September 2013 Challenge Event)

'''6. Mark Engebretson''': EMIC wave events during the four GEM QARBM challenge intervals

'''7. Armando Maldonado''': On the diffusion rates of electron bounce resonant scattering by magnetosonic waves

'''8. Oleksiy Agapitov''': Chorus-microburst relations and the corresponding scaling

'''9. Alexander Drozdov''': Modeling of a non-storm dropout event

'''10. (walk-in) Robyn Millan''': Newly selected REAL CubeSat Mission

'''11. (walk-in) Poorya Hosseini''': Whistler wave-particle interaction in the Earth's radiation belts

==== Ground Magnetometer Array Group ====

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects ====

==== SPEDAS Demo and Tutorial (General/New Users) ====

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation: Conductance Challenge Session ====

- Geoff Crowley 
- Slides from Steve Kaeppler 
- Slides from Ryan McGranaghan 
- George Khazanov 
- Margaret Chen 
- Agnit Mukhopadhyay 

The goal for this session is to discuss data/model results from the specific challenge days, as well as data/model parameters, uncertainties, assumptions, and boundary conditions, with an eye toward making comparisons for these events (including model-model, data-data, and model-data comparisons).

After the speakers, we’ll determine whether there is anyone else who we need to get involved in the challenge events and identify next steps for making comparisons and moving the challenge forward.

'''Challenge events:''' 
#1 2016 Oct 13-15 
#2 2013 March 17 
'''Bonus storms (selected by the CCMC Space Weather Capabilities Auroral Assessment team):''' 
#3 2015 Jun 21-24 
#4 2012 March 9 

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects ====

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====
'''Chairs:''' ''Steve Morley and Jay Albert''

'''1. Steve Morley''': Summary of RB Enhancement and Dropout Challenges

'''2. Lauren Blum''': Newly selected CubeSat mission at GTO orbit

'''3. Xinlin Li''': Newly selected CubeSat: Inner Radiation Belt Experiment (CIRBE)

'''4. James McCollough''': Update on DSX Mission

'''5. Panel Discussions''': Remaining Open Questions and Future Directions of Radiation Belt Studies

'''Panelists: Jacob Bortnik, Allison Jaynes, Wen Li, Geoff Reeves, and Drew Turner'''

=== 1800-2100: Posters ===

== Friday, June 22 ==

=== 0830-1000: Plenary Session ===

=== 1030-1200: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects ====

==== [FG] Interhemispheric Approaches to Understand M-I Coupling (IHMIC) ====

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [Joint] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System (IEMIT) + Interhemispheric Approaches to Understand M-I Coupling (IHMIC) ====

==== SPEDAS Demo and Tutorial (Analyzing MMS data with SPEDAS) ====

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System (IEMIT) ====

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu)

== 2017 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5a/QARBM_miniGEM2017_Talk_schedule_v2.pdf .

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
The overview of our challenge events, the currently available data files (DLL, EMIC and magnetosonic wave activity, chorus and hiss diffusion matrix, plasma density, etc.), and the README files for instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/28UnLpw .

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-12-08T22:57:47Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2017 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5a/QARBM_miniGEM2017_Talk_schedule_v2.pdf .

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
The overview of our challenge events, the currently available data files (DLL, EMIC and magnetosonic wave activity, chorus and hiss diffusion matrix, plasma density, etc.), and the README files for instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/28UnLpw .

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

File:QARBM miniGEM2017 Talk schedule v2.pdf

2017-12-08T22:57:17Z

Tu: QARBM miniGEM2017 Talk schedule

QARBM miniGEM2017 Talk schedule

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-12-08T01:13:35Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2017 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/9/96/QARBM_miniGEM2017_Talk_schedule.pdf .

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
The overview of our challenge events, the currently available data files (DLL, EMIC and magnetosonic wave activity, chorus and hiss diffusion matrix, plasma density, etc.), and the README files for instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/28UnLpw .

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-11-26T01:17:56Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
The overview of our challenge events, the currently available data files (DLL, EMIC and magnetosonic wave activity, chorus and hiss diffusion matrix, plasma density, etc.), and the README files for instructions can be found at: http://bit.ly/28UnLpw .

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/d/d3/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v03.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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'''Detailed Schedule'''

Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].

== Monday, June 19 ==

=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere

* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Recent progress on observations and modeling of magnetotail:'''

1. Anton Artemyev, "Hot ion flows originating from the distant X-line: ARTEMIS observations from lunar orbit to ~-200 RE"

2. Stefan Keihas, "Flow distribution in mid-tail observed by ARTEMIS"

3. Lei Cheng, "Global Hybrid Simulation of Alfvenic Waves Associated with Magnetotail Reconnection and Fast Flows"

4. San Lu, "Ion temperature distribution"

5. Misha Sitnov

6. Chih-Ping Wang, "Connection between mid-tail and high-latitude ionosphere"

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''

*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update

*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event

*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms

*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations

*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements

*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:

#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time)

We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''

*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability

*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field

*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study

*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind

*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

See the description for the first PM session

==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''

*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events

*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events

*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events

*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events

*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By

*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations

*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models

*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Tuesday, June 20 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''

* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''

* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''

* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''

First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.

Additional speaker(s):
George Khazanov

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Modeling challenge event: 48 hr of prolonged northward IMF interval from 13 Feb to 14 Feb 2014'''

Different global MHD models (LFM, OpenGGCM, BATS-R-US, and GUMICS) will be presented.

The models will be compared with ARTEMIS observations in mid-tail and with ionosphere observations from SuperDARN, DMSP, SWARM, AMPERE, and ground magnetometers.

We will address three science questions: (1) What processes cause the 10 to 30 min perturbations in the mid-tail plasma sheet? (2) How does the mid-tail configuration response to changes in IMF By? (3) How is the coupling between the ionosphere and mid-tail?

==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''

*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view

*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients

*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects

*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets

*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport

*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Wednesday, June 21 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model

* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”

* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model
* '''Thiago Brito''' Improving magnetic field models by fitting to in-situ data
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves

==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.

* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow

== Thursday, June 22 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

''General Validation Session''
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- resources for model-data comparison and validation
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation

Speakers: 
Howard Singer 
Seth Claudepierre 
Yari Collado-Vega 
Gabor Fascko

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.

We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.

== Friday, June 23 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Student tutorial'''

* '''Student rewards'''

=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===

Location: Amphitheater

* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/12/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v02.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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2017 GEM Workshop

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Tu: /* [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation */

'''Detailed Schedule'''

Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].

== Monday, June 19 ==

=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere

* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''UMEA Update and plans, general discussion of ULF wave modeling and observations'''

*1. Michael Hartinger -- UMEA update

*2. Toshi Nishimura -- PFISR measurements during the 2 May 2017 HGSO event

*3. Xueling Shi -- A Survey of Ionospheric ULF Wave Signatures in SuperDARN Data: Occurrence Statistics and Driving Mechanisms

*4. Tetsuo Motoba -- Dayside Auroral Pulsations

*5. Brian Kress and Rob Redmon -- Newly Available GOES 8-16 Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements

*6. Dick Wolf -- Theory of magnetospheric buoyancy waves

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:

#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time)

We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''ULF wave interactions with the radiation belt and ring current populations'''

*1. Rualdo Soto-Chavez -- Generation of Pc5-ULF wave by the drift-mirror instability

*2. Zhiyang Xia -- Eigenmode analysis of compressional poloidal modes in a self-consistent magnetic field

*3. Mark Engebretson -- Statistical study of the upper frequency cutoff of helium band EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

*4. Alexander Drozdov -- Radial diffusion and EMIC waves in the long-term simulation and in the case study

*5. Seth Claudepierre -- Global MHD simulations driven by idealized Alfvenic fluctuations in the solar wind

*6. Michael Hartinger -- Radiation belt response to large scale, monochromatic ULF waves: LANL-GEO observations

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

See the description for the first PM session

==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''ULF wave modeling, including CCMC modeling challenge'''

*1. Lutz Rastaetter -- CCMC ULF wave modeling challenge update and challenge events

*2. Scot Elkington -- ULF wave activity and diffusion coefficients during QARBM challenge events

*3. Katariina Nykyri -- KHI challenge events

*4. All -- Open Discussion of Challenge Events

*5. Doga Ozturk -- Effects of Increased Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure on the Coupled M-I system under different IMF By

*6. Kazue Takahashi -- Cavity mode Van Allen Probe observations

*7. Bob Lysak -- Cavity mode models

*8. Tom Elsden -- The Theoretical Foundation of 3D Alfven Resonances: Time Dependent Solutions

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Tuesday, June 20 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''

* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''

* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''

* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''

First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.

Additional speaker(s):
George Khazanov

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''Magnetosphere-Ionosphere coupling processes associated with localized disturbances caused by dayside kinetic phenomena'''

*1. Peter Chi -- Magnetospheric and ionospheric responses to a localized disturbance: The macroscopic view

*2. Hui Zhang -- Magnetospheric ULF waves generated by foreshock transients

*3. Hui Zhang -- Modeling challenges in simulating HFA geoeffects

*4. Boyi Wang -- Optical signatures of dayside ULF waves during magnetosheath high-speed jets

*5. Katariina Nykyri -- The effect of magnetosheath seed spectrum on KH evolution and associated mass transport

*6. Kyle Murphy -- A statistical study of discrete ULF wave power observed by GOES

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Wednesday, June 21 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model

* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”

* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves

==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This SIMIC Focus Group session follows up on previous topics, particularly on the SAPS challenge, but also more broadly anything relevant to the group. The tentative session agenda is as follows, and we welcome discussions of recent achievements and open/unsolved problems that remain.

* ''Bharat Kunduri'': A statistical study of the Sub-Auroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) observed by the mid-latitude SuperDARN radars
* ''Yiqun Yu'': Self-consistent electric field modeling in the RAM-SCB-E model
* ''Binzheng Zhang'': Effects of electrojet turbulence on SAPS
* ''Cristian Ferradas'': Temporal evolution of ion spectral structures near the inner edge of the plasma sheet during a geomagnetic storm: Van Allen Probes observations and modeling results
* ''Solene Lejosne'': A statistical study of the duration of SAPS-like features based on Van Allen Probes ExB/B^2 measurements
* ''Sebastian De Pascuale'': Using the RAM-SCB plasmasphere model (RAM-CPL) to simulate erosion and refilling, and comparison with an empirical model based on Van Allen Probes density measurements

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow

== Thursday, June 22 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

''General Validation Session''
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- resources for model-data comparison and validation
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation

Speakers: 
Howard Singer 
Seth Claudepierre 
Yari Collado-Vega 
Gabor Fascko

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.

We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.

== Friday, June 23 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Student tutorial'''

* '''Student rewards'''

=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===

Location: Amphitheater

* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/2/25/2017_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v01.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

==2017 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2017 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 2017 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

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Tu: /* 2016 GEM Announcement */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
:We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-06-15T00:02:20Z

Tu: /* 2016 GEM Announcement */

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-06-15T00:01:58Z

Tu: /* 2016 GEM Announcement */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
# Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
# Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
# Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
# Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-06-15T00:01:42Z

Tu: /* 2016 GEM Announcement */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
#. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
#. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
#. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
#. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-06-15T00:01:22Z

Tu: /* 2016 GEM Announcement */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 AM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
#1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
#2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
#3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
#4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2017-06-15T00:01:07Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following four sessions, including three independent sessions and one joint session with the “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Observations of radiation belt processes''".
:We solicit short presentations on observational studies of the dynamical processes in the radiation belts. Possible topics include the generation and dynamics of various magnetospheric waves, wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts, and the dynamics of radiation belt particles. This session mainly focuses on observational studies and results.

*'''Session 2 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Modeling of local processes and transport''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on modeling the local wave-particle interactions and transport processes in the radiation belts. This first modeling session focuses on waves and structures that can have local interactions with radiation belt particles (e.g., chorus, hiss, EMIC, magnetosonic waves, nonlinear structures, etc.), and their effects on radiation belt particles. Presentations on the modeling of radiation belt transport driven by ULF waves are also invited.

*'''Session 3 (Wed, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Global modeling, metrics and validation''".
:This is the joint session with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG, since the two FGs have common interest in the global modeling of radiation belt (RB) dynamics and the metrics and validation methods that can be used to quantitatively assess the modeling. We call for short presentations that perform global modeling of the acceleration, transport, and loss of RB particles, test current metrics and validation for RB modeling, and/or develop new validation methods.

*'''Session 4 (Thu, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''New challenge results and plans''".
:This session will focus on the following four "challenge" events:
#1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
#2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
#3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
#4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT
We encourage presentations on the new RB modeling results of these events as well as quantitative assessment of the established modeling results from previous meetings. More information on these events and the available resources can be found at our GEM wiki page. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by June 11th, 2017. Our FG activities and announcements will be updated in the GEM wiki page. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

2017 GEM Workshop

2017-06-14T23:38:16Z

Tu: /* [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling */

'''Detailed Schedule'''

Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].

== Monday, June 19 ==

=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere

* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:

#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time)

We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

See the description for the first PM session

==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Tuesday, June 20 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''

* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''

* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''

* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''

First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.

Additional speaker(s):
George Khazanov

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Wednesday, June 21 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model

* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”

* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio
* '''Alexa Halford or Adam Kellerman''' from the CCMC Assessment Team
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves

==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow

== Thursday, June 22 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

'''Session 4''': “New challenge results and plans”
* '''Sapna Shekhar''' Statistical study of spatial extent of Relativistic Electron Precipitation with NOAA POES
* '''Jinxing Li''' Langmuir waves modulated by rising-tone chorus waves: Van Allen Probe Observations
* '''Chao Yue''' The characteristic response of whistler mode waves to interplanetary shocks
* '''Sam Bingham''' Van Allen Probe Observations of Whistler Growth, Source, Seed, and Relativistic Electrons During ICME and CIR storms
* '''Anthony Saikin''' A statistical examination of favorable plasma conditions concerning inner magnetosphere EMIC wave excitation
* '''Irina Zhelavskaya''' Empirical modeling of the plasmasphere dynamics using neural networks
* '''Xiangning Chu''' A neural network model of three-dimensional dynamic electron density in the inner magnetosphere
* '''Suk-Bin Kang''' Relativistic electron flux dropout due to field line curvature on 1 June 2013
* '''Wen Li''' Quantitative Simulation of the GEM Challenge Events During Radiation Belt Enhancements

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

''General Validation Session''
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- resources for model-data comparison and validation
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation

Speakers: 
Howard Singer 
Seth Claudepierre 
Yari Collado-Vega 
Gabor Fascko

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.

We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.

== Friday, June 23 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Student tutorial'''

* '''Student rewards'''

=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===

Location: Amphitheater

* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''

2017 GEM Workshop

2017-06-14T23:33:13Z

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'''Detailed Schedule'''

Below is a detailed session schedule with names of tentative speakers provided by Focus Group Leaders. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda as needed.

'''GEM Student Day''': See [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMSummerWorkshopAgenda.pdf Sunday Agenda] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

'''Poster Sessions''' will be held at Portsmouth I-III Admiral & Terrace Portsmouth Foyer during 18:00 - 21:00 on Tuesday and Thursday. Poster titles can be found in the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2017GEMPosterSchedule.xlsx spreadsheet] provided by the Workshop Coordinator.

All other information about the 2017 GEM Summer Workshop can be found at the [http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html GEM Workshop Coordinator site].

== Monday, June 19 ==

=== 0800-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''GEM business''' by ''Jacob Bortnik and Paul Cassak''

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Bob Lysak'' -- E&M coupling of the magnetosphere with the ionosphere and atmosphere

* '''GSM tutorial''' by ''Binzheng Zhang''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

In these joint sessions, we will be focusing on the connections between magnetic reconnection, dipolarization events, and plasmoids in Earth’s magnetotail. The first session will kick off with a short (~20 min) introduction by Prof. Vassilis Angelopoulos covering a very brief review of the system and how each of these three FGs are related. Then, we will take the remaining time in the sessions to move into an open discussion on the following questions/topics:

#The role of various instability processes in the original onset and perpetuation of reconnection in the magnetotail (Session 1)
#Comparing and contrasting the qualities of earthward vs. tailward jets of reconnection in the magnetotail (dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles vs. plasmoids). Comparing and contrasting the qualities of dipolarizing flux bundles/bubbles/plasmoids between near-Earth and mid-tail. (Sessions 1 and 2)
#The forces driving the spatiotemporal evolution of dipolarizing flux bundles / bubbles and plasmoids and how they both interact with the ambient plasma through which they are moving (e.g., can they themselves trigger additional reconnection???) (Session 2)
#Definitions and concepts and what various subsets of the community mean when they say things like dipolarization front; magnetotail dipolarization; extended X-line; X-line motion; plasmoid; etc. Basically, are we all speaking the same language here? (wrap-up activity at the end of the Session 2 if we have any time)

We want to stress that these sessions will be run in an informal nature; we will not be asking for any formal presentations from participants. Instead, we solicit the community to contribute with informal slides, figures, and/or plots to stress key points on any of the above topics. We hope that this session will inspire audience interaction and open discussion and/or debate. If you would like to contribute in these sessions, please just show up with any material you have and join us in going with the flow of the discussion!

==== [FG] ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

See the description for the first PM session

==== [FG] (Joint) ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Tuesday, June 20 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Agency reports''' by ''M. Wiltberger, P. Shepson (NSF), H. Singer (NOAA)''

* '''Mission update: Van Allen Probes''' by ''M. Gkioulidou''

* '''Mission update: THEMIS''' by ''V. Angelopoulos''

* '''Mission update: FIREBIRD''' by ''D. Klumpar''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Modeling Methods and Validation + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Geospace Systems Science ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

''Planning session for the Ionospheric Conductance Challenge''

First event: 2016 Oct 13-15 ICME event. The concept for the challenge is that modelers would run at least two versions of their code, one with an "old" conductance specification and another with a "new" specification. At this session, we will decide on common settings between model runs and specific data-model comparisons that all teams should conduct.

Additional speaker(s):
George Khazanov

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere. It may include discussion from any topic relevant to the focus group as interest dictates. Please contact Brian Walsh <bwalsh at bu.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

== Wednesday, June 21 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''MPS tutorial''' by ''Anton Artmeyev'' -- Earth magnetotail current sheet: observations vs. model

* '''IMAG tutorial''' by ''Christine Gabrielse''

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 1''': “Observations of radiation belt processes”

* '''Xinlin Li''' Long term perspective on out belt electrons: Van Allen Probes era with previous two solar cycles
* '''Simon Wing''' Untangling solar wind drivers of radiation belt: an information theoretical approach
* '''Alex Boyd''' Peaks in Phase Space Density: When, Where and for How Long?
* '''Zheng Xiang''' Understanding the Mechanisms of Radiation Belt Dropouts Observed by Van Allen Probes
* '''Nikita Aseev''' New signatures of ultrarelativistic electron loss in the heart of the Earth's radiation belts
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Observations of Electron Precipitation by ELFIN-L Instrument Suite on Lomonosov Spacecraft
* '''David Malaspina''' Statistics of Low Frequency Hiss
* '''Dave Hartley''' Estimating Plasmasphere Electron Densities from Observations of Plasmaspheric Hiss
* '''Drew Turner''' The phase coherency scales of individual chorus elements and the greater chorus active region observed by Van Allen Probes and MMS
* '''Mark Engebretson''' EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Yan Song''' Formation of Aurora
* '''Robert McPherron''' Earthward Flows
* '''Eric Donovan''' STEVE
* '''Drew Turner''' MMS Injections
* '''Douglas Cramer''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 2''': “Modeling of local processes and transport”
* '''Yuri Shprits''' Identifying the dominant loss mechanisms for multi-MeV electrons
* '''Theodore Sarris''' Investigating the association between the rates of radial transport and electron flux oscillations
* '''Lunjin Chen''' Excitation of magnetosonic waves in a dipole field
* '''Jacob Bortnik''' The relation between Langmuir and Whistler waves in the laboratory, simulations, and space
* '''Dedong Wang''' Effect of Highly Oblique Chorus Waves in the Evolution of Electrons in the Earth's Radiation Belts
* '''Jay Albert''' Diffusion by highly oblique whistlers
* '''Xiangrong Fu''' Generation of Highly Oblique Lower-band Chorus via Nonlinear Three-wave Resonance
* '''Liheng Zheng''' Fokker-Planck simulation of nonlinear EMIC wave-particle interactions
* '''Ivan Vasko''' Diffusive scattering of electrons by Time Domain Structures in the inner magnetosphere

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

This session will be a continuation of the open forum from Tuesday. We also would like to spend some time discussing community interest in proposing a new reconnection focus group. Discussion on topics for the next group to address are invited, as this is a grass roots effort. Please contact Yi-Hsin Liu <Yi-Hsin.Liu at Dartmouth.edu> with questions.

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''Kyle Murphy''' Event Discussion
* '''Toshi Nishimura''' Event Discussion
* '''Tetsuo Motoba''' Event Discussion
* '''Mostafa El-Alaoui''' Substorm Simulations
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm Simulations

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

'''Session 3''': “Global modeling, metrics and validation”, joint with “Modeling Methods and Validation” FG
* '''Steve Morley''' Measures of model prediction quality based on the log accuracy ratio
* '''Alexa Halford or Adam Kellerman''' from the CCMC Assessment Team
* '''Grant Stephens''' Latest developments and findings of the TS07D model
* '''Homayon Aryan''' Application of whistler wave distribution models in radiation belt simulation models: CIMI simulations
* '''Kevin Pham''' Quantifying the Precipitation Loss of Radiation Belt Electrons during a Rapid Dropout Event
* '''Zhao Li''' Simulated prompt acceleration of multi-MeV electrons by the 17 March 2015 interplanetary shock
* '''Jean-Francois Ripoll''' Global validation of reduced Fokker Planck computations of the radiation belts dynamics
* '''Qianli Ma''' Diffusive transport of several hundred keV electrons in the Earth’s slot region
* '''Alexander Drozdov''' The long-term VERB code simulation with parametrized EMIC waves

==== [FG] Storm-Time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms ====

Location: Amphitheater

* '''James Weygand''' dB/dt SEC
* '''Robert McPherron''' Substorm onsets in the SML Index
* '''Shin Ohtani''' TBD
* '''Misha Sitnov''' Substorm magnetic field modeling
* '''Larry Lyons''' Storm-time substoms
* '''Christine Gabrielse''' Streamer and flow

== Thursday, June 22 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''SWMI tutorial''' by ''Stephen Eriksson'' -- New insights from MMS observations on magnetic field reconnection in a large guide magnetic field along the Earth's flank magnetopause

* '''MIC tutorial''' by ''Yiqun Yu'' -- Global modeling of the magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamic coupling: overview and challenges

=== 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Merged Modeling & Measurement of Injection Ionospheric Plasma into the Magnetosphere (M3I2) and Its Effects -- Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Substorm Dynamics ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

=== 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions ===

==== [FG] Magnetotail Dipolarization and Its Effects on the Inner Magnetosphere ====

Location: Holley Ballroom

(PLACE AGENDA HERE)

==== [FG] Modeling Methods and Validation ====

Location: Port VI-VIII

''General Validation Session''
- model verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- data verification and validation studies that are not part of a particular GEM challenge
- resources for model-data comparison and validation
- discussion of best practices for model-data comparison and validation

Speakers: 
Howard Singer 
Seth Claudepierre 
Yari Collado-Vega 
Gabor Fascko

==== [FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction ====

Location: Amphitheater

This session will focus on discussing the following science topics: 1) Kinetic physics of dayside and/or magnetosheath reconnection - dissipation, energy conversion, particle acceleration, and comparisons between the two regions, 2) Do kinetic bow shock and magnetosheath transients impact magnetopause reconnection?, and 3) Does kinetic physics at the dayside impact the global reconnection process? Discussion on other topics related to the two focus groups is welcome.

We plan to have most of the time driven by discussion. Time permitting, we would like community members to pose a science question or challenge that they would like to see other people address (e.g., “is it possible to observe/simulate this feature I’ve simulated/observed?”). We would also like to have time to brainstorm on open questions. Please contact Paul Cassak <Paul.Cassak at mail.wvu.edu> or Heli Hietala < heli at igpp.ucla.edu> with questions.

== Friday, June 23 ==

=== 0815-1000: Plenary Session ===

Location: Portsmouth IV-V

* '''Student tutorial'''

* '''Student rewards'''

=== 1000-1030: Plenary Session ===

Location: Amphitheater

* '''SPEDAS tutorial / hands-on workshop'''

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/4/40/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016_new.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/c/cb/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2016-12-08T16:22:48Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2016.pdf .

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2016-11-27T23:35:35Z

Tu: /* 2016 miniGEM Announcement */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data). The latest available resources during these GEM challenge events (e.g., DLL, event-specific chorus wave distribution, plasmapause location, electron PSD etc.) are provided in this link (http://bit.ly/28UnLpw).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2016-11-27T16:00:46Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 2016 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 11, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 15:30-17:00 PM, Sunday, December 11, 2016
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been described in this wiki page. We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 7th 2016. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2016-06-27T23:28:56Z

Tu: /* 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources */

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4

The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

FG: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

2016-06-27T23:28:28Z

Tu:

''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge: Shared Resources ==
A summary of the shared resources for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge can be found at:
https://1drv.ms/p/s!AjfblZBstW3ZhClcjMm2UY2Udgc4
The original data files for the resources and the README files for instructions can be found at:
http://bit.ly/28UnLpw

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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''Focus Group Leaders:''
* Jay Albert (jay.albert@us.af.mil)
* Wen Li (moonli@atmos.ucla.edu)
* Steve Morley (smorley@lanl.gov)
* Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com)

==2016 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2016 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/b/b4/2016_GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_v08.pdf

== 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Events Announcement ==
Based on the votes we collected from the community, four challenge events have been selected:

*'''Stormtime Enhancement - March 17th 2013''' (St. Patrick's Day vs The Outer Belt, Round 1)
*'''Stormtime Dropout - June 1st 2013''' (The Children's Day event)
*'''Non-storm Enhancement - September 19th 2013''' (International Talk like a Pirate Day event)
*'''Non-storm Dropout - September 24th 2013''' (National Punctuation Day event)

More detailed information on these four challenge events is uploaded here (https://www.dropbox.com/s/nkhbradm8ynw47k/GEM_Challenge_Events_final.pptx?dl=0).

The "RB buildup" and "RB dropout" challenges focus on quantitative modeling of the radiation belt buildups and dropouts, with the goal of quantitatively assessing the relative importance of various acceleration, transport, and loss processes. We encourage you to simulate these challenge events with your own models and/or provide data or model inputs that are required to simulate these events, including: RB phase space densities, various wave inputs (e.g., ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves), seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Please inform us with your modeling plan, results, and/or data and model inputs that you would like to share with the community.

To establish a common basis for simulations and testing, we will provide a common point of access to the model inputs and data for each of the selected events. Up-to-date information will come soon on this wiki page.

== 2015 miniGEM Schedule ==
'''Detailed talk schedule can be downloaded at''' http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/6/6d/QARBM_session_schedule_miniGEM2015.pdf .

== 2015 miniGEM Announcement ==
The Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group will hold two sessions at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco on December 13, immediately before the Fall AGU Meeting.

*'''Session 1''': General Session for Radiation Belt Modeling and Quantitative Assessment
:'''Time''': 12:00-13:30 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:In this session, we solicit short presentations on radiation belt modeling and its quantitative assessment, as well as physical processes potentially important in radiation belt modeling (such as various magnetospheric waves, seed electron population, plasma density, magnetic field configuration etc.).

*'''Session 2''': 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge
:'''Time''': 13:50-15:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
:'''Location''': Gold Rush A Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

:This session will focus on the four "challenge" events that have been selected by the community:
:1. Stormtime Enhancement: 2013-03-17/00 UT to 2013-03-19/00 UT
:2. Stormtime Dropout: 2013-05-31/00 UT to 2013-06-03/00 UT
:3. Non-storm Enhancement: 2013-09-19/00 UT to 2013-09-21/00 UT
:4. Non-storm Dropout: 2013-09-23/00 UT to 2013-09-26/00 UT

:We encourage presentations on the radiation belt modeling results of these events as well as studies providing the required inputs for modeling the radiation belt dynamics during these events (e.g., various magnetospheric waves, plasmapause and density models, electron PSD data).

If you'd like to speak in our sessions, please send your talk title and the session number to Weichao Tu (wetu@mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

==2015 GEM Summer Workshop Agenda==
The 2015 GEM session aganda for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/7/73/GEM_QARBM_talk_schedule_2015_v07.pdf

We hope to have time at the end of each session for open discussions and please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!

== 2015 GEM Announcement ==
We would like to solicit short presentations relevant to the following five sessions, including four independent sessions and one joint session with the “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG.

*'''Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results''".
:We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

*'''Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

*'''Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities''".
:We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

*'''Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG''".
:Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com) by June 7th, 2015. Thank you very much in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley
== 2015 GEM 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenge Event Candidates ==
The event candidates for the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges are posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/5/5d/GEMfocusgroupevents_%281%29.pdf

More details about each event (RB responses, solar wind and geomagnetic activities) are posted at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6QF3b-3CPmsMmtNbjFzMlFINXM/view?usp=sharing

Please send your feedback to Weichao Tu (tuweichao@gmail.com).

== 2014 Mini-GEM Session ==
'''Time:''' 02:20-04:10 PM, Sunday, December 14, 2014

'''Location:''' Franciscan II Room, Westin San Francisco Market Street

'''Schedule:'''

'''Part 1 (2:20 – 3:40pm): 14 contributed talks (5 min each):'''

*1. Lauren Blum -- Rapid MeV electron precipitation and storm-time radiation belt dynamics

*2. Drew Turner -- Understanding energetic electron injections at L <= 4 using multipoint observations

*3. Joachim Birn -- Ion and electron source populations

*4. Ganjushkina, Natalia -- Modeling of low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

*5. Adam Kellerman -- Quantitative analysis of magnetic field models by comparing with THEMIS, GOES, RBSP field data

*6. Xin Tao -- An efficient and positivity-preserving method for modeling radiation belt diffusion processes

*7. Anthony Chan -- Results from modeling drift-shell splitting effects in a fully-3D diffusion code

*8. Scot Elkington -- K2: Global simulations of the October 2, 2013 RBSP storm

*9. Wen Li -- Characteristics of plasmaspheric hiss wave spectrum and their effects on energetic electron dynamics

*10. Danny Summers -- Observation of plasmaspheric hiss emissions

*11. Yoshi Omura -- Nonlinear wave growth theory for discrete hiss emissions in the plasmasphere

*12. O.V. Agapitov -- Non-linear electric field spikes in the outer radiation belt and their role in particle dynamics

*13. J.F. Drake -- Development of a bursty precipitation front with intense localized parallel electric fields driven by oblique whistler waves in the Earth’s outer radiation belts

*14. Justin H. Lee -- Application of ion composition methods to investigate observations, modeling, and effects of EMIC waves

'''Part 2 (3:40 – 4:10pm): Planning for the “RB dropout” and “RB buildup” Challenges'''

== 2014 GEM Session Schedule ==
The 2014 session schedule for the “Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling” FG is posted at:
http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/images/1/1b/2014_session_schedule_posted.pdf

We will have time at the end of each session for open discussions. Please join us for the interesting talks and exciting discussions!
== 2014 GEM Announcement ==
At this year's GEM Summer Workshop we will start a new Focus Group on "Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling". The goals of our FG are to bring together the current state-of-art models for the acceleration, transport, and loss processes in radiation belts, develop event-specific and global wave, plasma, and magnetic field models to drive these radiation belt models, and combine all these components to achieve a quantitative assessment of radiation belt modeling by validating against contemporary radiation belt measurements.

Five sessions have been planned for the upcoming GEM workshop:

*'''Session 1 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Joint Session with Radiation Belts & Wave Modeling focus group''".
:In this joint session, the RBWM FG (finishing this year) will wrap up their accomplishments in the past 5 years and then set up the stage for our introduction of the new FG of Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling. We will discuss the remaining open questions in RB modeling and connect them to our FG goals and challenges.

*'''Session 2 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Review existing RB models and discuss where we are and what are needed''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations discussing the existing models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles. In general, we welcome talks that not only showcase their results, but also include discussions like: "Mechanism ____ is evidently necessary, though not sufficient since ___." We will discuss questions such as: what are "standard" RB codes not doing well enough? vs. What are we not doing at all but probably should be?

*'''Session 3 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM):''' "''Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models. The topics will cover ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles. We will review the available wave models and discuss what are still missing for RB modeling.

*'''Session 4 (Wed, 10:30-12:15 PM):''' "''Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling''".
:In this session, we solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include particle seed populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc. Again, we will review what are currently available and discuss what are still missing.

*'''Session 5 (Wed, 01:30-03:00 PM):''' "''Wrap-up discussion and plan for future FG activities''".
:In this final session, we will wrap up this year’s FG with more big-picture discussions, and plan for future FG activities for mini-GEM and next year. One important future activity is the 'RB dropout' and 'RB buildup' Challenges. Here we solicit short presentations proposing interesting dropout/buildup events for our future challenges.

If you would like to present in any of these sessions, please send your talk title and the relevant session number to Weichao Tu
(wtu@lanl.gov) by June 6, 2014. We will review the talks and announce the detailed session agenda before the meeting. Participation in discussions and brief walk-in talks are always welcomed.

Thank you in advance for your contributions!

Weichao Tu, Jay Albert, Wen Li, and Steve Morley

== Focus Group Proposal ==
[http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/pdf/GEM-2013_FG-proposal_assess-rb-models(ims)_Albert-Li-Morley-Tu.pdf Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling] (December 2013)

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