[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 25, Number 50

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 25, Number 50
December 3, 2015

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Table of Contents

1. 2015 Mini-GEM Session: The Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances Focus Group

2. 2015 Mini-GEM Session: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group

3. 2015 Mini-GEM Session: OutflowMMM Focus Group
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1. 2015 Mini-GEM Session: The Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances Focus Group
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From: Chih-Ping Wang (cat at atmos.ucla.edu)

The Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances Focus Group will hold a session at the Mini-GEM workshop in San Francisco

Time: 1:50-3:20 PM, Sunday, December 13, 2015
Location: Oregon Room, Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel (1500 Van Ness Avenue)

The 90 minute session will include two parts: 
(1) Progress on the topics of this FG: We would like to solicit short (< 5 min) GEM-style presentations of your current work on observations and modeling of structure, dynamics, and boundary processes in the mid-tail magnetosphere and magnetosheath. 
(2) Modeling challenge: We will initiate a modeling challenge in preparation for the 2016 summer GEM workshop. We would like to solicit presentations and suggestions for potentially interesting events for the model challenge. As an initiation, we will present observations of the mid-tail during a prolonged northward IMF interval observed by ARTEMIS and simulation results from different global MHD models.

If you would like to present, please contact Chih-Ping Wang (cat at atmos.ucla.edu) 

More information on this FG can be found at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_Tail_Environment_and_Dynamics_at_Lunar_Distances

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco and your participation.

Chih-Ping, Andrei, David, Slava, and Yu


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2. 2015 Mini-GEM Session: Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling Focus Group
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From: Weichao Tu (wetu at mail.wvu.edu), Wen Li, Jay Albert, and Steve Morley

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 at mail.wvu.edu) by Dec 9th 2015. We also encourage you to attend and participate in the discussions. Hope you will join us! More information on the focus group can be found at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_Quantitative_Assessment_of_Radiation_Belt_Modeling.


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3. 2015 Mini-GEM Session: OutflowMMM Focus Group
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From: Dan Welling (dwelling at umich.edu)

The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma: Measuring, Modeling, and Merging into the GGCM (OutflowMMM) focus group will hold its final session at the upcoming AGU Mini-GEM meeting from noon to 1:30pm in the Oregon room at the Holiday Inn San Francisco Golden Gateway.  We are soliciting science papers that explore the three focus group selected events (for more information on these, please visit the OutflowMMM website).  We are especially looking for data-model comparisons that leverage merged outflow-magnetosphere capabilities.  If you wish to give a presentation, please contact Dan Welling (dwelling at umich.edu) at your earliest convenience.  Additionally, we will be discussing our plans to close the focus group, including the organization of a JGR special section to collect the many scientific results we have accrued over the past five years.  We hope to see you there.

Rick Chappell
Bob Schunk
Dan Welling


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