[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 27, Number 17

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 27, Number 17
May.19,2017

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Table of Contents

1. GEMstone, Volume 27, Issue 1: Metrics and Validation Focus Group (2010-2015) Final Report

2. Deadline Extension (#2): Submission to the MMS Special Collection of JGR

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1. GEMstone, Volume 27, Issue 1: Metrics and Validation Focus Group (2010-2015) Final Report
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From: Peter Chi (pchi at igpp.ucla.edu)

A special issue of the GEMstone Newsletter has been published and is available online at:

http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/GEMstone/GEMstone_Vol27_No1.pdf

This issue contains the final report from the Metrics and Validation Focus Group (2010-2015) led by Masha Kuznetsova, Aaron Ridley, Tim Guild, Lutz Rastaetter, and Howard Singer.

Previous issues of the GEMstone Newsletter are also available online at http://spc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/Newsletters .


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2. Deadline Extension (#2): Submission to the MMS Special Collection of JGR
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From: Matthew Argall, Daniel Gershman, Shan Wang, Frederick Wilder (matthew.argall at unh.edu)

The submission deadline for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) special collection of JGR has been extended one final time by four weeks. The new, firm deadline is July 1st, 2017. The collection will gather together the wide range of discoveries made by MMS throughout its first primary mission phase. Anyone analyzing MMS data is encouraged to submit. Details are below:

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
July 1, 2017

TITLE:
Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission results throughout the first primary mission phase

DESCRIPTION:
The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission was launched March 15, 2015 with the goal of studying the microphysics of magnetic reconnection. During its second day-side pass, the inter-spacecraft separation was reduced to as little as 7km, or 2-3 electron skin depths at the magnetopause, allowing electron-scale physics to be spatially resolved and investigated. The unprecedented temporal resolution of the fields and particle instrument suites has advanced our understanding of dynamical processes from the bowshock, through the magnetosheath, across the magnetopause and into the inner magnetosphere and magnetotail. This special issue expands upon discoveries made during the first day-side and tail passes, and provides in-depth reports of new findings from the second day-side pass.


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