[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXII, Issue 55

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXII, Issue 55
September 27, 2015

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
Distribution Support: Sharon Uy, Todd King, Kevin Addison
Email: editor at igpp.ucla.edu       

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Table of Contents

1. New and Updated Ion Composition Data Products from ACE/SWICS
2. 2016 National Radio Science Meeting Abstract Submission New Deadline: Sept 27, 2015
3. Session on Waves in Outer Solar System Plasmas at US National Radio 
Science Meeting (URSI) 6-9 January 2016
4. RHESSI Science Nuggets in September

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New and Updated Ion Composition Data Products from ACE/SWICS

From: Jason Gilbert (jagi at umich.edu)

The Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS), as part of the ACE and Ulysses payloads, has revolutionized our understanding of the composition of the solar wind. After a brief commissioning period in 1997, ACE/SWICS has become the longest-operating composition instrument in flight, providing unprecedented elemental composition, ionic composition, and dynamic properties of 77 species in the solar wind. To get the most value out of this investigation, the SWICS team has undertaken an improved analysis of all SWICS data, providing the most accurate and most complete data set available to the community. The new SWICS data are provided in two categories: