[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIII, Issue 60

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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIII, Issue 60
Nov.10,2016

Editor: Peter Chi
Co-Editor: Guan Le
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Table of Contents

1. MEETING: Mini-GEM Workshop 2016, San Francisco, California, December 11, 2016

2. MEETING: Register for THEMIS/ARTEMIS Post-AGU SWT Meeting, San Francisco, California, Saturday December 17, 2016

3. New CDAWeb Data Set: Wind Spacecraft Dust Impact Database

4. Announcing RHESSI Science Nuggets in October

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MEETING: Mini-GEM Workshop 2016, San Francisco, California, December 11, 2016

From: Zhonghua Xu (ZXU77 at VT.EDU)

The Mini-GEM Workshop 2016 will be hold at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway in San Francisco on Dec 11, 2016, the Sunday right before the AGU Fall Meeting. Support for this workshop is made possible by the National Science Foundation. - See more at: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem-mini/

In order to better track the number of participant for the mini workshop, we would like to add an option of registration information. It is voluntary.

If you have more questions, please contact Bob Clauer (757-325-9800 rclauer at vt.edu), or Zhonghua Xu (ZXU77 at VT.EDU).


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MEETING: Register for THEMIS/ARTEMIS Post-AGU SWT Meeting, San Francisco, California, Saturday December 17, 2016

From: Tai Phan, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Emmanuel Masongsong  (emasongsong at igpp.ucla.edu)

We will have our annual THEMIS/ARTEMIS SWT meeting right after AGU on Saturday Dec 17th, 8:30-5pm at the Parc 55 hotel in San Francisco. If you plan to attend this meeting please register at the link below.

Meeting details, a map, and a draft schedule can be found here: 
http://themis.igpp.ucla.edu/events_fall2016swt.shtml

We are requesting a $20 registration fee to cover the refreshments and room costs, payable by credit at the site above. The deadline to register your abstract is November 18th, kindly register at your earliest so we can plan the program. If you prefer to pay by cash on the day of, please email Emmanuel at your earliest: emasongsong at igpp.ucla.edu. 

We will have a 2 hr mission planning and outlook session, followed by science 
presentations on current topics. As usual, we will have short talks (~5 mins each AND 2 slides absolute maximum) with time for questions, which helps keep the meeting very focused.  If you wish to give a presentation, please provide a short title or topic of your presentation in the registration comment box, along with any scheduling requests, or email Emmanuel.

Look forward to seeing you there! 


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New CDAWeb Data Set: Wind Spacecraft Dust Impact Database

From: David Malaspina (David.Malaspina at colorado.edu)

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the public release of the Wind/WAVES dust impact database on CDAWeb and the ftp/http directories at SPDF.

It was recently discovered that the Wind/WAVES electric field instrument has been detecting interplanetary and interstellar dust at 1 AU for over 20 years through hypervelocity impact ionization of dust grains on the spacecraft surface.  

This extensive, nearly unexplored data set has the potential to enable new advances in the study of cosmic dust and dust-plasma coupling in the heliosphere.  

The Wind Spacecraft Dust Impact Database has been created to make the Wind dust data easily accessible to the heliophysics community. The database contains over 107,000 dust detections, including information about dust grain direction of motion. The data range from 1995-01-01 to 2016-01-01 and will be updated periodically.

Data Access and Description:
http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/misc/NotesW.html#WI_L3-DUSTIMPACT_WAVES

FTP Data Product Locations:
ftp://cdaweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/wind/waves/dust_impact_l3/
ftp://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/wind/waves/dust_impact_l3/

Software Support:
Lynn Wilson (NASA/GSFC) has created an IDL routine for this database and added it to the SPEDAS software libraries. This routine loads the relevant CDF data files into TPLOT.
~/idl/general/missions/wind/waves/wi_tds_dustimpact_load.pro

SPEDAS Software Libraries:
http://spedas.org/wiki/index.php?title=Downloads_and_Installation

Detailed Database Description:
Malaspina, D.M., and L.B. Wilson III "A Database of Interplanetary and Interstellar Dust Detected by the Wind Spacecraft,` J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1002/2016JA023209, (2016).


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Announcing RHESSI Science Nuggets in October

From: Hugh Hudson (hhudson at ssl.berkeley.edu)

No. 283, "Hard X-ray Polarimetry from Tian Gong 2”, by Wojtek Hajdas: A novel hard X-ray polarimeter achieves solar "first light”.

No. 284, “Flare-induced Impulsive Sunspot Rotation caught in High Resolution”, by Chang Liu et al.: The tail wags the dog - short time scales for coronal stresses on sunspot structure.

No. 285, “Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Flare Hard X-ray Pulsations”, by Ivan Zimovets et al.: In pulsating flare energy release, the hard X-ray source peaks have different locations.

See 
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/wiki/index.php/RHESSI_Science_Nuggets

listing the current series, 2008-present, and

http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~tohban/nuggets/ 

for the original series, 2005-2008.

We publish these at roughly two-week intervals and welcome contributions,
which should be related, at least loosely, to RHESSI science.


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