I’m looking forward to your participation in the Space Environment/
Radiation Climatology session (FG9) next week.
We are meeting on Thursday starting with a tutorial from Nigel
Meredith followed by a 1.75 hour morning discussion session and a 1.5
hour session in the afternoon.
At our planning get-together at AGU in December we came up with a
number of questions to help focus our focus group and to develop new
physical understanding of long-term and large-scale climatology. Those
questions are:
1• what long-term variables are in data sets we know about? E.g. solar
wind velocity, Dst, GOES >2 MeV, POLAR, SAMPEX. How do we use them for
climatology?
3• Numerical techniques for discovering long-term variability
4• Reanalysis over a (near?) solar cycle or “Suppose you had a full
solar cycle time series of the global radiation belt, ring current,
plasmasphere etc, what would you do with it?"
5• How is our driven, coupled system different from terrestrial
weather/climate modeling?
6. General research updates
In previous calls for presentation we have collected interest from the
following people on the following topics (in my words, not theirs):
Bob Weigel
which long-term variables, data sets, and/or model outputs are
available to the community for climatology studies.
Mike Liemohn
A solar cycle worth of storms
Xinlin Li (session 1 preferred)
Phase Space Density Gradient of Energetic Electrons at and beyond GEO
Prior to Fast Solar Wind Pressure Enhancements
Richard Denton
Tsyganenko model parameter database
Mark Engebretson
Climatology of Pc 1-2 Waves Observed at High Latitudes in Antarctica
Tim Guild
“TEM-1” – a prototype for AE9
Mark Moldwin
ground based data sets for space environment climatology
Geoff Reeves
Nowcasting, Verification, and Climatology of radiation belt electrons
We have room for both planned and informal presentations and we want
to continue to emphasize discussion, interaction, and opportunities
for research across the GEM community. Please contact Geoff Reeves
(reeves-at-lanl-dot-gov) or (paul.obrien-at-aero.org) if you would
like to be added to the list, if we missed your proposed contribution,
requests for specific time, or any other requests.
See you next week
Geoff & Paul