REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE RADIATION BELTS
WORKING GROUP
INNER MAGNETOSPHERE / STORMS CAMPAIGN
1998 SNOWMASS WOKSHOP
1) From the 1998 Snowmass Workshop onwards
it was decided to have two working
groups instead of three. The ring current and plasmasphere
working groups were combined into a single working group and the
energetic
electron working group was expanded to include all of the radiation
belts. The new working groups are:
Working Group 1: Plasmasphere and Ring Current
Working Group 2: Radiation Belts
2) Xinlin Li gave the radiation belts tutorial
on "Radiation Belt Electrons:
Current Understanding and Remaining Problems". John Wygant
gave the other
IM/S tutorial on "Structure and Dynamics of the Large-Scale
Electric Field
During Major Geomagnetic Storms".
3) IM/S campaign participants discussed how
the IM/S campaign interfaces with
and/or contributes to the objectives of the GGCM. Also, key issues
for the
IM/S campaign were discussed and listed and a strategy to address
these
issues was developed. See http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/docs/overview.html
and http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/docs/strategy.html
for details.
4) It was decided to pick three geomagnetic
storms for study in campaign
mode. It was agreed to consider adding 1-2 storms per year in
order to focus
the GEM activities on the intercomparison of storm features.
5) Janet Kozyra put together some excellent
web pages that were the basis for
the selection of the GEM storms at the mini-workshop in December
1998.
Information and data sets for the IM/S storms are contained in
the web
page http://leadbelly.lanl.gov/GEM_Storms/GEMstorms.html,
which is maintained
by Geoff Reeves.
Submitted by Geoff Reeves and Anthony Chan