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Contents Meetings Software About the Radiation Belt History Books Online Presentations

1. Meetings

ViRBO has hosted web pages and presentation documents associated with the following radiation belt-related science meetings and workshops:

• 2011 GEM Radiation Belt Waves Focus Group
• 2011 GEM Radiation Belt Climatology Focus Group meeting
• 2010 Radiation Belt Saint Petersburg Working Group
• 2010 GEM Radiation Belt Waves Focus Group
• 2010 GEM Radiation Belt Climatology Focus Group meeting
• 2009 Joint GEM Radiation Belt Climatology Focus Group/NGRSC meeting
• 2008 Space Radiation Climatology mini workshop at Fall AGU
• 2008 GEM Space Radiation Climatology Focus Group
• 2008 COSPAR/PRBEM
• 2007 Space Radiation Climatology mini workshop at Fall AGU
• 2007 GEM Space Radiation Climatology Focus Group
• 2007 NSF Small Satellite Workshop, George Mason University
• 2007 NGRSC Data Workshop, Lacanau, France

2. Software

Software List

3. About the Radiation Belt

3.1. History

• 1958 article in Time Magazine html
• What is a Space Scientist? by James Van Allen: archive.org
• Hess, Wilmont N., The Radiation Belt and Magnetosphere, 1968. google books Contains a detailed history of the discovery of the radiation belts and an overview of the many research results in the preceding ten years.
• Discovering Earth's Radiation Belts: Remembering Explorer 1 and 3 by F. McDonald and J. E. Naugle pdf

3.2. Books

• Alfven and Falthammar, Cosmological Electrodynamics, 1963. amazon
• Hess, Wilmont N., The Radiation Belt and Magnetosphere, 1968. Contains a detailed history of the discovery of the radiation belts and an overview of the many research results in the preceding ten years. google books
• Schultz and Lanzerotti, Particle Diffusion in the Radiation Belts, 1974. google books
• Walt, M., Introduction to Geomagnetically Trapped Radiation, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1994. google books

3.3. Online

• An Overview of the Space Radiation Environment by J. E. Mazur: [1]
• The South Atlantic Anamoly: [2]
• Radiation in the Space Environment: [3]
• Popular Press
  • Search Google News for latest mentions of "Radiation Belt" [4]
  • Search Google News for historical mentions of "Radiation Belt" [5]

3.4. Presentations

download .ppt The Earth's Radiation Belt by Baker, D.N., S.R. Elkington, X. Li at the Fall 2006 AGU SPA Tutorial

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download .ppt Radiation Belt Redux: Science Objectives of the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission by H.E. Spence at the June 2007 GEM Student Tutorial
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