Resources/Science
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1 News
- 05/18/2009 - An Observation Linking the Origin of Plasmaspheric Hiss to Discrete Chorus Emissions, Bortnik et al. Science
- 03/23/2009 - NASA awards launch services contract for Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission, the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission and the Tracking and Data Relay Satellites K and L missions http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/56327.html
- 2008 Fall AGU meeting posters and presentations: SAO/NASA ADS
- Search Google News for latest mentions of "Radiation Belt" html
- 1958 article in Time Magazine html
- Search Google News for historical mentions of "Radiation Belt" html
2 Meetings
- 2007 NGRSC Data Workshop, Lacanau, France
- 2007 NSF Small Satellite Workshop, George Mason University
- 2007-2009 GEM Space Radiation Climatology Focus Group
- 2008 COSPAR/PRBEM
- 2008 Radiation Belts Saint Petersburg workshop
- 2009 Joint GEM RB Climatology Focus Group/NGRSC meeting
3 Recent Papers
- Very low-frequency radio waves drain Earth's inner radiation belt of satellite-killing electrons, Physics Today [1]
- A novel method for calculating L* using a neural network technique. The proposed method could speed up the time consuming calculations potentially by 5-6 orders of magnitude http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/2/159/2009/gmdd-2-159-2009.html.
4 About the Radiation Belt
4.1 History
- 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
4.2 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
4.3 Presentations
download .ppt The Earth's Radiation Belt by Baker, D.N., S.R. Elkington, X. Li at the Fall 2006 AGU SPA Tutorial
Show ppt here 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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