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Contents News Meetings Recent Articles Recent Presentations About the Radiation Belt History Books Online Presentations

1 News

• Search Google News for latest mentions of "Radiation Belt" html
• Search Google News for historical mentions of "Radiation Belt" html
• News items are available in our metadata catalog [1].

2 Meetings

• 2010 GEM RB Climatology Focus Group meeting
• 2009 Joint GEM RB Climatology Focus Group/NGRSC meeting
• 2008 Radiation Belts Saint Petersburg workshop
• 2008 COSPAR/PRBEM
• 2007-2009 GEM Space Radiation Climatology Focus Group
• 2007 NSF Small Satellite Workshop, George Mason University
• 2007 NGRSC Data Workshop, Lacanau, France

3 Recent Articles

• Unraveling the Causes of Radiation Belt Enhancements, Liemohn and Chan, EOS [2].
• An Observation Linking the Origin of Plasmaspheric Hiss to Discrete Chorus Emissions, Bortnik et al., Science [3].
• Very low-frequency radio waves drain Earth's inner radiation belt of satellite-killing electrons, Physics Today [4].
• Search on "Radiation Belt" in SAO/NASA ADS [5].

4 Recent Presentations

• 2009 Fall AGU meeting posters and presentations: SAO/NASA ADS
• 2008 Fall AGU meeting posters and presentations: SAO/NASA ADS

5 About the Radiation Belt

5.1 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

5.2 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

5.3 Online

• References and online resources on Wikipedia Radiation Belt page [6].
• SAA [7]

5.4 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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