Resources/Science
From ViRBO
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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
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
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
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
Show ppt here