http://virbo.org:8080/virbo News for Test/Preview Page for The Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory http://virbo.org:8080/virbo/viewdata.do?docname=FF6EF549-6514-BC98-910E-B9D3F1404479 test 2008-06-06T19:23:00 http://virbo.org:8080/virbo/viewdata.do?docname=FE0B5C80-07D6-599B-97D2-50E2BA5F104D A public mailing list for virbo news. 16-12-2007 04:17:40 http://virbo.org:8080/virbo/viewdata.do?docname=C2DB650A-85F4-7A0A-7ADC-063F4E6194BC * Thursday from 11:30-13:30 in the eGY suite Mariott Hotel, Room TBD (We will know the suite number on Sunday, Dec. 9th): Weigel will lead an informal discussion on ideas for data sets and servies that ViRBO can provide. * Wednesday from 15:00-18:00 in the eGY booth (#532): Weigel and Kihn will show slides of ViRBO and demo some of its capabilities. * Weigel will present a talk on ViRBO at 16:55 Friday Afternoon in MS 308 in Session SH54C html 09-12-2007 15:45:27 http://virbo.org:8080/virbo/viewdata.do?docname=41786E3D-B396-8D08-3954-3C6154B07E06 ViRBO uses the SPASE model to create metadata for its data holdings. At its most basic level you can think of SPASE as a structure way to create a README file for your data. For example, suppose you devised a new solar sunspot index. If you created a SPASE record for the data associated with your index it would show up when another scientist did a search on "Solar Index Data" (after you let a SPASE search engine know of the SPASE record you created). But SPASE was develop to much more. See http://www.spase-group.org for more information. 29-11-2007 18:26:15 http://virbo.org:8080/virbo/viewdata.do?docname=A7504616-BD42-1617-E556-792FFC5019B0 GEM FG on Space Radiation Climatology Focus Group Topic Description: Climatology is typically defined as the study of the long-term (seasonal, decadal, etc.) variability of the atmosphere, as opposed to weather, which is typically defined as the short term variations associated with storms, fronts, air masses, etc. There is a direct analogy in space weather and space climate, and it influences how we pursue knowledge about the space environment. Space weather is often pursued in the form of observations and physics-based simulations of individual storm events, while space climate has, until recently, been characterized almost exclusively by long-term empirical studies. 19-06-2007 13:50:42