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1. ST2.5 Session on "Identifying Dominant Acceleration, Loss, and Transport
Processes Affecting The Dynamics of Electron and Proton Radiation Belts", EGU 2016 Vienna, Austria, 17th – 22nd April 2016

From Sebastien Bourdarie, Yannis Daglis, Yuri Shprits <sebastien.bourdarie@onera.fr, iadaglis@phys.uoa.gr, shprits@mit.edu">

EGU 2016 Vienna, Austria, 17-22 April, 2016. Abstract dealine January
13th 2016.

Session ST2.5: Identifying Dominant Acceleration, Loss, and Transport
Processes Affecting The Dynamics of Electron and Proton Radiation Belts

While electrons and protons experience the same radial diffusion from
field fluctuations, their dynamic behaviour in the radiation belts
differs mainly because of local wave-particle interactions for electrons
and charge exchange for protons. Comparing dynamics of protons and
electrons should help us understanding better the balance between
acceleration and loss processes during magnetic storms as well as during
quiet times.

This session shall focus on recent studies of the effects of
wave-particle interactions, radial transport, charge exchange, etc., on
the Earth and other planetary radiation belts. We encourage the
submission of papers on related modelling, studies revisiting previous
missions, ongoing missions such as Van Allen Probes, THEMIS, MMS, and
future missions such as ERG and small satellites /cubesat missions and
Juno that will explore high latitude radiation environment on Jupiter.

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Abstract submission is now open, the deadline is 13 January 2016.

See: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/20715

2. Free-of-charge Issue 57(1) of Advances in Space Research (ASR - COSPAR official journal)

From: Jan Lastovicka <jla@ufa.cas.cz>

Dear colleagues,

Issue 57(1) of Advances in Space Research (ASR - COSPAR official journal) published on paper in January 1, 2016,will remain available free-of-charge without any paid subscription to this journal for a complete year, courtesy of Elsevier, at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02731177/57/1. This issue contains a couple of papers related to space weather.

I remind you that ASR publishes 24 issues per year (2 issues of 20 or more papers each per month), that accepted papers appear online with a DOI in “accepted proofs” only a couple of days after acceptance and that this journal accepts electronic supplements and supports OpenAccess. Review process takes on average about 9 weeks before the first decision is sent back to the authors (4 weeks to find proper reviewers and 5 weeks to get their report and make a first decision). Published articles are referenced in ISI Web of Science, Scopus and many other scientific databases. This journal also accepts Special Issues. Its Impact Factor has been steadily increasing in the past few years and is now 1.385. Submissions can be done electronically at any time using the EES System (http://ees.elsevier.com/asr). Published articles can be found online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02731177.

Jan Lastovicka
ASR co-editor

3. Open ESA Invitations to Tender (ITTs)

From: ESA/ESTEC

AO7935 GSTP-6 ELEMENT 2: PERMANENT OPEN ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPPORTUNITY (AO) FOR MARKET-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES
(From 10/06/2014 to 31/12/2018, Act.Ref.: 14.136.01)

Open invitations to tender (http://emits.sso.esa.int):

Note: This newsletter is an initiative of the ESA Space Environments and Effects Analysis Section (http://space-env.esa.int) and is intended to provide a forum for information posting news of interest to the Space Weather community in Europe.

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   Rumi Nakamura                 Austrian Academy of Sciences 
   Anna Belehaki                 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate 
   Volker Bothmer                EGU - Solar Physics Secretary 
   Jinbin Cao                    Chinese Space Weather Activity Representative 
   Eamonn Daly                   ESA (excluding science programme) 
   Maurizio Candidi              IAPS/INAF - Italian National Research Council (CNR) 
   Norma Crosby                  EGU - Solar-Terrestrial Sciences Division President 
   Mike Hapgood                  Space Science Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) 
   Francois Lefeuvre             Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) 
   W. William Liu                Space Science Program, Canadian Space Agency 
   Henrik Lundstedt              Lund space weather center 
   Philippe Escoubet             ESA Science programme 
   Terry Onsager                 NOAA Space Weather Prediction Centre 
   Jean-Yves Prado               CNES Programme Directorate 
   Michael Rietveld              EISCAT Scientific Association 
   Michael Rycroft               International Space University (ISU) 
   Juha-Pekka Luntama	         Head of ESA SSA Space Weather Element 
   Stefaan Poedts                Space Weather Working Team Chair

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