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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The tutorials from the “Geospace Empirical Models” session of the 2016 CEDAR/GEM workshop are now all posted online at <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2016_Workshop:Geospace_Empirical_Models">http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2016_Workshop:Geospace_Empirical_Models</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This session featured tutorials on major empirical models that are used in the geospace community: IGRF, NRLMSIS, CTMT, HWM, IRI, AE-9/AP-9, and the Weimer high-latitude electrodynamics model<span style='color:#1F497D'>s</span>. Each model’s formulation and physics, assimilated data, recent development, operation, and limitations were discussed. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We are grateful to the speakers and attendees for their contributions<span style='color:#1F497D'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Best Regards from the conveners,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>John Emmert (<a href="mailto:john.emmert@nrl.navy.mil">john.emmert@nrl.navy.mil</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dan Weimer (<a href="mailto:dweimer@vt.edu">dweimer@vt.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dieter Bilitza (<a href="mailto:dbilitza@gmu.edu">dbilitza@gmu.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>