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<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;">We would like to invite you to participate in the CEDAR-GEM Modeling Challenge Session at the 2016 mini-GEM Workshop. The session will be held on 11 December, 2016 (03:30-05:00 pm, in the California
Room of the Holiday Inn San Francisco-Golden Gateway, 1500 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco), before the Fall AGU Meeting. </p>
<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;">Potential topics for discussion: </p>
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<li class="">Modeling challenges in Ionospheric/Thermospheric disturbances:
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<li class="">foF2/NmF2, </li><li class="">TEC,</li><li class="">Scintillation,</li><li class="">Satellite drag</li></ol>
</li><li class="">Quantification of storm disturbances:
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<li class="">Climatology study</li></ol>
</li><li class="">Validation of TEC:
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<li class="">TEC biases </li><li class=""><span class="">Plasmasphere contribution</span><span class=""> </span></li><li class=""><span class="">Metrics </span><span class=""> </span></li></ol>
</li><li class="">Effects of high latitude drivers on Ionosphere/Thermosphere</li><li class=""><span class="">Modeling challenges in auroral region</span><span class=""> </span></li><li class=""><span class="">Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis</span><span class=""> </span></li></ul>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Please let us know If you are interested in presenting your thoughts and ideas, and you have suggestions or comments on the GEM-CEDAR Modeling Challenge. </div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Ja Soon Shim (<a href="mailto:jasoon.shim@nasa.gov" class="">jasoon.shim@nasa.gov</a>)</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Masha Kuznetsova (<a href="mailto:maria.m.kuznetsova@nasa.gov" class="">maria.m.kuznetsova@nasa.gov</a>)</div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Larisa Goncharenko </div>
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