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<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;">We would like to invite you to participate in the <b class="">CEDAR-GEM Modeling Challenge Session</b> at the 2016 mini-GEM Workshop:</p>
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<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Time</b>: 03:30-05:00 pm, Sunday, 11 December</p>
<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Location</b>: California Room of the Holiday Inn San Francisco-Golden Gateway, 1500 Van Ness Avenue </p>
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<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;">We will discuss Modeling challenges in Ionospheric/Thermospheric disturbances and focus on TEC and Scintillation. </p>
<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;">We will also discuss effects of high latitude drivers on Ionosphere/Thermosphere. </p>
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<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;">Six presentations and introduction to “World Modeling Challenge” will be followed by discussions. </p>
<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Agenda</b> of the session can be found at: </p>
<p class="" style="margin: 5px 0px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/challenges/GEM-CEDAR/" class="">http://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/challenges/GEM-CEDAR/</a></p>
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<div class="">Please join us for the discussions.</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
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<div class="">Ja Soon Shim</div>
<div class="">Masha Kuznetsova </div>
<div class="">Larisa Goncharenko</div>
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