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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Please join us for discussions on our GEM-CEDAR Modeling Challenge on Sunday, December 9 at mini-GEM Workshop:</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Date: Sunday, December 9, 2018</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Time: 3:30-5:00 pm</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Location: Washington Room of the Hilton Alexandria Old Town in Alexandria, Virginia</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">In the meeting, we will first report outcomes of the validation studies performed by <a href="https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/forum-topics.php" class="">Ionosphere-Working
Teams</a> of the<a href="https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/assessment/" class=""> International Forum for Space Weather Modeling Capabilities Assessment </a>that is facilitated by the<a href="https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.php" class=""> Community Coordinated Modeling
Center</a>. Then, we will </span>focus on <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">scintillation study. <b class=""> </b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Tentative presentations and topics for discussion: </span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">overview: Ludger Scherliess (USU)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">foF2/TEC during storms: Ja Soon Shim (GSFC/CUA) </span></li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">foF2/hmF2 climatology: <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Ioanna Tsagouri (NOA)/Larisa Goncharenko (MIT) </span></li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">scintillation: Endawoke </span>Yizengaw (BC) </li></ul>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Scintillations at Middle Latitudes - Keith Groves (BC) </b></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Future Plans and Action Items </b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Please let us know If you are interested in presenting your thoughts and ideas, and if you have suggestions or comments on the GEM-CEDAR
Modeling Challenge. </span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Best regards,</span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Ja Soon Shim</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Ludger Scherliess</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Ioanna Tsagouri</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Endawoke Yizengaw </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Masha Kuznetsova</span></div>
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