CEDAR email: Migration of COSPAR PRBEM Website and IRBEM Software Library to github

[Seth Claudepierre]

The COSPAR Panel for Radiation Belt Environment Modeling (PRBEM) is pleased
to announce a new website (https://prbem.github.io/) and the migration of
the IRBEM library from sourceforge to github (https://github.com/PRBEM/IRBEM).
We have decided to migrate IRBEM to github to facilitate community
involvement in the development of the library. We encourage all interested
members of the community to join the github group and contribute to the
development of the IRBEM software.

The IRBEM library is a suite of Fortran codes that can be used to compute
magnetic coordinates and charged particle drift shells for various internal
and external magnetic field models. Additional routines are provided for
coordinate system and time format transformations. The library can be
called from Fortran or C, and Python, MATLAB, and IDL wrappers are provided
in the distribution package. The IRBEM library is free and open-source
software distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License.

The IRBEM-extras project (https://github.com/PRBEM/IRBEM-extras) will
continue to contain the developer-contributed packages that were previously
hosted on sourceforge alongside the library. The PRBEM standards documents
(e.g., particle flux variable and CDF file format guidelines, particle
instrument response function guidelines) that were previously hosted within
the IRBEM package are now being hosted and maintained as standalone
documents at the PRBEM website (https://prbem.github.io/docs/).

Respectfully,
Yoshi Miyoshi (Japan), PRBEM Chair
Antoine Brunet (France), PRBEM Vice-Chair
Seth Claudepierre (USA), PRBEM Vice-Chair
Vladimir Mikhailov (Russia), PRBEM Vice-Chair
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