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the new year, please consider participating in an exciting session at the 2022 International Union of Radio Science General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (<b class="ContentPasted0">URSI GASS</b>) on <b class="ContentPasted0">Novel radio instruments and
techniques for Space Weather model validation and testing (G02)</b>. The <b class="ContentPasted0">deadline for abstract submission is January 25<sup class="ContentPasted0">th</sup>, 2023</b>, and abstracts can be submitted using the following link: <a href="https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/paper_submission.html" class="ContentPasted0">https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/paper_submission.html</a><b><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></b></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">Session Description:</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal FluidPluginCopy" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;margin-bottom:0cm;background:white">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">Radio propagation
in bands ranging from VLF to UHF is crucially reliant or affected by the state of the ionosphere; as such, modeling of this propagation is subsequently highly sensitive to the choice of ionospheric representation. There are now dozens of ionospheric models
that have been developed by the community with varying degrees of maturity and availability; however, we still lack an understanding of whether these models meet the basic needs of radio propagation modelers and users.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">This session seeks
to open a dialogue between experimentalists, users, and model developers on approaches and metrics that can be used to validate ionospheric models, with focus on radio propagation and Space Weather applications.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">This session encourages
submissions on topics including, but not limited to:</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">1) Radio propagation
experimentation;</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">2) experiments validating
radio propagation models;</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">3) efforts or ideas
to establish community ionospheric model validation testbeds;</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">4) novel ionospheric
and radio propagation model validation metrics;</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">5) new radio propagation
observations;</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">6) user-defined and
user-focused model validation metrics, such as those relevant to GNSS and Over-the-Horizon Radar (OTHR).</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">If you have been
working on new measurement techniques, have been developing new models, or have deployed new instruments to the field, we want to hear from you.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">As always with the URSI flagship
meetings, there is a Student Paper Competition and a Young Scientist Award available as part of this conference to support early career and student participation.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA" class="ContentPasted0">Hope to see you in
August in Japan,</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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