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The IMSAS scientific reviews: An introduction
Author(s) -
Southwood D. J.,
Russell C. T.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg020i003p00529
Subject(s) - library science , international space station , political science , engineering ethics , operations research , computer science , engineering , aeronautics
The following eight papers are based on review papers presented at the International Magnetospheric Study Assessment Symposium (IMSAS) held at Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland, in May 1981. The IMS was an international program set up under the auspices of the International Council of Scientific Unions Special Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics, and our job as organizers of IMSAS was to use the meeting (1) to identify what data were obtained during the IMS for coordinated studies, (2) to assess the various, often innovative workshops which were convened to facilitate coordinated studies at an international or national level, and (3) to examine the status of the problems the IMS was to attack. The reader can assess our success in prosecuting aims 1 and by 2 by reading the AGU publication containing the relevant IMSAS proceedings ( The IMS Source Book: Guide to the International Magnetospheric Study Data Analysis , edited by C. T. Russell and D. J. Southwood, 1982). The papers presented here are those we invited to pursue aim 3, the scientific progress due to the IMS.