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Prabhakar Misra Department of Physics & Astronomy, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, pmisra@howard.edu

George Carruthers Space Science Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, 20375 gcarruthers@ssd5.nrl.navy.mil

Gregory S. Jenkins Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059, gjenkins@howard.edu