Project Glossary

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ASAP: Arcetri Space and Astrophysical Plasmas Group of the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Florence
ASI: Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
AWU: Annual Work Unit
C
CA: Consortium Agreement
CME: Coronal Mass Ejection
CNRS: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
CNS: Converging Network Solutions s.r.o.
CQPAS: Collisionless quasi-parallel shock and foreshock
CQPES: Collisionless quasi-perpendicular shocks
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DACI: Data Analysis Coordination and Integration
DESCA: Development of a Simplified Consortium Agreement (http://www.desca-fp7.eu/)
E
EC-GA: European Commission Grant Agreement
EEAB: External Expert Advisory Board
ESA: European Space Agency
F
FLRD: FLR-Landau fluid code development (FLR = finite Larmor radius)
FP(7): Framework Programme (7)
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GPF: Grant Agreement Preparation Form(s)
GPGPU: General-purpose computing on graphics processing units (also referred to as GPGP and less often GP²U)
GPL: General Public License
GPU: Graphics processing unit
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HPC: High Performance Computing
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IBAN: International Bank Account Number
ICDSW: Ion cyclotron frequency dissipation and solar wind evolution
ICPC: International Cooperation Partner Country
IMF: Interplanetary Magnetic Field
IPM: Intellectual Property Management
ISWMB: Interaction of the solar wind with weakly magnetised bodies
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KISW: Kinetic instabilities in the solar wind
KR: Kinetic reconnection
KSWM: Kinetic models from the solar transition region to the solar wind
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LEAR: Legal Entity Appointed Representative
M
MGT: Management (of the consortium)
MHD: Magnetohydrodynamics
N
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEF: An online tool to be used by the co-ordinator and the beneficiaries to edit the content of the GPF(s)
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PAH: Particle acceleration and heating
PIC: Particle-in-cell
POD: Public outreach and dissemination
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QMUL: Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
R
RTD: Research and technological development
S
SHOCK: Solar and Heliospheric Collisionless Kinetics
SME: Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise
SOA: Service Oriented Architecture
SPRINX: Sprinx Systems, a.s.
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TCS: Turbulence and coherent structures in the solar wind
U
UNIFI: Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
USTAN: The University Court of the University of St. Andrews
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VAT: Value Added Tax
VML: Virtual Mission Laboratory
VSDD: Visualisation and just-in-time scientific data delivery
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WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization
WP: Work Package
WPI: Wave‐Particle Interaction