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
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- 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/)
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- EC-GA
- European Commission Grant Agreement
- EEAB
- External Expert Advisory Board
- ESA
- European Space Agency
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- 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
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- MGT
- Management (of the consortium)
- MHD
- Magnetohydrodynamics
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- 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
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- RTD
- Research and technological development
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- 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
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- 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