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 

D

 

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) 

G

 

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 

H

 

HPC

High Performance Computing 

I

 

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 

K

 

KISW

Kinetic instabilities in the solar wind 

KR

Kinetic reconnection 

KSWM

Kinetic models from the solar transition region to the solar wind 

L

 

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) 

P

 

PAH

Particle acceleration and heating 

PIC

Particle-in-cell 

POD

Public outreach and dissemination 

Q

 

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. 

T

 

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 

V

 

VAT

Value Added Tax 

VML

Virtual Mission Laboratory 

VSDD

Visualisation and just-in-time scientific data delivery 

W

 

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization 

WP

Work Package 

WPI

Wave‐Particle Interaction