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EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SPACE PLASMAS

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The Cluster mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will allow, for the first time three-dimensional measurements in key regions of the Earth's magnetosphere to be carried out. The European Numerical Simulation Network (ENSN) aims at providing a theoretical support to the mission. We describe the achievements of the ENSN during its first period of activity 1991–1994, during which the network was funded by the European Union. In particular, the ENSN has set up (i) thematic Working Groups on the prime scientific goals of the mission, (ii) a code development Working Group to develop numerical simulation codes specifically adapted to studying magnetospheric boundaries and the corresponding scale mixing, and (iii) software models of Cluster instruments to test in a numerical simulation what the set of four instruments will measure.

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Chanteur, G., Roux, A. EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF SPACE PLASMAS. Space Science Reviews 79, 583–598 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004962705931

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