Cross-Scale

multi-scale coupling in space plasmas
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Latest Cross-Scale news; Workshop on Cross-Scale Coupling in Plasmas

9-11 March 2009

Università della Calabria, Rende (Cosenza), Italy

Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts

Deadline 31 January 2009

Documents

Mission Summary

A 3-page mission summary will be forwarded to ESA's Space Science Advisory Committee if/when the Solar System Working Group selects it as one of four to proceed. That summary is available at:

Cross-Scale Mission Summary (PDF 700 kB)

Submitted Proposal 27 June 2007

The final submitted proposal is available:

Cross-Scale-CV-Proposal-June2007 (PDF 7.2MB)

Community Call for Instrument Data Sheets November 2007

Invitation Email

Instrument Data Sheet Template

Official Documents

Science Requirements Document and Payload Definition Document are available from the ESA via the Payload Study Call pages at http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=42708. These documents will be updated from time to time.

Other Documents

We have collected together a range of useful documents and presentations related to Cross-Scale.

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Useful documents

Cross-Scale Science Priority Document (V1.3, 1 May 2006: PDF, 253KB)

A multi-scale mission to study cross-scale coupling in space plasmas, T. S. Horbury et al., Proc. Cluster and Double Star Symposium, ESA SP-598, 2006 (PDF, 362KB)

Multi-point, multi-scale investigations of fundamental plasma processes in the Earth's magnetosphere, C. J. Owen et al., Proc. 39th ESLAB Symposium, ESA SP-588, 2005 (PDF, 753KB)

The SCOPE mission, Fujimoto et al., Proc. 39th ESLAB Symposium, ESA SP-588, 2005 (PDF, 255KB)

External documents

Cosmic Vision - ESA's Cosmic Vision document (PDF, 2.0MB)

Useful presentations

Cross-Scale Presentation by Steve Schwartz at EGU 2008 (PDF, 6MB)

Cross-Scale Presentation to the ESA Solar System Working Group on 11 October 2007:

Presentation (PDF, 6MB)

Handout (PDF, 4.6MB)

Cross-Scale Community Meeting, London, September 2006

Title Author Filesize
ESA's Cosmic Vision
Wolfgang Baumjohann
218KB
Cross-Scale: introduction
Wolfgang Baumjohann
448KB
Magnetic reconnection and Cross-Scale
Rumi Nakamura
1.8MB
Collisionless shocks and Cross-Scale
Tim Horbury
866KB
Turbulence and Cross-Scale
Alain Roux
517KB
The JAXA SCOPE mission
Masaki Fujimoto
2.3MB
ESA's Technological Reference Study for Cross-Scale
Marcel van den Berg
4.5MB
Mission concepts and constraints
Philippe Louarn
58kB
Splinter summary: reconnection
Iku Shinohara
10kB
Splinter summary: shocks
David Burgess
11kB
Splinter summary: turbulence
Volodya Krasnoselskikh
13kB
Splinter summary: practicalities
Matt Taylor
13kB

EGU, Vienna, April 2006

Cross-Scale: a multi-spacecraft mission to study cross-scale coupling in space plasmas - presentation by Steve Schwartz (PDF, 2.7MB)

Cluster symposium, ESTEC, September 2005

Cross-Scale - presentation by Tim Horbury (PDF, 163KB)

Cosmic Vision ESLAB symposium, ESTEC, April 2005

From Sun to Earth and beyond: the plasma Universe - presentation by Tim Horbury (PDF, 1.7MB)

Multi-scale probing of space plasmas - presentation by Philippe Louarn (PDF, 1.1MB)

Multi-point, multi-scale investigations of fundamental plasma processes in the Earth's magnetosphere - presentation by Chris Owen (PDF, 958KB)

 

Last revised 19 November 2008 by Steve Schwartz
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