Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp: rockets to explore solar wind-driven dynamics of the top side polar atmosphere

• Main Authors: Moen, J, Spicher, A, Rowland, DE, Kletzing, C, LaBelle, J
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: aurora; geospace; polar ionosphere; magnetosphere; reconnection; solar wind forcing; wave-particle interaction; particle acceleration; heating; oxygen outgassing; turbulence; space weather; rockets; Svalbard; Ny-Ålesund; Andøya; EISCAT; Northern lights; Ny Ålesund
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4778500; https://zenodo.org/record/4778500

This is chapter 9 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2018 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue1). “The Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp” (GCI-Cusp), a strategic coordination between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA, SIOS and UiO, is the largest sounding...