STORM-FP7

The FP7 project STORM started in January 2013 and ended in December 2015. The project is carried out by a Consortium of eight European institutes and universities led by the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. STORM is devoted to a thorough analysis of solar system plasma turbulence from in-situ data gathered by spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. We investigated how the features of turbulence and intermittency vary with the solar activity and estimate the corresponding impact. We use electromagnetic field and plasma data provided by a core of three ESA spacecraft, Ulysses, Venus Express and the Cluster quartet, in coherence with data from other missions like ESA's Giotto and Rosetta, NASA's THEMIS, Cassini and Mars Global Surveyor. Complementary to the satellite databases we also studied the fluctuations of the geomagnetic field observed on ground. The analysis strategy adopted in STORM is built on the principle of increasing complexity, from lower order..