Principal Investigator:
Minna Palmroth
, Earth Observation Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki (Finland)
HPC Platform used:
Hazel Hen of HLRS
Local Project ID:
PP14112573
Space weather is an increasingly important aspect for our technology-dependent society. Modelling space weather is difficult, however, a Finnish team has succeeded in something that was said to be impossible: an accurate simulation of the large-scale near-Earth space environment. PRACE Tier-0 grant from Hazel Hen (HLRS, Stuttgart) both allowed the Vlasiator team to discover new space physics phenomena, and significantly helped in the acceptance of the second European Research Council grant awarded to the project PI in fall 2015.
