This is the home page of the Cluster Wave Experiment Consortium (WEC).
WEC comprises five of the eleven instruments on the ESA Cluster satellites.
Click on the acronym to view each instrument home page.
Acronym | Instrument | Principal Investigator | Affiliation | City | Country |
DWP | Digital Wave Processor | Hugo Alleyne | University of Sheffield | Sheffield | United Kingdom |
EFW | Electric Fields and Waves | Mats André | Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) | Uppsala | Sweden |
STAFF | Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Field Fluctuations | Nicole Cornilleau-Wehrlin | Centre d'ètude des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires (CETP) | Vélizy | France |
WBD | Wide-Band Data | Donald Gurnett | University of Iowa | Iowa City | USA |
WHISPER | Waves of High Frequency and Sounder for Probing of Electron Density by Relaxation | Pierrette Décréau | Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement (LPCE) | Orléans | France |
The Wave Experiment Consortium is coordinated by a WEC Chairman, a duty
which circulates between different groups:
Time period | WEC Chairman | Affiliation |
-1991 | Alain Roux | CETP |
1992-1993 | François Lefeuvre | LPCE |
1994-1995 | Arne Pedersen | ESTEC |
1996-1998 | Alain Roux | CETP |
1999- | Per-Arne Lindqvist | KTH |
WEC Operations are coordinated by a WEC Operations Group, lead by Keith Yearby, University of Sheffield.
The scientific analysis of Cluster WEC data is done with ISDAT, an Interactive Science Data Analysis Tool developed at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala. Cluster Prime and Summary Parameters are obtainable from the Cluster Science Data System (CSDS).