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AGRIF
	*Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran*, 
	package for the integration of full adaptive mesh refinement features within 
	an existing multidimensional finite difference model

SI\ :sup:`3`\ 
	*Sea Ice Integrated Initiative*, 
	unified sea ice model merging functionalities from CICE, GELATO and LIM into the NEMO framework

OASIS
	*Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil*, 
	coupling software to synchronise numerical codes representing different components of the climate system

PISCES
	*Pelagic Interactions Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies*, 
	biogeochemical model simulating marine ecosystems, cycles of carbon and the main nutrients

TAM
	*Tangent linear and Adjoint Model*, 
	tools to analyse and control the NEMO dynamical core for a wide range of applications such as
	sensitivity analysis, parameter estimation, vectors computation or data assimilation.

TOP
	*Tracers in Ocean Paradigm*, 
	on/off-line oceanic tracers transport and biogeochemistry models

XIOS
	*XML Input Output Server*, 
	library dedicated to input/output management of climate code