Acronym Definitions

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General acronyms (TBD)

Acronym	Description	URL	IdentifiedURL
CMCC	Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
CNRS	Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique
INGV	Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
INSU	Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers
MERCATOR	Mercator Océan - Ocean Forecasters
NEMO	Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean
NERC	Natural Environment Research Council
NOC	National Oceanography Centre
SVN	SubVersioN revision control system

Technical acronyms (TBD)

Acronym	Description
AGRIF	adaptive mesh refinement package
ASM	Assimilation
BBL	Bottom Boudary Layer
BDY	BoundDarY
BFR	Bottom FRiction
BFM	Biogeochemical Flux Model
C1D	Configuration 1 Dimension
CFCs	ChloroFluoroCarbons
CLIO	Coupled Large-scale Ice Ocean
CORE	Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments
CPP	C PreProcessor
CRS	Coarsening
DIA	Diagnostics
DOC	DOCumentation
DOM	DOMain
DMP	Damping
EEN	Energy & ENstrophy
EOS	Equation Of State
FCM	Flexible Configuration Manager
FCT	Flux Corrected Transport
GLS	Generic Length Scale
IAU	Incremental Analysis Updating
IOF	Interpolation On the Fly
ISF	Ice ShelF
KPP	K-Profile Parameterization
LBC	Lateral Boundary Condition
LDF	Lateral DiFfusion
LIM	Louvain-La-Neuve sea Ice Model
LOBSTER	biogeochemical model
MPI	Message Passing Interface
MPP	Massive Parallel Processing
MSF	Meridional Stream Function
OBC	Open Boundary Conditions
OPA	ocean general circulation model
PISCES	biogeochemical model
SAS	Stand-Alone Surface
SBC	Surface Boundary Conditions
TAM	Tangent and Adjoint Model
TKE	Turbulent Kinetic Energy
TOP	on/off-line ocean tracer and biochemistry models
TRD	TRenDs
TVD	Total Variation Diminishing
WG	Working Group
WN	vertical velocity
WP	Work Plan