Acronym Definitions
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General acronyms (TBD)
| Acronym | Description | URL | IdentifiedURL
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| CMCC | Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (IT) | |
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| CNRS | Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique (FR) | |
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| INGV | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (IT) | |
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| INSU | Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (FR) | |
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| Mercator | Mercator Océan - Ocean Forecasters (FR) | |
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| Met | National weather service, formerly Meteorological Office (UK) | |
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| NEMO | Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean | |
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| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council (UK) | |
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| NOC | National Oceanography Centre (UK) | |
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| SVN | SubVersioN revision control system | |
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Technical acronyms (TBD)
| Acronym | Description
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| AGRIF | Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran
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| AMM12 | Atlantic Margin Model with 12kms horizontal resolution
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| ASM | Assimilation
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| BBL | Bottom Boundary Layer
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| BDY | BoundDarY
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| BFM | Biogeochemical Flux Model
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| BFR | Bottom FRiction
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| C1D | Configuration 1 Dimension
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| CFCs | ChloroFluoroCarbons
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| CICE | Los Alamos "sea ice" model
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| CLIO | Coupled Large-scale Ice Ocean
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| CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
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| CORE | Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments
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| CPP | C PreProcessor
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| CRS | CoaRSening
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| DIA | Diagnostics
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| DMP | Damping
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| DOC | DOCumentation
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| DOM | DOMain
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| DTA | DaTA
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| DYN | ocean DYNamics
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| EEN | Energy & ENstrophy
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| ENV | ENVironment
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| EOS | Equation Of State
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| FCM | Flexible Configuration Manager
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| FCT | Flux Corrected Transport
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| GLS | Generic Length Scale
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| HDF | Horizontal DiFfusion
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| HPC | High Performance Computing
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| HPG | Horizontal Pressure Gradient
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| IAU | Incremental Analysis Updating
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| ICB | IceBerg
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| IO | Inputs/Outputs
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| IOF | Interpolation On the Fly
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| IOM | Inputs/Outputs Manager
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| ISF | Ice ShelF
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| KPP | K-Profile Parameterization
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| LBC | Lateral Boundary Condition
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| LDF | Lateral DiFfusion
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| LIM | Louvain-la-neuve sea Ice Model
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| LOBSTER | Lodyc Ocean Biogeochemical System for Ecosystem and Resources
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| MP | Merge Party
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| MPI | Message Passing Interface
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| MPP | Massive Parallel Processing
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| MSF | Meridional Stream Function
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| NEMOVAR | NEMO VARiational data assimilation
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| OBC | Open Boundary Conditions
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| OBS | OBServations
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| OFF | OFFline
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| ORCA | tripolar grid, with special north fold boundary condition
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| OPA | "Océan PArallélisé" ocean general circulation model
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| PISCES | Pelagic Interaction Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies
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| QSR | Q? Solar Radiation
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| SAS | Stand-Alone Surface
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| SBC | Surface Boundary Conditions
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| SPG | Surface Pressure Gradient
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| SSH | Sea Surface Height
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| SSS | Sea Surface Salinity
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| SST | Sea Surface Temperature
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| STO | STOchastic parametrization
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| TAM | Tangent and Adjoint Model
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| TKE | Turbulent Kinetic Energy
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| TOP | on/off-line ocean tracer and biochemistry models
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| TRA | TRAcers
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| TRD | TRenDs
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| TVD | Total Variation Diminishing
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| WAD | Wetting And Drying
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| WG | Working Group
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| WN | vertical velocity
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| WP | Work Plan
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| ZAD | Z (vertical) ADvection
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| ZDF | Z (vertical) DiFfusion
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