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Glossary – NEMO
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Version 25 (modified by nicolasmartin, 7 years ago) (diff)

Add foldable functionality and O2LP parameters

Acronym Definitions

These acronyms are automatically converted into HTML <acronym> elements by the AcronymsPlugin.

General acronyms (TBD)

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

Technical acronyms (TBD)

Acronym Description
AGRIF Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran
AMM12 Atlantic Margin Model with 12kms horizontal resolution
BBL Bottom Boundary Layer
BDY BoundDarY
BFM Biogeochemical Flux Model
BFR Bottom FRiction
CFCs ChloroFluoroCarbons
CICE Los Alamos "sea ice" model
CLIO Coupled Large-scale Ice Ocean
CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
CORE Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments
CPP C PreProcessor
CRS CoaRSening
DMP Damping
DOC DOCumentation
DOM DOMain
DTA DaTA
EEN Energy & ENstrophy
ENV ENVironment
EOS Equation Of State
FCM Flexible Configuration Manager
FCT Flux Corrected Transport
GLS Generic Length Scale
HDF Horizontal DiFfusion
HPC High Performance Computing
HPG Horizontal Pressure Gradient
IAU Incremental Analysis Updating
IO Inputs/Outputs
IOF Interpolation On the Fly
IOM Inputs/Outputs Manager
ISF Ice ShelF
KPP K-Profile Parameterization
LDF Lateral DiFfusion
LIM Louvain-la-neuve sea Ice Model
LOBSTER Lodyc Ocean Biogeochemical System for Ecosystem and Resources
MP Merge Party
MPI Message Passing Interface
MPP Massive Parallel Processing
MSF Meridional Stream Function
NEMOVAR NEMO VARiational data assimilation
OBC Open Boundary Conditions
OFF OFFline
ORCA tripolar grid, with special north fold boundary condition
OPA "Océan PArallélisé" ocean general circulation model
PISCES Pelagic Interaction Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies
QSR Q? Solar Radiation
SAS Stand-Alone Surface
SBC Surface Boundary Conditions
SPG Surface Pressure Gradient
SSH Sea Surface Height
SSS Sea Surface Salinity
SST Sea Surface Temperature
STO STOchastic parametrization
TAM Tangent and Adjoint Model
TKE Turbulent Kinetic Energy
TOP on/off-line ocean tracer and biochemistry models
TRD TRenDs
TVD Total Variation Diminishing
WAD Wetting And Drying
WG Working Group
WN vertical velocity
WP Work Plan
ZAD Z (vertical) ADvection

OPA directories

ASM Assimilation
C1D Configuration 1 Dimension
DIA Diagnostics
DYN ocean DYNamics
ICB ICeBerg
LBC Lateral Boundary Condition
OBS OBServations
SOL
TRA TRAcers
ZDF Z (vertical) DiFfusion

CPP keys list

(from full_key_list.txt in COMPILE directory)

key_agrif
key_asminc
key_bdy
key_c14b
key_c1d
key_cfc
key_cice
key_cice4
key_cpl_carbon_cycle
key_cyclone
key_degrad
key_diaar5
key_diadct
key_diaeiv
key_diaharm
key_diahth
key_diainstant
key_diaobs
key_dimgout
key_dynldf_c1d
key_dynldf_c2d
key_dynldf_c3d
key_dynldf_smag
key_dynspg_exp
key_dynspg_flt
key_dynspg_ts
key_esopa
key_floats
key_iomput
key_kppcustom
key_kpplktb
key_kriest
key_ldfslp
key_lim2
key_lim2_vp
key_lim3
key_mpp_mpi
key_mpp_rep
key_my_trc
key_nemocice_decomp
key_netcdf4
key_nosignedzero
key_noslip_accurate
key_oa3mct_v3
key_oasis3
key_offline
key_offobsoper
key_pisces
key_pisces_reduced
key_sed
key_sed_off
key_tide
key_top
key_trabbl
key_traldf_ano
key_traldf_c1d
key_traldf_c2d
key_traldf_c3d
key_traldf_eiv
key_traldf_smag
key_trdmxl_trc
key_trdtrc
key_vectopt_loop
key_vvl
key_xios2
key_zdfcst
key_zdfddm
key_zdfgls
key_zdfkpp
key_zdfric
key_zdftke
key_zdftmx
key_zdftmx_new

ORCA2_LIM_PISCES parameter names

nav_lon
nav_lat
nav_lev
time_counter
ssu_m
ssv_m
sst_m
sss_m
ssh_m
frq_m
rnf_b
rnf_hc_b
rnf_sc_b
utau_b
vtau_b
qns_b
emp_b
sfx_b
en
avt
avm
avmu
avmv
dissl
sbc_hc_b
sbc_sc_b
qsr_hc_b
fraqsr_1lev
gcx
gcxb
ub
vb
tb
sb
rotb
hdivb
sshb
un
vn
tn
sn
rotn
hdivn
sshn
rhop