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Glossary – NEMO
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Glossary

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General acronyms/words with URL (in progress)

Acronym/Word Description URL
Ada Sandy Bridge IBM supercomputer of IDRIS (FR), 233 TFLOPS peak http://www.idris.fr/eng/ada/hw-ada-eng.html
AGRIF Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran, package for the integration of full adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) features within a multidimensional finite difference model http://agrif.imag.fr
BFM Biogeochemical Flux Model, for the simulation of the dynamics of major biogeochemical properties in marine ecosystems http://bfm-community.eu
CDO Climate Data Operators, collection of command line operators to manipulate and analyse Climate and NWP model Data http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/fileadmin/software/cdo
CEA "Commissariat à l'Énergie Nucléaire et aux Énergies Alternatives" or French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (FR), public government-funded research organisation http://www.cea.fr
CeCILL "CEA CNRS INRIA Logiciel Libre", free software license compatible with GNU GPL and compliant with French law http://www.cecill.info
CICE Los Alamos sea ice model, component for use in fully coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean-land global circulation models http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CICE
CMCC "Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici" (IT), non-profit research institution investigating and modeling the climate system and its interactions with society and the environment http://www.cmcc.it
CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, standard experimental protocol to collect output in order to evaluate performance and identify errors between modeling centers http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov
CNRS "Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique" or National Center for Scientific Research, French largest governmental research organisation http://www.cnrs.fr
Curie Sandy Bridge Bull supercomputer of CEA (FR), 1,5 PFLOPS peak http://www-hpc.cea.fr/en/complexe/tgcc-curie.htm
IDRIS "Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique" or Institute for Development and Resources in Intensive Scientific computing (FR), centre of both high performance computing resources and expertise http://www.idris.fr
INGV "Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia" (IT), institution gathering all scientific and technical institutions operating in geophysics and volcanology http://www.ingv.it
INSU "Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers" (FR), CNRS institute for engineering and systems sciences http://www.insu.cnrs.fr
IPSL "Institut Pierre Simon Laplace" (FR), federation of 9 public research laboratories involved in research on terrestrial and planetary environments http://www.ipsl.fr
LGGE "Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement" (FR), research laboratory focuses on snow and ice, glaciers, climate and environment http://lgge.osug.fr
Mercator_Océan Mercator Océan (FR), privately-owned non-profit company providing operational ocean forecast services http://www.mercator-ocean.fr
Met_Office Meteorological Office (UK), national executive agency and trading fund providing weather and climate services http://www.metoffice.gov.uk
NEMO Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean
NERC Natural Environment Research Council, British largest funder of research, training and innovation in environmental science http://www.nerc.ac.uk
NOC National Oceanography Centre (UK), NERC institute for marine science research and technology http://noc.ac.uk
OASIS Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil, coupling software to synchronize exchanges of information between numerical codes representing different components of the climate system http://verc.enes.org/oasis
PISCES Pelagic Interaction Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies, biogeochemical model simulating the lower trophic levels of marine ecosystems and the cycles of carbon and of the main nutrients
RENATER "REseau NAtional de télécommunications pour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche", french national telecommunications network for research and education http://www.renater.fr
SVN SubVersioN, open source version control system for sharing, managing content and its changes over time http://subversion.apache.org
TGCC "Très Grand Centre de Calcul", HPC center of CEA (FR) http://www-hpc.cea.fr/en/complexe/tgcc.htm
Trac Wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects providing an interface to version control system http://trac.edgewall.org
UNIBO "Università di Bologna" or University of Bologna (IT) http://www.unibo.it
XIOS Xml Inputs Outputs Server, library dedicated to input/output management of climate code http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver

Technical acronyms (in progress)

Acronym Description
AMM12 Atlantic Margin Model with 12kms horizontal resolution
BBL Bottom Boundary Layer
BGC BioGeoChemical
BFR Bottom FRiction
CLIO Coupled Large-scale Ice Ocean
CORE Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments
CPP C PreProcessor
DMP Damping
DOC DOCumentation
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
ISF Ice ShelF
KPP K-Profile Parameterization
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
QSR Q? Solar Radiation
SAS Stand-Alone Surface
SPG Surface Pressure Gradient
SSH Sea Surface Height
SSS Sea Surface Salinity
SST Sea Surface Temperature
ST System Team
TAM Tangent and Adjoint Model
TKE Turbulent Kinetic Energy
TOP Tracers in the Ocean Paradigm, on/off-line ocean tracer and biochemistry models
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
BDY BoundDarY
C1D Configuration 1 Dimension
CRS CoaRSening
DIA Diagnostics
DOM DOMain
DYN ocean DYNamics
FLO ?
ICB ICeBerg
IOM Inputs/Outputs Manager
LBC Lateral Boundary Condition
LDF Lateral DiFfusion
OBS OBServations
SBC Surface Boundary Conditions
SOL ?
STO STOchastic parametrization
TRA TRAcers
TRD TRenDs
ZDF Z (vertical) DiFfusion

TOP directories

C14b ?
CFC ChloroFluoroCarbons
MY_TRC ?
TRP ?

PISCES directories

P2Z ?
P4Z ?
SED ?

CPP keys list (in progress)

From full_key_list.txt in COMPILE directory

CPP key Description
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 ?

Reference Configurations parameter names (in progress)

AMM

Parameter Description
nav_lon ?
nav_lat ?
nav_lev ?
time_counter ?
rnf_b ?
rnf_hc_b ?
rnf_sc_b ?
utau_b ?
vtau_b ?
qns_b ?
emp_b ?
sfx_b ?
en ?
avt ?
avm ?
avmu ?
avmv ?
mxln ?
ub2_b ?
vb2_b ?
sbc_hc_b ?
sbc_sc_b ?
fse3t_b ?
fse3t_n ?
ub ?
vb ?
tb ?
sb ?
rotb ?
hdivb ?
sshb ?
un ?
vn ?
tn ?
sn ?
rotn ?
hdivn ?
sshn ?
rhop ?

ORCA2_LIM_PISCES

OPA

Parameter Description
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 ?

LIM

hicif ?
hsnif ?
frld ?
sist ?
tbif1 ?
tbif2 ?
tbif3 ?
u_ice ?
v_ice ?
qstoif ?
fsbbq ?
stress1_i ?
stress2_i ?
stress12_i ?
sxice ?
syice ?
sxxice ?
syyice ?
sxyice ?
sxsn ?
sysn ?
sxxsn ?
syysn ?
sxysn ?
sxa ?
sya ?
sxxa ?
syya ?
sxya ?
sxc0 ?
syc0 ?
sxxc0 ?
syyc0 ?
sxyc0 ?
sxc1 ?
syc1 ?
sxxc1 ?
syyc1 ?
sxyc1 ?
sxc2 ?
syc2 ?
sxxc2 ?
syyc2 ?
sxyc2 ?
sxst ?
syst ?
sxxst ?
syyst ?
sxyst ?

TRC

PH ?
Silicalim ?
Silicamax ?
sbc_DIC_b ?
sbc_Alkalini_b ?
sbc_O2_b ?
sbc_CaCO3_b ?
sbc_PO4_b ?
sbc_POC_b ?
sbc_Si_b ?
sbc_PHY_b ?
sbc_ZOO_b ?
sbc_DOC_b ?
sbc_PHY2_b ?
sbc_ZOO2_b ?
sbc_DSi_b ?
sbc_Fer_b ?
sbc_BFe_b ?
sbc_GOC_b ?
sbc_SFe_b ?
sbc_DFe_b ?
sbc_GSi_b ?
sbc_NFe_b ?
sbc_NCHL_b ?
sbc_DCHL_b ?
sbc_NO3_b ?
sbc_NH4_b ?
TRNDIC ?
TRNAlkalini ?
TRNO2 ?
TRNCaCO3 ?
TRNPO4 ?
TRNPOC ?
TRNSi ?
TRNPHY ?
TRNZOO ?
TRNDOC ?
TRNPHY2 ?
TRNZOO2 ?
TRNDSi ?
TRNFer ?
TRNBFe ?
TRNGOC ?
TRNSFe ?
TRNDFe ?
TRNGSi ?
TRNNFe ?
TRNNCHL ?
TRNDCHL ?
TRNNO3 ?
TRNNH4 ?
TRBDIC ?
TRBAlkalini ?
TRBO2 ?
TRBCaCO3 ?
TRBPO4 ?
TRBPOC ?
TRBSi ?
TRBPHY ?
TRBZOO ?
TRBDOC ?
TRBPHY2 ?
TRBZOO2 ?
TRBDSi ?
TRBFer ?
TRBBFe ?
TRBGOC ?
TRBSFe ?
TRBDFe ?
TRBGSi ?
TRBNFe ?
TRBNCHL ?
TRBDCHL ?
TRBNO3 ?
TRBNH4 ?