Glossary

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General acronyms/words with URL (in progress)

Acronym	Description	URL
Ada	Sandy Bridge IBM supercomputer of IDRIS (FR), 233 TFLOPS peak => ​http://www.idris.fr/eng/ada/hw-ada-eng.html
ADS	Astrophysics Data System, digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics	​http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu
AGRIF	Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran, package for the integration of full adaptive mesh refinement features within a multidimensional finite difference model	​http://agrif.imag.fr
API	Application Programming Interface, defined methods of communication between various software components
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	Alternatives energies and atomic energy commission (FR), public government-funded research organisation	​http://www.cea.fr
CeCILL	Free software license compatible with GNU GPL and compliant with French law	​http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html
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	Non-profit research institution investigating and modeling the climate system and its interactions with society and the environment (IT)	​http://www.cmcc.it
CMIP	Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, standard experimental protocol to evaluate performance and identify errors between modeling centers	​http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov
CNRS	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
HAL	Open archive of scholarly documents from all academic fields (FR)	​http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr
IDRIS	Institute for Development and Resources in Intensive Scientific computing (FR), centre of both high performance computing resources and expertise	​http://www.idris.fr
INGV	Institution gathering all scientific and technical institutions operating in geophysics and volcanology (IT)	​http://www.ingv.it
INRIA	National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics (FR)	​http://www.inria.fr
INSU	Institute for engineering and systems sciences within CNRS (FR)	​http://www.insu.cnrs.fr
IPSL	Federation of 9 public research laboratories involved in research on terrestrial and planetary environments (FR)	​http://www.ipsl.fr
LGGE	Research laboratory focuses on snow and ice, glaciers, climate and environment (FR)	​http://lgge.osug.fr
Mercator_Océan	Privately-owned non-profit company providing operational ocean forecast services (FR)	​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
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 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 marine ecosystems, cycles of carbon and the main nutrients
RENATER	National telecommunications network for research and education (FR)	​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	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	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	?