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Glossary – NEMO
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Glossary

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Acronym Description (URL)

General

API Application Programming Interface
CPP C PreProcessor
HPC High Performance Computing
IO Inputs/Outputs
MPI Message Passing Interface

Online database

ADS Astrophysics Data System, digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu
HAL Open archive of scholarly documents from all academic fields (FR) http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr

Ocean Modelling

CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, standard experimental protocol to evaluate performance and identify errors between modeling centers http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov
CORE Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments, research project in the modelling community to help facilitate simulation comparisons http://www.clivar.org/omdp/core

Licenses | Models | Softwares

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
BFM Biogeochemical Flux Model, for the simulation of the dynamics of major biogeochemical properties in marine ecosystems http://bfm-community.eu
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
CDO Climate Data Operators, collection of command line operators to manipulate and analyse Climate and NWP model Data https://code.mpimet.mpg.de/projects/cdo
FCM Flexible Configuration Manager, Fortran build system and wrappers to SVN for scientific software development http://metomi.github.io/fcm/doc/
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
SVN SubVersioN, open source version control system for sharing, managing content and its changes over time http://subversion.apache.org
Trac Wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects providing an interface to version control system http://trac.edgewall.org
XIOS Xml Inputs Outputs Server, library dedicated to input/output management of climate code => http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver

Institutes | Laboratories | Universities

CEA Alternatives energies and atomic energy commission (FR), public government-funded research organisation http://www.cea.fr
CMCC Non-profit research institution investigating and modeling the climate system and its interactions with society and the environment (IT) http://www.cmcc.it
CNRS National Center for Scientific Research, French largest governmental research organisation http://www.cnrs.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
IGE Public research laboratory in Earth and Environmental Sciences on climate, the water cycle, cryosphere and natural and anthropized environments (FR) http://www.ige-grenoble.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://www.ige-grenoble.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
RENATER National telecommunications network for research and education (FR) http://www.renater.fr
UNIBO University of Bologna (IT) http://www.unibo.it

HPC

Ada Sandy Bridge IBM supercomputer of IDRIS (FR), 233 TFLOPS peak => http://www.idris.fr/eng/ada/hw-ada-eng.html
Curie Sandy Bridge Bull supercomputer of CEA (FR), 1,5 PFLOPS peak http://www-hpc.cea.fr/en/complexe/tgcc-curie.htm
TGCC HPC center of CEA (FR) http://www-hpc.cea.fr/en/complexe/tgcc.htm

NEMO

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
DMP Damping
DOC DOCumentation
DTA DaTA
EEN Energy & ENstrophy
ENV ENVironment
EOS Equation Of State
FCT Flux Corrected Transport
GLS Generic Length Scale
HDF Horizontal DiFfusion
HPG Horizontal Pressure Gradient
IAU Incremental Analysis Updating
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
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 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

OCE directories

ASM Assimilation
BDY BoundDarY
C1D Cfg.1 Dim
CRS CoaRSening
DIA Diagnostics
DIU DIUrnal
DOM DOMain
DYN DYNamics
FLO FLOats
ICB ICeBerg
IOM !IO Manager
LBC Lateral Boundary Condition
LDF Lateral DiFfusion
OBS OBServations
SBC Surface Boundary Conditions
STO STOchastic parametrization
TRA TRAcers
TRD TRenDs
USR USeR
ZDF Z (vertical) DiFfusion

TOP directories

AGE Water age tracking
C14 Radiocarbon passive tracer (natural + bomb)
CFC Inert carbon tracers (CFC11,CFC12, SF6)
MY_TRC Template for creation of new modules and ext. BGC models coupling
TRP Interface to NEMO physical core for computing tracers transport

PISCES directories

P2Z 1 Phyto-plankton + 1 Zoo-plankton
P4Z 2 Phyto-planktons + 2 Zoo-planktons
SED SEDiments

CPP keys list (in progress)

CPP key Description
key_agrif ?
key_asminc ?
key_c1d ?
key_cice ?
key_cice4 ?
key_cyclone ?
key_diadct ?
key_diaharm ?
key_diahth ?
key_diainstant ?
key_floats ?
key_iomput ?
key_mpp_mpi ?
key_nemocice_decomp ?
key_netcdf4 ?
key_nosignedzero ?
key_oa3mct_v3 ?
key_oasis3 ?
key_sed ?
key_sed_off ?
key_si3 ?
key_top ?
key_trdmxl_trc ?
key_trdtrc ?
key_vectopt_loop ?
key_vertical ?

ORCA2_LIM_PISCES

Parameter Description

OPA

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 ?

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