Acronyms

Acronym Derivation Description
ADCIRC

Regional model
AIX

IBM computer model
ANL
Argonne National Laboratory
U.S. government organization
API
Application Programming Interface
Computing concept
ArcGIS

Application
ASA

Software vendor
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Industry character encoding standard
ALI
Atmosphere, Land, Ice
Model
AFWA
Air Force Weather Agency
U.S. government organization
BEI
Battlespace Environments Institute
DoD project
BOM
Bureau of Meteorology
Australian government organization
CAM
Community Atmosphere Model
CCSM2 component; NCAR project adopting ESMF
CAN
Cooperative Agreement Notice
NASA policy
CATTR
Configuration ATTRibute

CCA
Common Component Architecture
ESMF related project
CCSM
Community Climate System Model
NCAR application
CCSM2

NCAR/LANL application
CERFACS

ESMF partner
CF
Climate Format
Data standard
CGD

NCAR organization
CHEMMAP

Marine model
CICE

LANL project adopting ESMF
C/JMTK

Application
CLM

CCSM2 component; project adopting ESMF
CMP
Chip MultiProcessor
Computer architecture
COAMPS

Navy coupled atmosphere-ocean project
COARDS
Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service
Data standard
COASTMAP

ArcGIS application extension
COLA

NASA
CONUS

Forecasting application
CSIRO

Australian Science Agency
CSU
Colorado State University
ESMF user
CSW
Catalog Service for the Web

CTIPE


CVS Concurrent Versioning System Open source tool
DAO
NASA organization
DE Decomposition Element ESMF concept
DMI

ESMF partner
DoD
Deparment of Defense
U.S. government organization
dvipdf

Computer utility for converting TEX output files to PDF
ECMWF

ESMF partner
EDP
ESMF Driver Program

ERDC WASH123

Army watershed project
ESG
Earth System Grid

ESME
Earth System Modeling Environment
Planned environment for using ESMF
ESMF Earth System Modeling Framework Project
EVA

Project adopting ESMF
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions

FDS

OpenDAP server
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
Government organization
FMS

GFDL application
FNMOC
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center

Fortran
Formula Translation
Programming language family
FTE
Full Time Equivalent
Unit of staffing used for project planning
fvCAM

NCAR project adopting ESMF
GAIM

Air Force ionosphere project
GCM
General Circulation Model
GMAO application
GEMS

Framework; ESMF precursor
GEOS-5

GMAO atmospheric general circulation model; project adopting ESMF
GFDL
NOAA organization
GFLPOS
Giga FLoating Point Operations per Second
Computing concept
GFS

NCEP project adopting ESMF
GIS
Geographic Information System
Application domain
GISS

NASA organization
GMAO

NASA
GML
Geographic Markup Language

GMU
George Mason University

GO-ESSP Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal
GPL
GNU Public License
De facto open source licensing standard
GRADS


Grid-BGC

Grid-enabled terrestrial carbon cycle modeling environment
GSFC


GSI
Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation
GMAO data assimilation system; project adopting ESMF
GSI
Grid Services Infrastructure

GT4
Globus Toolkit 4
Organization for Grid computing middleware
HAF

Air Force solar wind project
HDF5 Hierarchical Data Format 5
Data format
HPC
High Performance Computing

HPCMP
High Performance Computer Modernization Program
U.S. government program
HQ
Head Quarters

HTML
HyperText Markup Language
Standard World Wide Web page description language
HYCOM

Navy ocean application
IBM
International Business Machine Corporation
Commercial organization
IDEA
Integrated Dynamics in the Earth's Atmosphere
NOAA organization
I/O
Input/Output
Computing concept
IPPC
Intergovernmental Project for Climate Change

IRIX

SGI computer model
JMC
Kind of code component
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
U.S. government agency
JSR


JST Joint Specification Team ESMF requirements setting committee
KNMI
ESMF partner
LAITS


LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
U.S. government organization
LAS

NOAA visualization
LDAP


LDAT

Department of Energy visualization
LEAD
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery

LIS
Land Information Systems
NASA organization
LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
U.S. government organization
LNG
Liquid Natural Gas

MIT
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eductational organization
MITGCM
MIT General Circulation Model
Model
MMI
Marine Metadata Interoperability
Metadata management
MMM

NCAR organization
MOM4

NOAA GFDL project adopting ESMF
MIP
Model Intercomparison Project

MPI

ESMF partner
MPMD Multiple Program Multiple Datastream Class of computer architecture
MRE
Model Running Environment

MSP
MultiStream Processor
Computer architecture
NAG

Linus platform
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Organization
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
U.S. government organization
NCEP

NOAA data assimilation code
NetCDF

Self describing data format for array-oriented data
NOAA
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration U.S. government organization
NOGAPS

Navy atmosphere project
NMM
Numerical Model Metadata
Metadata standard
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory
U.S. government organization
NSF
National Science Foundation
U.S.government organization
NSIPP

Atmospheric general circulation model; project adopting ESMF
NWP
National Weather Prediction

ODAS

Data assimilation application; project adopting ESMF
OGC
Open Geospatial Consortium

OGCE
Open Grid Computing Environment
OGSA-DAI
Open Grid Services Architecture - Data Access and Integration
OI

Analysis system
OILMAP

Marine model
OO
Object Oriented
Computing concept
OPeNDAP
Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
Computer networking protocol
OpenMP


ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
U.S. government organization
OS
Operating System
Computing concept
OSG
Open Science Grid

PCMDI The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison

PDF
Portable Document Format
De facto standard document display language
PE
Processing Element
The smallest physical processing unit available on a particular hardware architecture
PET Persistent Execution Thread ESMF concept
PGI

Linux platform
PMEL

NOAA organization
POM

Regional model
POP

CCSM2 component: LANL project adopting ESMF
PRISM

European earth system modeling infrastructure project
PROTEX
NASA tool
PSAS
Physical-space Statistical Analysis System

RAN
Royal Australian Navy
Australian government organization
rc
return code
Computing concept
RDBMS
Relational DataBase Management System
Computing concept
RMA2

Regional model
RTM
River Transport Model

SARMAP

Marine model
SAROPS

Search and rescue software
SCD
Scientific Computing Division
NCAR organization
SCEC


SCOOP
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction

SCRIP

Regridding library
SGI
Silicon Graphics Incorporated
Commercial organization
shmem
Shared Memory
Computing concept
SI
Seasonal/Iterannual

SLOC
Source Lines of Code
Computing concept; measure of the size of a software application
SMLTM


SMT
Simultaneous MultiThreaded
Application property
SOAP


SPMD Single Program Multiple Datastream Class of computer architecture
SSI
Spectral Statistical Interpolation
NCEP data assimilation application; project adopting ESMF
SUNY
State University of New York

SURA
The Southeastern Universities Research Association

SWILL

Chicago web server
TEC
Total Electron Content

TEX
Tau Epsilon Xi
Text processing language
TFLOPS
Tera Floating Point Operations per Second
Computing concept
THREDDS
Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services

UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
U.S. government organization
UCLA
University of California at Los Angeles
ESMF user
UDDI


UI
User Interface
Computing concept
UK
United Kingdom

URL
Uniform Resource Locator
Computing concept
VM Virtual Machine ESMF concept; computing concept
WCS
Web Coverage Service

WFS
Web Feature Service
Georgraphic Web service protocol
WMS
Web Map Service

WRF
Weather Research and Forecasting
Regional atmospheric model; framework; NCAR project adopting ESMF
WS-I+

Interoperability
WSDL
Web Services Defintion Language

(WS)GRAM

Work scheduler
WSRF
Web Service Resource Framework
Framework
XCAT

Framework
XCATC++

CCA implementation

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