ACCESS Glossary
Here you can find a compilation of common terms and acronyms used by the ACCESS community:
Name | Description |
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ACCESS | Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator |
ACCESS-AM2 | ACCESS Atmospheric Model 2 is the ACCESS-CM2 Model Configuration without the ocean component (ACCESS-OM2) |
ACCESS-CM2 | ACCESS Coupled Model version 2 |
ACCESS-CM2-Chem | ACCESS-CM2 extended configuration that simulates atmospheric chemistry from the surface to the stratosphere. |
ACCESS-ESM1.5 | ACCESS Earth System Model Version 1.5 |
ACCESS-MOM | ACCESS-MOM5 is a numerical ocean model |
ACCESS-OM2 | ACCESS Ocean Model Version 2 |
ACCESS-S | ACCESS-Seasonal Prediction System |
AM | Atmospheric Modelling |
AMOS | The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society |
BARRA | Bureau of Meteorology Atmospheric high-resolution Regional Reanalysis for Australia |
BGC | Biogeochemistry |
BRAN | BlueLink Reanalysis |
CABLE | Community Atmosphere-Biosphere Land Exchange model |
CASA-CNP | Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach-Carbon Nitrogen Phosphorus |
CERFACS | Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique |
CICE | ACCESS Sea-Ice Model |
CM | Coupled Model |
CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
COSIMA | Consortium for Ocean-Sea Ice Modelling in Australia |
ECS | Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity |
ENSO | El Niño–Southern Oscillation |
ESMValTool | Earth System Model Evaluation Tool |
GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
GLOMAP | Global Model of Aerosol Processes |
GLOMAP | Global Model of Aerosol Processes |
Gadi | Gadi (pronunced ‘Gar-dee’ is an Indigenous word meaning Knowledge) is NCI's high performance computer where the ACCESS models are located. |
HPC | High Performance Computing |
IOD | Indian Ocean Dipole |
JULES | Join UK Land Exchange Simulator (UK land model) |
LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
MED | Model Evaluation and Diagnostics |
MOM | Modular Ocean Model |
NCRIS | National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy |
NEMO | Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean |
NGMS | Next Generation Modelling System |
NUOPC | National Unified Operation Prediction Capability |
NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
OASIS | Originally "Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil", but now represents a project to develop general coupling software |
SAC | Scientific Advisory Committee |
SSP | Shared Socioeconomic Pathways |
UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office (also referred to as the Met Office) |
UM | Unified Model (Atmosphere) |
WCRP | World Climate Research Program |
WOMBAT | Whole Ocean Model of Biogeochemistry And Trophic-Dynamics |
YATM | Yet another data-driven atmosphere model |