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There are 71 entries in the glossary.
Term
Definition
ALADIN
Aire Limitée Adaptation dynamique Développement International
AMIP
Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
AR
Assessment Report (of the IPCC, AR5 is expected to be the next one after the current AR4 report).
ARPEGE
Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle: Research Project on Small and Large Scales
BADC
British Atmospheric Data Centre
BFG
Bespoke Generator Framework
CCMVal
Chemistry-Climate Model Validation Activity
CECILIA
Central and Eastern Europe Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment
CF metadata
Climate and Forecast metadata
CIM
Common Information Model
CMOR
Climate Model Output Rewriter
CMS
NCAS Computational Modelling Services
CSML
Climate Science Modelling Language
DEISA
Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
DEWS
Delivering Environmental Web Services
ebRIM
ebXML Registry Information Model
ebXML
electronic business XML
EC
European Commission
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast
EGEE
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
ENES
European Network for Earth Sciences
ENSEMBLES
European project supported by the EC 6th Framework Programme
as a 5 year Integrated Project
from 2004-2009
ESC
Earth System Curator
ESMF
Earth System Modeling Framework
EU
European Union
FLUME
Flexible Unified Model Environment
FP
Framework Program
GEANT
European Union’s high-capacity and high-speed communications network for research
GENIE
Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling framework for the community
Globus MyProxy
project that develops software for managing X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
GML
Geography Markup Language
GO-ESSP
Global Organisation for Earth System Science Portals
GRIB
GRIdded Binary
GUI
Graphical User Interface
I3
Integrated Infrastructure Initiative
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
IPCC WG
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group
IPSL
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace
MARS
UK Met Office Meteorological Archival and Retrieval System
MERCURE
Modelling European Regional Climate, Understanding and Reducing Errors
METAFOR
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MIAME
The system that the
bio-informatics community has developed for describing their experiments
: Automated data exchange and the use of standard controlled vocabularies and ontologies etc.
NARCCAP
North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
, Boulder, USA
NCAS-Climate
Climate division of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, UK
NDG
NERC (Natural Environment Research Council) Data Grid
NetCDF
Network Common Data Format
NMM
Numerical Model Metadata
OAI
Open Archives Initiative
OAI-PMH
OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OASIS4
Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil code coupler version 4
OpenDAP
Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
OWL
Web Ontology Language
PCMDI
Programme for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
PRISM
Program for Integrated Earth System Modelling
Protégé
free, open source ontology editor and knowledge-base framework
PRUDENCE
Prediction of Regional scenarios and Uncertainties for Defining European Climate change risks and Effects
RACCS
RACCS
SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language
Shibboleth
standards-based, open source middleware software
which provides Web Single Sign On (SSO) across or within organizational boundaries
SPARC
Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate
STAB
Scientific and Technical Advisory Board
UK DEFRA
United Kingdom Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs
UML
Unified Modelling Language
UMUI
Unified Model User Interface
WCRP
World Climate Research Programme
WP
Work Package
WS
Web Service
X.509
Web Certification
XML
Extensible Markup Language
XSL
eXtensible Style sheet Language
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