Acronyms
- AABW Antarctic Bottom Water
- ACME Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (former name for the E3SM Project)
- AD Accelerated Decomposition
- AIE Aerosol Indirect Effect
- AIMS Analytics and Informatics Management Systems
- AIS Antarctic Ice Sheet
- ALCF Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
- AMD Advanced Micro Devices
- AMO Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
- AMOC Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- AMWG Atmosphere Model Working Group
- ANL Argonne National Laboratory
- ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
- ASR Atmospheric System Research
- AWARE ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment
- BCRC Biogeochemical CO2 Constant, Radiative CO2 Constant
- BDRC Biogeochemical CO2 Diagnostic, Radiative CO2 Constant
- BDRD Biogeochemical CO2 Diagnostic, Radiative CO2 Diagnostic
- BG/Q IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer
- BGC Biogeochemistry
- C4MIP Coupled Climate Carbon Cycle Model Intercomparison Project
- CAM5 Community Atmosphere Model Version 5
- CANGA Coupli ng Approaches for Next-Generation Architectures
- CAPT Cloud-Associated Parameterizations Testbed
- CDAT Climate Data Analysis Tools
- CDP Community Diagnostics Package
- CDW Circumpolar Deep Water
- CERL Cyber Engineering Research Laboratory
- CESD Climate and Environmental Science Division
- CESM Community Earth System Model
- CESM1 Community Earth System Model Version 1
- CF Climate Forecast
- CFMIP Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project
- CICE Los Alamos National Lab Sea Ice Model
- CIME Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth
- CLI Command Line Interface
- CLUBB Cloud Layers Unified By Binormals
- CMDV Climate Model Development and Validation
- CMDV-SM CMDV-Software Modernization
- CMIP6 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6
- CMOR Climate Model Output Rewriter
- CONUS Contiguous United States
- CORAL Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Livermore
- COSMO Consortium for Small-scale Modeling
- COSP CFMIP Observation Simulator Package
- CPU Central Processing Unit
- CSEG CESM Software Engineering Group
- CSRI Computer Science Research Institute
- CTC Converging Trophic Cascade
- CVMIX Community Vertical MIXing
- CWL Common Workflow Language
- DECK Diagnostic, Evaluation and Characterization of Klima
- DIC Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
- DMS dimethylsulfide
- DOE-ASCR Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Research
- DOE-BER Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- E3SM Energy Exascale Earth System Model
- EAM E3SM Atmosphere Model
- ECA Equilibrium Chemical Approximation
- ECP Exascale Computing Program
- EDMF Eddy-Diffusivity/Mass Flux
- ELM E3SM Land Model
- ENSO El Niño–Southern Oscillation
- ESGF Earth System Grid Federation
- ESM Earth System Model
- ESMValTool Earth System Model Evaluation Tool
- ESSIC Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
- ESSM Earth System Science and Modeling
- FATES Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator
- FV3 Finite Volume 3
- GCAM Global Change Assessment Model
- GCM Global Climate Model
- GCRM Global Cloud-Resolving Model
- GFDL-FV3 Geophysical Fluids Dynamics Laboratory-FV3
- GHG Greenhouse Gas
- GMSL Global Mean Sea Level
- GPFS General Parallel File System
- GPU Graphics Processing Unit
- HighResMIP High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project
- HIWPP High Impact Weather Prediction Project
- HOMME High-Order Method Modeling Environment Atmosphere Dynamics Code
- HOMME-NH HOMME-Nonhydrostatic
- HPC High Performance Computing
- HPSS High Performance Storage System
- HR High Resolution
- I/O Input/Output
- IA Integrated Assessment
- IARP Integrated Assessment Research Program
- iESM integrated Earth System Model
- IFS Integrated Forecast System
- ILAMB International Land Model Benchmarking Project
- IMEX Implicit-Explicit
- IOMB International Ocean Model Benchmarking
- JGCRI Joint Global Change Research Institute
- KNL Knights Landing
- LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
- LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- LC Livermore Computing
- LCF Leadership Computing Facility
- LDRD Laboratory Directed Research and Development
- LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- LMWG Land Model Working Group
- LR Low Resolution
- LULC Land Use Land Cover
- LULCC Land Use Land Cover Change
- LWCF Longwave Cloud Forcing
- MAM Modal Aerosol Module
- MARBL Marine Biogeochemistry Library
- MG2 Morrison-Gettelman microphysics 2
- MIC Many Integrated Core
- MMF Multiscale Modeling Framework
- MMM Mesoscale and Microscale Meterology
- MOAB Mesh Oriented Database
- MOSART Model for Scale Adaptive River Transport
- MPAS Model for Prediction Across Scales
- MPAS-LI MPAS Land Ice
- MPAS-O MPAS Ocean
- MPI Message Passing Interface
- MSC Molecular Science Computing
- NASA GISS NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- NCEP National Center for Environmental Prediction
- NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement
- NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- NetCDF Network Common Data Form
- NGEE Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments
- NGF NERSC Global File System
- NGGPS Next Generation Global Prediction System
- NICAM Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model
- NMVOC Non-Methane Volatile Organic Compounds
- NNSA/ASC National Nuclear Security Administration/Advanced Simulation and Computing
- NOANET Northwest Open Access Network
- NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access Memory
- ODES Ordinary Differential Equations
- OLCF Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
- OpenACC Programming model for NDVIDIA GPUs
- ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- P3 Predicted Particle Properties
- PB petabyte
- PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
- PDSF Parallel Distributed Systems Facility
- PFLOP petaflop
- PIC PNNL Institutional Computing
- PIO Programmed Input/Output
- PMP PCMDI Metrics Package
- PNNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- PPM/PQM Piecewise Parabolic Method/Piecewise Quartic Method
- ProSPect Probabilistic Sea Level Projections from Ice Sheet and Earth System Models
- ProvEn Provenance Management Platform
- QBO Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
- RCP Representative Concentration Pathway
- RGCM Regional and Global Climate Modeling
- RGMA Regional and Global Model Analysis
- RK Runge-Kutta
- ROS-2 Second-Order Rosenbrock
- RRM Regional Refined Model
- RRTMG Code for computing radiation
- SBR Subsurface Biogeochemical Research
- SciDAC Scientific Discovery Through Advanced Computing (DOE program)
- SFA Scientific Focus Area
- SHOC Simplified Higher-Order Turbulence Closure
- SMB Surface Mass Balance
- SNL Sandia National Laboratory
- SOA Secondary Organic Aerosol
- SSP Shared Socioeconomic Pathways
- SST Sea Surface Temperatures
- SVT Spherical Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations
- SYPD Simulated Years Per Day
- UCDW Upper Circumpolar Deep Water
- USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
- UV-CDAT Ultrascale Visualization – Climate Data Analysis Tools
- VSFM Variably Saturation Flow Model
- WENO Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory
- WM Water Management Model
