Acronyms
Here are some acronyms frequently used in the space weather community:
Acronym Definition
AFWA Air Force Weather Agency link
CCMC Community Coordinated Modeling Center link
CISM Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling link
CSEM Center for Space Environment Modeling, BATSRUS developers link
CME Coronal Mass Ejection
CPCP Cross Polar Cap Potential
CMIT Coupled Magnetosphere Ionosphere Thermosphere (LFM-TING)
CORHEL Coronal Heliospheric model, MAS coupled to Enlil
CU/CL Canopus Upper/Canopus Lower; indices using the Canopus magnetometer chain to measure the auroral electrojet
CVS A version control system, link
DMI Danish Meteorological Institute World Data Center
DST Disturbed Storm Time; geomagnetic index measuring the ring current
ENLIL CISM heliospheric Code, ancient Sumero-Babylonian “lord wind” of the Mesopotamian pantheon
FAC Field Aligned Current
FTE Flux Transfer Event (reconnection in the dayside)
FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute
FOF2 Reflection Frequency at F2 peak
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HMF2 Height of F2 peak
KT Knowledge Transfer
LFM Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry MHD code, CISM magnetospheric code
LTR LFM-TING-RCM, all coupled together
MAS MHD Around a Sphere, CISM coronal code
NMF2 Maximum density at F2 peak
NME Maximum electron density at E-region peak
MHD MagnetoHydroDynamics
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction link
NSF National Science Foundation
O2N2 Ratio of O2 density to N2
OpenDX Open Data Explorer; the visualization/analysis package CISM_DX is based on
RCM Rice Convection Model
SEC Space Environment Center link
SEP Solar Energetic Particles
SSC Satellite Situation Center link
TEC Total Electron Content
TING Thermosphere Ionosphere Nested Grid code, CISM ionospheric code
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