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 |