Glossary
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| Acronym | Description | (URL)
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General
| API | Application Programming Interface
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| CPP | C PreProcessor
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| HPC | High Performance Computing
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| IO | Inputs/Outputs
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| MPI | Message Passing Interface
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Online database
Ocean Modelling
| CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, standard experimental protocol to evaluate performance and identify errors between modeling centers | http://cmip-pcmdi.llnl.gov
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| CORE | Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments, research project in the modelling community to help facilitate simulation comparisons | http://www.clivar.org/omdp/core
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Licenses | Models | Softwares
| AGRIF | Adaptive Grid Refinement In Fortran, package for the integration of full adaptive mesh refinement features within a multidimensional finite difference model | http://agrif.imag.fr
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| BFM | Biogeochemical Flux Model, for the simulation of the dynamics of major biogeochemical properties in marine ecosystems | http://bfm-community.eu
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| CeCILL | Free software license compatible with GNU GPL and compliant with French law | http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html
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| CICE | Los Alamos sea ice model, component for use in fully coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean-land global circulation models | http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CICE
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| CDO | Climate Data Operators, collection of command line operators to manipulate and analyse Climate and NWP model Data | https://code.mpimet.mpg.de/projects/cdo
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| FCM | Flexible Configuration Manager, Fortran build system and wrappers to SVN for scientific software development | http://metomi.github.io/fcm/doc/
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| OASIS | Ocean Atmosphere Sea Ice Soil, coupling software to synchronize numerical codes representing different components of the climate system | http://verc.enes.org/oasis
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| PISCES | Pelagic Interaction Scheme for Carbon and Ecosystem Studies, biogeochemical model simulating marine ecosystems, cycles of carbon and the main nutrients |
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| SVN | SubVersioN, open source version control system for sharing, managing content and its changes over time | http://subversion.apache.org
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| Trac | Wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects providing an interface to version control system | http://trac.edgewall.org
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| XIOS | Xml Inputs Outputs Server, library dedicated to input/output management of climate code => http://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ioserver |
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Institutes | Laboratories | Universities
| CEA | Alternatives energies and atomic energy commission (FR), public government-funded research organisation | http://www.cea.fr
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| CMCC | Non-profit research institution investigating and modeling the climate system and its interactions with society and the environment (IT) | http://www.cmcc.it
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| CNRS | National Center for Scientific Research, French largest governmental research organisation | http://www.cnrs.fr
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| IDRIS | Institute for Development and Resources in Intensive Scientific computing (FR), centre of both high performance computing resources and expertise | http://www.idris.fr
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| IGE | Public research laboratory in Earth and Environmental Sciences on climate, the water cycle, cryosphere and natural and anthropized environments (FR) | http://www.ige-grenoble.fr
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| INGV | Institution gathering all scientific and technical institutions operating in geophysics and volcanology (IT) | http://www.ingv.it
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| INRIA | National Institute for computer science and applied mathematics (FR) | http://www.inria.fr
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| INSU | Institute for engineering and systems sciences within CNRS (FR) | http://www.insu.cnrs.fr
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| IPSL | Federation of 9 public research laboratories involved in research on terrestrial and planetary environments (FR) | http://www.ipsl.fr
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| LGGE | Research laboratory focuses on snow and ice, glaciers, climate and environment (FR) | http://www.ige-grenoble.fr
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| Mercator_Océan | Privately-owned non-profit company providing operational ocean forecast services (FR) | http://www.mercator-ocean.fr
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| Met_Office | Meteorological Office (UK), national executive agency and trading fund providing weather and climate services | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk
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| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council, British largest funder of research, training and innovation in environmental science | http://www.nerc.ac.uk
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| NOC | National Oceanography Centre (UK), NERC institute for marine science research and technology | http://noc.ac.uk
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| RENATER | National telecommunications network for research and education (FR) | http://www.renater.fr
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| UNIBO | University of Bologna (IT) | http://www.unibo.it
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HPC
NEMO (in progress)
Acronyms
| Acronym | Description
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| AMM12 | Atlantic Margin Model with 12kms horizontal resolution
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| BBL | Bottom Boundary Layer
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| BGC | Bio-Geo Chemical
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| BFR | Bottom FRiction
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| CLIO | Coupled Large-scale Ice Ocean
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| DMP | Damping
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| DOC | DOCumentation
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| DTA | DaTA
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| EEN | Energy & ENstrophy
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| ENV | ENVironment
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| EOS | Equation Of State
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| FCT | Flux Corrected Transport
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| GLS | Generic Length Scale
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| HDF | Horizontal DiFfusion
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| HPG | Horizontal Pressure Gradient
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| IAU | Incremental Analysis Updating
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| IOF | Interpolation On the Fly
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| ISF | Ice ShelF
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| KPP | K-Profile Parameterization
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| LIM | Louvain-la-neuve sea Ice Model
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| LOBSTER | Lodyc Ocean Biogeochemical System for Ecosystem and Resources
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| MP | Merge Party
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| MPP | Massive Parallel Processing
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| MSF | Meridional Stream Function
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| NEMOVAR | NEMO VARiational data assimilation
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| OBC | Open Boundary Conditions
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| OFF | OFFline
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| ORCA | Tripolar grid, with special north fold boundary condition
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| OPA | Ocean general circulation model
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| QSR | Q? Solar Radiation
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| SAS | Stand-Alone Surface
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| SPG | Surface Pressure Gradient
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| SSH | Sea Surface Height
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| SSS | Sea Surface Salinity
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| SST | Sea Surface Temperature
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| ST | System Team
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| TAM | Tangent and Adjoint Model
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| TKE | Turbulent Kinetic Energy
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| TOP | Tracers in the Ocean Paradigm, on/off-line ocean tracer and biochemistry models
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| TVD | Total Variation Diminishing
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| WAD | Wetting And Drying
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| WG | Working Group
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| WN | Vertical velocity
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| WP | Work Plan
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| ZAD | Z (vertical) ADvection
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OCE directories
| ASM | Assimilation
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| BDY | BoundDarY
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| C1D | Cfg.1 Dim
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| CRS | CoaRSening
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| DIA | Diagnostics
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| DIU | DIUrnal
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| DOM | DOMain
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| DYN | DYNamics
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| FLO | FLOats
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| ICB | ICeBerg
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| IOM | Inputs-Outputs Manager
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| LBC | Lateral Boundary Condition
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| LDF | Lateral DiFfusion
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| OBS | OBServations
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| SBC | Surface Boundary Conditions
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| STO | STOchastic parametrization
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| TRA | TRAcers
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| TRD | TRenDs
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| USR | USeR
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| ZDF | Z (vertical) DiFfusion
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TOP directories
| AGE | Water age tracking
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| C14 | Radiocarbon passive tracer (natural + bomb)
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| CFC | Inert carbon tracers (CFC11,CFC12, SF6)
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| MY_TRC | Template for creation of new modules and ext. BGC models coupling
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| TRP | Interface to NEMO physical core for computing tracers transport
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PISCES directories
| P2Z | 1 Phyto-plankton + 1 Zoo-plankton
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| P4Z | 2 Phyto-planktons + 2 Zoo-planktons
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| SED | SEDiments
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CPP keys list
| CPP key | Description
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| key_agrif | ?
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| key_asminc | ?
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| key_c1d | ?
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| key_cice | ?
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| key_cice4 | ?
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| key_cyclone | ?
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| key_diadct | ?
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| key_diaharm | ?
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| key_diahth | ?
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| key_diainstant | ?
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| key_floats | ?
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| key_iomput | ?
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| key_mpp_mpi | ?
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| key_nemocice_decomp | ?
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| key_netcdf4 | ?
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| key_nosignedzero | ?
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| key_oa3mct_v3 | ?
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| key_oasis3 | ?
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| key_sed | ?
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| key_sed_off | ?
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| key_si3 | ?
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| key_top | ?
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| key_trdmxl_trc | ?
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| key_trdtrc | ?
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| key_vectopt_loop | ?
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| key_vertical | ?
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Restart parameters
OCE
| nav_lon |
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| nav_lat |
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| ssu_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) surface sea i-current (U-point) [m/s]
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| ssv_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) surface sea j-current (V-point) [m/s]
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| sst_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) surface sea temperature [Celsius]
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| sss_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) surface sea salinity [psu]
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| ssh_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) sea surface height [m]
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| e3t_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) sea surface layer thickness [m]
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| frq_m | mean (nn_fsbc time-step) fraction of solar net radiation absorbed in the 1st T level [-]
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| rnf_b | river runoff [Kg/m2/s]
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| rnf_hc_b |
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| rnf_sc_b |
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| utau_b | sea surface i-stress (ocean referential) [N/m2]
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| vtau_b | sea surface j-stress (ocean referential) [N/m2]
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| qns_b | sea heat flux: non solar [W/m2]
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| emp_b | freshwater budget: volume flux [Kg/m2/s]
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| sfx_b | salt flux [PSU/m2/s]
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| en | now turbulent kinetic energy [m2/s2]
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| avt_k | Kz computed by turbulent closure alone [m2/s]
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| avm_k | Kz computed by turbulent closure alone [m2/s]
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| dissl | now mixing lenght of dissipation
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| ub2_b | Half step fluxes (ln_bt_fw=T)
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| vb2_b | Half step fluxes (ln_bt_fw=T)
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| un_bf | Asselin filtered half step fluxes (ln_bt_fw=T)
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| vn_bf | Asselin filtered half step fluxes (ln_bt_fw=T)
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| sbc_hc_b |
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| sbc_sc_b |
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| qsr_hc_b | heat content trend due to qsr flux [K.m/s] jpi,jpj,jpk
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| fraqsr_1lev | fraction of solar net radiation absorbed in the first ocean level [-]
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| e3t_b | t- vert. scale factor [m]
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| e3t_n | t- vert. scale factor [m]
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| ub | i-horizontal velocity [m/s]
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| vb | j-horizontal velocity [m/s]
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| tb |
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| sb |
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| sshb | sea surface height at t-point [m]
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| un | i-horizontal velocity [m/s]
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| vn | j-horizontal velocity [m/s]
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| tn |
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| sn |
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| sshn | sea surface height at t-point [m]
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| rhop | potential volumic mass [kg/m3]
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ICE
| stress1_i | 1st, 2nd & diagonal stress tensor element
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| stress2_i | 1st, 2nd & diagonal stress tensor element
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| stress12_i | 1st, 2nd & diagonal stress tensor element
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| snwice_mass | mass of snow and ice at current ice time step [Kg/m2]
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| snwice_mass_b | mass of snow and ice at previous ice time step [Kg/m2]
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| v_i | Ice volume per unit area (m)
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| v_s | Snow volume per unit area(m)
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| sv_i | Sea-Ice Bulk salinity times volume per area (ppt.m)
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| oa_i | Sea-Ice Age times ice area (s)
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| a_i | Ice fractional areas (concentration)
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| t_su | Sea-Ice Surface Temperature (K)
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| a_ip | melt pond fraction per grid cell area
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| v_ip | melt pond volume per grid cell area [m]
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| e_s_l01 |
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| e_i_l01 |
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| e_i_l02 |
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| u_ice | components of the ice velocity (m/s)
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| v_ice | components of the ice velocity (m/s)
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TRC
| PH | ?
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| Silicalim | ?
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| Silicamax | ?
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| TRNDIC | ?
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| TRNAlkalini | ?
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| TRNO2 | ?
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| TRNCaCO3 | ?
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| TRNPO4 | ?
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| TRNPOC | ?
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| TRNSi | ?
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| TRNPHY | ?
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| TRNZOO | ?
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| TRNDOC | ?
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| TRNPHY2 | ?
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| TRNZOO2 | ?
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| TRNDSi | ?
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| TRNFer | ?
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| TRNBFe | ?
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| TRNGOC | ?
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| TRNSFe | ?
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| TRNDFe | ?
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| TRNGSi | ?
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| TRNNFe | ?
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| TRNNCHL | ?
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| TRNDCHL | ?
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| TRNNO3 | ?
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| TRNNH4 | ?
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| TRBDIC | ?
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| TRBAlkalini | ?
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| TRBO2 | ?
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| TRBCaCO3 | ?
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| TRBPO4 | ?
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| TRBPOC | ?
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| TRBSi | ?
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| TRBPHY | ?
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| TRBZOO | ?
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| TRBDOC | ?
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| TRBPHY2 | ?
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| TRBZOO2 | ?
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| TRBDSi | ?
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| TRBFer | ?
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| TRBBFe | ?
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| TRBGOC | ?
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| TRBSFe | ?
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| TRBDFe | ?
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| TRBGSi | ?
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| TRBNFe | ?
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| TRBNCHL | ?
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| TRBDCHL | ?
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| TRBNO3 | ?
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| TRBNH4 | ?
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