Glossary
- ADCIRC
- Fortran model for Earth system hydrodynamics modeling with applications including storm surge, tides, and coupling with atmospheric and wave models.
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Marine and climate data from IMOS, universities, government, industry, and other organizations
- Common Data Model
- Description of metadata and naming schemes for binary formats like HDF, NetCDF, Grib and Zarr
- Compound Flood Hazard Assessment
- US Army Corps of Engineers
- Engineering branch of the United States Army
- WWS
- OWI IOKA Wind Workstation software
- CERN
- Climate and Forecasting Conventions
- Container
- A portable and standardized software unit that contains applications, scripts, and dependencies independent of a host OS
- Docker
- Electro-magnetic
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- Research and operational center for global weather and ocean model hindcast and prediction data
- Exxon-Mobile
- FORTRAN
- Fast compiled programming language originally developed by IBM, used primarily in numerical models and other specialized computation intensive applications.
- GIST
- Grid Interpolation in Space and Time FORTRAN program
- Global Flood Awareness System
- GNU's Not Unix
- Recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix and collection of free programs, tools and libraries for Unix-like operating systems.
- HEC-RAS
- Hydrological and riverine model developed by the USACE
- High-performance Computing
- Massively parallel computer clusters typically realizing perfomance by scaling the number of compute servers/nodes and CPU cores
- Integrated Marine Observing System
- Interactive Objective Kinematic Analysis System
- OWI Interactive Objective Kinematic Analysis system from Cox et. al. (1995)
- IOOS
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center
- Tropical cyclone warning center operating jointly between the US Air Force and Navy out of Hawaii, responsible for the Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans
- Linux
- LISFLOOD
- Mean Absolute Error
- Mean Absolute Percentage Error
- Message Passing Interface
- Portable computing standard for an paradigm of parallel computing
- Navy Research Laboratory
- NGA
- Oceanweather Inc.
- Oceanweather Inc. specializing in marine wind and wave modeling for government, coastal engineering, offshore and shipping industries
- Podman
- OCI compatible computer container manager that can serve as a drop-in replacement for Docker
- Regional Specialized Meteorological Center
- Root Mean Square Error
- Significant Wave Height
- (Total) Significant Wave Height
- TACC
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in Austin, TX.
- TELEMAC
- Tropical Analyst's Workstation
- OWI Tropical Analyst's Workstation
- Ubuntu
- Zarr
- Data store specification optimized for performance in HPC, cloud object storage and big data
- Chevron
- HYCOM