OR/15/034 Selected glossary, acronyms and links

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Alan W P Thomson (editor), Ciarán Beggan, Ellen Clarke, Simon Flower, Brian Hamilton, Gemma Kelly, Sarah Reay, Tony Swan, Alan Thomson, Chris Turbitt (contributors). 2015. Geomagnetism review 2014. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/15/034.
AGU American Geophysical Union (www.agu.org)
Aurora Watch Aurora alert service run by Lancaster University (https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/)
BGGM BGS Global Geomagnetic Model (www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/bggm.html)
BGS British Geological Survey (www.bgs.ac.uk/)
Cabinet Office (www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/)
CHAMP German magnetic survey satellite (www-app2.gfz-potsdam.de/pb1/op/champ/)
Cluster Multi-satellite ESA mission studying the solar wind (https://sci.esa.int/cluster/)
CME Coronal mass ejection
EGU European Geophysical Union. (www.egu.eu/)
EHO The Earth Hazards and Observatories science theme of BGS (www.bgs.ac.uk/about/organisation.html?Accordion2=2#eho)
EM Electromagnetic
ESA European Space Agency (www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html)
ESWW European Space Weather Week. (sidc.oma.be/esww6/)
EURISGIC European Risk from Geomagnetically Induced Currents (www.eurisgic.eu/)
EXCON Executive council of INTERMAGNET
EVS Extreme value statistics
GIC Geomagnetically Induced Currents (a natural hazard to power systems).
GNSS Global navigation satellite system
IAGA International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (www.iugg.org/IAGA/iaga_pages/index.html)
IAR Ionospheric Alfven resonance
ICSU International Council for Science (previously the International Council of Scientific Unions) (www.icsu.org/)
IGRF International Geomagnetic Reference Field (www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf.html)
IIFR/IFR Interpolation In-Field Referencing/In-Field Referencing. (https://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/directionaldrilling/ifr.html)
IKE Information and Knowledge Exchange
INTERMAGNET International magnetometer network: a global network of magnetic observatories operating to common standards (www.intermagnet.org/)
INDIGO Collaborative effort of BGS and Royal Observatory Belgium, supplying developing nations with magnetometers (described in pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1226/)
ISCWSA Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy. (iscwsa.org/)
ISGI International Service for Geomagnetic Indices (www.icsu-fags.org/ps06isgi.htm)
IT Information technology
IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (www.iugg.org)
MAGIC Monitoring and Analysis of GIC. A service for the National Grid.
MagNetE European magnetic repeat station network (https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/earths-magnetic-field/infrastructure/magnete/).
Met Office UK meteorological office. (www.metoffice.gov.uk/)
MIST Magnetosphere, Ionosphere, Solar-Terrestrial (Physics). (www.mist.ac.uk/)
MOSWOC Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre
MWD Measurement While Drilling — a technique used in the oil and gas industry.
NAM National Astronomy Meeting (www.ras.org.uk/)
NERC Natural Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk/)
NOAA/NGDC National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Geophysical Data Center (www.ngdc.noaa.gov/).
OPSCOM Operations committee of INTERMAGNET
Ørsted/Oersted Danish magnetic survey satellite. (web.dmi.dk/projects/oersted/)
OS Ordnance Survey. (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/)
QD/QDD Quasi-definitive (magnetic observatory) data
QNX UNIX-like real-time operating system
Raspberry Pi Small, low-cost computer (https://www.raspberrypi.org/)
RIN Royal Institute of Navigation. (www.rin.org.uk/)
RAS Royal Astronomical Society. (www.ras.org.uk/)
SCARF Swarm Satellite Constellation Applications and Research Facility
SEREN STFC funded series of workshops on themes within UK space weather science.
SPE Society of Petroleum Engineers (www.spe.org/spe-app/spe/index.jsp)
SRS Spectral resonance structure
SSA Space Situational Awareness
STFC Science and Technology Facilities research Council (www.stfc.ac.uk/)
Swarm Three-satellite ‘mini-constellation’ for magnetic field surveying. (www.esa.int/esaLP/LPswarm.html)
SWENET Space Weather European Network (ESA) (www.esa-spaceweather.net/swenet/index.html)
SWPC Space Weather Prediction Centre (www.swpc.noaa.gov/)
USGS United States Geological Survey (www.usgs.gov/)
WDC World Data Centre, part of the World Data System (www.wdc.geomag.ac.uk)
WDS World Data System (www.icsu-wds.org/)
WMM World Magnetic Model (www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/WMM/DoDWMM.shtml)
ZAMG Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (Austria) (https://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/aktuell)