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