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| ! scope="col" style="width: 125px;" | '''Aurora Watch'''
| ! scope="col" style="width: 800px;" | Aurora alert service run by Lancaster University ([http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;" style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''BAS'''
| British Antarctic Survey ([http://www.bas.ac.uk/ www.bas.ac.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''BGGM'''
| BGS Global Geomagnetic Model ([http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/bggm.html www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/bggm.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''BGS'''
| British Geological Survey ([http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ www.bgs.ac.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''CERN'''
| European Council for Nuclear Research (http://home.cern)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''CHAMP'''
| German magnetic survey satellite ([http://www-app2.gfz-potsdam.de/pb1/op/champ/ www-app2.gfz-potsdam.de/pb1/op/champ])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''CME'''
| Coronal Mass Ejection
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''DISC'''
| Data, Innovation and Science Cluster supporting the ESA Swarm mission
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''Dst'''
| A measure of magnetic activity at low geomagnetic latitudes
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''DTU'''
| Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark ([http://www.dtu.dk/English www.dtu.dk/English])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''EHO'''
| The Earth Hazards and Observatories science directorate of BGS ([http://www.bgs.ac.uk/about/organisation.html?Accordion2=2#eho www.bgs.ac.uk/about/organisation.html?Accordion2=2#eho])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ESA'''
| European Space Agency ([http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ESWW'''
| European Space Weather Week ([http://sidc.oma.be/esww12/ sidc.oma.be/esww12])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''FMC'''
| Fort McMurray Observatory (Alberta, Canada)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GeoSocial'''
| BGS social media tool for viewing geoscience data ([http://www.bgs.ac.uk/citizenScience/geosocial/home.html www.bgs.ac.uk/citizenScience/geosocial/home.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GDAS'''
| Geomagnetic Data Acquisition System
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GDASView'''
| GDAS data viewing software
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GFZ'''
| GeoForschungsZentrum, Postdam, Germany ([http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/home/ www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/home])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GIC'''
| Geomagnetically Induced Currents (a natural hazard to power systems)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GIN'''
| Geomagnetic Information Node (of INTERMAGNET)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GMA'''
| Grid Magnetic Angle: the angle between magnetic north and OS grid north
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''GPS'''
| Global Positioning System
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''HSD'''
| Halliburton-Sperry Drilling ([http://www.halliburton.com/en-US/ps/sperry/sperry-drilling/default.page?node-id=hfvq7ixm http://www.halliburton.com/en-US/ps/sperry/sperry-drilling/default.page?node-id=hfvq7ixm])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IAGA'''
| International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy ([http://www.iugg.org/IAGA www.iugg.org/IAGA])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ICSU'''
| International Council for Science (previously the International Council of Scientific Unions) ([http://www.icsu.org/ www.icsu.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IGRF'''
| International Geomagnetic Reference Field ([http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf.html www.ngdc.noaa.gov/IAGA/vmod/igrf.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IIFR/IFR'''
| Interpolation In-Field Referencing/In-Field Referencing ([http://www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/directionaldrilling/ifr.html www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/directionaldrilling/ifr.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IKE'''
| Information and Knowledge Exchange
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IMCDView'''
| INTERMAGNET Data Viewing Software
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''INTERMAGNET'''
| International Magnetometer Network: a global network of magnetic observatories operating to common standards ([http://www.intermagnet.org/ www.intermagnet.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''INDIGO'''
| Collaborative effort of BGS and Royal Observatory Belgium, supplying developing nations with magnetometers <br>(described in [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1226/ pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1226])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IPGP'''
| Institut du Physique du Globe de Paris ([http://www.ipgp.fr/en www.ipgp.fr/en])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ISCWSA'''
| Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy ([http://iscwsa.org/ iscwsa.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ISGI'''
| International Service for Geomagnetic Indices ([http://www.icsu-fags.org/ps06isgi.htm isgi.unistra.fr/m])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ISP'''
| Internet Service Provider
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IT'''
| Information Technology
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''IUGG'''
| International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics ([http://www.iugg.org www.iugg.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''KMA'''
| Korean Meteorological Administration ([http://www.kma.go.kr/eng/index.jsp www.kma.go.kr/eng/index.jsp])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''KRISS'''
| Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science ([http://www.kriss.re.kr/eng/ www.kriss.re.kr/eng])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''LED'''
| Light Emitting Diode
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''MAGIC'''
| Monitoring and Analysis of GIC. A GIC analysis service for the National Grid
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''MagNetE'''
| European magnetic repeat station network ([http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/earths-magnetic-field/infrastructure/magnete www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/earths-magnetic-field/infrastructure/magnete])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''MEA'''
| Meanook observatory (Alberta, Canada)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''Met Office'''
| UK Meteorological Office ([http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/ www.metoffice.gov.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''MHD'''
| Magnetohydrodynamic
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''MOSWOC'''
| Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''NERC'''
| Natural Environment Research Council ([http://www.nerc.ac.uk/ www.nerc.ac.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''NOAA/NCEI'''
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Centres for Environmental Information<br>(formerly National Geophysical Data Center) ([http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ www.ngdc.noaa.gov])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''Ørsted/Oersted'''
| Danish magnetic survey satellite ([http://www.space.dtu.dk/english/Research/Projects/Oersted www.space.dtu.dk/english/Research/Projects/Oersted])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''OS'''
| Ordnance Survey ([http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''Pc'''
| Continuous geomagnetic pulsations
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''PPM'''
| Proton Precession Magnetometer
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''QNX'''
| UNIX-like real-time operating system
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''Raspberry Pi'''
| A small, low-cost computer (https://www.raspberrypi.org)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''RIN'''
| Royal Institute of Navigation ([http://www.rin.org.uk/general/Navigation-News www.rin.org.uk/general/Navigation-News])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''SCOSTEP'''
| Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics ([http://www.icsu.org/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-bodies/scostep www.icsu.org/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-bodies/scostep])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''SEREN'''
| STFC funded series of workshops on themes within space weather science in the UK
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''SH'''
| Spherical Harmonic (Analysis)
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''SPE'''
| Society of Petroleum Engineers ([http://www.spe.org www.spe.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''STFC'''
| Science and Technology Facilities research Council ([http://www.stfc.ac.uk/ www.stfc.ac.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''Swarm'''
| Three-satellite ‘mini-constellation’ for magnetic field surveying. ([http://www.esa.int/esaLP/LPswarm.html www.esa.int/esaLP/LPswarm.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''SWENET'''
| Space Weather European Network (ESA) ([http://www.esa-spaceweather.net/swenet/index.html www.esa-spaceweather.net/swenet/index.html])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''SWPC'''
| Space Weather Prediction Centre ([http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ www.swpc.noaa.gov])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''TCD'''
| Trinity College Dublin ([http://www.tcd.ie/ www.tcd.ie])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''UKAS'''
| The United Kingdom Accreditation Service ([http://www.ukas.com/ www.ukas.com])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''VarSITI'''
| Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (a program within SCOSTEP) ([http://www.varsiti.org/ www.varsiti.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''VLF'''
| Very Low Frequency
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''WDC'''
| World Data Centre, part of the World Data System ([http://www.wdc.bgs.ac.uk www.wdc.bgs.ac.uk])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''WDS'''
| World Data System ([http://www.icsu-wds.org/ www.icsu-wds.org])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''WMM'''
| World Magnetic Model ([http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/WMM/DoDWMM.shtml www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/WMM/DoDWMM.shtml])
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| '''ZAMG'''
| Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik ([http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/en/news www.zamg.ac.at/cms/en/news])
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