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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 (http://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 (http://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. (http://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 (http://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) (http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/aktuell) |