OR/16/030 Selected glossary, acronyms and links
| Thomson, Alan W P. 2016. Geomagnetism review 2015. British Geological Survey Internal Report, OR/16/030. |
| Aurora Watch | Aurora alert service run by Lancaster University (aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk) |
| BAS | British Antarctic Survey (www.bas.ac.uk) |
| BGGM | BGS Global Geomagnetic Model (www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/bggm.html) |
| BGS | British Geological Survey (www.bgs.ac.uk) |
| CERN | European Council for Nuclear Research (http://home.cern) |
| CHAMP | German magnetic survey satellite (www-app2.gfz-potsdam.de/pb1/op/champ) |
| CME | Coronal Mass Ejection |
| DISC | Data, Innovation and Science Cluster supporting the ESA Swarm mission |
| Dst | A measure of magnetic activity at low geomagnetic latitudes |
| DTU | Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark (www.dtu.dk/English) |
| EHO | The Earth Hazards and Observatories science directorate of BGS (www.bgs.ac.uk/about/organisation.html?Accordion2=2#eho) |
| ESA | European Space Agency (www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html) |
| ESWW | European Space Weather Week (sidc.oma.be/esww12) |
| FMC | Fort McMurray Observatory (Alberta, Canada) |
| GeoSocial | BGS social media tool for viewing geoscience data (www.bgs.ac.uk/citizenScience/geosocial/home.html) |
| GDAS | Geomagnetic Data Acquisition System |
| GDASView | GDAS data viewing software |
| GFZ | GeoForschungsZentrum, Postdam, Germany (www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/home) |
| GIC | Geomagnetically Induced Currents (a natural hazard to power systems) |
| GIN | Geomagnetic Information Node (of INTERMAGNET) |
| GMA | Grid Magnetic Angle: the angle between magnetic north and OS grid north |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| HSD | Halliburton-Sperry Drilling (http://www.halliburton.com/en-US/ps/sperry/sperry-drilling/default.page?node-id=hfvq7ixm) |
| IAGA | International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (www.iugg.org/IAGA) |
| 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 (www.geomag.bgs.ac.uk/data_service/directionaldrilling/ifr.html) |
| IKE | Information and Knowledge Exchange |
| IMCDView | INTERMAGNET Data Viewing Software |
| 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) |
| IPGP | Institut du Physique du Globe de Paris (www.ipgp.fr/en) |
| ISCWSA | Industry Steering Committee on Wellbore Survey Accuracy (iscwsa.org) |
| ISGI | International Service for Geomagnetic Indices (isgi.unistra.fr/m) |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider |
| IT | Information Technology |
| IUGG | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (www.iugg.org) |
| KMA | Korean Meteorological Administration (www.kma.go.kr/eng/index.jsp) |
| KRISS | Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science (www.kriss.re.kr/eng) |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| MAGIC | Monitoring and Analysis of GIC. A GIC analysis service for the National Grid |
| MagNetE | European magnetic repeat station network (www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/earths-magnetic-field/infrastructure/magnete) |
| MEA | Meanook observatory (Alberta, Canada) |
| Met Office | UK Meteorological Office (www.metoffice.gov.uk) |
| MHD | Magnetohydrodynamic |
| MOSWOC | Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre |
| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk) |
| NOAA/NCEI | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Centres for Environmental Information (formerly National Geophysical Data Center) (www.ngdc.noaa.gov) |
| Ørsted/Oersted | Danish magnetic survey satellite (www.space.dtu.dk/english/Research/Projects/Oersted) |
| OS | Ordnance Survey (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk) |
| Pc | Continuous geomagnetic pulsations |
| PPM | Proton Precession Magnetometer |
| QNX | UNIX-like real-time operating system |
| Raspberry Pi | A small, low-cost computer (https://www.raspberrypi.org) |
| RIN | Royal Institute of Navigation (www.rin.org.uk/general/Navigation-News) |
| SCOSTEP | Scientific Committee on Solar Terrestrial Physics (www.icsu.org/what-we-do/interdisciplinary-bodies/scostep) |
| SEREN | STFC funded series of workshops on themes within space weather science in the UK |
| SH | Spherical Harmonic (Analysis) |
| SPE | Society of Petroleum Engineers (www.spe.org) |
| 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) |
| TCD | Trinity College Dublin (www.tcd.ie) |
| UKAS | The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (www.ukas.com) |
| VarSITI | Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (a program within SCOSTEP) (www.varsiti.org) |
| VLF | Very Low Frequency |
| WDC | World Data Centre, part of the World Data System (www.wdc.bgs.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 (www.zamg.ac.at/cms/en/news) |