Acronyms

We will be using a lot of acronyms during today’s workshop..!

• ACCESS-CM2 = Australian Community Climate and Earth System Simulator Coupled Model Version 2
• CDO = Climate Data Operators
• CMIP6 = Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Version 6
• ESGF = Earth System Grid Federation
• ESM = Earth System Model
• GCM = Global Coupled Model
• IPCC = Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• IPSL-CM6A-LR = Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace Climate Model for Phase 6 of CMIP - Low Resolution
• netCDF = Network Common Data Form (file format = .nc)
• OISST = Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature
• omon = monthly time step
• wget = World Wide Web Get
• SSPs = Shared socio-economic pathways
• SST = Sea-surface temperature
• tos = sea-surface temperature (temperature ocean surface)