.. _abbrev:

Abbreviations and acronyms
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| Abbreviation  | Meaning                                                                     |
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| AD            | Automatic Differentiation                                                   |
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| ASCII         | American Standard Code for Information Interchange                          |
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| BMB           | Basal Mass Balance                                                          |
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| CE            | Common Era (same as Anno Domini)                                            |
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| CMIP6         | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6                               |
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| COLD          | Cold-ice method (for ice thermodynamics)                                    |
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| CTS           | Cold-temperate Transition Surface                                           |
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| EISMINT       | European Ice-Sheet Modelling Initiative                                     |
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| ELRA          | Elastic-Lithosphere--Relaxing-Asthenosphere (model)                         |
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| ENTC          | Conventional Enthalpy method (for ice thermodynamics)                       |
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| ENTM          | Melting-CTS Enthalpy method (for ice thermodynamics)                        |
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| ESM           | Earth System Model                                                          |
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| GCM           | General Circulation Model / Global Climate Model                            |
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| GHF           | Geothermal Heat Flux                                                        |
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| HDF           | Hierarchical Data Format                                                    |
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| InitMIP       | Initialization Model Intercomparison Project (part of ISMIP6)               |
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| ISMIP6        | Ice Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project for CMIP6                       |
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| ISMIP HEINO   | Ice Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project: Heinrich Event Intercomparison |
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| ISOT          | Isothermal method (for ice thermodynamics)                                  |
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| Lis           | Library of Iterative Solvers for Linear Systems                             |
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| LLRA          | Local-Lithosphere--Relaxing-Asthenosphere (model)                           |
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| LTI           | Linear Temperature Index (method)                                           |
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| MAIC          | Mars Atmosphere-Ice Coupler                                                 |
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| NetCDF        | Network Common Data Form                                                    |
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| PDD           | Positive Degree Day (method)                                                |
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| POLY          | Polythermal method (for ice thermodynamics)                                 |
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| SIA           | Shallow-Ice Approximation                                                   |
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| SICOPOLIS     | SImulation COde for POLythermal Ice Sheets                                  |
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| SLE           | Sea-Level Equivalent                                                        |
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| SMB           | Surface Mass Balance                                                        |
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| SSA           | Shallow-Shelf Approximation                                                 |
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| SStA          | Shelfy-Stream Approximation                                                 |
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