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Abbreviation Meaning Further information
AI Artificial Intelligence
ART Aerosols and Reactive Trace gases The ICON-ART Model System
BC Boundary Condition
C2SM Center for Climate Systems Modeling C2SM website
CERRA Copernicus European Regional ReAnalysis CERRA website
CESM Community Earth System Model CESM website
CH2025 Swiss Climate Scenarios 2025 Climate CH2025
CF Climate and Forecast
CLM Climate Limited-area Mode ICON-CLM
CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project CMIP website
CORDEX Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment CORDEX website
COSMO Consortium for Small-scale Modeling COSMO website
CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico) CSCS website
CPU Central Processing Unit
DKRZ Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (central service center for the German climate research and Earth system research) DKRZ website
DWD Deutscher WetterDienst (german weather service) DWD website
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts ECMWF website
ED Executive Director
ERA5 ECMWF ReAnalysis v5 ERA4 website
ESGF Earth System Grid Federation ESGF website
EXCLAIM EXtreme scale Computing and data platform for cLoud-resolving weAther and clImate Modeling EXCLAIM website
EXTPAR EXTernal PARameters for numerical weather prediction and climate application EXTPAR documentation
FPS Flagship Pilot Studies
FTE Full-Time Equivalent
GH Grace Hopper
GHG GreenHouse Gases
GPU Graphics Processing Unit
HPC High Performance Computing
IAC Institute for Atmospheric and Climate science IAC website
ICON ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic weather and climate model ICON offical website
IFS Integrated Forecast System
LAM Limited Area Mode ICON-LAM publication
MCH Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss MeteoSwiss website
MERRA Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications MERRA website
ML Machine Learning
NWP Numerical Weather Prediction
OS Operating System
SC Steering Committee
SLURM Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management
SNF Swiss National science Foundation SNF website
SPICE Starter Package for Icon-CLM Experiments SPICE documentation
Uenv User environment
vCluster versatile Cluster A cluster being tailored to the needs of specific community
WCRP World Climate Research Programme WCRP website
WEW WeiterEntWicklungen (further developments) WEW-ICON
WG Working Group