Glossary
- Accelerationism
- Posthumanist ideology embracing the negative aspects of capitalism and technology to enable radical sociological change.
- ADCIRC (ADCIRC)
- Fortran model for Earth system hydrodynamics modeling with applications including storm surge, tides, and coupling with atmospheric and wave models.
- Alexander Guterma
- US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- Engineering branch of the United States Army
- WWS
- OWI IOKA Wind Workstation software
- (HDF)
- High performance data software library and file format to manage, process, and store heterogeneous data.
- (NetCDF)
- Machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
- American National Standards Institude (ANSI)
- Organization facilitates and coordinates the US voluntary standards and conformity assessment system.
- American Petroleum Institute (API)
- Standards organization that includes policy advocacy and technical research.
- American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII)
- Character encoding standard for representing a particular set of 95 printable and 33 control characters. Commonly used to refer to “plain-text files”.
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Method, protocol or specification for communication between separate programs, computers or similar systems.
- apport
- Arthur Koestler
- Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)
- Marine and climate data from IMOS , universities, government, industry, and other organizations
- Beacon Wind
- bigfoot
- Block Island Wind
- Offshore wind energy project in Block Island Sound off of the US Eastern coast.
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
- US gov’t organization managing outer continental shelf energy, mineral, and geological resources.
- Carl Jung
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations.
- CERN (CERN)
- Charles Fort
- Chevron (CVX)
- Global energy corporation
- Chicago Mothman
- Chuck Hayes
- Climate and Forecasting Conventions (CF)
- Common Data Model (CDM)
- Description of metadata and naming schemes for binary formats like HDF , NetCDF , GRIB and Zarr
- Compound Flood Hazard Assessment (CFHA)
- container
- A portable and standardized software unit that contains applications, scripts, and dependencies independent of a host OS
- Crypto-fascism
- cryptozoology
- Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU)
- Collective of cultural theorists in the late-1990’s and early-2000’s
- cybernetics
- Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
- The Defense Intelligence Agency is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense specializing in military intelligence.
- Destination Truth
- Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
- Accredited registrar and classification society providing services for maritime, oil and gas, energy, electrification and healthcare industries including the development and publication of standards.
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- disclosure
- Docker
- Dover Demon
- Egregore
- Thoughtform of a group… extending the group’s
- Electro-magnetic (EM)
- Equinor
- Global energy company.
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
- Research and operational center for global weather and ocean model hindcast and prediction data
- Expedition Unknown
- extraterrestrial
- Exxon-Mobile (EM)
- Fayette factor
- fortean
- FORTRAN
- Fast compiled programming language originally developed by IBM, used primarily in numerical models and other specialized computation intensive applications.
- GIST
- Grid Interpolation in Space and Time FORTRAN program used by OWI .
- Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS)
- GNU’s Not Unix (GNU)
- Recursive acronym for GNU’s Not Unix and collection of free programs, tools and libraries for Unix-like operating systems. Supported in-part by the Free Software Foundation.
- green-man
- GRIB
- General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form. It is a data format used in meteorology to store and exchange weather data, standardized by the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ).
- HEC-RAS
- Hydrological and riverine model developed by the USACE .
- Hellier
- Paranormal documentary series involving high-strangeness, caves, and goblins, in Hellier, Kentucky.
- High-performance Computing (HPC)
- Massively parallel computer clusters typically realizing perfomance by scaling the number of compute servers/nodes and CPU cores
- HYCOM (HYCOM)
- Hyperstition
- Indrid Cold
- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
- Interactive Objective Kinematic Analysis System (IOKA)
- OWI Interactive Objective Kinematic Analysis system from Cox et. al. (1995).
- International Electotechnical Commission (IEC)
- International not-for-profit org. that develops and publishes standards for electrical and related technologies.
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Group developing and publishing international standards for multiple industries.
- IOOS (IOOS)
- james-shelby-downard
- John Keel
- John Lear
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC)
- Tropical cyclone warning center operating jointly between the US Air Force and Navy out of Hawaii, responsible for the Indian, Pacific and Southern Oceans
- Josh Gates
- Host and producer of adventure series Expedition Unknown and Destination Truth .
- kentucky-anomaly
- kentuky-goblin
- lay-lines
- Linux
- LISFLOOD
- loren-coleman
- magick
- majestic-twelve
- Mean Absolute Error (MAE)
- Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE)
- Message Passing Interface (MPI)
- Portable computing standard for an paradigm of parallel computing
- mothman
- mt-victory-mine
- nathan-isaac
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence to support national security.
- NSA
- NWS12
- ASCII wind and pressure data organized as groups of grids at a variety of scales and resolutions. Additionally referred to as .WIN/.PRE files.
- NWS13
- NetCDF atmospheric data organized as groups of grids at a variety of scales, resolutions, and temporal coverage.
- Oceanweather Inc. (OWI)
- Oceanweather Inc. specializing in marine wind and wave modeling for government, coastal engineering, offshore and shipping industries
- Open Container Initiative (OCI)
- The OCI is an open governance structure that creates industry standards for container formats and runtimes.
- oto
- pale-crawler
- pan
- penny-royal
- Petrobras
- Energy company.
- Pixi
- Pixi is a tool for developing project-based cross-platform reproducible environments for Python, Rust, Node and other code bases.
- Podman
- OCI compatible computer container manager that can serve as a drop-in replacement for Docker
- point-pleasent
- Post Cyclone Rapid Release (PCRR)
- Oceanweather real-time product producing tropical model analyses with available best track data in the days after a storm passes.
- psychic-questing
- Regional Specialized Meteorological Center (RMSC)
- Root Mean Square Error (RMSE)
- Significant Wave Height (HS)
- (Total) Significant Wave Height Hs $$H_s$$ $$H_{\frac{1}{3}}$$
- Special Area Management Plan (SAMP)
- spiro-agnue
- Super-Fast INundation of CoastS (SFINCS)
- A super-fast open-source flood model developed at Deltares.
- superstition
- synchromysticism
- synchronicity
- TACC
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas in Austin, TX.
- tarot
- TELEMAC
- the-dark-enlightenment
- the-secret-commonwealth
- TotalEnergies (Total)
- Global energy company.
- Tropical Analyst’s Workstation (TAWS)
- OWI Tropical Analyst’s Workstation
- Tropical Cyclone Operational Prediction System (CYCLOPS)
- Oceanweather real-time product producing tropical model analyses with available best track data in the days after a storm passes.
- tulpa
- turkey-track
- uap
- Ubuntu
- ufo
- ultraterrestrial
- US Army Engineer Research & Development Center (ERDC)
- USACE R&D centers that discover, develop, and deliver innovative solutions to the nation’s toughest challenges in military engineering, installations and operational environments, civil works, geospatial research and engineering, and engineered resilient systems.
- US Navy Research Laboratory (NRL)
- The United States Naval Research Laboratory is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.
- Vinyard Wind
- Offshore wind energy project near Martha’s Vinyard in the US.
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
- World Meteorological Organization
- World Standards Cooperation (WSC)
- IEC , ISO and ITU
- Zarr
- Data store specification optimized for performance in HPC , cloud object storage and big data
- Zenodo
- Open science platform operated as part of OpenAIRE and supported by CERN. Every upload is assigned a DOI , to make them citable and trackable.
- Zotero
- Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research.