The Scottish Shelf Model. Part 1: Shelf-Wide Domain

Abbreviations

ADCP - Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

AMM - Atlantic Margin Model

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BADC - British Atmospheric Data Centre

BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre

CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology

CS3, CS3X - Continental Shelf model 3 (1/6°x 1/9°) and extended

CTD - Conductivity, Temperature and Depth instrument

DHI - Danish Hydraulic Institute

DTM - Digital Terrain Model

ECMWF - European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasting

EMODNet - European Marine Observation and Data Network

ERA40, ERA-Interim - ECMWF re-analysis of the global atmosphere and surface conditions for 45-years, 1957-2002; ERA-Interim extends this for 1989-present

FVCOM - Finite Volume Community Ocean Model

G2G - CEH Grid-to-Grid hydrological model

GEBCO - General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans

GSHHS - Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline

ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

MGGD - Marine Geology and Geophysics Division

MHW - Mean High Water

MHWS - Mean High Water Spring

MS - Marine Scotland

MSL - Mean sea level

NAE - Met Office North Atlantic European model

NGDC - National Geophysical Data Centre

NOAA - US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOC-L - National Oceanography Centre - Liverpool

NODB - National Oceanographic Database

NTSLF - National Tide and Sea Level Facility

NWP - Numerical Weather Prediction

ODYSSEA - Ocean Data analYsis System for SEA

OS - Ordnance Survey

POLCOMS - Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System

PFOW - Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters

RMS - Root-mean-square

SEPA - Scottish Environment Protection Agency

SMHI - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

SMS - Surface Water Modeling System

SSW - Scottish Shelf Waters

UKHO - United Kingdom Hydrographic Office

UKMO - United Kingdom Meteorological Office

UM - Met Office Unified Model

WVS - World Vector Shoreline