glossary.yml

acr_2D: Two Dimensional
acr_3D: Three Dimensional
acr_AOT: Ahead Of Time
acr_APE: Available Potential Energy
acr_API: Application Programming Interface
acr_CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics
acr_CI: Continuous Integration
acr_CPU: Central Processing Unit
acr_DNS: Direct Numerical Simulation
acr_DVCS: Distributed Version Control System
acr_FFT: Fast Fourier Transform
acr_GASP: Global Atmospheric Sampling Program
acr_GCM: General Circulation Model
acr_GIL: Global Interpreter Lock
acr_GUI: Graphical User Interface
acr_I/O: Input-Output
acr_JIT: Just In Time
acr_KE: Kinetic Energy
acr_MILESTONE: Mixing and Length Scales in Stratified Turbulence
acr_MOZAIC: Measurement of Ozone by Airbus in-service aircraft
acr_MPI: Message Passing Interface
acr_PIV: Particle Image Velocimetry
acr_QG: Quasi-Geostrophic
acr_SWE: Shallow Water Equations
\beta: gradient of $f$ along meridional direction
C_K: conversion spectral function for kinetic energy
c: phase speed of gravity waves
C_A: conversion spectral function for available potential energy
D_c: diameter of the cylinder
\delta: divergence
d: mean shock separation distance
E_A: available potential energy
E: energy
E_K: kinetic energy
E_P: potential energy
\epsilon: energy flux or energy dissipation rate
\eta: enstrophy flux or enstrophy dissipation rate / scalar displacement field for shallow water equations / mixing efficiency for stratified turbulence
E_V: vortical energy
E_W: wave energy
F_h: Froude number based on horizontal length scale
F_L: longitudinal flatness factor
f: Coriolis parameter which is twice the vertical component of angular velocity
F_T: transverse flatness factor
F_v: Froude number based on vertical length scale
\Gamma: mixing coefficient
h: scalar height field
H: vertical length scale
\Im: imaginary part of a complex number
\kappa: magnitude of wavenumber
k: wavenumber
k_d: dissipation wavenumber
k_f: forcing wavenumber
l: degree of spherical harmonics
L_d: Rossby radius of deformation
l_h: horizontal length scale
L: horizontal length scale
L_f: forcing length scale
l_v: vertical length scale
\mathbf{B}: normal mode vector with dimension of velocity
\mathbf{\hat{e}}_z: unit vector in z-direction
\mathbf{J}: mass flux, $h\mathbf{u}$
# \mathbf{M}: displaced mass flux, $\eta\mathbf{u}$
\mathbf{N}: normal mode vector with dimension of vorticity
\mathcal{O}: order
\chi: velocity potential
\Psi: stream function
\mathbf{r}: separation vector for calculating structure functions
\mathbf{U}: primitive variable vector
\mathbf{u}: velocity vector
\mathbf{W}: derived variable vector
M: characteristic size of vortices
N: 'Brunt V\"ais\"al\"a frequency'
n: number of grid points in one direction
\nu: kinematic viscosity
\Pi: spectral energy flux
P: transformation matrix from $\mathbf{W}$ to $\mathbf{U}$
q: linearized potential vorticity
Q: transformation matrix from $\mathbf{U}$ to $\mathbf{B}$ / potential vorticity
\R: buoyancy Reynolds number
Re_b: buoyancy Reynolds number
Re_h: Reynolds number based on horizontal length scale
\Re: real part of a complex number
Ri_f: flux Richardson number
Ro: Rossby number
r: separation distance
\sigma: frequency of gravity waves, $\sqrt{f^2+(c\kappa)^2}$
S: structure function
\tau: time scale
\theta: potential temperature
T_K: spectral transfer function for kinetic energy
T_A: spectral transfer function for available potential energy
T: spectral transfer function
U_c: carriage velocity
u^d: divergent velocity component
u_L: longitudinal velocity component
u^r: rotational velocity component
u_T: transverse velocity component
u: velocity length scale
U: velocity length scale
X_n: normalized eigenvector matrix
\zeta: relative vorticity
Z: spectral enstrophy flux
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