In papers and documents on solar-terrestrial research, it is not always straightforward to immediately grasp the meaning of sentences such as "HF-INT is a technique for identifying LSTIDs in NRT based on data from EIS." Quite a few would need a second reading of statements such as "VEX and MAVEN provide data on IP shocks to the SHARP database." and "PECASUS, SWPC, ACFJ and CRC issue SWx advisories on e.g. PSD and PCA to ICAO."
In order to help understand what researchers and space weather authors are writing, back in 2021 the STCE compiled a non-exhaustive list of acronyms that are routinely used in the solar-terrestrial domain. This list has now been updated and expanded, and currently contains nearly 1900 entries, up from the original 1500 acronyms. It is primarily based on existing listings from the Space Weather Introductory Course (SWIC) and the STCE Annual Reports (2011-present), and further expanded with a few listings from publications and reviews. This acronym list is considered to be dynamical, i.e. there are still many space weather (SWx) acronyms out there, and new projects, satellites and research papers with their own specific acronyms are created every day. These will obviously drive further updates of this webpage. Also, feel free to send us (swec(at)stce.be) any acronym you find relevant for SWx, and you may retrieve it in any of the future updates of the STCE's SWx acronym list. Enjoy!
