Glossaries

Tools and Technology

Binder

A free, public service for running reproducible interactive computing environments. Binder is a 100% open source infrastructure that is run by members of the Jupyter community. The underlying technology behind the Binder project is BinderHub.

BinderHub

The underlying technology of mybinder.org, BinderHub is an open source tool that utilizes a JupyterHub`= in order to provide live, reproducible interactive computing environments that users define on GitHub.

Conda

Package, dependency and environment management for any language—Python, R, Ruby, Lua, Scala, Java, JavaScript, C/ C++, FORTRAN, and more.

Docker

Docker provides the ability to package and run an application in a loosely isolated environment called a container. It is widely used for creating reproducible software environments to run code on different computers.

Git

A popular version control system that is used in many open source software projects to manage their software code base.

GitHub

Provider of Internet hosting for software development and distributed version control using the “git” command line tool.

Project Jupyter

Project Jupyter (name derived from “JUlia PYThon and R”) exists to develop open-source software, open-standards, and services for interactive computing across dozens of programming languages.

Jupyter Book

Jupyter Book is an open source project for building beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational material.

JupyterHub

A core open source tool from the Jupyter community, JupyterHub allows you to deploy an application that provides remote data science environments to multiple users. It can be deployed in the cloud, or on your own hardware.

JupyterLab

JupyterLab is the next-generation web-based user interface for Project Jupyter intended to replace the JupyterNotebook interface.

Jupyter Notebook

open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.

MyST

Markedly Structured Text (MyST) is a rich and extensible flavor of Markdown meant for technical documentation and publishing. It is used by Jupyter Book.

Topical (Use Case Specific)

basal slip

Basal slip or sliding is the act of a glacier sliding over the bed due to meltwater under the ice acting as a lubricant. This movement very much depends on the temperature of the area, the slope of the glacier, the bed roughness, the amount of meltwater from the glacier, and the glacier’s size.

subglacial water/lakes

A subglacial lake is a lake that is found under a glacier, typically beneath an ice cap or ice sheet. Subglacial lakes form at the boundary between ice and the underlying bedrock, where gravitational pressure decreases the pressure melting point of ice.[1][2] Over time, the overlying ice gradually melts at a rate of a few millimeters per year.[3] Meltwater flows from regions of high to low hydraulic pressure under the ice and pools, creating a body of liquid water that can be isolated from the external environment for millions of years.