Tsunami Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts (2011)
Chapter: Appendix K: Acronyms
APPENDIX K
Acronyms
AHAB All-Hazard Alert Broadcast
ANSI American National Standards Institute
AOR Area of Responsibility
ARSC Arctic Regional Supercomputing Center
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ATFM Alaska Tsunami Forecast Model
AusAID Australian Agency for International Development
AWC Aviation Weather Center
BODC British Oceanographic Data Center
BPR Bottom Pressure Recorder
CalEPA California Emergency Management Agency
CALWAS California Warning System
CHP California Highway Patrol
CISN California Integrated Seismic Network
CLETS California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System
CMT Global Centroid-Moment-Tensor
COMCOT Cornell Multi-grid Coupled Tsunami Model
CO-OPS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
CPPT Centre Polynesien de Prevention des Tsunamis (Polynesian Tsunami Warning Center)
CPU Central Processing Unit
CSG Council of State Governments
CSWC California State Warning Center
CSZ Cascadia Subduction Zone
CTBTO Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization
DART Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
DEM Digital Elevation Model
DMS Data Management System
DOGAMI Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
DONET Dense Ocean-Floor Network System for Earthquakes and Tsunamis
DOS Department of State
EAS Emergency Alert System
EDIS California Emergency Digital Information Service
EERC Earthquake Engineering and Research Center
EERI Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
EMAP Emergency Management Accreditation Program
EMWIN Emergency Managers Weather Information Notification
EOC Emergency Operation Center
EVO Engineering Virtual Organization
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
FORTRAN Formula Translation/Translator
GAO Government Accountability Office
GCMT Global Centroid-Moment Tensor
GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
GEO Group on Earth Observations
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GIS Geographic Information System
GITEWS German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System
GLOSS Global Sea Level Observing System
GMT Generic Mapping Tool
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GPS Global Positioning System
GSN Global Seismograph Network
GTS Global Telecommunications Service
HAWAS Hawaii Warning System
HF High Frequency
HRO High-Reliability Organization
HRV Harvard University Seismic Station
HST Hawaii Standard Time
IAEM International Association of Emergency Managers
ICC Incident Command Center
ICG/CARIBE/EWS Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Tsunami and Other Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions
ICS Incident Command System
IDA International Deployment of Accelerometers
IMS Integrated Maritime Surveillance
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System
IOTWS Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
ISDR International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
ISEC Inundation Science and Engineering Cooperative
IT Information Technology
ITEWS Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System
ITIC International Tsunami Information Center
JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
JIMAR Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
JMA Japan Meteorological Agency
LEO Low Earth Orbit
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging
MARS Monterey Accelerated Research System
M&ES Mitigation and Education Subcommittee
MMS Mapping and Modeling Subcommittee
MOST Method of Splitting Tsunami
NACSE Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAWAS National Warning System
NCDC National Climate Data Center
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCG National Association of Governors
NCSL National Conference of State Legislatures
NCTR NOAA Center for Tsunami Research
NDBC National Data Buoy Center
NEES Network for Earthquake and Engineering Simulation
NEHRP National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
NEIC National Earthquake Information Center
NEMA National Emergency Management Association
NEOWAVE Non-hydrostatic Evolution of Ocean WAVE
NEPTUNE North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NFPA 1600 Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs
NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NHC National Hurricane Center
NLC National League of Cities
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOMAD Nonlinear Optimization for Mixed Variables and Derivatives
NOS National Ocean Service
NRC National Research Council
NSE National Science Education
NSF National Science Foundation
NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
NTF National Tidal Facility
NTHMP National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program
NWLON National Water Level Observation Network
NWR NOAA Weather Radio
NWS National Weather Service
NWSTG National Weather Service Telecommunication Gateway
OAR Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
OEM Oregon Emergency Management
OES Office of Emergency Services
OGP Office of Global Programs
OJP U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs
OMAO Office of Marine and Aviation Offices
OOI Ocean Observatories Initiative
PC Personal Computer
P.L. 109-424 Public Law 109-424
PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PNG Papua New Guinea
PRTTRC Puerto Rico Tsunami Technical Review Committee
PSAP Public Safety Access Points
PSMSL Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
PTA Parent-Teacher Association
PTWC Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
PTWS Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System
RHM ROSHYDROMET
RSN Regional Scale Nodes
RTK-GPS Real Time Kinematic-Global Positioning System
SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
SCEC Southern California Earthquake Center
SELFE Semi-implicit Eulerian-Langrangian Finite
SHOA Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfico de la Armada (Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service)
SIFT Short-term Inundation Forecasting for Tsunami
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SLSMF Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility
SMS Simple Messaging System
SOEST School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
SOFAR Channel Sound Fixing and Ranging Channel
SPC Storm Prediction Center
STSC California State Tsunami Steering Committee
TACO Tsunami Advisory Council for Oregon
TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Project
TERK Tsunami Education Resource Kit
TTRC Hawaii Tsunami Technical Review Committee
TWC Tsunami Warning Center
TWS Tsunami Warning System
UAF University of Alaska, Fairbanks
UHSLC University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
USAID United States Agency for International Development
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USVI U.S. Virgin Islands
WAS*IS Weather and Society*Integrated Studies
WC/ATWC West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WCS Tsunami Warning Coordination Subcommittee
WEMD Washington State Emergency Management Department
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WMO World Meteorological Office
XML Extensible Markup Language
YSTWC Yuzhno-Sakhalin Tsunami Warning Center
