When Weather Matters: Science and Services to Meet Critical Societal Needs (2010)
Chapter: Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations
C
Acronyms and Abbreviations
3DVar 3-dimensional variational
4DVar 4-dimensional variational
AHPS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service
AMS American Meteorological Society
ARS Agricultural Research Service
BASC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
CASA Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
CCSM Community Climate System Model
CFD computational fluid dynamics
CHI Communicating Hurricane Information
CHPS Community Hydrologic Prediction System
CHyMP Community Hydrologic Modeling Platform
CONUS contiguous United States
DHM distributed hydrologic model
DMIP Distributed Model Intercomparison Project
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DOT U.S. Department of Transportation
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
EIA U.S. Energy Information Agency
EMC Environmental Modeling Center
EnKF ensemble Kalman filter
ENSO El Niño–Southern Oscillation
EOC emergency operations center
EPiCC Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities
ESRL Earth Systems Research Laboratory
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FIM finite-volume horizontal transport
FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
GFS Global Forecast System
GIS geographic information system
GPS Global Positioning System
HMT Hydrometeorological Testbed
HPC high-performance computing
HPC Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
IWRSS Integrated Water Resources Science and Services
LES large eddy simulation
MCS mesoscale convective system
MHEWS Multi-Hazard Early Warning System
MMS Modular Modeling System
MSA metropolitan statistical area
μSA micropolitan statistical area
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NEXRAD Next-Generation Radar
NextGen Next Generation Air Transportation System
NICAM Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOGAPS Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
NRC National Research Council
NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NSAB NOAA Science Advisory Board
NSF National Science Foundation
NWP numerical weather prediction
NWS National Weather Service
O2R operations to research
OHD Office of Hydrologic Development
PBL planetary boundary layer
PDT Prospectus Development Team
PROBCAST Probability Forecast Program
PV photovoltaic
QPE quantitative precipitation estimation
QPF quantitative precipitation forecast
R2O research to operations
RF radio frequency
RFC River Forecast Center
SAC-SMA Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting
SIP Societal Impacts Program
SNOTEL SNOwpack TELemetry
SSWIM Social Science Woven into Meteorology
TIGGE THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UHF ultrahigh frequency
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USWRP U.S. Weather Research Program
VHI very high impact
VORTEX2 Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment
WAS*IS Weather and Society*Integrated Studies
WATERS Water and Environmental Research Systems
WCRP World Climate Research Program
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WRF Weather Research and Forecasting Model
WSR Weather Service Radar
