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Suggested Citation: "Appendix E: Acronym List." National Research Council. 2012. Urban Meteorology: Forecasting, Monitoring, and Meeting Users' Needs. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13328.

Appendix E

Acronym List

4D	Var data-assimilation framework-four-dimensional variational data-assimilation framework

AERMOD	Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling System
AMS	American Meteorological Society
AQ	air quality
ASTER	Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

BASC	Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
BL	Boundary Layer

CASA	Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
CCNY	City College of New York
CDC	Centers for Disease Control
CESM	the NCAR Community Earth System Model
CFD	Computational Fluid Dynamics (Modeling)
CFS	climate forecast system
CG	Cloud to Ground (Lightning)
CIMEL	CIMEL Electronique, Paris, France
CMAQ	Community Multiscale Air Quality model
CMAQ-WRF	Community Multiscale Air Quality Weather Research and Forecasting coupled model
CSAQ	Community Scale Air Quality

DEMS	digital elevation model
DFW	Dallas-Fort Worth
DHS	Department of Homeland Security
DIAL	Differential Absorption Lidar

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DMSP OLS	Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System
DOD	Department of Defense
DOT	Department of Transportation

ECMWF	European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
EM	Electromagnetic Modeling
EMS	Emergency Medical Service
EnKF data-assimilation framework	ensemble Kalman filter data-assimilation framework
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency
EPHI	Environmental Public Health Indicators
EPiCC	Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities Network

FHWA	Federal Highway Administration
FIFE	the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project Field Experiment

GCM	global climate model
GEWEX	the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GFS	global forecast system
GHCN	Global Historical Climate Network
GHG	Greenhouse Gas (Emissions)
GIS	Geographic Information System
GLDAS	Global Land Data Assimilation System
GMAO	the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
GPM	Global Precipitation Measurement
GPS	Global Positioning System
GSWP	the Global Soil Wetness Project

HAZMAT	hazardous materials
HRLDAS	high resolution land data assimilations systems

IC	intra-cloud (lightning)
iLEAPS	integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Process Study
INDOT	Indiana Department of Transportation
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRS	Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
ISA	impervious surface area

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ISL	Interstitial Sublayer
ISLSCP	International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project

JMA	Japanese Meteorological Agency

KML	Keyhole Markup Language

LANDSAT	Derived from Land Satellite
LDAS	land data assimilations systems
LES	Large-Eddy simulation
lidar	Light Detection and Ranging
LIS	land information system
LST	land surface temperature
LUMPS	local-scale urban meteorological parameterization scheme

MDCARS	Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System
MDSS	Maintenance and Decision Support System
MFRSR	Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
MISR	Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer
MODIS	Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSA	Metropolitan Statistical Area
MWRP	Microwave Radiometric Profilers

NAAQS	National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NAQFC	National Air Quality Forecast Capability
NARAC	National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA LIS	NASA Land Information System
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP	National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCTCOG	the North Central Texas Council of Governments
NEXRAD	Next-Generation Radar
NLDAS	North American Land Data Assimilation System
NLDN	National Lightning Detection Network
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA MADIS	National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association’s Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System
NOAA NCDC	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center
NRC	The National Research Council

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NUDAPT	National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool
NWCC	The National Wind Coordinating Collaborative
NWP	Numerical Weather Prediction
NWS	National Weather Service
NYC MetNet	New York City Meteorological Network

OFCM	Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
OSSE	Observing System Simulation Experiments

PBL	planetary boundary layer
PDA	Personal Digital Assistant
PM Samplers	Particulate Matter Samplers

RANS	Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes
RAOB	the Universal RAwinsonde OBservation program
RFC	River Forecasting Center
RISA	Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (NOAA program)
RSL	Roughness Sublayer
RSS	Really Simple Syndication

SAR	synthetic aperture radar
SEAFM	streamflow forecasting computer model system used and developed by Seattle Public Utilities
SEB	surface energy balance
SMS	Short Message Service
SNOTEL	SNOwpack TELemetry
SPOT	Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre
SPU	Seattle Public Utilities

TAMDAR	Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting
T&D	transport and dispersion
TOMS	Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TRMM	Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission

UBL	Urban Boundary Layer
UBL/PBL	Urban Boundary Layer/Planetary Boundary Layer
UCL	Urban Canopy Layer
UCM	urban canopy model
UHI	Urban Heat Island

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UPS	United Parcel Service
USWRP	U.S. Weather Research Program

V-I-S model	Ridds’s vegetation-impervious surface-soil model

WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WRF	Weather Research & Forecasting Model
WRF/Chem	Weather Research and Forecasting/Chemistry model
model
WRF-NMM	Weather Research and Forecasting-Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model
WSR-88D	Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Dop

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