Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None (2012)
Chapter: Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations
| 3DVar |
3-dimensional variational |
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| 4DVar |
4-dimensional variational |
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| ADM |
Atmospheric Dynamics Mission |
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| AHPS |
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System |
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| AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
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| AMSU |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
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| AOML |
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
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| ARRC |
Atmospheric Radar Research Center |
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| ASOS |
Automated Surface Observing System |
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| AWCIA |
American Weather and Climate Industry Association |
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| AWIPS |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
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| BMA |
Bayesian model averaging |
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| C3 |
command, control, and communications |
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| CAPS |
Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms |
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| CASA |
Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere |
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| CDAS |
Coordinated Data Analysis System |
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| CFS |
Climate Forecast System |
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| CIMMS |
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies |
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| CMC |
Canadian Meteorological Center |
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| COMET |
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training |
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| COP |
common operating picture |
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| CWCE |
Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise |
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| DAR3E |
Denver AWIPS Risk Reduction and Requirements Evaluation |
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| DMIP |
Distributed Model Intercomparison Program |
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| DOD |
U.S. Department of Defense |
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| DOE |
U.S. Department of Energy |
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| DTC |
Developmental Testbed Center |
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| ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts |
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| EISWG |
Environmental Information Services Working Group |
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| EnKF |
ensemble Kalman filter |
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| ERS |
emergency response specialist |
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| ESPC |
Earth System Prediction Capability |
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| ESRL |
Earth System Research Laboratory |
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| FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
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| FACA |
Federal Advisory Committee Act |
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| FNMOC |
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
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| GAW |
Global Atmosphere Watch |
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| GEOSS |
Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
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| GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
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| GFS |
Global Forecast System |
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| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| HFIP |
Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program |
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| HS3 |
Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (NASA program) |
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| HWRF |
Hurricane Weather Research Forecasting |
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| HWT |
Hazardous Weather Testbed |
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| HYCOM |
Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
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| HYSPLIT |
Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory |
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| ICSU |
International Council for Sciences |
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| IMET |
incident meteorologist |
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| IP |
intellectual property |
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| IT |
information technology |
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| JHT |
Joint Hurricane Testbed |
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| LIDAR |
LIght Detection and Ranging |
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| MAR |
Modernization and Associated Restructuring |
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| MOS |
model output statistics |
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| MPAR |
multi-function phased array radar |
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| NAM |
North American Mesoscale Model |
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| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| NAVO |
Naval Oceanography Center |
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| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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| NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
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| NCIM |
National Council of Industrial Meteorologists |
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| NCWCP |
NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction |
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| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
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| NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar |
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| NHC |
National Hurricane Center |
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| NMHS |
National Meteorological Hydrological Service |
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| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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| NPOESS |
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
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| NPP |
NPOESS Preparatory Project |
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| NRC |
National Research Council |
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| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
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| NSAB |
NOAA Science Advisory Board |
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| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
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| NSSL |
National Severe Storms Laboratory |
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| NWA |
National Weather Association |
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| NWC |
National Weather Center |
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| NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
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| NWS |
National Weather Service |
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| NWSEO |
National Weather Service Employees Organization |
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| O2R |
operations-to-research |
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| OAR |
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research |
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| OHD |
Office of Hydrological Development |
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| OSE |
observing system experiment |
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| OSIP |
Operational Satellite Improvement Program |
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| OUN |
NWS Norman Weather Forecast Office |
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| PAR |
phased array radar |
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| POES |
Polar Operational Environmental Satellite |
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| PROFS |
Program for Regional Observing and Forecasting Service |
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| QPE |
quantitative precipitation estimation |
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| QPF |
quantitative precipitation forecast |
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| R2O |
research-to-operations |
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| R&D |
research and development |
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| RFC |
River Forecast Center |
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| RFI |
radio frequency interference |
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| ROC |
Radar Operations Center |
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| RTOFS |
Real Time Ocean Forecast System |
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| SCH |
Service Coordination Hydrologists |
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| SLEP |
Service Life Extension Program |
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| SPC |
Storm Prediction Center |
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| UAS |
Unmanned Aircraft Systems |
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| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
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| UKMO |
United Kingdom Meteorological Office |
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| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| WAS*IS |
Weather and Society * Integrated Studies |
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| WCM |
Warning Coordination Meteorologist |
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| WDTB |
Warning Decision Training Branch |
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| WFO |
Weather Forecast Office |
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| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
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| WSFO |
Weather Service Forecast Office |
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| WSR |
Winter Storm Reconnaissance |
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| WWW |
World Weather Watch |
