APPENDIX F
ACRONYM LIST
| 2-D | Two-Dimensional |
| 3-D | Three dimensional |
| 4-D | Four-Dimensional |
| 4DDA | Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation |
| 4-D VAR | 4-Dimensional Variational Assimilation System |
A | |
| ABRFC | Arkansas-Red Basin River Forecast Center |
| ACARS | Aircraft Communication and Recording System |
| AERI | Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer |
| AES | Atmospheric Environmental Service |
| AFGWC | Air Force Global Weather Central |
| AIRS | Advanced Infrared Studies AIRS |
| AM1 | First Earth Observing System Orbital Platform |
| AMIP | Atmospheric Modeling Intercomparison Project |
| AQP | Avionics Qualification Policy |
| ARESE | ARM Enhanced Shortwave Experiment |
| ARL | Air Resource Laboratory |
| ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
| ARS | Agriculture Research Service |
| ASCII | American National Standard Code for Information Exchange |
| ASTER | Atmosphere Surface Turbulent Exchange Research facility |
| ASOS | Automated Surface Observing System |
| ATSR | Along-Track Scanning Radiometer |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS | Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| AWDN | Automated Weather Data Network |
| AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| AWON | Agricultural Weather Observation Network |
| AWOS | Automated Weather Observing System |
B | |
| BALTEX | Baltic Sea Experiment |
| BATS | Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme |
| BOREAS | Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study |
| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
| BUFR | Binary Universal Form for Representation of meteorological data |
C | |
| CAC | Climate Analysis Center |
| CAGEX | CERES-ARM-GEWEX Experiment |
| CAPE | Convective Available Potential Energy |
| CART | Clouds and Radiation Testbed |
| CASES | Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study |
| CASH | Commercial Aviation Sensing Humidity |
| CAWS | Commercial Agriculture Weather Station |
| CCA | Canonical Correlation Analysis |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk, Read-Only Memory |
| CDAS | Climate Data Assimilation System |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| CLAVR | Clouds from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| CLIVAR | Climate Variations |
| CMC | Canadian Meteorological Centre |
| CODIAC | Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalog |
| COE | Corps of Engineer |
| CONUS | Continental United States |
| CSA | Continental-Scale Area |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization |
D | |
| DAAS | Data Acquisition and Archive Center |
| DACOM | Data Collection and Management |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| DIAL | Differential Absorption Lidar |
| DLG | Digital Line Graph |
| DLR | Downward Longwave Radiation |
| DMA | Defense Mapping Agency |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DMSS | Data Management and Service System |
| DNR | Department of Natural Resources |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| DOE | Department of Energy |
| DOI | Department of Interior |
| DOT | Department of Transportation |
| DPI | Derived Product Imagery |
| DRADAP | Digital Radar Precipitation |
E | |
| EBBR | Energy Balance Bowen Ratio |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting |
| ECOR | Eddy Correlation |
| EDA | Eta Data Assimilation |
| EDAS | Eta Model Data Assimilation System |
| EDC | EROS Data Center |
| EMC | Environmental Modeling Center in NCEP |
| EMEX | Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment |
| EOP | Enhanced Observational Period |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS | EOS Data and Information System |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation Satellite |
| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratories |
| ERS | Earth Resources Satellite |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESDIM | Environmental Services Data and Information Management |
| ESOP | Enhanced Seasonal Observing Period |
| ESOP95 | Enhanced Seasonal Observing Period of 1995 |
| ESOP96 | Enhanced Seasonal Observing Period of 1996 |
| ESOP97 | Enhanced Seasonal Observing Period of 1997 |
| ESP | Extended Streamflow Prediction |
| ESTAR | Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer |
| Eta | (Traditional name of an NMC model using Greek letter for the vertical coordinate) |
| ETL | Environmental Technology Laboratory |
F | |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| FIFE | First ISLSCP Field Experiment |
| FNOC | Fleet Numerical Oceanographic Center |
| FPAR | Fractional of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
| FSL | Forecast Systems Laboratory |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
G | |
| GAC | Global Average Coverage |
| GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| GATE | GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| GCDIS | Global Change Data and Information System |
| GCIP | GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project |
| GCIS | GCIP Central Information Source |
| GCM | General Circulation Model |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory |
| GCSS | GEWEX Cloud Systems Study |
| GCTP | Global Coordinate Transformation Package |
| GEF | Global Finite Element |
| GEM | Global Environmental Multiscale Model |
| GEOS | Goddard Earth-Observing System |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| GHCC | Global Hydrology Climate Center |
| GHP | GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel |
| GIDS | GCIP Initial Data Sets |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems |
| GIST | GCIP Integrated Systems Test |
| GMT | Greenwich Meridian Time |
| GNEG | GEWEX Numerical Experimental Group |
| GNEP | GEWEX Numerical Experiment Panel |
| GOALS | Global Ocean Atmosphere Land Surface |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GPCP | Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRDC | Global Runoff Data Centre |
| GREDS | GCIP Reference Data Set |
| GRIB | Grid point values expressed in Binary form |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GVI | Global Vegetation Index |
| GVaP | GEWEX Water Vapor Project |
| GVAR | GOES Variable data format |
H | |
| HAPEX | Hydrological-Atmospheric Pilot Experiment |
| HCDN | Hydrology Climate Data Network |
| HH | Horizontal Send-Horizontal Receive |
| HIRS | High-Resolution Infrared Sounder |
| HPC | Hydrometeorology Prediction Center of NCEP |
| HPCN | High Plains Climate Network |
| HSCaRS | Hydrology, Soil Climatology, and Remote Sensing |
I | |
| IAV | Interannual Variability |
| ICN | Illinois Climate Network |
| IDEM | Indiana Department of Environmental Management |
| IFC | Intensive Field Campaign |
| IGBP | International Geosphere Biosphere Project |
| IGPO | International GEWEX Project Office |
| IOP | Intensive Observing Period |
| IR | Infrared |
| IRI | Interdisciplinary Research Initiative |
| ISA | Intermediate-Scale Area |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project |
| ISWS | Illinois State Water Survey |
J | |
| JERS | Japanese Earth Resources Satellites |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
L | |
| LAI | Leaf Area Index |
| Lake-ICE | Lake Induced Convection and Evaporation |
| LBA | Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia |
| LANDSAT | Land (Remote Sensing) Satellite |
| LAPS | Local Analysis Prediction System |
| LC | Longwave Cooling |
| LDAS | Land Data Assimilation System |
| LEAF | Land-Ecosystem-Atmosphere Feedback |
| LFM | Limited Fine Mesh |
| LLJ | Low-Level Jet |
| LSA | Large-Scale Area |
| LSA-E | Large-Scale Area-East |
| LSA-NC | Large-Scale Area-Northcentral |
| LSA-SW | Large-Scale Area-Southwest |
| LSP | Land Surface Parameterization |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research |
| LW | Long Wave |
| LWW | Little Washita Watershed |
M | |
| MAC | Multi-Sensor Aircraft Campaign |
| MAGS | Mackenzie GEWEX Study |
| MAPS | Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System |
| MCC | Mesoscale Cloud Complex |
| MCS | Mesoscale Convective Systems |
| MFRSR | Multi-Filter Rotating Shawdowband Radiometers |
| MIRBEX | Mississippi River Basin Experiment |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MKE | Mesoscale Kinetic Energy |
| MM4 | Mesoscale Model (NCAR) |
| MM5 | Mesoscale Model (NCAR) |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MOLTS | Model Location Time Series |
| MORDS | Model Output Reduced Data Set |
| MOS | Model Output Statistics |
| MPCA | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
| MRF | Medium-Range Forecast |
| MSEA | Management Systems Evaluation Areas |
| MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |
| MSP | Minneapolis St. Paul Airport |
| MSS | Multi-Spectral Scanner |
| MTPE | Mission to Planet Earth (NASA) |
N | |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASDA | National Space Development Agency |
| NASS | National Agricultural Statistics Service |
| NATSGO | National Soil Geographic Database |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCDC | National Climate Data Center |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NCGIA | National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
| NCRFC | North Central River Forecast Center |
| NCSS | National Cooperative Soil Survey |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
| NESOB | Near Surface Observation |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Format |
| NEXRAD | Next Generation Radar |
| NFS | Forecast System for the Nile River |
| NGM | Nested Grid Model |
| NIC | National Ice Center |
| NIP | Normal Incident Pyrheliometer |
| NIR | Near Infrared |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOHRSC | National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center |
| NPA | National Precipitation Analysis |
| NPN | NOAA Profiler Network |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| NRCS | National Resource Conservation Service |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSL | National Sedimentation Laboratory |
| NWIS | National Water Information System |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| NWS | National Weather Service |
| NWSRFS | National Weather Service River Forecast System |
O | |
| OFPS | Office of Field Project Support |
| OH | Office of Hydrology |
| OLAPS | Oklahoma Local Analysis and Prediction System |
| OLDS | On-Line Demonstration System |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| ORFC | Ohio River Forecast Center |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| OSU | Oregon State University |
P | |
| PACS | Pan American Climate Studies |
| PAR | Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
| PBL | Planetary Boundary Layer |
| PILPS | Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes |
| POES | Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite |
| PNE | Prototype Numerical Experiments |
| PPS | Precipitation Processing System |
| PPT | Precipitation |
| PRA | Principal Research Area |
| PRAC | Principal Research Area Coordinator |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment for Storm-Central |
| PRISM | Precipitation-development Regressions on Independent Slopes Model |
| PRYSM | Power and Reservoir Model |
Q | |
| QPF | Quantitative Precipitation Forecast |
R | |
| RADARSAT | Radar Satellite |
| RAMAN | Regional Atmospheric Monitoring and Analytical Network |
| RAMS | CSU Regional Area Modeling System |
| RASS | Radio Acoustic Sounding System |
| RFC | River Forecast Centers |
| RFE | Regional Finite Element |
| RPCA | Rotated Principal Components Analysis |
| RPN | Recherche en Prévision Numérique |
S | |
| SAO | Surface Aviation Observations |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SARB | Satellite Radiation Budget |
| SAST | Scientific Assessment and Strategy Team |
| ScaRab | French-Russian Scanner for Earth Radiation Budget |
| SCAT | Scatterometer |
| SEUS | Snow Water Estimations and Updating System |
| SGP | Southern Great Plains |
| SiB | Simple Biosphere |
| SiB2 | Simple Biosphere Model 2 |
| SIR | Shuttle Imaging Radar |
| SMA | Soil Moisture Accounting |
| SM/ST | Soil Moisture/Soil Temperature Project |
| SNOTEL | SNOpack TELemetry |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SOLRAD | Solar Radiation |
| SPOT | System Pour l'Observation de la Terre |
| SRB | Surface Radiation Budget |
| SSA | Small-Scale Area |
| SSG | Scientific Steering Group |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
| SSTA | Space Science and Technology Alliance |
| SSURGO | Soil Survey Geographic Database |
| STATSGO | State Soil Geographic Database |
| STC | Supplement Type Certificate |
| STORM-FEST | Storm-Scale Operational and Research Meteorology-Fronts Experiment Systems Test |
| SVAT | Soil Vegetation-Atmospheric Traveler |
| SWATS | Soil Water and Temperature Systems |
| SWE | Snow Water Equivalent |
| SURFRAD | Surface Radiation Monitoring Network |
T | |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TBRG | Tipping Bucket Raingauge |
| TDR | Time Delay Reflectometry |
| TIGER | Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environment Reseach |
| TIMS | Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| TOA | Top-of-the-Atmosphere |
| TOGA-COARE | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| TOP | Topography-Based |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| TRFC | Tulsa River Forecast Center |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority |
U | |
| UAH | University of Alabama, Huntsville |
| UAV | Unmanned Aerospace Vehicles |
| UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UM | University of Minnesota |
| UPS | United Parcel Service |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
| U.S. | United States |
| USACE | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| USGCRP | United States Global Change Research Program |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| USRA | Universities Space Research Association |
| USWRP | U.S. Weather Research Program |
| UW | University of Wisconsin |
V | |
| VAD | Velocity Azimuth Display |
| VAS | VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |
| VIL | Vertically Integrated Liquid |
| VV | Vertical Send-Vertical Receive |
W | |
| WARFS | Water Resources Forecasting System |
| WARM | Illinois Water and Atmospheric Resources Monitoring Network |
| WAVE | Weather Analysis and Verfication Experiment |
| WBW | Walker Branch Watershed |
| WCP | World Climate Programme |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
| WDT | Wisconsin Dense Till Project |
| WFOV | Wide Field of View |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WPMM | Window Probability Matching Method |
| WRD | Water Resources Division |
| WSI | Weather Services International |
| WSR-88D | Weather Service Radar 88-Doppler |
| WVSS | Water Vapor Sensing System |
| WY | Water Year |