List of Acronyms and Abbreviations used in the 1997 Annual Scientific Report
| 3DVAR | 3-dimensional variational data assimilation |
| 4DVAR | 4-dimensional variational data assimilation |
| Vis5D | visualization for 5-dimensional flow fields |
| ABLE | Argonne National Laboratory Atmosphere Boundary Layer Experiments |
| ACD | NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Division |
| ACE-1 | Aerosol Characterization Experiment |
| ADI | alternating direction implicit |
| AFGWC | Air Force Weather Agency |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| ARKTIS93 | acronym unknown |
| ARL | NOAA Air Resources Laboratory |
| ARM | atmospheric radiation measurement |
| ASP | NCAR Advanced Study Program Advanced Stokes Polarimeter |
| ASTER | Atmosphere-Surface Turbulence Exchange Research |
| ATD | NCAR Atmospheric Technology Division |
| ATDD | Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division |
| ATEX | Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| BEHAVE | Not an acronym; a proper noun indicating a fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system |
| BMRC | Australian Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre |
| BOMEX | Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment |
| BOREAS | Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (US/Canada 1994) |
| CAC | Computing Advisory Committee (MMM) |
| CAFS | Canadian Forestry Service |
| CaPE | Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment |
| CAPS | Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms |
| CAS | Commission on Atmospheric Sciences (WMO) |
| CASES-97 | Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study's 1997 field program |
| CBL | convective boundary layer |
| CCM | Community Climate Model (NCAR) |
| CCN | cloud condensation nuclei |
| CCP | NCAR Clouds in Climate Program |
| CDI | Chemistry-Dynamical Coupling Initiative |
| CEPEX | Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment |
| CGD | Climate and Global Dynamics Division |
| CLASS | cross-chain LORAN atmospheric sounding system |
| CMDL | Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory |
| CMR | central mountain range |
| COMMAS | COllaborative Model for Multiscale Atmospheric Simulation |
| CRM | cloud-resolving model |
| CSM | climate system model |
| CSMG | Cloud Scale Modeling Group |
| CSU/CHILL | Colorado State University/University of Chicago/Illinois State Water Survey |
| CTD | coastally-trapped disturbance |
| CVS | concurrent versions system |
| CWB | Central Weather Bureau (of Taiwan) |
| DEC | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| DLR | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, German Aerospace Research Establishment |
| DMS | dimethyl sulfide |
| DNS | direct numerical simulations |
| DOE CHAMMP | Department of Energy Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics Program |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ELDORA | Electra Doppler Radar |
| ERICA IOP4 | Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones in the Atlantic |
| ERS-1 | European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (European Space Agency) |
| ESTAR | electronically scanned thinned array radiometer |
| ETL | Environmental Technical Laboratory |
| EUCREM | European Cloud Resolving Model |
| EULAG | Eulerian/semi-Lagrangian numerical model for fluids |
| FASTEX | Fronts and Atlantic Storm Track Experiment |
| FEST | Fronts Experiments Systems Test |
| FIRE | First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project) Regional Experiment |
| FLIP | floating instrument platform |
| FSL | Forecast Systems Laboratory |
| FSL | flow separation line |
| GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Programme |
| GATE | GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| GCM | General Circulation Model |
| GCSS | GEWEX Cloud System Study |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water-cycle Experiment |
| GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| GOES | geostationary operational environmental satellites |
| GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
| GPS | global positioning systems |
| GPS/MET | Global Positioning System Meteorology |
| GSP | Geophysical Statistics Program |
| GSP | Geophysical Statistics Project |
| HAO | High Altitude Observatory |
| HaRP | Hawaiian Rainband Project |
| IAMAS97 | International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences |
| IBL | island boundary layer |
| iMSC | A computer technology firm specializing in the updating and migration of legacy systems |
| IN | ice nuclei |
| IOP | intensive observation period |
| JETEX | Low-Level Jet Experiment |
| LASE | Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
| LES | large eddy simulations |
| LIDAR | light detecting and ranging (laser radar) |
| LST | Local Standard Time |
| LORAN | long range navigation |
| MAP | Mesoscale Alpine Program |
| MBL | marine boundary layer |
| MCS | mesoscale convective system |
| MCTEX | Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment |
| MET | meteorological |
| MICROFRONTS | boundary-layer micro-meteorology measurement program designed to study radiation properties and dissipation properties in frontal regions |
| MM4 | Mesoscale Model, version 4 (a PSU-NCAR numerical weather prediction model) |
| MM5 | Mesoscale Model, version 5 (a PSU-NCAR numerical weather prediction model) |
| MMM | Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division |
| MO | Monin-Obukhov |
| MODIS | moderate resolution imaging spectrometer |
| MPP | massively parallel processor |
| MRF PBL | medium-range forecast-planetary boundary layer |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NEXRAD | next generation weather radar |
| NFT | nonoscillatory forward-in-time |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOx | molecule composed of NO and NO2 |
| NRCC | National Research Council Canada |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| NSSL | National Severe Storms Laboratory (NOAA) |
| NTSC | National Television Standards Committee (or maybe Never Twice Same Color) [US color TV standard, as opposed to PAL, the European one] |
| OLS | Office of the Lead Scientist |
| ONERA | French Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research |
| PBL | planetary boundary layer |
| probability distribution function | |
| PDT | prospectus development team |
| PSU | Pennsylvania State University |
| PV | potential vorticity |
| PW | precipitable water |
| RAP | Research Applications Program |
| RASS | radio acoustic sounding system |
| RH | relative humidity |
| RHI | range-height indicator |
| ROCEW | Role of Clouds, Energy, and Water |
| SBL | stable boundary layer |
| SCD | Scientific Computing Division |
| SCM | Single Column Model |
| SCMS | Small Cumulus Microphysics Study |
| SGP97 | Southern Great Plains Experiment |
| SGS | subgrid scale |
| SMG | System Management Group |
| SOARS | Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric and Related Sciences |
| S-POL | S-band dual-polarization |
| SSC | Science Steering Committee |
| SSM/I | special sensor microwave/imager |
| SST | sea surface temperature |
| STERAO | Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone |
| STERAO-A | Stratospheric Tropospheric Experiment: Radiation, Aerosols and Ozone, Part A. Deep Convection and the Chemical Composition of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere |
| STORM | STormscale Operational and Research Meteorology |
| SUCCESS | Subsonic aircraft: Contrail & Cloud Effects Special Study |
| SVHS | super video home system |
| TDR | time-domain reflectometry |
| TECOM | test and evaluation command |
| TOGA COARE | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UHF/VHF | ultra-high frequency/very high frequency |
| UNIDATA | University Data Interactive Computing and Communications Systems |
| UNIX | universal interactive executive (AT&T Bell Laboratories Operating System) |
| USWRP | United States Weather Research Program |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated |
| VORTEX | Verifying Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WOT | workshop organizing team |
| WRF | weather research and forecasting |
| WSR-88D | Weather Surveillance Radar-88 Doppler National Weather Service's nationwide network, (WSR-88D, formerly known as NEXRAD) |
| WWRP | World Weather Research Program |
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