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APPENDIX E
ACRONYMS
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AASE ABLE AC ACC AEROCE AGCM AMEX AMIP AO AOGCM AOML AOU API ARL ARCS ARM ASCII A99/P00 BC BSRN CAPE CCN CCNUMA CDC CGCM CEM CERES CFC CGRER CHAMMP CIMA CIRA CLD CLIPER CM CMC CMDL CMEP CMIO CMIOL COADS COARDS COARE COFS COLA COSPAR CPU CRAY CRF CSIRO CVS DAMEE DC DJF DODS DTEP DTEPOGA DU DWBC E ECMWF ED E"n" ENSO EOF EPOCS ERBE FDDI FDH FEOM FIRE FMS FTP FY"yy" GAIM GARP GATE GB GCM GCTM GEOSAT GEWEX GFD GFDL GHG GMT GOES GRS GTE GUI HCM HIBU HIM HPCC HPCS HRD HSMS ICRCCM IGBP/PAGES I/O ICTP INDOEX IPCC IRI IRIX ISCCP IT ITCZ JGOFS JJA JPL KPP KS LaD LAHM LAI LAN LAN LAS LBL LC LGM LIMS L"n" LSC LW LWC LWP MAST MB MESO MGCM MGS MJO MLM MLS MMIP MMM MOM MOM2 MOM3 MOM4 MOODS MOZART MPI MPP MRF MSc MSU NAB NABE NADW NAO NARE NASA NB NCAR NCDC NCEP NEMS NERSC netCDF NH NHC NMC NOAA NODC NOPP NP NRG NVAP NWS OAR OCMIP ODA OLR ONR OS OTL PCMDI PE PEI PFC PILPS PMEL PMIP PNA POM PPPL PSCs QBO QG QUEST RAINS-Asia RAOB RAS RCM RFI RFP R"n" SAGE SAMS SAMW SAO SAT SAVE SB SBUV SCM SDTS SGI SH SHMEM SiB SIS SKYHI SLT SME SMP SOI SPCZ SPECTRE SST SUN SVD SW TB TCO TES THC TIO T"n" TOA TOGA TOMS TOPEX TOVS TRACEA TRW TTO UARS UBB UNICOS URI UTH WCRP VLAN WGNE WMO WOCE WWB WWNFF XBT ZODIAC |
Arctic Airborne Stratospheric Experiment Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment Analysis Cluster Antarctic Circumpolar Current Air Ocean Chemistry Experiment Atmospheric General Circulation Model Australian Monsoon Experiment Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project Arctic Oscillation Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory/NOAA Apparent Oxygen Utilization Application Programming Interface Atmospheric Research Laboratory/NOAA Applied Research Centers Atmospheric Radiation Measurements American Standard Code for Information Interchange GFDL Activities FY99, Plans FY00 Black Carbon Baseline Surface Radiation Network Convective Available Potential Energy Cloud Condensation Nuclei Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Architecture Climate Diagnostic Center Coupled General Circulation Model Cumulus Ensemble Model Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Chlorofluorocarbon Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics project Centro de Investigaciones para el Mar y La Atmosfera, Buenos Aires, Argentina COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere Fraction of upper tropospheric CLouD cover. A simple model combining CLImatology and PERsistence used in hurricane prediction. CONTROL Coupled General Circulation Model (CGCM) experiment Carbon Modeling Consortium Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory/NOAA Coupled Model Ensemble Prediction CGCM experiment utilizing prescribed low-level clouds from ISCCP CGCM experiment utilizing prescribed low-level clouds from ISCCP Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set Cooperative Ocean/Atmosphere Research Data Service Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment Coastal Ocean Forecast System Center for Ocean, Land and Atmosphere Studies Congress for Space Research Central Processing Unit Cray Research, Inc. Cloud Radiative Forcing Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization Concurrent Versions System Data Assimilation and Model Evaluation Experiments Deep Convective Cloud Cover December, January, February (winter) Distributed Oceanographic Data Systems Deep Tropical Eastern Pacific Deep Tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean-Global Atmosphere Dobson units Deep Western Boundary Current A physical parametrization package in use at GFDL. E physics includes a high- order closure scheme for subgrid turbulence. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Ecosystem Demography Horizontal model resolution corresponding to "n" points between a pole and the equator on the E-grid. El Niño - Southern Oscillation Empirical Orthogonal Function Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Fiber Distributed Data Interface Fixed Dynamic Heating model Fully Equivalent Operational Model First ISCCP Regional Experiment Flexible Modeling System File Transfer Protocol Fiscal Year "yy" where "yy" are the last two digits of the year. Global Analysis Interpretation and Modeling Global Atmospheric Research Program GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment Gigabyte, equal to 1 billion bytes General Circulation Model Global Chemical Transport Model Geodetic Satellite Global Energy and Water Experiment Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA Greenhouse Gases Greenwich Mean Time Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Great Red Spot Global Tropospheric Experiment Graphical User Interface Hybrid Coupled Model Federal Hydrological Institute and Belgrade University Hybrid Isopycnal Model High Performance Computing and Communications High Performance Computing System Hurricane Research Division/AOML Hierarchical Storage Management System InterComparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models ES International Geosphere-Biosphere Project/Past Global Changes Input/Output International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy Indian Ocean Experiment Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change International Research Institute for Climate Prediction SGI's Operating System International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project Information Technology Intertropical Convergence Zone Joint Global Ocean Flux Study June, July, August (summer) Jet Propulsion Laboratory K-Profile Parameterization Kolmogorov-Smirnov Land Dynamics Limited Area HIBU Model Leaf Area Index Limited Area Nonhydrostatic Local Area Network Live Access Server Line By Line Loop Current Last Glacial Maximum Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere Vertical model resolution of "n" levels. Large-Scale Cluster Long Wave Liquid Water Content Liquid Water Path Monterey Area Ship Track Megabyte, equal to 1 million bytes Modeling Eddies in the Southern Ocean Mars General Circulation Model Mars Global Surveyor Madden-Julian Oscillation Mixed Layer Model Microwave Limb Sounder Monsoon/ENSO Intercomparison Project Multiply-nested Movable Mesh Modular Ocean Model Modular Ocean Model, Version 2 Modular Ocean Model, Version 3 Modular Ocean Model, Version 4 Master Oceanographic Observations Data Set Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers Message-Passing-Inferface Massively Parallel Processor Meteorological Research Flight Marine Stratocumulus Clouds Microwave Sounding Unit North Atlantic Basin North Atlantic Bloom Experiment North Atlantic Deep Water North Atlantic Oscillation North Atlantic Regional Experiment National Aeronautics and Space Administration Narrow Band National Center for Atmospheric Research National Climate Data Center/NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction Netscape Enterprise Messaging System National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Unidata's NETwork Common Data Format Northern Hemisphere National Hurricane Center National Meteorological Center/NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Oceanographic Data Center/NOAA National Ocean Partnership Program North Pacific Northern Recirculation Gyre NASA Water Vapor Project National Weather Service Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Ocean Carbon-Cycle Model Intercomparison Project Ocean Data Assimilation Outgoing Longwave Radiation Office of Naval Research Operating System Ocean Tracers Laboratory/Princeton University Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison Processing Element Princeton Environmental Institute Perfluorocarbon Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project Pacific-North American Princeton Ocean Model Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Polar Stratospheric Clouds Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Quasi-Geostrophic Query Underlies Effective Science Teaching Regional Air Pollution Information System - Asia RAdiosonde OBservation Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Radiative-Convective Model Request for Information Request for Proposal Horizontal resolution of spectral model with rhomboidal truncation at wavenumber "n". Stratospheric Aerosol and Gases Experiment Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement System Subarctic Mode Water South Atlantic Ocean Surface Air Temperature South Atlantic Ventilation Experiment Single Band Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (satellite) Single Column Model Software Development and Technical Support Silicon Graphics, Inc. Southern Hemisphere Shared Memory Simple Biosphere Sea Ice Simulator The GFDL Troposphere-Stratosphere-Mesosphere GCM Semi-Lagrangian Transport Solar Mesosphere Explorer Symmetric Multiprocessors Southern Oscillation Index South Pacific Convergence Zone Spectral Radiation Experiment Sea Surface Temperature Sun Microsystems, Inc. Singular Vector Decomposition Simulated Wave Terabyte, equal to 1 trillion bytes Tropospheric Column Ozone Thermal Emission Spectrometer Thermohaline Circulation Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations Horizontal resolution of spectral model with triangular truncation at wavenumber "n". Top-of-the-Atmosphere Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere project Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Topographic Experiment Tiros Operational Vertical Sounder Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator-Atlantic Topographic Rossby Waves Transient Tracers in the Oceans Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Ultimate Bulletin Board Cray's Operating System University of Rhode Island Upper Tropospheric Relative Humidity World Climate Research Program Virtual Local Area Network Working Group on Numerical Experimentation World Meteorological Organization World Ocean Circulation Experiment Westerly Windburst Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Expendable Bathythermograph Gridpoint Climate Model |
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