|
A |
| |
| AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/ |
| ACARS |
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System |
AD |
analog-to-digital |
| ADAGUC |
Atmopheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community
http://adaguc.knmi.nl/ |
| ADDE |
Abstract Data Distribution Environment, a McIDAS remote data access system |
| ADaM |
Algorithm Development and Mining System under development at UAH
http://datamining.itsc.uah.edu/environment.html |
| ADAS |
ARPS Data Analysis System
http://www.caps.ou.edu/ADAS.html |
| ADL |
Alexandria Digital Library |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union
http://www.agu.org/ |
| AMDAR |
Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay |
| AMPS |
Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System |
| AMS |
American Meteorological Society
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/ |
| AOGCM |
Atmosphere–ocean general circulation model(s) |
| AOI |
Automated Operator Interface |
| AON |
Arctic Observing Network
http://dels.nas.edu/prb/aon/ |
| API |
Application Program Interface |
| APRDC |
Asia Pacific Data Research Center
http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/ |
| ARL |
Air Resources Laboratory |
| Archydro |
GIS for water resources |
| ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program DOE's global change research program
http://www.arm.gov/ |
| ARPS |
Advanced Regional Prediction System |
| ASMET |
African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training |
| ATM |
Division of Atmospheric Sciences, NSF |
| AVN |
Aviation Model at NCEP |
AWC |
Aviation
Weather
Center
|
| AWIPS |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System, an NWS program initiated in the 1990s; also known as the "modernization program" |
AWS |
AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc., the National Weather Service and the Department of Homeland Security |
 |
|
B |
| |
BADC |
The British Atmospheric Data Centre |
BASC |
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate |
| BEC |
Board on Enterprise Education |
| BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
| BMRC |
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia |
| BPEL4WS |
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-bpel/ |
| BRAN |
Boulder Research and Administrative Network |
| BUFR |
Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data |
|
|
|
C |
| |
| CADIS |
Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service
http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/aon-cadis/ |
| CAIDIS |
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
http://www.caida.org/home/ |
| CAPS |
Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma |
| CASASS |
Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
http://www.casa.umass.edu/ |
CD |
Compact disk |
| CDC |
Climate Diagnostics Center
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ |
| CDF |
Common Data Form |
| CDI |
Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation Initiative |
| CDM |
Common Data Model
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/CDM/ |
| CDI |
Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation |
| CDP |
Community Data Portal |
| CEOP |
Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period
http://www.gewex.org/ceop.htm |
| CF |
NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/ |
| CI |
Cyberinfrastructure,
the digital computation, communication, information facilities, and
services needed for the functioning of science and engineering research
communities |
| CIESIN |
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
http://www.ciesin.org/ |
| CILSS |
Comité
permanent inter-État de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel (Permanent
Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel)
http://www.cilss.bf/
|
| CISL |
Computation and Information Systems Laboratory at NCAR |
| CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| CLASS |
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/sog/noaaclass/ |
CMA |
China
Meteorological Administration |
CMIP3 |
Multi-model dataset used for the IPCC Fourth
Assessment
https://esg.llnl.gov:8443/ |
| CNR |
Italian National Research Council
http://www.cnr.it/sitocnr/Englishversion/Englishversion.html |
| COAMPS |
U.S. Navy's regional weather model
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/coamps-web/web/home |
| CODIAC |
Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalogue |
| COLA |
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
http://grads.iges.org/cola.html |
| COMET |
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/ |
| CONDUIT |
Cooperative
Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD Technology, a project that makes
high resolution model data sets available to the U.S. Weather Research
Program (USWRP) and to universities using Unidata's IDD technology |
| COSMIC |
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate
http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/ |
CPTEC |
Brazil's
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos
|
| CRAFT |
Collaborative
Radar Acquisition Field Test, a joint effort of the Center for Analysis
and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma, the
Oklahoma Higher Education State Regents, the University of Washington,
and Unidata to access and distribute NEXRAD Level II data in near real
time |
| CSMF |
Climate System Modeling Federation |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CUAHSI |
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Inc.
http://www.cuahsi.org/ |
| CVS |
Concurrent Version System |
| CyRDAS |
Cyberinfrastructure for Research, Development and Education in the Atmospheric Sciences |
|
|
|
D |
| |
| DAML-S |
DAML Services, DAML-based Web Service Ontology
http://www.daml.org/services/ |
| DAML |
DARPA Agent Markup Language
http://www.daml.org/ |
| DAMOCLES |
Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capability for Long-term Environment Studies
|
| DAP |
Data Access Protocol |
| DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
http://www.darpa.mil/ |
| DLESE |
Digital Library for Earth System Education
http://www.dlese.org/ |
| data feed |
To the Unidata LDM, a sequence of data products, all of the same feed type, injected into the IDD from a single data source |
| DOCTYPE |
Document Type |
| data product |
To the the Unidata LDM, a unit of data with an associated feed type, product ID, injection time, origin, and sequence number |
| DORADE |
DOppler RAdar Data Exchange Format
http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rsf/UserGuides/ELDORA/DataAnalysis/DataAnalysis.html#DORADE |
| data source |
To the Unidata LDM, a remote provider of data products |
| DUE |
Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF Division |
| data stream |
To
the Unidata LDM, a sequence of bulletins all of the same feed type
broadcast from a single data source. Once the bulletins are converted
into data products, the result is called a data feed |
| DDS |
DLESE Data Services |
| ECMWF |
European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting
http://www.ecmwf.int/ |
| decoder |
To
the Unidata LDM, a program that converts transmitted data products into
a different form more suitable for use by applications. Decoders often
combine multiple products into a single decoded file |
| DIDAKT |
Data Integrated Documents and Knowledge Tools |
| DIF |
Directory Interchange Format
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/User/difguide/difman.html |
| DIFAX |
Digital facsimile map, a data stream of digitized maps formerly provided by the NWS |
| DIMES |
DIstributed MEtadata System from George Mason University
http://xml.coverpages.org/YangIIPS19-DIMES.pdf |
| DL |
Digital Library |
| DMAC |
Data Management Analysis Center |
| DODS |
Distributed
Oceanographic Data System, former name for the discipline-specific
National Virtual Oceanographic Data System and the
discipline-independent access protocols now known as OPeNDAP.
http://www.opendap.org |
| DQC |
Dataset
Query Capabilities - THREDDS XML Document type that describes the
possible ways that an end-user can choose dataset subsets |
| DVB-S |
Digital Video Broadcasting over Satellite |
|
|
|
E |
| |
| EDR |
Environmental Data Record |
EGU |
European Geosciences
Union
|
| EHR |
Education and Human Resources (NSF division)
http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=EHR |
EMC |
Environmental
Modeling
Center
|
| ENSO |
El Nino Southern Oscillation |
EOL |
Earth Observing Laboratory |
EOS |
Earth Observing System |
EPSC |
European Planetary Science Congress |
| EPSCoR |
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research: State-NSF partnership to stimulate sustainable improvements in R&D
http://www.epscorfoundation.org/WhatIsEPSCoR.htm#e2 |
| ERE |
Environmental Research and Education |
| ESG |
Earth System Grid
http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/ |
| ESIG |
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, NCAR program |
| ESIP |
Earth System Information PartnersFederation
http://www.esipfed.org/ |
| ESMF |
Earth System Modeling Facility
http://www.ess.uci.edu/esmf/index.html |
| ESML |
Earth Science Markup Language
http://esml.itsc.uah.edu/ |
| ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute
http://www.esri.com/ |
| ESRL |
Earth System Research Laboratory (formerly FSL)
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/ |
| ESS |
Earth System Science |
| EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/index.htm |
|
|
|
F |
| |
FACE |
Florida
Area Cirrus Experiment |
| FES |
Fluid Earth Systems |
| FFRDC |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee
http://www.fgdc.gov/ |
| FNMOC |
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/ |
| FOS |
Family of Services, a collection of data streams from NWS |
| FMRC |
Federation Mercury Search Engine
http://mercury.ornl.gov/metadata/esip/html/esipcol/gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov_Data_Portals_Esip_GCMD_edu.ucar.unidata-fmrc-NCEP-NAM-Alaska_45km-conduit.html |
| FSL |
Forecast Systems Laboratory NOAA.renamed Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
|
|
|
G |
| |
| GALEON |
Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean netCDF |
GB |
Gigabyte |
| GCMD |
Global Change Master Directory
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aboutus/sitemap.html |
| GDS |
GrADS/DODS Server
http://grads.iges.org/grads/gds/ |
| GEM |
Global Environmental Multiscale Model |
| GEMPAK |
General Meteorological Package.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/ |
| GEO |
Geosciences Directorate |
| GEON |
The GEOsciences Network
http://www.geongrid.org/ |
| GFS |
Global Forecast System |
| GEOSS |
Global Earth Observation System of Systems
http://www.epa.gov/geoss/ |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems, standards are set for these systems by OpenGIS and ISO |
| GINI |
GOES Ingest & NOAAPORT Interface |
| GMAO |
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (NASA) |
| GML |
Geography Markup Language
http://opengis.net/gml/ |
| GNOME |
GNU Network Object Model Environment
http://www.gnome.org/ |
GODAE |
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
http://www.usgodae.org/ |
| GO-ESSP |
Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal
http://go-essp.gfdl.noaa.gov/ |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, NOAA weather satellite |
GOES10 |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite,
South |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System, a system that uses satellites for navigation |
| GRIB |
Gridded Binary |
| GRID |
Computational Grids
http://www.globus.org/ |
| GSD |
Global Systems Division (NOAA)
http://www.fsl.noaa.gov/gsd/ |
| GrADS |
Grid Analysis and Display System
http://grads.iges.org/grads/ |
GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
|
|
|
H |
| |
HBCU |
Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
HDF4 |
Hierarchical Data Format version 4 - data format for
scientific data
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/products/hdf4/index.html |
| HDF5 |
Hierarchical Data Format version 5 - data format for scientific data
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ |
HPC |
Hydrometeorological
Prediction
Center
, NOAA/ National
Weather Service
http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ |
| HPCC |
High Performance Computing & Communications |
| HPSS |
High Performance Storage System |
| HREF |
HTML Attribute used to target a URL link |
| HYDRA |
HYperspectral-viewer for Development of Research Applications
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/hydra/ |
| HTML |
Hypertext mark-up language |
| HYRAX |
OPeNDap 4 Data Server
http://www.opendap.org/download/hyrax.html |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HWRF |
Weather Research and Forecast system for hurricane prediction,
http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/HWRF/index.html |
|
|
|
I |
| |
| IAI |
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
http://www.iai.int/ |
| ICARTT |
International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation
http://esrl.noaa.gov/csd/ICARTT/ |
| IDD |
Internet Data Distribution System, a Unidata data dissemination system in use at over 200 institutions worldwide
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd/ |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language
http://www.rsinc.com/idl/index.asp |
| IDMS |
Integrated Data Management System |
| IDV |
Integrated
Data Viewer, the IDV is a platform independent framework developed by
Unidata for 3-D visualization and analysis of geoscience data.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/ |
| IHOP |
International H2O Project |
| IIPS |
International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology |
| IMAA |
Institute of Advanced Methodologies for Environmental Analysis
http://www.imaa.cnr.it/ |
| INGRID |
Name for an online data system at LDEO. It's not an acronym
http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/ |
INPE |
Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazilian
National Institute of Space Research in
Sao Paulo
,
Brazil
|
| IOOS |
Integrated Ocean Observing System
http://www.ocean.us/ |
| IPAMM |
Impact of Proposal and Award Management Mechanisms |
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/ |
| IPRC |
International Pacific Research Center
http://iprc.soest.hawaii.edu/ |
| IPY |
International Polar Year
http://www.ipy.org/ |
| IRI |
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction at LDEO
http://iri.columbia.edu/ |
| IRIS |
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
http://www.iris.edu/ |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage |
| ISO TC211 |
International Standards Organization TC211, a spatial data standard
http://www.isotc211.org/ |
ISSE |
Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment |
IT |
Information Technology |
| ITC |
International Training Center
www.itc.nl |
| ITR |
International Technology Research (for national priorities) |
ITTVIS |
ITT Visual Information Solutions provides integrated
software solutions |
|
|
|
J |
| |
| JOSS |
Joint Office for Science Support |
| Java |
An object-oriented, platform-independent language from Sun, now widely used to create applets and applications for the Internet |
| JMS |
Java Messaging Service |
| JODI |
Journal of Digital Information
http://jodi.tamu.edu/ |
| JHT |
Joint Hurricane Testbed |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ |
|
|
|
K |
| |
| KC |
Kansas City, Missouri |
| KDI |
Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence |
| KML |
Keyhole Markup Language |
| KMZ |
Compressed KML |
|
|
|
L |
| |
LANG |
The Lang Component provides a host of helper
utilities for the java.lang API
http://commons.apache.org/lang/ |
| LAS |
Live Access Server
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/LAS/ferret_LAS.html |
| Latency |
In the context of the Unidata LDM, the delay in delivery of a data product since it was first injected from a data source site |
| LDEO |
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ |
| LDM |
Local Data Manager
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/ |
| LEAD |
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
http://portal.leadproject.org |
| LGPL |
(GNU) Lesser General Public License |
LINK |
Common for hyperlinks, to link any unit of information
to any other unit of information over the Internet |
LLC |
Limited liability company |
|
|
|
M |
| |
| MADIS |
Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System |
| MASHUP |
A website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience |
MATLAB |
A numerical computing environment and programming language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB |
| McIDAS |
Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/ |
META
|
Prefix used in order to indicate a concept which is an
abstraction from another concept, metadata are data about data |
| METAR |
Meteorological Aviation Reports |
| MetApps |
Meteorological Applications Task Force |
| Metadata |
Data about (behind) the data (the attributes associated with the data) |
| MeteoForum |
Pilot project for advanced international meteorological training center capabilities |
| MM5 |
mesoscale model, version 5, Pennsylvania State University/NCAR mesoscale (regional) limited-area model |
| MSI |
Minority Serving Institution
http://www.dotcr.ost.dot.gov/asp/dotpart/msi/dotpartmin.asp |
| MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MVC |
Model-view-controller |
| My |
Man-year |
|
|
|
N |
| |
| NAME |
North American Monsoon Experiment |
| ML |
Mesa Lab |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.nasa.gov/ |
NAWIPS |
National Centers Advanced Weather Interactive
Processing Systems |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ucar.edu/ncar/ |
| ncBrowse |
netCDF File Browser
http://www.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/ |
| NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html |
| NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
http://wwwt.ncep.noaa.gov/ |
| NcML |
The netCDF Markup Language
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/ |
| NCO |
netCDF Operators
http://nco.sourceforge.net/ |
NCSA |
National
Center
for Supercomputing Applications,
University
of
Illinois
|
| NDAP |
National Digital Archives Project |
| netCDF |
Network Common Data Form
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ |
| NDFD |
National Digital Forecast Database
http://www.weather.gov/ndfd/ |
| NEON |
|
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
| NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/radarresources.html |
| NGDC |
National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ |
NHC |
National
Hurricane
Center
|
| NIDS |
NEXRAD Information and Data System |
| NLDN |
National Lightning Detection Network |
| NLR |
National LambdaRail
http://www.nlr.net/
|
| NMFS |
National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NMHS |
National Meteorological and Hydrological Service |
| NMM |
Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model |
| NMAP |
An integrated display and product generation GUI environment |
| NMQ |
National Mosaic and Multisensor QPE (NMQ) Project
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/q2/ |
| NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, replaced ESSA
http://www.noaa.gov/ |
| NOAAport |
NOAA's broadcast data dissemination system
http://205.156.54.206/noaaport/html/noaaport.shtml |
| NOC |
Naval Oceanographic Command |
| NOGAPS |
U.S. Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System |
| NODC |
National Oceanographic Data Center |
| NOMADS |
The NOAA Operational Model Arvhive and Distribution System
http://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/ |
| NMI |
NSF Middleware Initiative
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/cyber/middleware.jsp |
| NSDL |
National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/render.userLayoutRootNode.uP |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/ |
| NPOESS |
National Polar Orbiter Environmental Satellite System |
NSIDC |
National Snow and
Ice
Data
Center
|
| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSPPO |
National Space Organization (Taiwan)
http://www.nspo.org.tw/2005e/ |
NSSL |
National Severe Storms Laboratory |
NTSB |
National Transportation Safety Board |
| NVODS |
National Virtual Ocean Data System (formerly part of DODS) |
| NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ssd/nwpmodel/html/nwplinks.htm |
| NWS |
National Weather Service, NOAA |
|
|
|
O |
| |
| OAI |
Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/ |
| OAR |
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research |
| ODC |
Open Data Consortium Project to Standardize Data Distribution
http://www.geoall.net/docs/ODC_Descriptive_Article.pdf |
| OFCM |
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology |
| OGC |
Open Geospatial Consortium
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ |
| OGSA |
Open Grid Services Architecture
http://www.globus.org/ogsa/ |
| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
| OPeNDAP |
Open source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (formerly DODS)
http://www.opendap.org/ |
|
|
|
P |
| |
| PACI |
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure |
PAGE |
Program for the Advancement of Geoscience Education,
the precursor of DLESE |
| PCMDI |
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ |
PDA |
Personal digital assistant |
| PIRE |
Partnerships for International Research and Education
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12819 |
| PMEL |
Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory, NOAA
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/ |
PRC |
People's Republic of
China
|
| Python |
Programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990.
http://www.python.org/ |
| |
|
Q |
| |
| QC |
quality control |
QPE |
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation |
|
|
|
R |
| |
RAL |
Research Applications Laboratory |
RAMADDA |
Repository for Archiving, Managing, and Accessing Diverse DAta |
| RAMS |
Regional Atmospheric Modeling System |
| RENCI |
Renaissance Computing Institute
http://www.renci.org/ |
| REST |
Representational State Transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer |
| RICO |
Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean |
| ROC |
Republic of China |
| RSM |
Regional Spectral Model |
| RSS |
Really Simple Syndication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) |
|
|
|
S |
| |
| SAO |
Surface Airways Observations |
| SCOOP |
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction |
| SGER |
Small Grants for Exploratory Research |
| SHEF |
Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format
http://weather.gov/oh/hrl/shef/indexshef.htm |
| SINOTS |
Interoperability System for supporting the Italian Scientific Community working in Earth Observations from Space |
| SIS |
Scientific Information System (sometimes used in contrast to GIS) |
| SMB |
Shanghai Meteorological Bureau |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/ |
SOARS |
Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and
Science |
| SPC |
Storm Prediction Center |
| SPIE |
International Society for Optical Engineering
http://spie.org/
|
| SREF |
Short-Range Ensemble Forecast
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/sref/ |
| SSEC |
Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ |
| STI |
Shanghai Typhoon Institute |
| STELLA |
Structural Thinking Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| SURA |
Southeastern Universities Research Association
http://www1.sura.org/0000/0000_Home.html |
| SWEET |
Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology
http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ontology/ |
SWFSC
|
Southwest
Fisheries
Science
Center
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| TACC |
Texas Advanced Computing Center
http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/ |
| TAMDAR |
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting |
| TB |
Terabyte |
| TDR |
THREDDS Data Repository |
| TDS |
THREDDS Data Server
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/TDS.html |
| THORPEX |
THe Observing system Research and Predictability EXperiment
http://www.wmo.int/thorpex/about.html |
| T-Rex |
Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment
http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/trex/ |
| THREDDS |
Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/ |
| TIGGE |
THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble |
| TIMSS |
Trends in International Mathematics
and Science Study
http://nces.ed.gov/timss/ |
| TMRP |
Team Multidisciplinary Research Project |
TPC |
Tropical
Prediction
Center
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| UAH |
University of Alabama-Huntsville
http://www.uah.edu/ |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UCSB |
University of California Santa Barbara
http://www.ucsb.edu/ |
| UDDI |
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of Web Services
http://www.uddi.org/ |
| UDUNITS |
The
Unidata units library supports conversion of unit specifications
between formatted and binary forms, arithmetic manipulation of unit
specifications, and conversion of values between compatible scales of
measurement.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/udunits/ |
| UK |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
UNAVCO |
University NAVSTAR [not an acronym] Consortium
http://www.unavco.org/ |
| UPC |
Unidata Program Center
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ |
| UNC |
University of North Carolina |
| UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| UOP |
UCAR Office of Programs |
| URM |
Underrepresented Minorities |
| USGC |
U.S. Global Change
http://www.usgcrp.gov/ |
| URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/ |
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| US |
United States |
| VGEE |
Virtual Geophysical Exploration Environment
http://dpc.ucar.edu/vgee/ |
| USA |
United States of America |
| VisAD |
Visualization
for Algorithm Development. VisAD is a Java component library for
interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical
data. |
| VOC |
Virtual Operations Center |
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W |
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| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/ |
| WAR |
Web ARchive |
WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
| WCS |
Web Coverage Service
http://www.opengis.org/pressrm/pressrelease/20021218_WCS_RFC_PR.htm |
| WFO |
Weather Forecast Office |
| Web 2.0 |
A second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. |
| WFS |
Web Feature Service
http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs/02-058.pdf |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
| WMS |
Web Mapping Service
http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs/00-028.pdf |
| WRF |
Weather Research and Forecasting Model |
| Workstation ETA |
A version of NCEP's mesoscale model designed to run on workstations |
| WSCI |
Web Service Choreography Interface
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsci/ |
| WSDL |
Web Services Description Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl |
WSI |
WSI Corporation
http://www.wsicorp.com/ |
| WSR |
WSR-88D radars
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/radinfo/radinfo.html |
| WxWISE |
Weather Wise
http://itg1.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/ |
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| XML |
Extensible Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/XML/ |
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