Acronyms

ADCIRC: Advanced Circulation Model
AOML/HRD: Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory/Hurricane Res. Division
ASFPM: American Association of Flood Plain Managers
AOR: Analysis of Record
AHPS: Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System
AWIPS: Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
CI-FLOW SAL: CI-FLOW SALinity
CERIS: Coastal Estuary River Information System
CEMEPS: NCSU Coastal and Estuary Model & Environmental Prediction System
CERIS: Coastal Estuary River Information System
CI-FLOW: Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning
CONUS: Continental U.S.
CSDL: Coast Survey Development Lab
CSC: Coastal Services Center
COSEE: Centers for Ocean Science Educational Excellence
EEO: Equal Employment Opportunity
EFDC: Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency
ESMF: Earth System Modeling Framework
EFDC: Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Administration
FFMP: Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction algorithm
FIRM: Flood Insurance Rate Maps
FVCOM: Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model
GIS: Graphical Information System
GLERL: Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
H-OSIP: Hydrologic Operations and Service Improvement Process
HL: NWS Hydrology Laboratory
HL-RDHM: Hydrologic Laboratory Research Distributed Hydrologic Model
HEC-RAS: Hydrologic Engineering Centers River Analysis System
HMT: NOAAÕs Hydrometeorological Testbed
HMT-SE: NOAA Hydrometeorological Testbed Southeast
HPC: Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
HPC: High Performance Computing
HYCOM: Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model
IOOS: Integrated ObservationÉ
IFLOW: Inland Flood Observing and Warning project
IWRS: Integrated Water Resource Services
LIDAR: Light Detection and Ranging
MPE: Multisensor Precipitation Estimator
MCEL: Model Coupling Environmental Laboratory
NOS: National Ocean Service
NCSG: North Carolina Sea Grant program
NCDC: National Climatic Data Center
NGS: National Geodetic Survey
NCSU: North Carolina State University
NESDIS: National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRCS: Natural Resources Conservation Services
NWS: National Weather Service
NSG: National Sea Grant
NSSL: National Severe Storms Laboratory
NSG: National Sea Grant College Program
NASA: National Aeronautical and Space Administration
NERRS: National Estuarine Research Reserve System
NEXRAD: NEXt generation RADar
NMFS: National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA)
NMQ: National Mosaic and QPE system
NPS: National Park Service
NCEP: National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NDBC: National Data Buoy Center (NWS)
NWP: Numerical Weather Prediction
NOPP: National Oceanographic Partnership Program
NSF: National Science Foundation
OAR: Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
OHD: NWS Office of Hydrologic Development
OU: University of Oklahoma
POMS: Princeton Ocean Model
QPF: Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
QTF: Quantitative Temperature Forecast
QPI: Quantitative Precipitation Information
Q2: Quantitative Precipitation Estimation algorithm (2nd generation, multi-sensor)
QVS: Q2 Verification System
QPE: Quantitative Precipitation Estimates
RFC: River Forecast Centers
RENCI: Renaissance Computing Institute (NC)
ROMS: Regional Ocean Modeling System
RUC: Rapid Update Cycle
SECOORA: Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association
SCSG: South Carolina Sea Grant Program USGS; U.S. Geological Survey
SECART: NOAA Southeastern- Caribbean Regional Team
SG: Sea Grant
SPC: Storm Prediction Center (NWS)
STAR: Center for Satellite Applications and Research
SCaMPR: NESDIS Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval satellite algorithm
TREX: Streamflow model run by Colorado State University (aka. CASC-2D)
UNC: University of North Carolina
USACOE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
VSTQPF: Very Short Term Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
WRF: Weather Research Forecast model
WCM: NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologists
WFO: Weather Forecast Offices