PSD Acronym List
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AHPS | Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System |
AO | Arctic Oscillation |
ASOS | Automated Surface Observing System |
AWC | Aviation Weather Center |
AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
B | |
C | |
CBRFC | Colorado Basin River Forecast Center (SLC Utah) |
CCA | Canonical Correlation Analysis |
CDC | Climatic Diagnostics Center |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observations Satellites |
CIO | Chief Information Officer |
CIRA | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere |
CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences |
CITM | Cooperative Institute for Tropical Meteorology |
CMAP | CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation |
C-MAWDS | Computerized Marine Weather Data System |
CMDL | Climate Modeling Diagnostics Laboratory |
CMM | Commission for Marine Meteorology |
CNRFC | California-Nevada River Forecast Center (Sacramento CA) |
COARE | Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
COMET | Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education |
CPC | Climate Prediction Center (NOAA/NCEP) |
D | |
DOC | Department of Commerce |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
E | |
ECMWF | European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts |
EDT | Eastern Daylight Time (EDT is UTC minus 4 hours) |
ENSO | El Nino/Southern Oscillation |
EOF | Empirical Orthogonal Function |
EPIC | East Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System |
ERL | Environmental Research Laboratories |
EROS | Earth Resources Observation Satellite |
ESF | Hydrologic Outlook |
EST | Eastern Standard Time (EST is UTC minus 5 hours) |
ETL | Environmental Technology Laboratory |
ESRL | Earth Science Resource Laboratory |
F | |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
FNL | Final Analysis |
FSL | Forecast Systems Laboratory |
FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
G | |
GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Program |
GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System |
GDDS | GOES Data Distribution System |
GDSS | Gauge Data Support System |
GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
GIF | Graphics Interface Format |
GIS | Geographic Information System |
GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
GMT | Greenwich Mean Time (also known as UTC) |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GOES-NEXT | Next Generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GOOS | Global Ocean Observing System |
GPCP | Global Precipitation Climate Project |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GRIB | Gridded Binary |
GSCP | GOES satellite cloud product |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GSM | Global Spectral Model |
GSR | Ground-based scanning radiometer |
H | |
HDD | Heating Degree Days |
HPC | Hydrometeorological Prediction Center |
HRC | Hurricane Research Center |
HRL | Hydrologic Research Laboratory |
HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
HTTP | Hyper Text Transfer Protocol |
HWO | Hazardous Weather Outlook |
I | |
ICOADS | International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
IGY | International Geophysical Year |
IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
INDOEX | Indian Ocean Experiment |
IP | Internet Protocol |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change |
IR | Infrared |
ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
ISCS | International Satellite Communications Systems |
ISDN | Integrated Services Digital Network |
ISL | Integrated Systems Laboratory |
ISO | International Standards Organization |
ISPAN | Information Stream Processor for AWIPS/NOAAPORT |
ISWS | Illinois State Water Survey |
IT | Information Technology |
ITCT | International Transport and Continental Transformation program |
ITCZ | Intertropical Convergence Zone |
IWIN | Interactive Weather Information Network |
J | |
JAG/AW | Joint Action Group/Aviation Weather |
JAWF | Joint Agricultural Weather Facility |
JASMIME | Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Investigation |
JAWOP | Joint Automated Weather Observation Program |
JISAO | Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Oceans |
JOI | Joint Oceanographic Institution |
K | |
kB | Kilobyte |
KWAJEX | Kwajalein Experiment |
L | |
LAN | Local Area Network |
LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
LANSAT | Land Satellite |
LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
LMRFC | Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center |
LRC | Langley Research Center |
M | |
MAPS | Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System |
MBL | Marine Boundary Layer |
MARFC | Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center (State College PA) |
mb | Millibar |
MBRFC | Missouri Basin River Forecast Center |
MDL | Meteorological Development Laboratory |
METAR | Meteorological Aviation Report |
MRF | Medium Range Forecast |
MSL | Mean Sea Level |
MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
MJO | Madden-Julian Oscillation |
MMCR | Millimeter Cloud Radar |
MWR | Microwave radiometer |
MSC | Meteorological Service of Canada |
N | |
NAME | North American Monsoon Experiment |
NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation |
NARR | North American Regional Reanalysis |
NAS | National Academy of Sciences |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
NCRFC | North Central River Forecast Center |
NEAQS | New England Air Quality Study |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
NEXRAD | Next Generation Weather Radar |
NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center |
NGM | Nested Grid Model |
NHC | National Hurricane Center |
NIDIS | National Integrated Drought Information System |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOC | Network Operations Center |
NODC | National Oceanographic Data Center |
NOS | National Ocean Service |
NPCO | NOAA Portable Cloud Observatory |
NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
NSA | North Slope of Alaska CART site |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
NSSL | National Severe Storms Laboratory |
NWRFC | Northwest River Forecast Center (Portland OR) |
NWS | National Weather Service |
O | |
OAR | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research |
OHD | Office of Hydrologic Development |
OHRFC | Ohio River Forecast Center (Cincinnati OH) |
ONR | Office of Naval Research |
ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
openDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
OST | Office of Science and Technology |
OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
P | |
PACS | Pan American Climate Studies |
(P)AERI | (Polar) Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer |
PDI | Palmer Drought Index |
PNA | Pacific North American (Pattern) |
PSD | Physical Science Division (of ESRL) |
Q | |
QBO | Quasi-Biennial Oscillation |
R | |
RCC | Regional Climate Center |
RFC | River Forecast Center |
RICO | Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean Experiment |
S | |
SCOPE | San Clemente Ocean Probing Experiment |
SCS | Ship Computer System |
SEARCH | Study of Environmental Arctic Change |
SERFC | Southeast River Forecast Center (Atlanta GA) |
SEC | Space Environment Center |
SGP | Southern Great Plains CART site |
SHEBA | Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean |
SMG | Spaceflight Meteorology Group |
SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
SPC | Storm Prediction Center (NOAA) |
SQL | Structured Query Language |
T | |
TAO | TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean |
TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
TOGA | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program |
TPNN | Trans-Pacific Profiler Network |
TPC | Tropical Prediction Center |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
URL | Uniform Resource Locator |
USDA | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
USFS | U.S. Forest Service |
USGCRP | U.S. Global Change Research Program |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time (also refered to as GMT) |
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W | |
WAN | Wide Area Network |
WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
WGRFC | West Gulf River Forecast Center (Fort Worth TX) |
WHFS | WFO Hydrologic Forecast System |
WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
WSH | National Weather Service Headquarters |
WX | Weather |
WWA | Western Water Assessment |
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Y | |
Z | |
Z-Time | Slang Term for UTC (Derived from Zulu Time) |
Zulu Time | Another term for UTC |