AQM | Air Quality Model |
GFS(AVN) | Aviation run, now called GFS Global Forecast Model
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RTOFS
| Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (old AOFS)
model
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CDAS
| Climate Data Assimilation System (Reanalysis),
Global T62 Reanalysis model
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CAMS | Climate anomaly monitoring system
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CERES | NASA Cloud and Earth Radiant Energy System
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CMB | Climate modeling branch (EMC)
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CMF | Coupled model forecast
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CPC
| Climate Prediction Center
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EMC
| Environmental Modeling Center
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ERBE | NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
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ETA | high resolution regional model
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FNL | final analysis, used as initial conditions for the GFS(AVN) and GFS(MRF)
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GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System, global T126 operational model
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GRIB | WMO standard for encoding gridded fields
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ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
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LaRC | NASA Langley Research Center
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GFS(MRF) | Medium Range Forecast, Global operational Forecast System, run at 00Z
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MMAB
| Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (EMC)
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NAM
| North American Mesoscale
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NCEP
| National Centers for Environmental Prediction, part of NWS
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NGM | Nested Grid Model, an older regional model
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NMM
| Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model
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NVAP | NASA Water Vapor Project
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NWS | National Weather Service, part of the Department of Commerce |
OI | Optimal interpolation
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OLR | Outgoing Long-wave Radiation
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PATMOS/CLAVR | Pathfinder Atmospheric data/Cloud from AVHRR
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RSM
| Regional Spectral Model
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SST | Sea surface temperature
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TOA | Top of atmosphere
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TRMM | NASA Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission
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WRF
| Weather Research & Forecasting
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