| 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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