ACARS |
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
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AFGWC |
Air Force Global Weather Central
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AFOS |
Automation of Field Operations and Services
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ANL |
Analysis
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ARINC |
Aeronautical Radio, Inc.
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ASCII |
Americal Standard Code for Information Interchange
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AVN |
Aviation
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AWC |
Aviation Weather Center
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AWIPS |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
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BUFR |
Binary Universal Format for Data Representation
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COOSAC |
Committee On Operations, Standards And Conventions
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COTR |
Contract Office Technical Representative
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CPC |
Climate Prediction Center
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DOCBLOCK |
Computer program documentation block
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DOS |
Disk Operating System
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EBCDIC |
Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code
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ECMWF |
Europeran Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting
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EMC |
Environmental Modeling Center
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FNL |
Final production run for given cycle
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FNMOC |
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
FNOC |
Fleet Numerical Oceanographic Center
(old name for FNMOC)
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FOS |
Family of Services
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FTP |
File Transfer Protocol
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FTS |
Federal Telecommunication Sysem
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GBL |
Global production run for given cycle
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GDAS |
Global Data Assimilation System production run for given cycle
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GDM |
Graphic Display Module
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GES |
Guess
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GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time (See also Z and UTC)
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GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
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GRIB |
Gridded-Binary Data
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GTS |
Global Telecommunications System
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HADS |
Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
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HPC |
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
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IMSL |
International Mathematical and Statistical Library
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ISPAN |
Information Stream Project for AWIPS/NOAAPORT
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JIF |
Job Implementation Form
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JMC |
Joint Meteorological Committee
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JSC |
Johnson Spaceflight Center
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JSPO |
Joint Systems Program Office for NEXRAD
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LCN |
Loosely Coupled Network
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MAR |
Modernization and Associated Restructuring Program
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MARD |
Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration
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MCIDAS |
Man-Computer Interactive Data Access System
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MIC |
Meteorologist-In-Charge
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MOA |
Memorandum of Agreement
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MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding
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MPC |
Marine Prediction Center
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MRF |
Medium Range Forecast model
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MSL |
Mean Sea Level
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MSLP |
Mean Sea Level Pressure
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NCCF |
NOAA Central Computer Facility
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NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center
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NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
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NCO |
NCEP Central Operations
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NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
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NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar
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NEXUS |
Next Generation Upper-air System
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NGM |
Nested Grid Model (See also RGL)
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NIDS |
NEXRAD Information Dissemination Service
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NMC |
National Meteorological Center
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NMFS |
National Marine Fisheries Service
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NOAA |
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOS |
National Ocean Survey
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NWS |
National Weather Service
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NWSTG |
National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway
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OFOAR |
OFfice of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
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OI |
Optimum Interpolation method
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ON |
Office Note
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PE |
Primitive Equation
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PROD |
Production (for operational jobs)
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RGL |
Regional model (See also NGM)
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RUNHST |
Run History
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SDM |
Senior Duty Meteorologist
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SEC |
Space Environment Center
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SPC |
Storm Prediction Center
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STK |
Storage Technology
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TPB |
Technical Procedures Bulletin
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TPC |
Tropical Prediction Center
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UCAR |
University Corportation for Atmospheric Research
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UCL |
UNICOS Control Language (shell script)
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UKMO |
United Kingdom Meteorological Office
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UPS |
Uninterruptable Power Supply
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UTC |
Greenwich Mean Time (See also Z and GMT)
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VAFTAD |
Volcanic Ash Forecast Transport and Dispersion
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WAFS |
World Area Forecast System (WAFS)
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WMSC |
Weather Message Switching Center
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WMO |
World Meteorological Organization
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WWB |
World Weather Building
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Z |
Greenwich Mean Time (See also UTC and GMT)
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