| 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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