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Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling
DAO
Data Assimilation Office
DAS
Data Assimilation System
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
DSP
Dynamical Seasonal Prediction
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
ENSO
El Niño/Southern Oscillation
EOS
Earth Observing System
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
EUMETSAT
European Meteorological Satellite
FGGE
First GARP Global Experiment
FIFE
First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
FLOPS
Floating Point Operations per Second
FSU
Florida State University
GARP
Global Atmospheric Research Programme
GATE
GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment
GCIP
GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
GCM
General Circulation Model
GCSS
GEWEX Cloud System Study
GEOS
Goddard Earth Observing Satellite
GEWEX
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GFLOP
GigaFlop
GFDL
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GISS
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GLA
Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres
GSFC
Goddard Space Flight Center
HPCC
High Performance Computing and Communications
IBM
International Business Machine
IFS
Integrated Forecast System
INDOEX
Indian Ocean Experiment
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRI
International Research Institute
ISLSCP
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project