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Acronyms
AAP Atmospheric Analysis Prediction
ABC Atmospheric Brown Clouds
ACD Atmospheric Chemistry Division
ACE-1 First Aerosol Characterization Experiment
ACSYS Arctic Climate System Study
AFGL U.S. Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
AFWA Air Force Weather Agency
AGU American Geophysical Union
AIMES Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System
AirUCI Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute (EMSI) at UC Irvine
ALPEX ALPine EXperiment
AMISR Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar
AMMA African Monsoon Multiscale Analysis
AMS American Meteorological Society
APS American Physical Society
ASAP Automated Shipboard Aerological Program
ASR Annual Scientific Reports
AST Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope
ATD NCAR Atmospheric Technology Division
ATM NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences
ATS-1 First Geosynchronous Satellite
AVAPS Automatic Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System
BAMEX Bow echo and Mesoscale convective EXperiment
BGC WG BioGeoChemistry Working Group
BiSON Birmingham Solar Oscillation Network
BOREAS BOreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
C4 Center for Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate
CAPS Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
CAREER NSF faculty early career development program
CASA Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
CAWSES Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System
CCSM Community Climate System Model
CCSP Climate Change Science Program
OCD Office of Climate Dynamics
CEDAR Coupling, Energetic, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
CEPEX CEntral Pacific EXperiment
CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
CHILL Colorado State University Chill National Radar Facility
CIMS Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry
CINDE Convective INitiation and Downburst Experiment
CISM Center for Integrated Space-weather Modeling
CLIMAP Climate: Mapping, Analysis, and Prediction
CLIVAR CLImate VARiability and change
COARE Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment
COHMAP Co-Operative Holocene MApping Project
COLA Center for Ocean, Land, and Atmosphere
COMET COoperative Meteorological Education and Training
CON3 the average of forecasts from 3 models—HRD’s barotropic VICBAR model, NCEP’s global spectral model, and the GFDL hurricane model
COPES Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth System
COPS Cooperative Oklahoma Profiler Studies
COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate
CPT Climate Process and modeling Teams
CRADA Cooperative Research and Development Agreements
CSM Climate System Model
CSEM Center for Space Environmental Modeling
CUAHSI Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
CW Continuous Wave
DLR Deutsche Luft-und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Research Establishment)
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOT Department of Transportation
DOW Doppler-on-Wheels
DSP Dynamical Seasonal Prediction
ECHO Experiment for Coordinated Helioseismic Observations
ECI Environmental Change Institute
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
ELDORA ELectra DOppler RAdar
EMSI Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute
ENSEMBLES Ensemble-based Predictions of Climate Changes and their Impacts
ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation
EOL NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
EOS Earth Observing System
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPIC Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate
EPRI Electric Power Research Institute
ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
ERC Engineering Research Center
ERDA Energy Research and Development Agency
ERICA Experiment on Rapidly-Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic
ESA European Space Agency
ESH Earth System History
ESSL NCAR Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory
EU European Union
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FASTEX Fronts and Atlantic Storm Track EXperiment
FFRDC Federally Funded Research and Development Center
FGGE First GARP Global Experiment
FSL Forecast System Laboratory
FY Fiscal Year
GAIM Global Analysis, Integration, and Modeling
GALE Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment
GALLEX Gallium Radiochemical Solar Neutrino Detector at Gran Sasso
GAOS Global Atmospheric Observing System
GARP Global Atmospheric Research Program
GATE GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment
GEM Geospace Environment Modeling
GEO NSF Geosciences Directorate
GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems
GEWEX Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GLOBE Global Learning through Observations for the Benefit of the Environment
GONG Global Oscillation Network Group
GPS Global Positioning System
GRF Graduate Research Fellowships
GWE Global Weather Experiment
HAO High Altitude Observatory
HDH High-Degree Helioseimometer
HIAPER High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research
ICSU International Council for Science
IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IHOP_2002 International H2O Project
iLEAPS Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study
INDOEX INDian Ocean EXperiment
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRI International Research Institute
ISLSCP International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
ISS Integrated Sounding System
ITR International Technology Research
JOSS Joint Office for Science Support
KDI Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
KISS Kanton Island Sounding System
L2D2 Lightweight Loran Digital Dropsonde
LCF DOE’s Leadership-Class Computing Facility
LEAD Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
LIDAR LIght Detection And Ranging
LIF Laser Induced Fluorescence
LLWAS Low Level Wind Shear Alerting System
LOD2 Lightweight Omega Digital Dropsondes
LORAN LOng RAnge Navigation
LOWL Low- and Intermediate-Degree Experiment
MALT Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
MAP Mesoscale Alpine Program
MCV Mesoscale Convective Vortices
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIRAGE-MEX Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments: Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign
MLSO Mauna Loa Solar Observatory
MM Mesoscale Model
MM4 Mesoscale Model-version 4
MM5 Mesoscale Model-version 5
MMM Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology
MONEX MONsoon EXperiment
MRI Major Research Instrumentation
MST Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere Radar
MURI Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program
NAME North American Monsoon Experiment
NAPA National Academy of Public Administration
NARSTO North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NEXRAD NEXt generation RADar
NHRE National Hail Research Experiment
NIMA NCAR Improved Moments Algorithm
NIO Northern Indian Ocean
NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology
NLDN National Lightning Detection Network
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC National Research Council
NSB National Science Board
NSF National Science Foundation
NSO National Solar Observatory
NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory
NSWP National Space and Weather Program
NTP National Toxicology Program
NWP Numerical Weather Prediction
OCE Ocean Sciences
ODWs Omega DropWindsondes
OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
OGD Ogden, Utah
OPP Office of Polar Programs
ORION OOI Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks Ocean Observing Initiative
OU University of Oklahoma
PAGES PAst Global changES
PECASE Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers
PI Principal Investigator
PIRAQ PC-Integrated Radar AcQuisition system
PRESTORM Oklahoma–Kansas Preliminary Regional Experiment for STORM–Central
PROVOST PRediction Of climate Variations On Seasonal and interannual Timescales
RAMS Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
RASS Radio Accoustic Sounding System
REU Research Experience for Undergraduates
RFP Request for Proposal
RICO Rain in Cumulus over the Oceans
RUI Research at Undergraduate Institutions
S-Pol S-Band Dual Polarization Radar
SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SBIR Small Business Innovation Research
SCIAMACHY SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY
SCOSTEP Scientific Committee On Solar TErrestrial Physics
SEC NOAA Space Environment Center
SGCR Subcommittee on Global Change Research
SGER Small Grants for Exploratory Research
SHEBA Surface HEat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
SHINE Solar and Heliospheric Interaction
SOARS® Scientific Opportunities in Atmospheric and Related Sciences
SOHO SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory
SOLAS Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study
SPARC Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate
SRI Stanford Research Institute
STC Science and Technology Center
STEPS Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study
STORM-central Oklahoma-Kansas PRE-STORM Program
STR Solar-Terrestrial Research program
STRATO2C German high-altitude research aircraft
STTR Small Business Technology Transfer
SUNY State University of New York
SuperDARN Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
T-Rex Terrain-induced Rotor EXperiment
TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Observing System
TAOS Tethered Atmospheric Observing Systems
TEKES The Finish National Technology Agency
THERMEX THERMal wave EXperiment
THORPEX THe Observing system Research and Predictability EXperiment
TOGA Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere
TOPSE Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring Equinox
TOTO TOtable Tornado Observatory
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
“UCAR” University Committee for Atmospheric Research
UHF Ultrahigh Frequency
UN United Nations
UNEP United Nations Environmental Programme
UOP UCAR Office of Programs
URS United Research Services
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USGCRP U.S. Global Climate Research Program
USGS United States Geological Survey
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
USWRP U.S. Weather Research Program
VHF Very High Frequency
VORTEX Verification of the ORigin of Tornadoes EXperiment
WACCM Whole Atmosphere
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WGCM Working Group on Coupled Modeling
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment