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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. Strategic Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the Atmospheric Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11791.
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WP2 Western Pacific Warm Pool

WRF Weather Research and Forecast

WWRP World Weather Research Program

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