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Appendix J: Acronyms
Pages 125-128

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... Appendix J Acronyms ACPI Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative AGU American Geophysical Union AMS American Meteorological Society AO Arctic Oscillation ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement ARPS Advanced Regional Prediction System ASP Application Service Provider CCN Cloud Condensation Nuclei CCPP Climate Change Prediction Program CDC Climate Diagnostics Center CFC Chlorofluorocarbon CIT California Institute of Technology CMI Common Modeling Infrastructure CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project COAMPS Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System COARE Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment COLA Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies CONV Conventional Data CPU Central Processing Unit CRC Climate Research Committee CRI Cray Research, Inc. CRM Cloud-Resolving Mode CSM Climate System Modeling CSU Colorado State University 125
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... 126 APPENDIX T 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 E1 Nino/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 IT Information Technology ITCZ Intertropical Convergence Zone JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory LAWS Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder LES Large Eddy Simulations MFLOP MegaFlop MOS Model Output Statistics MPI Message Passing Interface
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... APPENDIX r MPP NAO NAS NASA NCAR NCEP NERSC NOAA NPGS NRC NRL NSCAT NSF NUMA NWP OLR OSE OSSE PC PDO PE PI PILPS PITAC PNNL PROVOST PSU RAMS RMS ROC SATEMS SCM SGI SMP SMP SSM/I SST SV TAO TFLOP 127 Massively Parallel Processor North American Oscillation National Aerodynamic Simulation National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Center for Atmospheric Research National Centers for Environmental Prediction National Energy Research Scientific-Computing Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Naval Postgraduate School National Research Council Naval Research Laboratory NASA Scatterometer National Science Foundation Non-Uniform Memory Access Numerical Weather Prediction Outgoing Longwave Radiative Flux Observing System Experiments Observing System Simulation Experiments Personal Computer Pacific Decadal Oscillation Processing Element Principal Investigator Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes President's Information Technology Advisory Committee Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Prediction of Climate Variations on Season-toInterannual Time Scales Pennsylvania State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling System Root Mean Square Relative Operating Characteristic Satellite Temperature Soundings Single-Column Model Silicon Graphics International Shared-Memory Processor Symmetric Multi-Processor Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Sea Surface Temperature Scalable Vector Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array Teraflop
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... 128 TOGA UCAR UCLA UH UI UMA UNEP USGCRP USWRP VPP WCRP WMO WRF XBT APPENDIX r TIROS Television Infrared Operational Satellite TIROS-N Television Infrared Operational Satellite - Next generation Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere University Corporation for Atmospheric Research University of California at Los Angeles University of Hawaii University of Illinois Uniform Memory Access United Nations Environment Program United States Global Change Research Program United States Weather Research Program Vector Parallel Processor World Climate Research Programme World Meteorological Organization Weather Research and Forecasting Expendable Bathy-Thermographs
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