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Suggested Citation:"Appendix J: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10087.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix J: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10087.
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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

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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix J: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10087.
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MPP

Massively Parallel Processor

NAO

North American Oscillation

NAS

National Aerodynamic Simulation

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NERSC

National Energy Research Scientific-Computing Center

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPGS

Naval Postgraduate School

NRC

National Research Council

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

NSCAT

NASA Scatterometer

NSF

National Science Foundation

NUMA

Non-Uniform Memory Access

NWP

Numerical Weather Prediction

OLR

Outgoing Longwave Radiative Flux

OSE

Observing System Experiments

OSSE

Observing System Simulation Experiments

PC

Personal Computer

PDO

Pacific Decadal Oscillation

PE

Processing Element

PI

Principal Investigator

PILPS

Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes

PITAC

President's Information Technology Advisory Committee

PNNL

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PROVOST

Prediction of C limate Variations on Season-to-Interannual Time Scales

PSU

Pennsylvania State University

RAMS

Regional Atmospheric Modeling System

RMS

Root Mean Square

ROC

Relative Operating Characteristic

SATEMS

Satellite Temperature Soundings

SCM

Single-Column Model

SGI

Silicon Graphics International

SMP

Shared-Memory Processor

SMP

Symmetric Multi-Processor

SSM/I

Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

SST

Sea Surface Temperature

SV

Scalable Vector

TAO

Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array

TFLOP

Teraflop

Suggested Citation:"Appendix J: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10087.
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TIROS

Television Infrared Operational Satellite

TIROS-N

Television Infrared Operational Satellite - Next-generation

TOGA

Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere

UCAR

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UCLA

University of California at Los Angeles

UH

University of Hawaii

UI

University of Illinois

UMA

Uniform Memory Access

UNEP

United Nations Environment Program

USGCRP

United States Global Change Research Program

USWRP

United States Weather Research Program

VPP

Vector Parallel Processor

WCRP

World Climate Research Programme

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

WRF

Weather Research and Forecasting

XBT

Expendable Bathy-Thermographs

Suggested Citation:"Appendix J: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10087.
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Information derived from climate modeling has become increasingly important in recent years. More and more we understand that climate variability and change impacts society and that dealing with climate-related disasters, conflicts, and opportunities requires the best possible information about the past, present, and future of the climate system. To this end, Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling describes ways to improve the efficacy of the U.S. climate modeling enterprise, given the current needs and resources. It discusses enhanced and stable resources for modeling activities, focused and centralized operational activities, how to give researchers access to the best computing facilities, the creation of a common modeling and data infrastructure, and research studies on the socioeconomic aspects of climate and climate modeling.

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