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| AGU |
American Geophysical Union
http://www.agu.org/ |
| AMS |
American Meteorological Society
http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/ |
| AON |
Arctic Observing Network
http://dels.nas.edu/prb/aon/ |
| API |
Application Program Interface |
| ATM |
Division of Atmospheric Sciences, NSF |
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| BAMS |
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
http://ametsoc.org/pubs/bams/index.html |
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| CF |
NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cms/eaton/cf-metadata/ |
| CI |
Cyberinfrastructure, the digital computation, communication, information facilities, and services needed for the functioning of science and engineering research communities |
| COMET |
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training
http://www.comet.ucar.edu/ |
| CONDUIT |
Cooperative Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD Technology, a project that makes high resolution model data sets available to the U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) and to universities using Unidata's IDD technology |
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| decoder |
A program that converts transmitted data products into a different form more suitable for use by applications. Decoders often combine multiple products into a single decoded file |
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| GEMPAK |
General Meteorological Package.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/ |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems, standards are set for these systems by OpenGIS and ISO |
| GO-ESSP |
Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal
http://go-essp.gfdl.noaa.gov/ |
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| HDF5 |
Hierarchical Data Format version 5 - data format for scientific data
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/ |
| HYDRA |
HYDrological Routing Algorithm
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/hydra/ |
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| IDD |
Internet Data Distribution System
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd/ |
| IDV |
Integrated Data Viewer
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/ |
| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/ |
| IPY |
International Polar Year
http://www.ipy.org/ |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization
http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.openerpage |
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| latency |
In the context of the Unidata LDM, the delay in delivery of a data product since it was first injected from a data source site |
| LDEO |
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ |
| LDM |
Local Data Manager
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/ |
| LEAD |
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery
http://portal.leadproject.org |
| LibCF |
The NetCDF CF Library
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/libcf/ |
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| McIDAS |
Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/ |
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| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
http://www.nasa.gov/ |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research
http://www.ucar.edu/ncar/ |
| ncBrowse |
netCDF File Browser
http://www.epic.noaa.gov/java/ncBrowse/ |
| NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html |
| NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
http://wwwt.ncep.noaa.gov/ |
| netCDF |
Network Common Data Form
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ |
| NGDC |
National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, replaced ESSA
http://www.noaa.gov/ |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/ |
| NWS |
National Weather Service, NOAA |
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| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
| OPeNDAP |
Open source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (formerly DODS)
http://www.opendap.org/ |
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| PACI |
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure |
| PCMDI |
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ |
| PIRE |
Partnerships for International Research and Education
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12819 |
| Python |
Programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990.
http://www.python.org/ |
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| QC |
quality control |
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| RSS |
Really Simple Syndication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) |
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| SIS |
Scientific Information System (sometimes used in contrast to GIS) |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SSEC |
Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin at Madison
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
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| THREDDS |
Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/ |
| TIGGE |
THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble |
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| UAH |
University of Alabama-Huntsville
http://www.uah.edu/ |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UPC |
Unidata Program Center
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ |
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| VisAD |
Visualization for Algorithm Development. VisAD is a Java component library for interactive and collaborative visualization and analysis of numerical data. |
| VOC |
Virtual Operations Center |
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| WCS |
Web Coverage Service
http://www.opengis.org/pressrm/pressrelease/20021218_WCS_RFC_PR.htm |
| Web 2.0 |
A second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. |
| WFS |
Web Feature Service
http://www.opengis.org/techno/specs/02-058.pdf |
| WIKI |
A collaborative website which can be directly edited by anyone with access to it. |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
| WRF |
Weather Research and Forecasting Model |
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| XML |
Extensible Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/XML/ |
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