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| AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| ACARS |
Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System. |
| AD |
Analog-to-Digital |
| ADAGUC |
Atmospheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community |
| ADDE |
Abstract Data Distribution Environment. A McIDAS remote data access system. |
| ADaM |
Algorithm Development and Mining System |
| ADAS |
ARPS Data Analysis System |
| ADL |
Alexandria Digital Library |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
| AMDAR |
Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay |
| AMPS |
Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System |
| AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
| AOGCM |
Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model |
| AOI |
Automated Operator Interface |
| AON |
Arctic Observing Network |
| API |
Application Program Interface |
| APRDC |
Asia Pacific Data Research Center |
| ARL |
Air Resources Laboratory |
| Arc Hydro |
GIS suite of tools for creation, manipulation, and display of water resources within the ESRI ArcGIS environment. |
| ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
| ARPS |
Advanced Regional Prediction System |
| ASMET |
African Satellite Meteorology Education and Training |
| ASOS |
Automated Surface Observing System |
| ATCF |
Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting |
| ATM |
Division of Atmospheric Sciences, a division of the NSF |
| AVN |
Aviation Model at NCEP |
| AWC |
Aviation Weather Center |
| AWIPS |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| AWIPS II |
Next generation of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System software. |
| AWS |
AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc. |
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| BADC |
The British Atmospheric Data Centre |
| BASC |
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate |
| BEC |
Board on Enterprise Education |
| BGP |
Border Gateway Protocol |
| BMRC |
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia |
| BPEL4WS |
Business Process Execution Language for Web Services |
| BRAN |
Boulder Research and Administrative Network |
| BUFR |
Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological Data |
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| CADIS |
Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service |
| CAIDIS |
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis |
| CAPS |
Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma |
| CASA |
Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere |
| CAVE |
Cave Automatic Virtual Environment |
| CD |
Compact disk |
| CDC |
Climate Diagnostics Center |
| CDF |
Common Data Form |
| CDI |
Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation Initiative |
| CDM |
Common Data Model |
| CDI |
Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation |
| CDP |
Community Data Portal |
| CEOP |
Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period |
| CF |
NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention |
| CI |
Cyberinfrastructure |
| CIESIN |
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
| CILSS |
Comité permanent inter-État de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel (Permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel) |
| CISL |
Computation and Information Systems Laboratory at NCAR |
| CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| CLASS |
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System |
| CMA |
China Meteorological Administration |
| CMC |
Canadian Meteorological Centre |
| CMIP3 |
Multi-model dataset used for the IPCC Fourth Assessment |
| CNR |
Italian National Research Council |
| COAMPS |
Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System |
| CODIAC |
Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalogue |
| COLA |
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere |
| COMET |
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology Education and Training |
| CONDUIT |
Cooperative Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD Technology |
| CONUS |
Continental US |
| COSMIC |
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate |
| CPTEC |
Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos |
| CRAFT |
Collaborative Radar Acquisition Field Test |
| CSMF |
Climate System Modeling Federation |
| CSS |
Cascading Style Sheets |
| CSWR |
Center for Severe Weather Research |
| CUAHSI |
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Inc. |
| CVS |
Concurrent Version System |
| CyRDAS |
Cyberinfrastructure for Research, Development and Education in the Atmospheric Sciences |
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| DAML-S |
DAML Services, DAML-based Web Service Ontology |
| DAML |
DARPA Agent Markup Language |
| DAMOCLES |
Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capability for Long-term Environment Studies |
| DAP |
Data Access Protocol |
| DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| DART |
Data Assimilation Research Testbed |
| DCP |
Data Collection Platform |
| DLESE |
Digital Library for Earth System Education |
| data feed |
To the Unidata LDM, a sequence of data products, all of the same feed type, injected into the IDD from a single data source. |
| DNG |
Downscaled Numerical Guidance |
| DOCTYPE |
Document Type |
| data product |
To the Unidata LDM, a unit of data with an associated feed type, product ID, injection time, origin, and sequence number. |
| DORADE |
DOppler RAdar Data Exchange Format |
| data source |
To the Unidata LDM, a remote provider of data products. |
| DUE |
Division of Undergraduate Education, NSF |
| data stream |
To the Unidata LDM, a sequence of bulletins all of the same feed type broadcast from a single data source. Once the bulletins are converted into data products, the result is called a data feed. |
| DDS |
Domestic Data Services |
| decoder |
To the Unidata LDM, 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. |
| DIDAKT |
Data Integrated Documents and Knowledge Tools |
| DIF |
Directory Interchange Format |
| DIFAX |
Digital Facsimile (a data stream of digitized maps formerly provided by the NWS) |
| DIMES |
DIstributed MEtadata System from George Mason University |
| DL |
Digital Library |
| DMAC |
Data Management Analysis Center |
| DODS |
Distributed Oceanographic Data System, former name for the discipline-specific National Virtual Oceanographic Data System and the discipline-independent access protocols now known as OPeNDAP . |
| DQC |
Dataset Query Capabilities - THREDDS XML Document type that describes the possible ways that an end-user can choose dataset subsets. |
| DVB-S, DVB-S2 |
Digital Video Broadcasting by Satellite (First & Second Generations) |
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| EarthCube |
EarthCube is a National Science Foundation initiative to create a data and knowledge management system for the 21st century. |
| ECMWF |
European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting |
| EDR |
Environmental Data Record |
| EGU |
European Geosciences Union |
| EHR |
Education and Human Resources, a division of the NSF |
| EMC |
Environmental Modeling Center |
| ENSO |
El Nino Southern Oscillation |
| EOL |
Earth Observing Laboratory |
| EOS |
Earth Observing System |
| EPSC |
European Planetary Science Congress |
| EPSCoR |
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research |
| ERE |
Environmental Research and Education |
| ESG |
Earth System Grid |
| ESIG |
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, former NCAR program |
| ESIP |
Earth System Information Partners Federation |
| ESMF |
Earth System Modeling Facility |
| ESML |
Earth Science Markup Language |
| ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute |
| ESRL |
Earth System Research Laboratory (formerly FSL) |
| ESS |
Earth System Science |
| ESSI |
Earth and Space Science Informatics |
| EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| Exelis Visual Information Soutions |
Formerly ITTVIS. Makers of the IDL and ENVI software packages. |
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| FACE |
Florida Area Cirrus Experiment |
| FES |
Fluid Earth Systems |
| FFRDC |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center |
| FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| FIM |
Flow-following finite-volume Icosahedral Model (global model) |
| FNMOC |
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
| FOS |
Family of Services, a collection of data streams from NWS |
| FMRC |
Federation Mercury Search Engine |
| FSL |
Forecast Systems Laboratory NOAA.renamed Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
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| GALEON |
Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean netCDF |
| GB |
Gigabyte |
| GCMD |
Global Change Master Directory |
| GDS |
GrADS/DODS Server |
| GEM |
Global Environmental Multiscale Model |
| GEMPAK |
General Meteorological Package |
| GEO |
Geosciences Directorate, division of the NSF |
| GEON |
The GEOsciences Network |
| GEON IDV |
The GEON Integrated Data Viewer is an extension of the Unidata IDV for exploration of complex three-dimensional data in geophysics. |
| GFS |
Global Forecast System |
| GEOSS |
Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems |
| GINI |
GOES Ingest & NOAAPORT Interface |
| GMAO |
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (NASA) |
| GMES |
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
| GML |
Geography Markup Language |
| GNOME |
GNU Network Object Model Environment |
| GODAE |
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment |
| GO-ESSP |
Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Environmental Satellite |
| GOES 10 |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, South |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| GRIB |
Gridded Binary (Editions 1 and 2) |
| GRID |
Computational Grids |
| GRIDSPEC |
A proposed CF extension for the annotation of complex Earth system grids. |
| GSD |
Global Systems Division (NOAA) |
| GrADS |
Grid Analysis and Display System |
| GUI |
Graphical User Interface |
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| HBCU |
Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
| HDF4 |
Hierarchical Data Format, version 4 |
| HDF5 |
Hierarchical Data Format, version 5 |
| HDS |
High Resolution Data Service |
| HPC |
Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (NOAA) |
| HPCC |
High Performance Computing & Communications |
| HPSS |
High Performance Storage System |
| HRRR |
High Resoluton Rapid Refresh |
| HTML |
Hypertext mark-up language |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| HWRF |
Weather Research and Forecast System for Hurricane Prediction |
| HYDRA |
HYperspectral-viewer for Development of Research Applications |
| HYDRO-NEXRAD |
A system that allows access to the vast archives and real time information collected by the national network of NEXRAD radars. |
| HYRAX |
OPeNDAP Data Server |
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| IAI |
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research |
| ICARTT |
International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation |
| IDD |
Internet Data Distribution System |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
| IDMS |
Integrated Data Management System |
| IDS |
International Data Services |
| IDV |
Integrated Data Viewer |
| IHOP |
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| IIPS |
International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology |
| IMAA |
Institute of Advanced Methodologies for Environmental Analysis |
| INGRID |
Name for an online data system at the Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory. It's not an acronym. |
| INPE |
Instituto de Pesquisas Espaciais (National Institute of Space Research in Sao Paulo, Brazil) |
| IPA |
Intergovernmental Personnel Act |
| IOOS |
Integrated Ocean Observing System |
| IPAMM |
Impact of Proposal and Award Management Mechanisms |
| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPRC |
International Pacific Research Center |
| IPY |
International Polar Year |
| IRI |
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction |
| IRIS |
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization |
| ISO TC211 |
International Standards Organization TC211 , a spatial data standard |
| ISSE |
Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment, former NCAR program |
| IT |
Information Technology |
| ITC |
International Training Center |
| ITR |
International Technology Research |
| ITTVIS |
ITT Visual Information Solutions (now Exelis Visual Information Solutions). Makers of the IDL and ENVI software packages. |
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| Java |
An object-oriented, platform-independent language from Sun, now widely used to create applets and applications for the Internet |
| JHT |
Joint Hurricane Testbed |
| JMS |
Java Messaging Service |
| JODI |
Journal of Digital Information |
| JOSS |
Joint Office for Science Support |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) |
| JPSS |
Joint Polar Satellite System. Polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system operated by NOAA and NASA. |
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| KDI |
Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence |
| KML |
Keyhole Markup Language |
| KMZ |
Compressed KML |
| KNMI |
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) |
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| LAS |
Live Access Server |
| 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 |
| LDM |
Local Data Manager |
| LEAD |
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery |
| LEVEL II |
NWS WSR-88D Level II Radar Data |
| LEVEL III |
NWS WSR-88D Level III Radar Data |
| LGPL |
(GNU) Lesser General Public License |
| LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
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| MADIS |
Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System |
| MASHUP |
A website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience. |
| MATLAB |
A numerical computing environment and programming language. |
| McIDAS |
Man-computer Interactive Data Access System |
| McIDAS-V |
A Java-based version of McIDAS based on the SSEC-developed VisAD software and the Unidata Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) reference application and library. |
| METAR |
Meteorological Aviation Reports |
| MetApps |
Meteorological Applications Task Force |
| Metadata |
Data about (behind) the data (the attributes associated with the data). |
| MeteoForum |
Pilot project for advanced international meteorological training center capabilities. |
| MM5 |
Mesoscale Model, version 5 |
| MSI |
Minority Serving Institution |
| MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MVC |
Model-View-Controller. An architectural pattern used in software engineering. |
| My |
Man-year |
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| NAME |
North American Monsoon Experiment |
| NAPA |
National Academy of Public Administration |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NAWIPS |
National Centers Advanced Weather Interactive Processing Systems |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| ncBrowse |
NetCDF File Browser |
| NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center |
| NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NOAA) |
| NCF |
Network Control Facility |
| NcML |
The netCDF Markup Language |
| NCO |
NCEP Central Operations |
| NCO |
NetCDF Operators |
| NCOSRV |
NCO Data Server |
| NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NCWA |
NetCDF Weighted Average (one of the 12 NCO utilities) |
| NCWCP |
NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction |
| NDAP |
National Digital Archives Project |
| NetCDF |
Network Common Data Forma |
| NDFD |
National Digital Forecast Database |
| NDE |
NPOESS Data Exploitation |
| NEON |
National Ecological Observatory Network |
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar |
| NGDC |
National Geophysical Data Center |
| NGLDM |
Next-Generation LDM |
| NHC |
National Hurricane Center |
| NIDS |
NEXRAD Information and Data System |
| NLDN |
National Lightning Detection Network |
| NLR |
National LambdaRail |
| NMFS |
National Marine Fisheries Service |
| NMHS |
National Meteorological and Hydrological Service |
| NMM |
Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model |
| NMAP |
An integrated display and product generation GUI environment |
| NMQ |
National Mosaic and Multisensor QPE (NMQ) Project |
| NNTP |
Network News Transfer Protocol |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOAAport |
NOAA's broadcast data dissemination system |
| NOC |
Naval Oceanographic Command |
| NOGAPS |
U.S. Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System |
| NODC |
National Oceanographic Data Center |
| NOMADS |
The NOAA Operational Model Arvhive and Distribution System |
| NWSTG |
National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway |
| NMI |
NSF Middleware Initiative |
| NSDL |
National Science Digital Library (NOAA) |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| NPOESS |
National Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite System |
| NSIDC |
National Snow and Ice Data Center |
| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSPPO |
National Space Organization (Taiwan) |
| NSSL |
National Severe Storms Laboratory (NOAA) |
| NTSB |
National Transportation Safety Board |
| NVODS |
National Virtual Ocean Data System (formerly part of DODS) |
| NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
| NWRT |
National Weather Radar Testbed |
| NWS |
National Weather Service (NOAA) |
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| OAI |
Open Archives Initiative |
| OAR |
Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research |
| OCONUS |
Off CONUS |
| ODC |
Open Data Consortium Project to Standardize Data Distribution |
| OFCM |
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology |
| OGC |
Open Geospatial Consortium |
| OGSA |
Open Grid Services Architecture |
| OMB |
Office of Management and Budget |
| OPeNDAP |
Open Source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (formerly DODS) |
| OT&E |
Operational Test and Evaluation |
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| PACI |
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure |
| PAGE |
Program for the Advancement of Geoscience Education, the precursor of DLESE |
| PCMDI |
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
| PID |
Packet ID |
| PIRE |
Partnerships for International Research and Education |
| PMEL |
Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory (NOAA) |
| POES |
Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite |
| PPS |
Public Product Service |
| PRC |
People's Republic of China |
| Python |
Programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. |
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| QC |
Quality Control |
| QPE |
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation |
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| RAID |
Redundant Array of Independent Disks |
| RAL |
Research Applications Laboratory |
| RAMADDA |
Repository for Archiving, Managing, and Accessing Diverse DAta |
| RAMS |
Regional Atmospheric Modeling System |
| RENCI |
Renaissance Computing Institute |
| REST |
Representational State Transfer |
| RFC |
River Forecast Center |
| RICO |
Rain in Cumulus Over the Ocean |
| RO |
Radio Occultation |
| ROC |
Republic of China |
| RSM |
Regional Spectral Model |
| RSS |
Really Simple Syndication |
| RTMA |
Real Time Mesoscale Analysis |
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| SAO |
Surface Airways Observations |
| SNB |
Satellite Broadcast Network (NOAAPORT) |
| SCOOP |
SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction |
| SGER |
Small Grants for Exploratory Research |
| SHEF |
Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format |
| SINOTS |
Interoperability System for supporting the Italian Scientific Community working in Earth Observations from Space |
| SIS |
Scientific Information System (sometimes used in contrast to GIS) |
| SMB |
Shanghai Meteorological Bureau |
| SOA |
Service Oriented Architecture |
| SOAP |
Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SOARS |
Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science |
| SPC |
Storm Prediction Center |
| SPIE |
International Society for Optical Engineering |
| SREF |
Short-Range Ensemble Forecast |
| SSEC |
Space Science and Engineering Center of the University of Wisconsin at Madison |
| STI |
Shanghai Typhoon Institute |
| STELLA |
Structural Thinking Experimental Learning Laboratory with Animation |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| SuomiNet |
An international network of GPS receivers, configured and managed to generate near real-time estimates of precipitable water vapor in the atmosphere, total electron content in the ionosphere, and other meteorological and geodetic information. |
| Suomi NPP |
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
| SURA |
Southeastern Universities Research Association |
| SWEET |
Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology |
| SWFSC |
Southwest Fisheries Science Center |
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| TACC |
Texas Advanced Computing Center |
| TAMDAR |
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting |
| TB |
Terabyte |
| TDR |
THREDDS Data Repository, a precursor to RAMADDA |
| TDS |
THREDDS Data Server |
| THORPEX |
THe Observing system Research and Predictability EXperiment |
| T-Rex |
Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment |
| THREDDS |
Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
| TIGGE |
THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble |
| TIMSS |
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study |
| TMRP |
Team Multidisciplinary Research Project |
| TRMM |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| TPC |
Tropical Prediction Center |
| TPS Report |
Testing Procedure Specification document |
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| UAH |
University of Alabama, Huntsville |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UCP |
UCAR Community Programs (formerly the UCAR Office of Programs) |
| UCSB |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
| UDDI |
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration of Web Services |
| UDUNITS |
The Unidata units library supports conversion of unit specifications between formatted and binary forms, arithmetic manipulation of unit specifications, and conversion of values between compatible scales of measurement. |
| UNAVCO |
University NAVSTAR [not an acronym] Consortium |
| UPC |
Unidata Program Center |
| UNC |
University of North Carolina |
| UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| UOP |
UCAR Office of Programs, now the UCAR Community Programs |
| URM |
Underrepresented Minorities |
| URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
| USGCRP |
United States Global Change Research Program |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| USPLN |
United States Precision Lightning Network |
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| VGEE |
Virtual Geophysical Exploration Environment |
| 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 |
| VORTEX |
Verification of the Origins of Rotation In Tornadoes Experiment |
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| W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
| WAR |
Web ARchive File |
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
| WCS |
Web Coverage Service |
| WES |
Weather Event Simulator |
| WFO |
Weather Forecast Office, of the National Weather Service |
| Web 2.0 |
A second folksonomies — which facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. |
| WFS |
Web Feature Service |
| Wiki |
website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinkedweb pages |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
| WMS |
Web Mapping Service |
| Workstation ETA |
A version of NCEP's mesoscale model designed to run on workstations |
| WRF |
Weather Research and Forecasting Model |
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| WSCI |
Web Service Choreography Interface |
| WSDL |
Web Services Description Language |
| WSI |
WSI Corporation |
| WSR |
WSR-88D radars |
| WxWISE |
Weather Wise |
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| XML |
Extensible Markup Language |
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| zlib |
A software library used for data compression. |
