Glossary Of Terms
A glossary of commonly used terms and acronyms in the Earth science community and NSF Unidata ecosystem, covering terminology found in NSF Unidata documentation, support discussions, software, data services, and community activities. Historical terms are also included to help readers understand legacy technologies and older materials.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
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| AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| ACADIS | Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service |
| 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 |
| AIHEC | American Indian Higher Education Consortium |
| AI/ML | Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning |
| 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. |
| AWS | Amazon Web Services |
B | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
C | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CARE | The CARE data principles are Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, and Ethics |
| CASA | Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere |
| CAVE | Common AWIPS Visualization Environment |
| 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 |
| CMAS | Community Modeling and Analysis System |
| 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 |
D | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| DAP4 | Data Access Protocol version 4 |
| 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) |
E | |
|---|---|
| EarthCube | EarthCube is a National Science Foundation initiative to create a data and knowledge management system for the 21st century. |
| EC2 | |
| (Amazon Web Service) | Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud |
| ECMWF | European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting |
| EDEX | AWIPS Environmental Data EXchange |
| 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 |
| ERDDAP | Data server created by NOAA (not an acronym) |
| ERE | Environmental Research and Education |
| ESG | Earth System Grid |
| ESIG | Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, former NCAR program |
| ESIIL | Environmental Data Science Innovation and Inclusion Lab |
| 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 Systems Science |
| ESSI | Earth and Space Science Informatics |
| ESTOFS | Extratropical Storm surge and Tide Operational Forecast System |
| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| Exelis Visual Information Soutions | Formerly ITTVIS. Makers of the IDL and ENVI software packages. |
F | |
|---|---|
| FACE | Florida Area Cirrus Experiment |
| FAIR | The FAIR data principles are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable |
| 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 |
G | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| GLM | Global Lightning Mapper (GOES-16+ satellite instrument) |
| 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 | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| 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 |
H | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
I | |
|---|---|
| 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 ViewerIHOP |
| 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. |
J | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
K | |
|---|---|
| KDI | Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence |
| KML | Keyhole Markup Language |
| KMZ | Compressed KML |
| KNMI | Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) |
L | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
M | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| MM5 | Mesoscale Model, version 5 |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MVC | Model-View-Controller. An architectural pattern used in software engineering. |
| My | Man-year |
N | |
|---|---|
| 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 Form |
| 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) |
O | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
P | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Q | |
|---|---|
| QC | Quality Control |
| QPE | Quantitative Precipitation Estimation |
R | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Rosetta | A web-based service to transform ASCII output into Climate and Forecast (CF) compliant netCDF files |
| RSM | Regional Spectral Model |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication |
| RTMA | Real Time Mesoscale Analysis |
| RTOFS | Real Time Ocean Forecast System |
S | |
|---|---|
| S3 | Amazon Simple Storage Service |
| SAO | Surface Airways Observations |
| SBN | Satellite Broadcast Network (NOAAPort) |
| SGCI | Science Gateway Community Institute |
| 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 |
T | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
U | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| URL | Universal Resource Locator |
| USGCRP | United States Global Change Research Program |
| USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
| USPLN | United States Precision Lightning Network |
V | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
W | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WSCI | Web Service Choreography Interface |
| WSDL | Web Services Description Language |
| WSI | WSI Corporation |
| WSR | WSR-88D radars |
| WxWISE | Weather Wise |
X | |
|---|---|
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| XSEDE | eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment |
Y | |
|---|---|
| YAML | "Yet Another Markup Language" or "YAML Ain't Markup Language" |
Z | |
|---|---|
| zlib | A software library used for data compression. |