ADCP | acoustic Doppler current profiler | |
AGL | above ground level | |
AOC | Aircraft Operations Center (NOAA/U.S.) | |
ARGOS | French/U.S. Satellite and Data Location System | |
ARL | Aeronomy Research Laboratory (NOAA) | |
ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (Program) | |
ATLAS | autonomous temperature line acquisition system (PMEL/NOAA/U.S.) | |
AVHRR | advanced very high resolution radiometer | |
BBHIR | broadband hemispherical field-of-view infrared radiometer | |
BOM | Bureau of Meteorology | |
C4 | Center for Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate | |
CBL | convective boundary layer | |
CCA | CEPEX Central Archive | |
CCM2 | Community Climate Modelversion 2 (NCAR) | |
CEPEX | Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment | |
CERES | Clouds and Earth Radiation Energy System | |
CM4 | Climate Modelversion 4 | |
COARE | Couple Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment | |
CSU | Colorado State University | |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program | |
DOE | Department of Energy | |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting | |
ENSO | El Niño southern oscillation | |
EOS | Earth Observing System | |
ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | |
FIRE | First ISCCP Regional Experiment | |
FSSP | cloud droplet spectrum sensor built by Particle Measuring Systems | |
FTIR | Fourier transform infrared (spectroradiometer) | |
GATE | GARP (Global Atmospheric Research Program) Atlantic Tropical Experiment | |
GCM | general circulation model | |
GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (Princeton) | |
GMS | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite | |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite | |
GPS | Global Positioning System | |
GTS | Global Telecommunications System | |
HIRAM | high-resolution limited-area model | |
HIRS | high-resolution infrared sounder | |
HRC | highly reflective clouds | |
HRPT | high-resolution picture transmission | |
IMET | improved meteorological instruments for ships and buoys | |
INE | inertial navigation equipment | |
INMARSAT | International Maritime Satellite | |
IR | infrared | |
ISS | integrated sounding system | |
ISSCP | International Satellite Cloud and Climatology Project | |
ITCZ | intertropical convergence zone | |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | |
LAFI | Lyman-alpha fluorescence instrument | |
LAN | limited-area non-hydrostatic (model) | |
LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
LF | lower fuselage | |
Loran | Long-Range Aid to Navigation | |
MAS | MODIS Atmospheric Simulator | |
McIDAS | Man-Computer Interactive Data Access System | |
MODIS | moderate resolution imaging spectrometer | |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
MPI | Max-Planck Institute | |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
NFOVR | narrow-field-of-view radiometer | |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
NMC | National Meteorological Center | |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
NSF | National Science Foundation | |
NWS | National Weather Service | |
OAGCM | ocean-atmosphere general circulation model | |
OFPS | Office of Field Project Support (UCAR) | |
OLR | outgoing long-wave radiation | |
OLS | optical line scanner | |
OSU | Oregon State University | |
PI | principal investigator | |
PIBAL | pilot balloon | |
PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory | |
PMS | particle measurement systems | |
POSEIDON | Satellite Program (France) | |
PROTEUS | profile telemetry of upper ocean currents (PMEL/NOAA/U.S.) | |
PS | project scientist | |
PSP | precision spectral pyranometers | |
RAD | radiation | |
RAMS | radiation measurement system | |
RASS | radar acoustic sounding system | |
RHI | range-heigh indicator | |
RH | relative humidity | |
R/V | research vessel | |
SBR | short-wave broadband radiometer | |
SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | |
SPCZ | south Pacific convergence zone | |
SSM/I | special sensor microwave/Imager | |
SST | Sea Surface Temperature | |
STEP | Stratospheric-Tropospheric Exchange Project | |
SUNY | State University of New York | |
TA | tail | |
TAO | tropical atmosphere ocean array | |
TDDR | total direct-diffuse radiometer | |
TOGA | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere | |
TOGA-COARE | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment | |
TOPEX | Topographic Ocean Experiment (CNES/France and NASA/U.S.) | |
TOVS | Tiros operational vertical sounder | |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission | |
UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
UCLA | University of California, Los Angeles | |
UCSD | University of California, San Diego | |
UHF | ultra high frequency | |
USC | University of Southern California | |
UTC | Universal Time Coordinate (Zulu or Greenwich Mean Time) | |
UV | ultraviolet | |
VHF | very high frequency | |
VISSR | visible and infrared spin scan radiometer | |
WCRP | World Climate Research Programme | |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization | |
XBT | expendable bathy-thermograph |