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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 |
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| BADC | The British Atmospheric Data Centre |
| BASC | Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate |
| BEC | Board on Enterprise Education |
| BDP | NOAA Big Data Project |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 |
| 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) |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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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 | |
| 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. |
| ML | Machine Learning |
| MM5 | Mesoscale Model, version 5 |
| MSI | Minority Serving Institution |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MSI | Minority-Serving Institution |
| 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 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) |
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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 |
| 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 |
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| S3 (Amazon Web Service) |
Amazon Simple Storage Service |
| SAO | Surface Airways Observations |
| SNB | 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| XSEDE | eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment |
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| zlib | A software library used for data compression. |
