Acronyms of Missions, Programs, and Organizations in Meteorology
- AAN:
GAME Asian Automatic Weather Station Network
- AAOE : Airborne
Antarctic Ozone Experiment
- AASE : Airborne
Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
- AASE II :
Airborn Artic Stratospheric Expecition II
- ACMAD : African Center of
Meteorological Applications for Development
- ADDS : Aviation Disital Data
Service
- AgriMet
- AGU : American Geophysical Union
- AMIP : Atmospheric Model
Intercomparison Project
- AMMA :
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses
- AMON : Asian Meteorological Online
Newsletter
- AMS : The American
Meteorological Society
- AOML : Atlantic Oceanographic
& Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA
- APEX:
Asian Atmospheric Particulate Environment Change Studies
- APN : Asia-Pacific Network for
Global Change Research
- ARGO : Array for Real-time
Geostrophic Oceanography
- ASHOE/MAESA :
Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment/Measurements for Assessing the
Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
- BADC : British Atmospheric Data
Centre
- BALTEX : Baltic Sea Experiment
- BOREAS : Boreal
Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study(NASA)
- CAPS : Center for Analysis and
Prediction of Storms
- CAS : Chinese Academy of
Sciences
- CAST : Collaboratory
for Atmospheric Science and Technology
- CATCH : Coupling of the
Tropical Atmosphere and Hydrological Cycle
- CCSR : Center for Climate
System Research(Japan)
- CDC : Climate Diagnostics Center
- CDIAC : Carbon Dioxide
Information Analysis Center
- CDML : Climate Monitoring &
Diagnostics Laboratory, NOAA
- CEOP
: Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period
- CEPEX :
Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
- CERES :
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
- CICERO : Center for International
Climate and Environmental Research(Norway)
- CIESIN : Center for International
Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University
- CIMMS :
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
- CIPACS : Cyber Institute for
Pacific-Asian Climate System
- CLARA
Clouds And Radiation experiment
- CLIVAR : Climate Variability and
Predictability
- CMIP :
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
- COAA : Chinese-American Oceanic and
Atmospheric Association
- COAPS : The Center for
Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies(FSU, US)
- COARDS : Comprehensive
Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
- COLA : Center for
Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
- CPC : Climate Prediction
Center(NCEP)
- CPTEC : Centro de
Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos(Brazil)
- CSIRO : Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organization
- DEMETER : Development of
a European Multimodel Ensemble system for seasonal to inTERannual prediction
- DKRZ : Das Deutsche
Klimarechenzentrum
- DOC : Department of Commerce(U.S.)
- DOE : Department of Energy(U.S.)
- ECMWF : European Centre for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- EEA : European Environment Agency
- EMAP : Environmental Monitoring and
Assessment Program(EPA, US)
- EOS : Earth Observing System
- EPA : Environmental Protection
Agency(U.S.)
- ERA : ECMWF Re-Analysis
- ERBE : The
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
- ERL : Environmental Research
Laboratory
- ESMF : Earth System Modeling
Framework
- ESSIC : Earth System Science
Interdisciplinary Center at Univ. of Maryland
- ETRI : Electronics and
Telecommunication Research Institute(Korea)
- EUMETNET : The Network of
European Meteorological Services
- EUMETSAT : Europe's Meteorological
Satellite Organisation
- FEMA : Federal Emergency Management
Agency
- FIFE : The
First ISLSCP Field Experiment
- FIRE : The First ISCCP
Regional Experiment
- FSL : Forecast Systems Laboratory
- GAIN : GAME Archive and
Information Network
- GAME : GEWEX
Asian Monsoon Experiment
- GAPP : GEWEX
America Prediction Project
- GCDC : Global
Change Data Center(NASA)
- GCDIS : Global Change Data and
Information System
- GCIP : GEWEX
Continental-Scale International Project
- GCRIO : U.S. Global Change Research
Information Office
- GCMD : Global Change Master
Directory(NASA)
- GCOS : Global
Climate Observing System
- GCPS : The Global
Climate Perspectives System(NOAA/NCDC)
- GDPS : the Global
Data-processing System
- GEWEX : Global Energy and Water Cycle
Experiment
- GFDL : Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory
- GHCC : Global Hydrology and
Climate Center, MSFC
- GHRC : Global Hydrology Resource
Center
- GISS : Goddard Institute for Space
Studies
- GODAE :
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
- GOES : Geosynchronous
Operational Environmental Satellite
- GOOS : Global
Ocean Observing System
- GPCP : Global
Precipitation Climatology Project
- GPM : Global Precipitation
Measurement
- GrADS : Grid Analysis
and Display System
- GSFC : Goddard Space Flight Center
- GSWP : Global Soil Wetness
Project
- GTE : Global Tropospheric
Experiment
- GTS : Global
Telecommunication System
- IAMAS : International Association of
Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
- IAP : Institute of Atmospheric
Physics, CAS, China
- ICAO : International Civil
Aviation Organization
- ICSU : International
Council of Scientific Unions
- ICTP : International Centre for
Theoretical Physics
- IEEE : The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc.
- IGAC : International Global
Atmospheric Chemistry
- IGBP : International
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
- IGOSS :
Integrated Global Ocean Services System
- IITM : Indian Institute of
Tropical Meteorology
- INDOEX : Indian Ocean Experiment
- IOC : Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission
- IPCC : Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
- IPRC : International Pacific
Research Center
- IRI : International Research
Institute for Climate Prediction
- ISCCP : International Satellite
Cloud Climatology Project
- ISLSCP : International
Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
- IUGG :
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
- JAMSTEC : Japan Marine Science and
Technology Center
- JASMINE : Joint Air-Sea
Monsoon Investigation
- JEDA : Joint Environmental Data
Analysis Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- JGOFS : Joint Global
Ocean Flux Study
- JISAO : Joint Institute for
the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
- JMA : Japan
Meteorological Agency
- JTWC : Joint Typhoon
Warning Center
- KAIST : Korea Academy of Science and
Technology
- KASA : Korean
Atmospheric Scientists in America
- KIST : Korea Institute of Science and
Technology
- KMA : Korea Meteorological
Administration
- KOMES : The Korean Meteorological
Society
- KNMI : Royal Netherlands Meteorological
Institute
- KOFST: The Korean Federation of
Science and Technology Societies
- KORMEX : Korea
Monsoon Experiment
- KORDI : Korea Ocean Research &
Development Institute
- KSEA: Korean-American Scientists and
Engineers Association
- LASE : Lidar
Atmospheric Sensing Experiment
- LBA : Large Scale
Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
- LDEO : Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University
- LLNL : Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
- MAGS : Mackenzie
GEWEX Study
- MAP : Mesoscale Alpine Programme
- METRI : Meteorological Research
Institute(Korea)
- MM5
- MODIS :
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
- MRI :
Meteorological Research institute(Japan)
- MSFC : Marshall Space Flight
Center
- MSU :
Microwave Sounding Unit
- NAME : North American Monsoon
Experiment
- NASA
: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASDA :
National Space Development Agency of Japan
- NCAR : National Center for
Atmospheric Research
- NCDC : National Climatic
Data Center
- NCEP : National Centers for
Environmental Prediction(U.S.)
- NCSA : National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
- NDBC : National Data Buoy
Center(NOAA/NWS)
- NDMC : National Drought Mitigation
Center
- NERC : Natural Environment Research
Council(UK)
- NESDIS : National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service
- netCDF :
network Common Data Form
- NGDC : National
Geophysical Data Center
- NIWA : National Institute of Water
and Atmospheric Research Ltd(New Zealand)
- NOAA
: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NODC : National Oceanic Data
Center
- NRC : National
Research Council
- NRL : Naval Research Laboratory,
Monterey
- NSIDC : The National Snow and
Ice Data Center
- NSIPP : NASA Seasonal to
Interannual Prediction Project
- NSSL : National Severe Storms
Laboratory
- NWS : The National Weather
Service(U.S.)
- OPERA : Operational Programme for
the Exchange of Weather RAdar Information
- ORI : Ocean Research
Institute(Japan)
- ORSTOM : L'Institut
Francais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement en Cooperation
- PACS : PanAmerican
Climate Studies
- PAGES : Past Global Changes
- PCMDI : Program for Climate Model
Diagnosis and Intercomparison
- PILPS : Project for
Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes
- PIRATA : Pilot
Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
- PMEL : Pacific Marine
Environmental Laboratory
- PNNL : Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
- POLARIS :
Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region In Summer
- PROMISE : Predictability
and variability of monsoons, and the agricultural and hydrological impacts of
climate change
- QPF :
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
- READY : Realtime
Environmental Applications and Display sYstem
- RELACS :
Regional Land-Atmosphere Climate Simulation System
- SAGE III : Stratospheric
Aerosol and Gas Experiment III
- SAGE II : Stratospheric
Aerosol and Gas Experiment II
- SALSA :
Semi-Arid Land-Surface-Atmosphere (SALSA) Program
- SCAR : Smoke/
Sulfates, Clouds And Radiation
- SCSMEX :
South China Sea Monsoon Experiment
- SeaWiFS :
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
- SERI : Systems Engineering Research
Institute(Korea)
- SESAME : Second
European Stratospheric Arctic and Mid-latitude Experiment
- SHIVA : Studies of
the Hydrology, Influence and Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon
- SMHI : Swedish Meteorological and
Hydrological Institute
- START : The Global Change SysTem for
Analysis, Research and Training
- STEP :
Stratospheric-Troposphere Exchange Project
- SNU : Seoul National University(Korea)
- SONEX : SASS Ozone and
Nitrogen Experiment
- SPADE :
Stratospheric Photochemistry Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
- SPARC : Stratospheric
Processes And their Role in Climate
- SRB : Surface
Radiation Budget
- SSM/I :
Special Sensor Microwave Imager
- STRAT :
Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport
- SUCCESS :
SUbsonic aircraft: Contrail & Cloud Effects Special Study
- SWAMP : SouthWest
Area Monsoon Project
- TIPEX :
Tibetan Plateau Field Experiment
- TOGA-COARE :
Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere-Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response
Experiment
- TOGA-TAO :
Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere-Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean
- TOMS : Total Ozone Mapping
Spectrometer
- TOVS
: TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
- TRITON : Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network
- TRMM : Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission
- UARS : Upper
Atmosphere Research Satellite
- UCAR : University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research
- UKMO : UK Meteorological Office
- UNDP : United Nations Development
Programme
- UNEP : United Nations Environment
Programme
- UNESCO : United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization
- USGCRP : U.S. Global Change Research
Program
- USRA : Universities Space Research
Association
- VAMOS : Variability
of the American Monsoon Systems
- WCDMP : the
World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme
- WCRP : World
Climate Research Programme
- WMO : World Meteorological Organization
- WOCE :
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
- WOUDC : World Ozone
Ultraviolet Data Center
- WRMA : Weather Risk Management
Association
- WWW : World Weather Watch