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ACARS
|
ARINC Communications Addressing and Reporting System (supplies automated aircraft reports)
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|
ACDWG
|
Atmospheric Center of Data Working Group
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|
ACG
|
Advanced Computing Group (FSL)
|
|
AD
|
Aviation Division (FSL)
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|
ADDS
|
Aviation Digital Data Service
|
|
AER
|
AWIPS Enhancement Research
|
|
AES
|
Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
|
|
AFWA
|
U.S. Air Force Weather Agency
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|
AGFS
|
Aviation Gridded Forecast Systems
|
|
AGL
|
above ground level
|
|
AIDA
|
Archive I Data Analyzer
|
|
AIRMET
|
AIRmen METeorological information
|
|
AIV
|
Aviation-Impact Variable
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|
AMDAR
|
Aircraft Meteorological DAta Reporting
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|
AMS
|
American Meteorological Society
|
|
AMVP
|
Aviation Model Verification Program
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|
ANL
|
Argonne National Laboratory
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AP
|
anomalous propagation
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|
APRS
|
Automatic Position Reporting System
|
|
ARINC
|
Aeronautical Radio, Inc.
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|
ARM
|
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (a Department of Energy program)
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|
ARPS
|
Advanced Regional Prediction System
|
|
ARRL
|
Amateur Radio Relay League
|
|
ARTCC
|
Air Route Traffic Control Centers
|
|
ASD
|
Aircraft Situation Display
|
|
ASOS
|
Automated Surface Observing System (a National Weather Service system)
|
|
ATC
|
Air Traffic Control
|
|
ATM
|
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
|
|
ATMS
|
Advanced Traffic Management System
|
|
AVARs
|
Aircraft Vertical Accelerometer Reports
|
|
AVHRR
|
Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer
|
|
AVN
|
Aviation model at NCEP
|
|
AWC
|
Aviation Weather Center (National Weather Service)
|
|
AWDP
|
Aviation Weather Development Program
|
|
AWDS
|
Automated Weather Distribution System
|
|
AWGWC
|
Air Force Global Weather Center
|
|
AWIPS
|
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
|
|
AWN
|
Aviation Weather Network
|
|
AWRP
|
Aviation Weather Research Program
|
|
|
|
BDI
|
Bounded Derivative Initialization
|
BERS
|
Balloon Envelope Recovery System
|
|
BLP
|
Boundary Layer Profiler
|
|
BSU
|
Beam Steering Unit (component of profiling radar)
|
|
BUFR
|
Binary Universal Form
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|
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|
CAG
|
Convective Airspace Guidance
|
|
CAPE
|
Convective Available Potential Energy
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|
CAPS
|
Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
|
|
CARDS
|
Comprehensive Aerological Reference Dataset
|
|
CART
|
Cloud and Radiation Testbed (a heavily instrumented site in Oklahoma)
|
|
CCFP
|
Collaborative Convective Forecast Product
|
|
CDE
|
Common Desktop Environment
|
|
CD-ROM
|
Compact Disc-Read Only Memory
|
|
CERES
|
Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
|
|
CGM
|
Computer Graphics Metafile
|
|
CIRA
|
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO)
|
|
CIRES
|
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
|
|
CIT
|
Convection-Induced Turbulence
|
|
CIn
|
Convective Inhibition
|
|
CLIP
|
Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
|
CM
|
Configuration Management
|
|
CMA
|
China Meteorological Administration
|
|
C-MAN
|
Coastal Marine Automated Network
|
|
CMDL
|
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (one NOAA's 12 research laboratories)
|
|
CMIST
|
Configuration Management Integrated Support Tool (developed at FSL)
|
|
COADS
|
Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Dataset
|
|
COAMPS
|
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (U.S. Navy's regional weather model)
|
|
COMET®
|
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training (NCAR)
|
|
CONUS
|
continental (or conterminous) United States
|
|
CORBA
|
Common Object Request Broker Architecture
|
|
CORS
|
Continuously Operating Reference Stations
|
|
COSPAS
|
Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov (Russian equivalent of SARSAT)
|
|
COTS
|
commercial off-the-shelf software
|
|
CSU-RAMS
|
Colorado State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
|
|
CWB
|
Central Weather Bureau in Taipei, Taiwan
|
|
|
|
DAM
|
Data Access Management (object-oriented software)
|
|
DARPA
|
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
|
|
DBNet
|
Distributed-Brokered Networking
|
|
DCS
|
Direct Connect Service
|
|
DCVZ
|
Denver Convergence Vorticity Zone
|
|
DD
|
Demonstration Division (FSL)
|
|
DDS
|
Domestic Data Service (NWS)
|
|
DGPS
|
Differential Global Positioning System
|
|
DIFAX
|
Digital facsimile map (a standard circuit of weather information produced by the NWS)
|
|
DLT
|
Digital Linear Tape
|
|
DMSP
|
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S. Air Force)
|
|
DMSP SPO
|
DMSP Systems Program Office
|
|
DNS
|
Domain Name System
|
|
DOD
|
Department of Defense
|
|
DOE
|
Department of Energy
|
|
DOT
|
Department of Transportation
|
|
DSAT
|
Distributed System Administration Team
|
|
DSRS
|
Data Storage and Retrieval System
|
|
DTF3
|
Diagnostic Turbulent Flux algorithm
|
|
|
|
ECMRWF
|
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
|
|
EMC
|
Environmental Modeling Center (NCEP)
|
|
EMDS
|
Emergency Management Decision Support system (the dissemination component of LDAD)
|
|
EOS
|
Earth Observing System
|
|
EOSS
|
Edge Of Space Science (amateur radio group)
|
|
EOSDIS
|
EOS Data and Information System (the data management component of EOS)
|
|
ESDIM
|
Environmental Science Data Integration and Management
|
|
Eta model
|
A hydrostatic model that employs the eta vertical coordinate (operational at NCEP)
|
|
ETL
|
Environmental Technology Laboratory (one of NOAA's 12 research laboratories)
|
|
|
|
FAA
|
Federal Aviation Administration
|
|
FAS
|
Forecaster's Analysis System (workstation at the Korean Meteorological Administration)
|
|
FD
|
Facility Division (FSL)
|
|
FDDA
|
Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation
|
|
FHWA
|
Federal HighWays Administration (Department of Transportation)
|
|
FIRE
|
First International Satellite Cloud Climatology Projects Regional Experiment
|
|
FRC
|
Front Range Consortium
|
|
FRD
|
Forecast Research Division (FSL)
|
|
FSL
|
Forecast Systems Laboratory (one of NOAA's 12 research laboratories)
|
|
FTP
|
File Transfer Protocol
|
|
FTSC
|
FSL Technical Steering Committee
|
|
FX
|
FSL's X-window workstation
|
|
FX-Collaborate
|
An operational prototype of a collaborative X-window workstation forecast system
|
|
|
|
GAINS
|
Global Air-ocean IN-situ System (shear-directed balloon project at FSL)
|
|
GAPP
|
GEWEX American Prediction Project
|
|
GCIP
|
GEWEX Continental-scale International Project
|
|
GDAS
|
Global Data Assimilation System
|
|
GDP
|
Government Development Platforms
|
|
GEMPAK
|
General Meteorological Package
|
|
GEWEX
|
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
|
|
GFE
|
Graphical Forecast Editor
|
|
GFS
|
Global Forecast System
|
|
GFV
|
Graphical Forecast Viewer
|
|
GIMPAP
|
GOES Improved Measurements and Product Assurance Plan
|
|
GINI
|
GOES-I NOAAPORT Interface
|
|
GIS
|
Geographic Information Systems
|
|
GLOBE
|
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
|
|
GLGS
|
GOES Local Groundstation System
|
|
GOES
|
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (a NOAA weather satellite)
|
|
GIMPAP
|
GOES I-M Product Assurance Plan
|
|
GPS
|
Global Positioning System
|
|
GPS-CORS
|
Global Positioning System Continuously Operating Reference Stations
|
|
GPS-IPW
|
Global Positioning System-Integrated Precipitable Water
|
|
GTS
|
Global Telecommunication System
|
|
GTS
|
Geophysical Telecommunications Service
|
|
GRIB
|
Gridded Binary
|
|
GSOS
|
GPS Surface Observing System
|
|
GUI
|
Graphical User Interface
|
|
GVAR
|
GOES Variable (data)
|
|
|
|
HADS
|
Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
|
|
HARS
|
High-Altitude Route Structure workstation (FAA)
|
|
HCSN
|
High-Capacity Satellite Network
|
|
HDS
|
High-resolution Data Service
|
|
HMS
|
Hungarian Meteorological Service
|
|
HPCC
|
High-Performance Computing and Communications
|
|
HPCS
|
High-Performance Computer System
|
|
HPD
|
Hourly Precipitation Data
|
|
HRS
|
High-Resolution Data Service
|
|
HSM
|
Hierarchical Storage Management
|
|
HTML
|
HyperText Markup Language
|
|
http
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (the protocol used to create the World Wide Web)
|
|
|
|
ICWF
|
Interactive Computer Worded Forecast, developed at the NWS Techniques Development Laboratory
|
|
IDD
|
Internet Data Distribution (a Unidata software system for distributing real-time data over the Internet)
|
|
IDS
|
International Data Service
|
|
IFPS
|
Interactive Forecast Preparation System
|
|
IFR
|
Instrument Flight Rules
|
|
IFS
|
Integrated Forecast System (developed at the European Center for Medium-Range Forecasts)
|
|
IIPS
|
International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (an annual AMS conference)
|
|
IMAP
|
Internet Message Access Protocol
|
|
IMETS
|
Integrated Meteorological System (DOD operational weather system)
|
|
IO
|
Input/Output
|
|
IP
|
Internet Protocol
|
|
IPWV
|
integrated precipitable water vapor
|
|
ISCCP
|
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Projects
|
|
ISDN
|
Integrated Services Digital Network
|
|
ISP
|
Internet Service Provider
|
|
IT
|
Information Transport
|
|
ITFA
|
Integrated Turbulence Forecasting Algorithm
|
|
IVVS
|
RTVS Interactive Verification and Visualization System
|
|
|
|
JFSP
|
Joint Forecast System Project
|
|
JVNTSC
|
John Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
|
|
|
|
KMA
|
Korean Meteorological Administration
|
|
|
|
LAPB
|
Local Analysis and Prediction Branch (FSL)
|
|
LAPS
|
Local Analysis and Prediction System (developed at FSL)
|
|
LaRC
|
Langley Research Center
|
|
LARC
|
Limited Area Remote Collector
|
|
LDA
|
Local Data Acquisition
|
|
LDAD
|
Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination (a component of AWIPS)
|
|
LDM
|
Local Data Management
|
|
LDS
|
Loral Defense Systems (formerly Unisys Corporation)
|
|
|
|
MAB
|
Meteorological Applications Branch (FSL Forecast Research Division)
|
|
MADIS
|
Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (previously called FAME)
|
|
MAPS
|
Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System
|
|
MAPS/RUC
|
MAPS is the research version of the Rapid Update Cycle, the operational version running at NCEP
|
|
Mbps
|
Megabits Per Second
|
|
MCC
|
Mesoscale Convective Complex
|
|
MCS
|
Mesoscale Convective System
|
|
MD
|
Modernization Division (FSL)
|
|
MDCRS
|
Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System
|
|
METAR
|
METeorological Aviation Reports
|
|
METRI
|
Meteorological Research Institute (part of the Korean Meteorological Administration)
|
|
MHR
|
Mile-High Radar
|
|
MHz
|
Megahertz (unit of frequency: one million cycles per second)
|
|
MM5
|
Version 5 of the Pennsylvania State/NCAR Mesoscale Model
|
|
MM90
|
The parallelized version of MM5
|
|
MPI
|
Message Passing Interface
|
|
MPIF
|
Message Passing Interface Forum
|
|
MPP
|
Massively Parallel Processor
|
|
MRF
|
Medium-Range Forecast (refers to a global prediction model run at NCEP)
|
|
MSAS
|
MAPS Surface Analysis System
|
|
MSC
|
Multiple Successive Correction
|
|
MSS
|
Mass Storage System
|
|
MaxTBF
|
maximum time between failure
|
|
MTBF
|
mean time between failure
|
|
|
|
NAOS
|
North American Atmospheric Observing System
|
|
NAS
|
National Airspace System
|
|
NASA
|
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
|
|
N-AWIPS
|
National Centers Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
|
|
NCDC
|
National Climatic Data Center (one of six national centers under NCEP)
|
|
NCEP
|
National Centers for Environmental Protection
|
|
NCWF
|
National Convective Weather Forecast
|
|
NDBC
|
National Data Buoy Center
|
|
NEM
|
NWP Explicit Microphysics (model developed at FSL)
|
|
NEWS
|
NOAA Earth Watch Service
|
|
NESDIS
|
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (a line office of NOAA)
|
|
NetCDF
|
Network Common Data Form
|
|
NEXRAD
|
Next-generation Radar
|
|
NFS
|
Network File System
|
|
NGDC
|
National Geophysical Data Center
|
|
NGI
|
Next Generation Internet
|
|
NGM
|
Nested Grid Model (a limited-area prediction model run at NCEP)
|
|
NGS
|
National Geodetic Survey
|
|
NIC
|
Network Interface Card
|
|
NIFC
|
National Interagency Fire Center
|
|
NIMBUS
|
Networked Information Management client-Based User Service
|
|
NNT
|
Nearest Neighbor Tool (developed at FSL)
|
|
NOAA
|
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
|
|
NOAAPORT
|
Access to NOAA real-time database systems (not an acronym)
|
|
NOAASIS
|
NOAA Satellite Information System
|
|
NODC
|
National Oceanic Data Center
|
|
NSDA
|
National Space Development Agency of Japan
|
|
NSF
|
National Science Foundation
|
|
NTP
|
Network Time Protocol
|
|
NTRANS
|
metacode translator
|
|
NWP
|
Numerical Weather Prediction
|
|
NWS
|
National Weather Service (a NOAA line office)
|
|
NWSFO
|
National Weather Service Forecast Office
|
|
NWSTG
|
National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway
|
|
|
|
OAR
|
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (a NOAA line office)
|
|
OI
|
optimal interpolation
|
|
OPTRAN
|
Optical Test Transmittance model
|
|
ORB
|
Object Request Broker (software package)
|
|
OSS
|
Observation System Simulation
|
|
OSSE
|
Observation System Simulation Experiment
|
|
OSPF
|
Open Shortest Path First (routing algorithm)
|
|
OT&E
|
Operational Test and Evaluation
|
|
|
|
PACE
|
Prototyping Aviation Collaboration Effort (FAA project)
|
|
PACJET
|
Pacific Landfalling Jets Experiment
|
|
PACS
|
Pan-American Climate Studies
|
|
PCC
|
Profiler Control Center (FSL)
|
|
PCMS
|
Process and Change Management System
|
|
PDAM
|
Point Data Access and Management
|
|
PDT
|
Product Development Team
|
|
Perl
|
Practical Extraction and Report Language
|
|
PHIGS
|
Portable Hierarchical Image and Graphic Standard
|
|
PIREPs
|
pilot reports
|
|
POES
|
Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite
|
|
POSIX
|
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments
|
|
PPO
|
Profiler Program Office (at FSL)
|
|
PPP
|
Point-to-Point Protocol
|
|
PPP
|
Parallelizing PreProcessor
|
|
PPS
|
Public Products Service (one of the NWS Family of Services)
|
|
PRC, Inc.
|
Also called Litton PRC, Inc. (AWIPS contractor)
|
|
PSOS
|
Profiler Surface Observing System
|
|
PUP
|
Principal User Position workstation
|
|
PWV
|
precipitable water vapor
|
|
|
|
QCMS
|
Quality Control Monitoring System
|
|
QG
|
Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis
|
|
QNH
|
Quasi-nonhydrostatic model
|
|
|
|
RAID
|
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
|
|
RAMS
|
Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (developed at the Colorado State University)
|
|
RAOB
|
radiosonde observation
|
|
RAPB
|
Regional Analysis and Prediction Branch (within the Forecast Research Division of FSL)
|
|
RASS
|
Radio Acoustic Sounding System
|
|
RAWS
|
Remote Automated Weather System
|
|
RCM
|
WSR-88D Radar Coded Message
|
|
RDAM
|
Radar Data Access and Management format
|
|
RFC
|
River Forecast Center
|
|
RIDDS
|
Radar Interface and Data Distribution System
|
|
RISC
|
Reduced Instruction Set Computer
|
|
RNR
|
Regional Nature Run
|
|
ROA
|
remotely operated aircraft
|
|
ROMS
|
Regional Ocean Modeling System
|
|
RPG
|
Radar Product Generator
|
|
RPS
|
Routine Product Set
|
|
RSA
|
Range Standardization and Automation project - a weather system at the U.S. Space Center
|
|
RSAS
|
Rapid Update Cycle Surface Assimilation System
|
|
RTTOV
|
Radiative Transfer (RT) model for Television Infrared Orbiting Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS)
|
|
RTVS
|
Real-Time Verification System (developed in FSL's Aviation Division)
|
|
RUC
|
Rapid Update Cycle (an FSL-developed numerical weather prediction model running operationally at NCEP)
|
|
RUC-2
|
Version 2 of the Rapid Update Cycle model (operational at NCEP)
|
|
|
|
SAO
|
Surface Aviation Observation
|
|
SARSAT
|
Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking System
|
|
SSEC
|
Space Science and Engineering Center (University of Wisconsin)
|
|
SDAM
|
Satellite Data Access and Management format
|
|
SDBE
|
Shear-Directed Balloon Experiment
|
|
SDD
|
Systems Development Division (FSL)
|
|
SDHS
|
Satellite Data Handling System
|
|
SDM
|
Scientific Data Management
|
|
SGI
|
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
|
|
SHREF
|
Short-Range Ensemble Forecast
|
|
SIGMET
|
Significant Meteorological Information
|
|
SIO
|
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
|
|
SLIP
|
Serial Line Internet Protocol
|
|
SMS
|
Scalable Modeling System (developed at FSL)
|
|
SNMP
|
Simple Network Management Protocol
|
|
SOEST
|
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (University of Hawaii)
|
|
SOO/SAC
|
Science and Operations Officer/Scientific Applications Computer
|
|
SOPAC
|
Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center
|
|
SREF
|
Short-Range Ensemble Forecast project
|
|
SRS
|
Scalable Runtime System (component of the Scalable Modeling System)
|
|
SST
|
Scalable Spectral Tool (component of the Scalable Modeling System)
|
|
SWE
|
snow-water equivalent
|
|
|
|
TCP/IP
|
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
|
|
TDL
|
Techniques Development Laboratory (NWS headquarters)
|
|
TDWR
|
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
|
|
TFS
|
Typhoon Forecast System (model at the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan)
|
|
3DVAR
|
Three-Dimensional Variational system
|
|
TIP
|
TIROS Information Processor
|
|
TIROS
|
Television and Infrared Operational Satellite
|
|
TKE
|
Turbulent Kinetic Energy
|
|
T-LAPS
|
Terminal LAPS
|
|
TMD
|
Thailand Meteorological Department
|
|
TOVS
|
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
|
|
TSC
|
Technical Steering Committee (FSL)
|
|
|
|
UCAR
|
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
|
|
UEDS
|
Unidata Experimental Data Service (under UCAR)
|
|
UNAVCO
|
University NAVSTAR [not an acronym] Consortium (UCAR Office of Programs)
|
|
Unix or UNIX
|
(not an acronym) A computer operating system.
|
|
URL
|
Universal Resource Locater
|
|
UPS
|
Uninterruptible Power Supply
|
|
USACE
|
United States Army Corps of Engineers
|
|
USCG
|
United States Coast Guard
|
|
UTC
|
Coordinated Universal Time
|
|
|
|
VAD
|
Velocity Azimuth Display
|
|
VAFB
|
Vandenberg Air Force Base (in California)
|
|
VAS
|
VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
|
|
VHF
|
very high frequency
|
|
VIL
|
Vertically Integrated Liquid
|
|
VISSR
|
Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer
|
|
VMS
|
Virtual Memory Systems
|
|
VNTSC
|
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (FAA)
|
|
|
|
WFO
|
Weather Forecast Office
|
|
WFO-Advanced
|
The core software of AWIPS (developed at FSL)
|
|
W4
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WorldWide Weather Workstation
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WINS
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Weather Information and Nowcasting System (model at the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan)
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WMO
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World Meteorological Organization
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WPM
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Well-Posed Model (developed at FSL)
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WPPP
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Wind Profiler Processing Platform
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WRF
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Weather Research and Forecast model
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WSO
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Weather Service Office
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WSR-88D
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Weather Surveillance Radar
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WSR99
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NOAA's 1999 Winter Storm Reconnaissance program
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WVIOP
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Water Vapor Intensive Observing Period
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ZTD
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Zenith Tropospheric Signal Delay
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