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Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACE | Advanced Composition Explorer |
ADAPT | Air Force Data Assimilative Photospheric Flux Transport |
AI | artificial intelligence |
AIP | American Institute of Physics |
AMPERE | Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment |
AMR | adaptive mesh refinement |
ANSWERS | Advancing National Space Weather Expertise and Research toward Societal Resilience |
AOM | Arctic Observing Mission |
ARC | Applied Research Challenge |
CCMC | Community Coordinated Modeling Center |
CCOR | Compact Coronagraph |
CEDAR | Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions |
CIR | corotating interaction region |
CME | coronal mass ejection |
COE | Center of Excellence |
COSMIC-2 | Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate 2 |
COSPAR | Committee on Space Research |
COTS | commercial off-the-shelf |
CSA | Canadian Space Agency |
CuSP | CubeSat for Solar Particles |
CV | computer vision |
DA | data assimilation |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DSCOVR | Deep Space Climate Observatory |
DSN | NASA’s Deep Space Network |
Dst | disturbance storm time |
EMP | electromagnetic pulse |
EPP | energetic particle precipitation |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESIP | Earth Science Information Partners |
EUV | extreme ultraviolet |
EZIE | Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer |
FAC | field-aligned current |
FAIR | findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable |
GDC | Geospace Dynamics Constellation |
GEM | Geospace Environment Modeling |
GEO | geosynchronous orbit |
GEO/AGS | Directorate of Geosciences Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (NSF) |
GIC | geomagnetically induced current |
GMD | geomagnetic disturbance |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
Golf-NG | Global Oscillations at Low Frequency-New Generation |
GONG | Global Oscillation Network Group |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GPU | graphics processing unit |
GTOSat | Geostationary Transfer Orbit Satellite |
HASDM | High-Accuracy Satellite Drag Model |
HDRL | Heliophysics Digital Resource Library (NASA) |
HERMES | Heliophysics Environmental and Radiation Measurement Experiment Suite |
HF | high frequency |
HMI | Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager |
HPD | Heliophysics Division |
HSO | Heliophysics System Observatory |
HSS | high-speed stream |
ICME | interplanetary coronal mass ejection |
IGRF | International Geomagnetic Reference Field |
IMF | interplanetary magnetic field |
IRIS | In Situ and Remote Ionospheric Sensing |
ISR | incoherent scatter radar |
ISS | International Space Station |
ISWAT | International Space Weather Action Team |
ITM | ionosphere–thermosphere–mesosphere |
IWG | interagency working group |
JEDI | Joint Effort for Data-Assimilation Integration |
JH | joule heating |
JHU/APL | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
LASCO | Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
LWS | Living With a Star (NASA) |
M2M | Moon to Mars |
MANGO | Midlatitude Allsky-imaging Network for GeoSpace Observations |
MEO | medium Earth orbit |
MHD | magnetohydrodynamics |
MIMIS | Mission to Investigate the Mesoscales in Interplanetary Space |
ML | machine learning |
MLT | mesosphere and lower thermosphere |
MME | multi-model ensemble |
MSL | Mars Science Laboratory |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCEI | National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA) |
NERC | North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NOAA) |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NSF/AGS | NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences |
NSF/AST | NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences |
NSTC | National Science and Technology Council |
NSW-SAP | National Space Weather Strategy and Action Plan |
NWS | National Weather Service |
OADR | Open-Architecture Data Repository |
OSE | Observing System Experiment |
OSSE | observing system simulation experiment |
OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
OTHR | over-the-horizon radar |
P&F | Pepperl & Fuchs |
PIC | particle in cell |
POES | Polar Operational Environmental Satellites |
PROSWIFT | Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow Act |
PUNCH | Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere |
R2O2R | research to operations/operations to research |
RAD | Radiation Assessment Detector |
REACH | Responsive Environmental Assessment Commercially Hosted |
RL | readiness level |
ROI | return on investment |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
SBIR | Small Business Innovation Research |
SDO | Solar Dynamics Observatory |
SEP | solar energetic particle |
SET4D | Space Domain Awareness Environmental Toolkit for Defense |
SHINE | Solar, Heliospheric, and Interplanetary Environment |
SIR | stream interaction region |
SNIPE | Small Scale Magnespheric and Ionospheric Plasma Experiment |
SOARS | Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science |
SOHO | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory |
SPASE | Space Physics Archive Search and Extract |
SpWx | space weather |
SRAG | Space Radiation Analysis Group |
SSA | space situational awareness |
SSI | Synchronous Serial Interface |
STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
STEREO | Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory |
SuperDARN | Super Dual Auroral Radar Network |
SWAG | Space Weather Advisory Group |
SWFO-L1 | Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 |
SWMF | Space Weather Modeling Framework |
SWORM | Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation |
SWPC | Space Weather Prediction Center |
SWPT | Space Weather Prediction Testbed |
SWx | space weather |
SWxSA | Space Weather Science Application Program |
TEC | total electron content |
THEMIS | Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms |
TID | traveling ionospheric disturbance |
TRL | technology readiness level |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
UV | ultraviolet |
WAM-IPE | Whole Atmosphere Model–Ionosphere Plasmasphere Exosphere |
WIPSS | Worldwide Interplanetary Scintillation Stations |
WMM | World Magnetic Model |