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... Acronym List 3D-Var Three-Dimensional Variational data assimilation 4D-EnVar Four-Dimensional Ensemble-Variational data assimilation 4D-Var Four-Dimensional Variational data assimilation ABL atmospheric boundary layer ABOM Australian Bureau of Meteorology AeroNet Aerosol Robotic Network AFWA Air Force Weather Agency AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder AMDAR Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay AMMA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis AMS American Meteorological Society AMSR-E advanced microwave scanning radiometer AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit AMV atmospheric motion vector AMY Asian Monsoon Year ANOVA analysis of variance AO Atlantic Oscillation APCC APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Climate Center ASCAT Advanced Scatterometer AUV autonomous underwater vehicle BSISO Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation CBS Commission for Basic Systems CESM Community Earth System Model CFS Climate Forecast System CFSR Climate Forecast System Reanalysis CFSv2 Climate Forecast System version 2 CIME Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Environment CliPAS Climate Prediction and its Application to Society CMC Canadian Meteorological Centre CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project COAMPS Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System 279
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... Department of Defense DOE U.S. Department of Energy DTRA Defense Threat Reduction Agency DWH Deepwater Horizon DYNAMO Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECOSTRESS ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station EnKF Ensemble Kalman Filter data assimilation ENSEMBLES European Commission FP7 project ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation ERA Interim ECMWF Interim Reanalysis ESM Earth system model ESMF Earth System Modeling Framework ESPC Earth System Modeling Capability ET-OPSLS Expert Team on Operational Predictions from Subseasonal to Longer-time Scales EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center GATE GARP (Global Atmosphere Research Program)
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... Acronym List GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GHG greenhouse gas GLDAS Global Land Data Assimilation System GMM Gaussian Mixture Model GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GPM Global Precipitation Mission GPS global positioning system GPS-RO Global Positioning System Radio Occulation GTH Global Tropics Hazards and Benefits Assessment HadGEM3 Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 3 HPC high-performance computing IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer ICESat2 Second generation Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite IFS Integrated Forecast System IGIM Interagency Group on Integrative Modeling IMAAC Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center IMD India Meteorology Department IOD Indian Ocean Dipole IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System IOP intensive observing period IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IRI International Research Institute for Climate and Society ISI intraseasonal to interannual ISS International Space Station ITCZ Inter Tropical Convergence Zone JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JEDI Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration JMA Japan Meteorological Agency JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory KL Karhunen-Loève LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory LDAS Land Data Assimilation System LES Large-eddy simulation LIS Land Information System 281
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... N E X T G E N E R AT I O N E A R T H S Y S T E M P R E D I C T I O N LSM land-surface model MCMC Markov chain Monte Carlo MERIT Meningitis Environmental Research Information Technologies MIZ Marginal Ice Zone MJO Madden-Julian Oscillation MME multi-model ensemble MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MOS model output statistics MOSAiC Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate MPI Message Passing Interface MPLNet Micro-Pulse Lidar Network NAM Northern Annular Mode NAO North Atlantic Oscillation NARAC National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASCar Northern Arabian Sea Circulation -- autonomous research NAVGEM NAVy Global Environmental Model NAVO Naval Oceanographic Office NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction NEMO Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean NEPTUNE Navy Environmental Prediction sysTem Utilizing the NUMA corE NGGPS Next Generation Global Prediction System NISAC National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center NMME North American Multi-Model Ensemble NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRL Naval Research Laboratory NSF National Science Foundation NUMA Nonhydrostatic Unified Model of the Atmosphere DG core NVM non-volatile memory NWP numerical weather prediction NWS U.S. National Weather Service OAR Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research OLR outgoing longwave radiation ONR Office of Naval Research OOPS Object Oriented Programming System 282
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... Acronym List OpenMP Open Multi-Processing OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment PCAST President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology PDE partial differential equation PIM processor in memory PinT parallel in time PIO Parallel I/O PNA Pacific North American teleconnection pattern QBO Quasi-Biennial Oscillation R2O research to operations RISA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program RMM Real-time Multivariate MJO index RMSE root mean square error S2S subseasonal to seasonal SAON Sustaining Arctic Observing Network SBIR Small Business Innovation Research SHEBA Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean SMAP Soil Moisture Active Passive SMIP-2 Seasonal Prediction Model Intercomparison Project SMOS Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity SNOTEL Snowpack Telemetry SOCRATES Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol Transport Experimental Study SPERR Scientific Partnerships Enabling Rapid Response SPURS-2 Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study 2 SSD Solid State Devices SSH sea surface height SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imager SST sea surface temperature SSW sudden stratospheric warning SWE snow water equivalent SWOT Surface Water and Ocean Topography TAMDAR Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting TAO/TRITON Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network TCWB Taiwan Central Weather Bureau 283
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... Global Change Research Program VAD Velocity Azimuth Display VES Virtual Earth System VOCALS-Rex VAMOS (Variability of the American Monsoon Systems) Ocean-Cloud Atmosphere-Land Study Regional Experiment WCRP World Climate Research Programme WCS World Climate Service WERA WavE RAdar WGNE Working Group on Numerical Experimentation WHO World Health Organization WMO World Meteorological Organization WWRP World Weather Research Programme XBT Expendable Bathythermograph YMC Years of the Maritime Continent YOPP Year of Polar Prediction YOTC Year of Tropical Convection 284
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Key Terms

  • global ensemble
  • world climate
  • research programme
  • climate research
  • experiment gdp

  • organization wwrp
  • operational predictions
  • meteorological organization
  • modeling framework
  • defense threat

  • service wera
  • weather forecasts
  • programme wcs
  • ecmwf interim
  • assimilation ensembles

  • space station
  • program gefs
  • oscillation era
  • era interim
  • agency dwh

  • ensemble kalman
  • filter data
  • kalman filter
  • interim reanalysis
  • organization wmo

  • radar wgne
  • ecosystem spaceborne
  • reanalysis esm
  • reduction agency
  • framework espc


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