Appendix J
Acronyms
ACPI
Accelerated Climate Prediction Initiative
AGU
American Geophysical Union
AMS
American Meteorological Society
AO
Arctic Oscillation
ARM
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
ARPS
Advanced Regional Prediction System
ASP
Application Service Provider
CCN
Cloud Condensation Nuclei
CCPP
Climate Change Prediction Program
CDC
Climate Diagnostics Center
CFC
Chlorofluorocarbon
CIT
California Institute of Technology
CMI
Common Modeling Infrastructure
CMIP
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
COAMPS
Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System
COARE
Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment
COLA
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
CONV
Conventional Data
CPU
Central Processing Unit
CRC
Climate Research Committee
CRI
Cray Research, Inc.
CRM
Cloud-Resolving Mode
CSM
Climate System Modeling
CSU
Colorado State University
DAO
Data Assimilation Office
DAS
Data Assimilation System
DEC
Digital Equipment Corporation
DOE
U.S. Department of Energy
DSP
Dynamical Seasonal Prediction
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
ENSO
El Niño/Southern Oscillation
EOS
Earth Observing System
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
EUMETSAT
European Meteorological Satellite
FGGE
First GARP Global Experiment
FIFE
First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
FLOPS
Floating Point Operations per Second
FSU
Florida State University
GARP
Global Atmospheric Research Programme
GATE
GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment
GCIP
GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
GCM
General Circulation Model
GCSS
GEWEX Cloud System Study
GEOS
Goddard Earth Observing Satellite
GEWEX
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GFLOP
GigaFlop
GFDL
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GISS
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GLA
Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres
GSFC
Goddard Space Flight Center
HPCC
High Performance Computing and Communications
IBM
International Business Machine
IFS
Integrated Forecast System
INDOEX
Indian Ocean Experiment
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRI
International Research Institute
ISLSCP
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
IT
Information Technology
ITCZ
Intertropical Convergence Zone
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
LAWS
Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder
LES
Large Eddy Simulations
MFLOP
MegaFlop
MOS
Model Output Statistics
MPI
Message Passing Interface
MPP
Massively Parallel Processor
NAO
North American Oscillation
NAS
National Aerodynamic Simulation
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NERSC
National Energy Research Scientific-Computing Center
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPGS
Naval Postgraduate School
NRC
National Research Council
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory
NSCAT
NASA Scatterometer
NSF
National Science Foundation
NUMA
Non-Uniform Memory Access
NWP
Numerical Weather Prediction
OLR
Outgoing Longwave Radiative Flux
OSE
Observing System Experiments
OSSE
Observing System Simulation Experiments
PC
Personal Computer
PDO
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PE
Processing Element
PI
Principal Investigator
PILPS
Project for Intercomparison of Landsurface Parameterization Schemes
PITAC
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PROVOST
Prediction of C limate Variations on Season-to-Interannual Time Scales
PSU
Pennsylvania State University
RAMS
Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
RMS
Root Mean Square
ROC
Relative Operating Characteristic
SATEMS
Satellite Temperature Soundings
SCM
Single-Column Model
SGI
Silicon Graphics International
SMP
Shared-Memory Processor
SMP
Symmetric Multi-Processor
SSM/I
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
SST
Sea Surface Temperature
SV
Scalable Vector
TAO
Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array
TFLOP
Teraflop
TIROS
Television Infrared Operational Satellite
TIROS-N
Television Infrared Operational Satellite - Next-generation
TOGA
Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere
UCAR
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UCLA
University of California at Los Angeles
UH
University of Hawaii
UI
University of Illinois
UMA
Uniform Memory Access
UNEP
United Nations Environment Program
USGCRP
United States Global Change Research Program
USWRP
United States Weather Research Program
VPP
Vector Parallel Processor
WCRP
World Climate Research Programme
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
WRF
Weather Research and Forecasting
XBT
Expendable Bathy-Thermographs