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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2003. Fair Weather: Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10610.
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Appendix G Acronyms


ADDS

Aviation Digital Data System

AMPS

Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System

AMS

American Meteorological Society

APA

Administrative Procedures Act

ASOS

Automated Surface Observing System


CAB

Civil Aeronautics Board

COMET

Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training

CRAFT

Collaborative Radar Acquisition Field Test

CWSA

Commercial Weather Services Association


DOD

Department of Defense

DOT

Department of Transportation


ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ENSO

El Niño-Southern Oscillation

EOS

Earth Observing System

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency


FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

FACA

Federal Advisory Committee Act

FAIR

Act Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act

FCC

Federal Communications Commission

FFRDC

Federally Funded Research and Development Center

FSL

Forecast Systems Laboratory


GDP

gross domestic product

GPS

Global Positioning System

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2003. Fair Weather: Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10610.
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NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCDC

National Climatic Data Center

NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NDFD

National Digital Forecast Database

NEXRAD

NEXt generation weather RADar

NIDS

NEXRAD Information Dissemination Service

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPOESS

National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

NRC

National Research Council

NSF

National Science Foundation

NWS

National Weather Service


OMB

Office of Management and Budget


PSU

Pennsylvania State University


RCC

radio common carrier

RMS

root-mean-square


UCAR

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UHF

ultrahigh frequency

UV

ultraviolet

WITI

Weather Information Technologies, Inc.

WLCC

wireline common carrier

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2003. Fair Weather: Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10610.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2003. Fair Weather: Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10610.
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Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services—NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and creating occasional friction. Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services examines the roles of the three sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. Readers from all three sectors will be interested in the analysis and recommendations provided in Fair Weather.

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