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Appendix C
Acronyms and Initialisms
ABL atmospheric boundary layer
ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
AERI Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
AERONET Aerosol Robotic Network
AGL above ground level
AIRMoN Atmospheric Integrated Research Monitoring Network
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AMDAR Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay
AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
ARIES Aerosol Research Inhalation Epidemiology Study
ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
ASOS Automated Surface Observing Systems
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AWIPS Advanced Weather Information Processing System
AWOS Automated Weather Observing System
AWSS Automated Weather Sensing System
BASC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
BLP boundary layer profiler
CAA Clean Air Act
CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
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CAP Cooperative Agency Profiler
CAPMoN Canadian Air and Precipitation Monitoring Network
CARL ARM/CART Raman Lidar
CART Cloud and Radiation Testbed
CASA Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere
CASTNet Clean Air Status and Trends Network
CEM Corporation for Environmental Monitoring
CEOS Committee of Earth Observing Satellites
CGMS Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
CMIS Conical image: Rain rate Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder
CoCoRaHS Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network
CONUS continental United States
COOP Cooperative Observer Program
COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate
CPB Corporation for Public Broadcasting
CPR Cloud Profiling Radar
CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
CUAHSI Consortium of Universities Allied for Hydrological Sciences, Inc.
CWOP Citizen Weather Observer Program
DCAS distributed-collaborative-adaptive sensing
DCP data collection platform
DHS Department of Homeland Security
DIAL differential absorption
DoD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOT Department of Transportation
EARLINET European Aerosol Research Lidar Network
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
ENVISAT Environmental Satellite
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERAMS Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System
ESIP Earth Science Information Partnership
ESRL Earth System Research Laboratory
ESS environmental sensor stations
EUCOS EUMETNET Composite Observing System
EUMETNET Network of European Meteorological Services
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FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FHWA Federal Highway Administration
FRA Federal Railroad Administration
FRM federal reference method
GALION Global Aerosol Lidar Observation Network
GAPP GEWEX Americas Prediction Project
GAW Global Atmospheric Watch
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems
GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GOES Geostationary Observation Environmental Satellites
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GOS Global Observing System
GPMP Gaseous Pollutant Monitoring Network
GPS global positioning system
GPS Met GPS Meteorology
GSD Global Systems Division
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing System
GTS Global Telecommunications System
GUAN GCOS Upper Air Network
HIRS High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
HRM Houston Regional Monitoring Network
HSRL high spectral resolution lidar
IADN Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IEOS Integrated Earth Observation System
IMPROVE Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments
IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPW Integrated Precipitable Water
ISWS Illinois State Water Survey
ITU International Telecommunication Union
LDAS land data assimilation system
LIDAR light detection and ranging
LLWAS Low Level Wind Shear Analysis System
LME Large Marine Ecosystems
LTER Long-Term Ecological Research Network
LTM Long term monitoring
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MADIS Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System
MDCARS Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System
MDN Mercury Deposition Network
METAR Meteorological Aviation Report
MODIS Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOZAIC Measurements of Ozone, Water Vapor, Carbon Monoxide, and Nitrogen Oxides by In-Service Airbus Aircraft
MPL-NET Micro-Pulse Lidar Network
MSL above mean sea level
MWRP Microwave Radiometer Profilers
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NADP National Atmospheric Deposition Program
NAMS National Ambient Monitoring Stations
NAOS North American Observing System
NAPS National Air Pollution Surveillance Network
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATTS National Air Toxics Trends Stations
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCore National Core Monitoring Network
NDAMN National Dioxin Air Monitoring Network
NDBC National Data Buoy Center
NEON National Ecosystem Observing Network
NEWNET Neighborhood Environmental Watch Network
NLDN National Lightning Detection Network
NMHS National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPN National Profiler Network
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPR National Public Radio
NPS National Park Service
NRC National Research Council
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
NSF National Science Foundation
NTN National Trends Network
NWA National Weather Association
NWP Numerical Weather Prediction
NWS National Weather Service
NWSMC National Weather Service Modernization Committee
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OCS Oklahoma Climatological Survey
OLETS Oklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunication System
OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument
OSE observing system experiment
OSSE observing system simulation experiment
PAMS Photochemical Assessment Measurement Station
PAR photosynthetically active radiation
PARASOL Polarization & Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar
PBL planetary boundary layer
PHOTONS Photométrie pour le Traitement Opérationnel de Normalisation Satellitaire
PHS Public Health and Safety
PM particulate matter
PMc coarse size fraction of particulate matter
PMOD Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos
PORTS Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System
PRIMENet Park Research & Intensive Monitoring of Ecosystems Network
RAOB Universal Rawinsonde Observation program
RASS Radio Acoustic Sounding System
RAWS Remote Automated Weather Stations
RBSN Regional Basic Synoptic Networks
RCOOS Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System
REALM Regional East Atmospheric Lidar Mesonet
RO radio occultation
RRR Rolling Requirements Review
RWIS Roadway Information System
SASP Surface Air Sampling Program
SCAN Soil Climate Analysis Network
SEARCH SouthEastern Aerosol Researchand Characterization Study experiment
SLAMS State and Local Ambient Monitoring Stations
SMAP Soil Moisture Active-Passive
SNOTEL Snow Telemetry
SOA Service Oriented Architecture
SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imager
SST sea-surface temperature
STN PM2.5 Speciation Trends Network
SURFRAD Surface Radiation Budget Network
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SV Seeded Viral Model
TAMDAR Tropospheric Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay
TDWR Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
UAS Unmanned Aeronautical Systems
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UHF ultra-high frequency
UPS United Parcel Service
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USAF U.S. Air Force
USBR U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
USCRN U.S. Climate Reference Network
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USFS U.S. Forest Service
USGEO U.S. Group on Earth Observations
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USWRP U.S. Weather Research Program
UTC Coordinated Universal Time
UVB Ultraviolet B
VAD Velocity-Azimuth Display
VHF Very High Frequency
VII Vehicle Infrastructure Initiative
WFO Weather Forecast Office
WHYCOS World Hydrological Cycle Observing System
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WRCC Western Regional Climate Center
WWW World Weather Watch