4D |
Var data-assimilation framework-four-dimensional variational data-assimilation framework |
AERMOD |
Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling System |
AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
AQ |
air quality |
ASTER |
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
BASC |
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate |
BL |
Boundary Layer |
CASA |
Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere |
CCNY |
City College of New York |
CDC |
Centers for Disease Control |
CESM |
the NCAR Community Earth System Model |
CFD |
Computational Fluid Dynamics (Modeling) |
CFS |
climate forecast system |
CG |
Cloud to Ground (Lightning) |
CIMEL |
CIMEL Electronique, Paris, France |
CMAQ |
Community Multiscale Air Quality model |
CMAQ-WRF |
Community Multiscale Air Quality Weather Research and Forecasting coupled model |
CSAQ |
Community Scale Air Quality |
DEMS |
digital elevation model |
DFW |
Dallas-Fort Worth |
DHS |
Department of Homeland Security |
DIAL |
Differential Absorption Lidar |
DMSP OLS |
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System |
DOD |
Department of Defense |
DOT |
Department of Transportation |
ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts |
EM |
Electromagnetic Modeling |
EMS |
Emergency Medical Service |
EnKF data-assimilation |
ensemble Kalman filter data-assimilation framework |
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
EPHI |
Environmental Public Health Indicators |
EPiCC |
Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities Network |
FHWA |
Federal Highway Administration |
FIFE |
the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project Field Experiment |
GCM |
global climate model |
GEWEX |
the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
GFS |
global forecast system |
GHCN |
Global Historical Climate Network |
GHG |
Greenhouse Gas (Emissions) |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
GLDAS |
Global Land Data Assimilation System |
GMAO |
the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office |
GPM |
Global Precipitation Measurement |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
GSWP |
the Global Soil Wetness Project |
HAZMAT |
hazardous materials |
HRLDAS |
high resolution land data assimilations systems |
IC |
intra-cloud (lightning) |
iLEAPS |
integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Process Study |
INDOT |
Indiana Department of Transportation |
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IRS |
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite |
ISA |
impervious surface area |
ISL |
Interstitial Sublayer | |
ISLSCP |
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project | |
JMA |
Japanese Meteorological Agency | |
KML |
Keyhole Markup Language | |
LANDSAT |
Derived from Land Satellite | |
LDAS |
land data assimilations systems | |
LES |
Large-Eddy simulation | |
lidar |
Light Detection and Ranging | |
LIS |
land information system | |
LST |
land surface temperature | |
LUMPS |
local-scale urban meteorological parameterization scheme | |
MDCARS |
Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System | |
MDSS |
Maintenance and Decision Support System | |
MFRSR |
Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer | |
MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer | |
MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | |
MSA |
Metropolitan Statistical Area | |
MWRP |
Microwave Radiometric Profilers | |
NAAQS |
National Ambient Air Quality Standards | |
NAQFC |
National Air Quality Forecast Capability | |
NARAC |
National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center | |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |
NASA LIS |
NASA Land Information System | |
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction | |
NCTCOG |
the North Central Texas Council of Governments | |
NEXRAD |
Next-Generation Radar | |
NLDAS |
North American Land Data Assimilation System | |
NLDN |
National Lightning Detection Network | |
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
NOAA MADIS |
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association’s Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System | |
NOAA NCDC |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climatic Data Center | |
NRC |
The National Research Council |
NUDAPT |
National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool |
NWCC |
The National Wind Coordinating Collaborative |
NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
NWS |
National Weather Service |
NYC MetNet |
New York City Meteorological Network |
OFCM |
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology |
OSSE |
Observing System Simulation Experiments |
PBL |
planetary boundary layer |
PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant |
PM Samplers |
Particulate Matter Samplers |
RANS |
Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes |
RAOB |
the Universal RAwinsonde OBservation program |
RFC |
River Forecasting Center |
RISA |
Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (NOAA program) |
RSL |
Roughness Sublayer |
RSS |
Really Simple Syndication |
SAR |
synthetic aperture radar |
SEAFM |
streamflow forecasting computer model system used and developed by Seattle Public Utilities |
SEB |
surface energy balance |
SMS |
Short Message Service |
SNOTEL |
SNOwpack TELemetry |
SPOT |
Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre |
SPU |
Seattle Public Utilities |
TAMDAR |
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting |
T&D |
transport and dispersion |
TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
TRMM |
Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission |
UBL |
Urban Boundary Layer |
UBL/PBL |
Urban Boundary Layer/Planetary Boundary Layer |
UCL |
Urban Canopy Layer |
UCM |
urban canopy model |
UHI |
Urban Heat Island |
UPS |
United Parcel Service |
USWRP |
U.S. Weather Research Program |
V-I-S model |
Ridds’s vegetation-impervious surface-soil model |
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
WRF |
Weather Research & Forecasting Model |
WRF/Chem |
Weather Research and Forecasting/Chemistry model |
model |
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WRF-NMM |
Weather Research and Forecasting-Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model |
WSR-88D |
Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Dop |