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Appendix E: Acronyms
Pages 180-183

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... BASC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate BDDS Base Data Distribution System CA OES California Office of Emergency Services CAPS Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms CIWS Corridor Integrated Weather System (FAA) CODE Common Operations and Development Environment CONUS continental United States CRAFT Collaborative Radar Acquisition Field Test CWA county warning area CWI commercial weather industry DEM digital elevation model DOC Department of Commerce DoD Department of Defense DOT Department of Transportation 180
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From page 181...
... APPENDIX E 181 DSD drop size distribution EAS Emergency Activation System ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation ETA NCEP numerical weather prediction model FAA Federal Aviation Administration FAR false alarm ratio FFMP Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction FFW flash flood warning FSL Forecast Systems Laboratory GAO General Accounting Office GIS Geographical Information Systems GIUH geomorphological instantaneous unit hydrograph HPC Hydrometeorological Prediction Center IFPS Interactive Forecast Preparation System KEYX Edwards Air Force Base NEXRAD KNYX San Diego NEXRAD KSOX Santa Ana Mountains NEXRAD KVBX Vandenberg Air Force Base NEXRAD KVTX Sulphur Mountain NEXRAD LAX Los Angeles International Airport LLJ low-level jet LOX Los Angeles-Oxnard Weather Forecast Office LST local standard time MAR modernization and associated restructuring MCS mesoscale convective systems MM5 Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesoscale Model MSL above mean sea level MTR San Francisco Weather Forecast Office NAS National Academy of Sciences NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
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... PRF pulse-repetition frequency PUP principal user processor PW precipitable water QPE quantitative precipitation estimation QPF Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting RASS radio acoustic sounding systems RDA radar data acquisition RFC river forecast center RPG radar product generator SGX San Diego Weather Forecast Office (FAA) TDWR Terminal Doppler Weather Radar TMU traffic management units UTC coordinated universal time VCP volume coverage patterns VCWPD Ventura County Watershed Protection District
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... APPENDIX E 183 VDRAS Variational Doppler Radar Analysis System VPR vertical profile of reflectivity WFO Weather Forecast Office (NWS) WRF Weather Research and Forecasting WSR-74C Weather Surveillance Radar-1974 C-band WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler
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