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APPENDIX A: LIST OF ACRONYMS AND OTHER ABBREVIATIONS
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... APPENDIX A List of Acronyms and Other Abbreviations AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research AFTAC Air Force Technical Applications Command ARM Atmosphenc Radiation Measurement (program) ARPA Advanced Research Projects Agency ASCA Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics ASOS Automated Surface Observing System AU astronomical unit AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy AVHRR Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer BLM Bureau of Land Management BR Bureau of Reclamation CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center CD-ROM Compact disk-read only memory CENDI Commerce, Energy, NASA, NLM, Defense Information CINDAS Center for Information and Data Analysis and Synthesis CMDL Climate Monitoring Diagnostics Laboratory CoE United States Army Corps of Engineers DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center DARE Data Archiving and Retrieval Enhancement DASAIC Department of Defense Nuclear Information Analysis Center DMC Data Management Center DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program DNA Defense Nuclear Agency DOD Department of Defense DOE Department of Energy DTIC Defense Technical Information Center DWWSSN Digital World-Wide Standardized Seismographic Network ECMWF European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting EOS Earth Observing System EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System 122
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... Appendix A EPA EROS ESSA ETAC FAA FITS ftp GALE GARP GATE GB GOES GRO GSA GSFC HCN HEAD-II ASARC THIS HST IAC IR IRAS IRIS IRTF ISCCP IUE JANAF JPL LANL LLNL MB MOA MOU MSS MTPE NAIF NAPA NARA NASA NCAR NCDC NEIC NESDIS NEXRAD 123 Environmental Protection Agency Earth Resources Observing System Environmental Sciences and Services Administration Environmental Technical Applications Center Federal Aviation Administration Flexible Image Transport System file transfer protocol Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment Global Atmospheric Research Program GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment gigabyte, 109 bytes Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Gamma Ray Observatory General Services Administration Goddard Space Flight Center Historical Climate Network Einstein Observatory High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center Hanford Environmental Information System Hubble Space Telescope Information Analysis Center infrared Infrared Astronomy Satellite Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Infrared Telescope Facility International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project International Ultraviolet Explorer Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Jet Propulsion Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory megabyte, 106 bytes Memorandum of Agreement Memorandum of Understanding Multispectral Scanner Mission to Planet Earth Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility National Academy of Public Administration National Archives and Records Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Center for Atmospheric Research National Climatic Data Center National Earthquake Information Center National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Next Generation Radar System
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... 124 NGDC NIST NLM NMI NNDC NOAA NOAO NODC NRA O NRC NRL NSF NSIDC NSSDC NSSL NTIS NWIS NWRC NWS OSS PB PDS PI PMDP PNL PO.DAAC RAWS RCDC ROSAT SAO SAR SCS SDI SEG SNOTEL SSC STScI TB TM TPRC TRMM USAF USC USDA USFS USGS USNRC Appendix A National Geophysical Data Center National Institute of Standards and Technology National Library of Medicine NASA Management Instruction National Nuclear Data Center National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Optical Astronomy Observatories National Oceanographic Data Center National Radio Astronomy Observatory National Research Council Naval Research Laboratory National Science Foundation National Snow and Ice Data Center National Space Science Data Center National Severe Storms Laboratory National Technical Information Service National Water Information System National Weather Records Center National Weather Service Office of Space Science petabyte, 10~5 bytes Planetary Data System Principal Investigator Project Management Data Plan Pacific Northwest Laboratories Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center Remote Automated Weather Station Radiation Chemistry Data Center Roentgen Satellite Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Synthetic Aperture Radar Soil Conservation Service Strategic Defense Initiative Society of Exploration Geophysicists SNOwpack TELemetry Superconducting Super Collider Space Telescope Science Institute terabyte, 10~2 bytes Thematic Mapper Thermophysical Properties Research Center Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission United States Air Force United States Code United States Department of Agriculture United States Forest Service United States Geological Survey United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission
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... Appendix A UTC UV VLA WATSTORE WDC WMO WRD WSR-88D WWSSN 125 Universal Time Constant Ultraviolet Very Large Array Water Data Storage and Retrieval System World Data Center World Meteorological Organization Water Resources Division Weather Service Radar - 1988 Doppler design World-Wide Standardized Seismographic Network

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