(D)PR |
dual precipitation radar |
|
-S |
Arakawa-Schubert |
|
1-D |
one-dimensional |
|
1-D RCM |
one-dimensional radiative-convective model |
|
13C |
carbon-13 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 13) |
|
14C |
carbon-14 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 14) |
|
18O |
oxygen-18 (oxygen isotope with atomic weight of 18) |
|
2-D |
a.k.a. 2D, two-dimension, two-dimensional |
|
2-D RCAM |
two-dimensional radiative-advective-convective equilibrium model |
|
3-D |
Three-Dimensional |
|
3I |
improved initialization inversion |
|
4-D |
four-dimensional |
|
4DDA |
Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation |
|
A%C |
Animal population ratio living in cool climate region |
|
A-SAR |
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar |
|
A-SCAT |
Advanced Scatterometer |
|
A. |
Atlantic Reporter |
|
A.2D |
Atlantic Reporter 2nd Series |
|
A.D |
Anno Domini |
|
a.d. |
anno domini (latin) |
|
A.L.R. |
American Law Reports |
|
A.L.R. Fed. |
American Law Reports, Federal |
|
A.L.R.2d |
American Law Reports, 2nd Series |
|
A.L.R.3d |
American Law Reports, 3rd Series |
|
A.L.R.4th |
American Law Reports, 4th Series |
|
A.L.R.5th |
American Law Reports, 5th Series |
|
A.L.R.6th |
American Law Reports, 6th Series |
|
A.V |
Authorized Version |
|
AA |
Atomic Absorption |
|
AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
|
AABW |
Antarctic Bottom Water |
|
AAD |
Attitude Anomaly Detector |
|
AAF |
Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France |
|
AAG |
American Association of Geographers |
|
AAIW |
Antarctic Intermediate Water |
|
AAOE |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
|
AAPP |
Average All Pig Price |
|
AARI |
Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation) |
|
AAS |
atomic absorption spectrometry (spectrometer, spectroscopy) |
|
AAS |
American Astronomical Society |
|
AASE |
Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition |
|
AASP |
American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists |
|
AASSREC |
Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils |
|
AATSR |
Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer |
|
AAWORD |
Association of African Women for Research and Development |
|
ABA |
American Bar Association |
|
ABB |
Association des Banques Belges |
|
abbrev |
abbreviation |
|
ABE |
Advisory Board on Energy (India) |
|
Aberd |
Aberdeen or Aberdonensis (Latin) |
|
Aberdeensh |
Aberdeenshire |
|
ABI |
Association of Italian Bankers |
|
ABL |
Atmospheric Boundary Layer |
|
ABLE |
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment |
|
Abol |
abolition |
|
Aborig |
aboriginal |
|
ABP |
Archbishop |
|
ABR |
Abridged |
|
Abridg |
abridged |
|
Abridgem |
abridgement |
|
absol |
absolute |
|
Abst |
Abstract |
|
ABSTR |
Abstract |
|
ACA |
Advanced Computer Applications (project) |
|
ACABQ |
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions |
|
ACAD |
Academy |
|
ACARS |
Aircraft Communication and Recording System |
|
ACAST |
Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology toDevelopment |
|
ACATS |
Airborne Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species |
|
ACC |
Audit-Comptabilité-Conseil (French: Auditing-Accounting Council) |
|
Acc |
Account |
|
ACC |
Association of Corporate Counsel |
|
ACC |
Air Combat Command (formerly TAC) |
|
Accept |
acceptance |
|
ACCI |
Advisory Committee on Climate Applications and Data (WMO) |
|
ACCLAIM |
ACC Levels by Altimetrics and Island Measurements |
|
ACCM |
Atmospheric General Circulation Model |
|
Accomm |
accommodation |
|
Accompl |
accomplished |
|
Accs |
accounts |
|
ACCT |
Account |
|
Accts |
Accounts |
|
ACCUS |
Accusative |
|
ACD |
Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS) |
|
ACE |
Atmospheric Chemistry Education in Global Change (IGAC) |
|
ACE |
Advisory Committee on the Environment |
|
ACE |
Aerosol Characterization Experiment |
|
ACE-1 |
Southern Hemisphere Marine Aerosol Characterization Experiment (IGAC) |
|
ACE-2 |
North Atlantic Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (IGAC) |
|
ACGIH |
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Inc. |
|
ACH4 |
Annual methane (CH4) emission from enteric fermentation |
|
ACHEX |
Aerosol Characterization Experiment |
|
Achievem |
achievement |
|
ACID |
Acidification Chemistry Information Data Base (BNL) |
|
ACL |
alternate concentration level |
|
ACM |
advanced climate model |
|
ACMAD |
African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development |
|
ACP |
Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE) |
|
ACR |
Active Cavity Radiometer |
|
ACRIM |
Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS) |
|
ACS |
American Chemical Society |
|
ACS |
Attitude Control System |
|
ACSM |
American Congress of Surveying and Mapping |
|
ACSYS |
Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP) |
|
ACTM |
Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model |
|
ACTS |
African Centre for Technology Studies |
|
ACU |
Attitude Control Unit |
|
AD |
Acronym Dictionary |
|
ad. |
ad sectam (Latin) |
|
ADAAC |
Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center |
|
ADALT |
Advanced Radar Altimeter |
|
ADB |
Asian Developing Bank |
|
ADC |
Affiliated Data Center |
|
ADC |
Analog-Digital Converter |
|
ADCLS |
Advanced Data Collection and Location System |
|
ADCP |
Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
|
Add |
Addenda |
|
Addit |
addition |
|
ADDNET |
Acid Deposition Data Network (EPA) |
|
ADDR |
Address |
|
ADEOS |
Advanced Earth Observation Satellite (Japan) |
|
ADEOS |
Advanced Earth Observing System |
|
ADJ |
Adjective |
|
adj. |
see "ad." above. |
|
adj.phr |
adjectival phrase |
|
adjs |
adjective |
|
ADM |
Admiral |
|
ADMC |
Agri-residue dry matter content |
|
Admir |
admiralty |
|
Admon |
admonition |
|
Admonit |
admonition |
|
ADP |
Automated Data Processing |
|
ADPE |
Automatic Data Processing Equipment |
|
ADV |
Advance |
|
Advancem |
advancement |
|
advb |
adverb |
|
Advert |
Advertisement |
|
Advoc |
advocate |
|
advs |
adverbs |
|
Advt |
advertisement |
|
Advts |
advertisement |
|
AE |
Atmosphere Explorer |
|
AEC |
Atomic Energy Commission (superseded by ERDA) |
|
AEDD |
Arctic Environment Data Directory |
|
AEEI |
Autonomous energy-efficiency index (improvements) |
|
AEEI |
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument |
|
AEF |
Average Emission Factor |
|
AER |
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
|
AERI |
Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument |
|
AERI-FEP |
AERI Front End Processor |
|
AEROCE |
Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment |
|
Aerodynam |
aerodynamic |
|
Aeronaut |
aeronautic |
|
AES |
Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) |
|
AEST |
Australian Eastern Standard Time |
|
AET |
Actual Evapotranspiration |
|
AF |
Agri-residue used for animal feed |
|
AFBC |
Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustor |
|
AFDM |
Ash Free Dry Mass |
|
AFEAS |
Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study |
|
Aff |
Affairs |
|
Affect |
affection |
|
AFFM |
Austrlian Financial Futures Market |
|
AFGL |
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory |
|
AFGWC |
Air Force Global Weather Central (U.S.) |
|
AFOF |
Authorised Futures and Options Funds |
|
AFR |
Africa |
|
AFS |
American Fisheries Society |
|
AFSCF |
Air Force Satellite Control Facility |
|
AFSCN |
Air Force Satellite Control Network |
|
AFT |
Abbreviated Functional Test |
|
AGA |
American Gas Association |
|
AGAGE |
Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
|
AGAL |
Australian Government Analytical Laboratories |
|
AGASP |
Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Programme |
|
AGBD |
Above ground biomass density |
|
AGCM |
Atmospheric General Circulation Model |
|
AGID |
Association for Geoscientists for International Development |
|
AGL |
Above Ground Level |
|
AGO |
Santiago Ground Station |
|
Agr. |
Agriculture (USDA) |
|
AGRHYMET |
Agronmeteorology and Operational Hydrology and Their Applications |
|
Agric |
Agriculture |
|
AGSS |
Attitude Ground Support System |
|
AGST |
Against |
|
AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
|
AGWAT |
Agriculture and Water Project (JECOR) |
|
AGWP |
Absolute Global Warming Potential |
|
AH |
Air Heater |
|
AI |
Associate Investigator |
|
AIAA |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. |
|
AIBD |
Association of International Bond Dealers |
|
AIBS |
American Institute of Biological Sciences |
|
AIChE |
American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
|
AICRIP |
All India Coordinated Programme for Rice Improvement |
|
AID |
Agency for International Development (U.S.) |
|
AIDJEX |
Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment |
|
AIHA |
American Industrial Hygiene Association |
|
AIJ |
Activities Implemented Jointly |
|
AIM |
approximate inertial manifold |
|
AIME |
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers |
|
AIP |
Algorithm Intercomparison Programme |
|
AIP-1 |
Algorithm Intercomparison Project-1 |
|
AIP-2 |
Algorithm Intercomparison Project-2 |
|
AIP-3 |
Algorithm Intercomparison Project-3 |
|
AIREP |
Aircraft Weather Report |
|
AIRS |
Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS) |
|
AIRS-AMSU |
Atmospheric Infrared-Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
|
AIRS/MHS |
Advanced Infrared Radiometer Sounder |
|
AIS |
Airborne Imaging Spectrometer |
|
AIS |
Automated Information Security |
|
AIT |
Atomic International Time |
|
AIT |
Asian Institute of Technology |
|
AIT |
Assembly, Integration, and Test |
|
AITP |
Arctic Ice Thickness Project (WCRP) |
|
AIV |
Assembly-Integration-Verification |
|
AJAX |
1983 Oceanographic cruise along; Meridian into Weddell Sea |
|
AL |
Aluminium |
|
AL |
Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL) |
|
Al2O3 |
alumina |
|
ala |
American Library Association-Library |
|
Ala. Admin. Code |
Alabama Administrative Code |
|
Ala. Code |
Code of Alabama 1975 |
|
ALACE |
Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (float) |
|
ALADIN |
Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument |
|
ALARA |
As Low As Reasonably Achievable |
|
ALARA |
As Late As Reasonably Achievable |
|
Alaska Admin. Code |
Alaska Administrative Code |
|
Alaska Stat. |
Alaska Statutes |
|
ALBIOS |
Aluminum Biogeochemistry in Soils (EPRI) |
|
ALCH |
ALCHEMY HOLDINGS, INC. |
|
ALE |
Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment |
|
ALE/GAGE |
ALE/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
|
ALEXIS |
Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors |
|
Alf |
Grimco A-700 processor used for data analysis |
|
ALFA |
AER Local Forecast and Assimilation (Model) |
|
ALG |
Algebra |
|
ALIAS |
Aircraft Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer |
|
ALK |
alkalinity |
|
All ER |
All England Law Reports |
|
Alleg |
allegiance |
|
Allit |
alliterative |
|
ALM |
Almanac |
|
ALOHA |
A Long-term Oligotrophic Habitat Assessment |
|
ALPEX |
Alpine Experiment |
|
Alph |
alphabet |
|
ALS |
Adirondack Lake Survey (ALSC) |
|
ALSC |
Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation |
|
ALSS |
Aluminum in Streams Study (EPRI) |
|
ALT |
Alteration |
|
ALT |
Radar Altimeter |
|
ALTA |
Active Long Term Archive |
|
Am. Jur. |
American Jurisprudence |
|
Am. Jur. 2d. |
American Jurisprudence, 2nd Series |
|
AM/FM |
Automated Mapping/Facilities Management (Society) |
|
AMA |
African Mountains Association |
|
AMAD |
Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter |
|
AMAP |
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme |
|
AMBIACE |
Amazon Biogeochemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment |
|
AMD |
Developing America |
|
AMeDAS |
Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System |
|
Amer |
America |
|
AMEX |
Atlantic Meteorology Experiment |
|
AMI |
Active Microwave Instrument |
|
AMIE |
Automated Methane Instrument Evaluation |
|
AMIGO |
America's Inter-hemispheric Geobiosphere Organization |
|
AMIP |
Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project |
|
AMMS |
Advanced Multichannel Microwave Sensor |
|
AMQUA |
American Quaternary Association |
|
AMRIR |
Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer |
|
AMS |
Applied Mathematical Sciences (DOE) |
|
AMS |
American Mathematical Society |
|
AMS |
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
|
AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
|
AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
|
AMSU |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
|
AMSU-A |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS |
|
AMTS |
Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder |
|
AMU |
Atomic Mass Unit |
|
AN |
Analog Nonsecure |
|
ANAL |
Analyst |
|
Analyt |
analytic) |
|
ANARE |
Australian National Antarctic Research Establishment |
|
ANAT |
Anatomy |
|
ANBS |
Asian Network of Biological Sciences |
|
ANC |
Ancient |
|
ANC |
acid-neutralizing capacity |
|
Anecd |
anecdotes |
|
ANFC |
Annual Natural Forest Cleared |
|
Ang |
Anglian |
|
Angl |
Anglian |
|
Anglo-Ind |
Anglo-Indian |
|
ANIM |
animal |
|
ANL |
The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill |
|
ANL/ACRF |
ANL's Advanced Computing Research Facility |
|
ANN |
Annual |
|
ANNEX I |
Countries committed to a quantified CO2 target (OECD, EU, Central and Eastern European countries) |
|
ANNEX II |
OECD countries and EU |
|
anniv |
Anniversary |
|
Annot |
annotation |
|
ANON |
Anonymous |
|
Anor |
Another |
|
ANSI |
American National Standards Institute, Inc. |
|
ANSTO |
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Menai, New |
|
answ |
Answer |
|
ANT |
Antarctica |
|
ANTARES |
Antarctic research (France) (JGOFS) |
|
ANTARFIX |
Antarctic fixed station |
|
Anthrop |
Anthropology |
|
Anthropol |
anthropology |
|
Antiq |
antiquity |
|
ANTS |
Antenna Subsystem |
|
ANU |
Australian National University (Canberra, Australia) |
|
AO |
Atmosphere-Ocean |
|
AO |
announcement of opportunity |
|
AOCE |
Attitude and Orbit Control Electronics |
|
AOCMS |
Attitude and Orbit Control Measurement System |
|
AOCS |
Attitude and Orbit Control System |
|
AOD |
Aerosol Optical Depth |
|
AODC |
Acridine Orange Direct Count [of Bacteria] |
|
AOGCM |
Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model |
|
AOIPS |
Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System |
|
AOL |
Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR |
|
AOM |
Australian Options Market |
|
AOML |
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL) |
|
AON |
All or None |
|
AOS |
Acquisition Of Signal |
|
AOSB |
Arctic Ocean Sciences Board |
|
AOSIS |
Association of Small Island States |
|
AOVP |
Arctic Ocean Variability Project |
|
AP |
Annual Production |
|
APA |
Adirondack Park Agency |
|
APA |
Alkaline Phosphatase Activity |
|
APAFO |
Advanced Particles And Fields Observer |
|
APAR |
Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
|
APARE |
East Asian-North Pacific Regional Experiment (IGAC) |
|
APC |
Apparent consumption |
|
APCA |
Air Pollution Control Association (Pittsburgh) |
|
APDA |
Arctic Precipitation Data Archive (ACSYS) |
|
APEC |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
|
APhA |
American Pharmaceutical Association |
|
aphet |
aphetic |
|
API |
American Petroleum Institute (oil) |
|
APID |
Application Identification |
|
APM |
Antenna Pointing Mechanism |
|
APME |
Attitude Pointing Mechanism Electronics |
|
APMP |
Acid Precipitation Mitigation Program (NAPAP) |
|
APN |
Asia-Pacific Network (for Global Change Research) (START) |
|
Apoc |
apocalyptic |
|
Apol |
apology |
|
APP |
Appendix |
|
APP |
Apparently |
|
APPL |
Applied |
|
Applic |
application |
|
appos |
appositive |
|
APR |
April River Airport, April River, Papua New Guinea |
|
APSRS |
Aerial Photo Summary Records System |
|
APT |
Automatic Picture Transmission |
|
AQA |
American Quaternary Association |
|
AR |
Argon |
|
ARA |
atmospheric radiation analysis |
|
Arab |
Arabic |
|
ARAC |
Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (program) |
|
Arb |
Arber |
|
ARC |
Ames Research Center (NASA) |
|
ARC |
Antarctic Research Center |
|
ARC/INFO |
GIS software |
|
Arch |
Archive |
|
Arch |
Architect |
|
Archaeol |
archaeology |
|
Archipel |
archipelago |
|
Archit |
Architecture |
|
ARCS |
Atmospheric Radiation and Cloud Station |
|
ARCSS |
Arctic System Science (program) |
|
ARDB |
Arctic Runoff Database (ACSYS) |
|
ARGOS |
Argos Data Collection and Position Location System (CNES and NOAA) |
|
Argt |
argument |
|
ARINC |
Aeronautical Research, Inc. |
|
ARINC |
Aeronautical Radio Incorporated |
|
ARISTOTELES |
Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite |
|
ARITH |
Arithmetic |
|
Arithm |
arithmetic |
|
Ariz. Admin. Code |
Arizona Administrative Code |
|
Ariz. Admin. Reg. |
Arizona Administrative Register |
|
Ariz. Rev. Stat. |
Arizona Revised Statutes |
|
Ark. Code |
Arkansas Code |
|
ARL |
Australian Radiation Laboratory (Melbourne, Victoria) |
|
ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program) |
|
ARMA |
Autoregressive moving-average |
|
ARMSAT |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Satellite |
|
ARO |
Automatic Reconfiguration Order |
|
arpa |
Advanced Research Project Agency's |
|
ARq |
Authentication Request |
|
Arrangem |
arrangement |
|
ARRCC |
Analysis of Rapid and Recent Climate Change (project) |
|
ARs |
Authentication Response |
|
ARS |
United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service |
|
ARSMC |
ASEAN Regional SpecializedMeteorological Centre |
|
ART |
Another Ray Tracer |
|
ART |
Arctica |
|
ART |
Article (part of speech) |
|
ARTEMIS |
Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite (ESA) |
|
ARTEP |
Ariane Technology Experiment Platform |
|
Artic |
articulation |
|
Artific |
artificial |
|
Artill |
artillery |
|
ARW |
An Advanced Research Workshop |
|
AS |
Area of Savanna |
|
ASA |
American Statistical Association |
|
ASAP |
Automated Shipboard Aerological Program |
|
ASAP |
Against Sailormoon Anti Pages |
|
ASAP |
Atorvastatin versus Simvastatin on Atherosclerosis Progression |
|
ASAP |
As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap) |
|
ASAR |
Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar |
|
ASAS |
Advanced Solid-State Array Sensor |
|
ASASP |
Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer Probe |
|
ASB |
Association of Southeastern Biologists |
|
ASC |
American Society of Cinematographers |
|
ASCAT |
Advanced Scatterometer |
|
ASCATT |
advanced scatterometer |
|
asce |
l'American Society of Civil Engineers |
|
ASCEND |
Agenda of Science for Environment and Development into the 21st Century |
|
ASCHE |
American Society of Chemical Engineers |
|
ASCII |
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange |
|
ASCOT |
Atmospheric Studies in Complex Terrain |
|
ASCS |
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service |
|
ASDAR |
Aircraft-to-Satellite Data Relay |
|
ASE |
Air Sea Experiment |
|
ASE |
Airborne Support Equipment |
|
ASEAMS |
Association of Southeast Asian Marine Scientists |
|
ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
|
ASF |
Alaska SAR Facility |
|
ASF |
Atmospheric Stablization Framework |
|
Ashm |
Ashmole |
|
ASHOE |
Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment |
|
ASI |
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana |
|
ASK |
Assisted Search for Knowledge |
|
ASL |
Above Sea Level |
|
ASLO |
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography |
|
ASM |
Applied Simulation and Modelling (IASTED) |
|
ASME |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
|
ASOEN |
ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment |
|
ASOS |
Automated Surface Observing System |
|
ASPP |
American Society of Plant Physiologists |
|
ASPRS |
American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
|
ASR |
aerosol solar radiation |
|
ASSAS |
Advanced Solid State Array Sensor |
|
Assemb |
assembly |
|
Assoc.Football |
Association Football |
|
Assyriol |
Assyriology |
|
ASTER |
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS) |
|
ASTER |
Atmosphere-Surface Turbulent Exchange Research Facility |
|
ASTEX |
Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment |
|
ASTM |
American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
|
ASTR |
Astronomy |
|
ASTROL |
Astrology |
|
ASTRON |
Astronomy |
|
ASU |
Air Separation Unit |
|
ASXD |
Australian Stock Exchange Derivatives |
|
AT |
Acceptance Test |
|
ATA |
Agrarische Termijnmarkt Amsterdam |
|
ATDD |
Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division |
|
ATDL |
Atmospheric Turbulence and DiffusionLaboratory |
|
ATES |
Alcatel Espace Systems |
|
ATF |
atmospheric transmission factor |
|
Atlantis |
Research vessel |
|
ATLAS |
ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science |
|
ATLAS |
Airborne Turnable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
|
ATLID |
Atmospheric LIDAR |
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ATM |
Atmosphere |
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ATMOS |
Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy |
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ATOVS |
Advanced TOVS |
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ATP |
Adenosine Triphosphate (reg: 56-65-5) |
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ATPEX |
ARM Tropical Pacific Experiment |
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ATS |
Advanced Turbine Systems |
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ATS |
Advanced Technology Satellite |
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ATSC |
AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation |
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ATSR |
Along-Track Scanning Radiometer |
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Att |
Attic |
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ATTRIB |
Attribute |
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ATTY |
Attorney |
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ATX |
Austrian Traded Index |
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AUG |
August |
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AURIO |
Auroral Imaging Observatory |
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AUSTRAL |
Australia |
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AUTH |
Author |
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Autobiog |
autobiography |
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Autobiogr |
autobiography |
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AUX |
Auxiliary |
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AV |
acoustic velocity |
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AVCS |
Advanced Vidicon Camera System |
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AVD |
acoustic variable density |
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AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer  |
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AVHRR GAC |
AVHRR Global Area Coverage |
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AVHRR LAC |
AVHRR Local Area Coverage |
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AVIRIS |
airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer |
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AVISCO |
French group for Analysis, Validation, and Investigation of Satellite Oceanography |
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AVNIR |
advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer |
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avtur |
aviation gas turbine fuel |
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AWDB |
Adirondack Watershed Data Base |
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AWIPS-90 |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's |
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AWIS |
Association for Women in Science |
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awra |
American Water Resources Association's |
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AWWA |
American Water Works Association (Denver) |
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AXCTD |
autonomous expendable CTD profiler |
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Ayrsh |
Ayrshire |
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B%T |
Animal population ratio living in temperate climate region |
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B.A.P. |
Bankruptcy Appellate Panel |
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b.a.u. |
business as usual (scenario) |
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B.C |
British Columbia |
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B.C |
Before Christ |
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B/W |
Black and White |
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BaA |
benz[a]anthracene |
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BAAS |
British Association for the Advancement of Science |
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Bacteriol |
bacteriology |
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BAHC |
Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle |
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BAHC-SSC |
BAHC Scientific Steering Committee |
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BALTEX |
Baltic Sea Experiment |
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BAO |
Boulder Atmospheric Observatory |
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BAP |
BenzoApyrene |
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BaPDE |
chemically reactive diolepoxides |
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BAPMON |
Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network |
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BARA |
Pressure in Atmosphere |
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BARM |
Block Acceptance Reporting Mechanism |
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BAS |
Block Acquisition Sequence |
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BASC |
Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate, National Research Council |
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BASE |
Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment |
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BATAN |
Reactor and Nuclear Research Facilities, National Atomic Energy Agency |
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BATERISTA |
Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfers and Ecological Research in Situ Studies in Amazonia |
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BATGE |
Biosphere-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange in the Tropics |
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BATS |
Bermuda Atlantic Time Series |
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BATS |
Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme |
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BAU |
business-as-usual |
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BB |
Biomass Burned |
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BBAISR |
British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate |
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BBF |
Bolsa Brasileira de Futuros |
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BBHIR |
broadband hemispherical in flux radiometer |
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BBHSR |
broadband hemispherical solar radiometer |
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BBL |
Billion Barrels |
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BBSR |
Bermuda Biological Station for Research |
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BBSRC |
Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council |
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BBSS |
Balloon-Borne Sounding System |
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BBZ |
benthic boundary zone |
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BC |
Black Carbon |
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BCC |
British Coal Corporation |
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BCD |
Binary-Coded Decimal |
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BCF |
Bio-Concentration Factor |
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BCP1 |
Broadcast Pulse 1 |
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BCP3 |
Broadcast Pulse 3 |
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BDR |
Battery Discharge Regulator |
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BECO |
Booster Engine Cutoff |
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Bedford |
Bedfordshire |
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Bedfordsh |
Bedfordshire |
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BEF |
Before |
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Bel & Dr |
Bel and the Dragon |
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Bel-20 |
stock index |
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Belfox |
Belgian Futures abd Options Exchange |
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Belg |
Belgian |
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BEMS |
Bioelectromagnetics Society |
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BER |
Bit-Error Rate |
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BERKS |
Berkshire (English County) |
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Berksh |
Berkshire |
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Berw |
Berwickshire |
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Berwicksh |
Berwickshire |
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BEST |
Bilan Energetique du Systeme Tropical |
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Bet |
Grimco A-700 processor used for data collection |
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betw |
between |
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BF |
Biomass quantity burned in fields |
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BFE |
Baltic Futures Exchange |
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BFI |
Baltic Freight Index |
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BFP |
Bona Fide Purchaser |
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BFP |
Bud Fractal Pages |
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BGC |
Biogeochemical Cycle |
|
BGL |
British Gas Lurgi (gasifier) |
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BHD |
designation of an ice core drilled in 1977 at Law Dome, Antarctica |
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BI0-L |
Biphase - Level |
|
BIA |
Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.) |
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BIBEX |
Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme) |
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Bibliogr |
bibliography |
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BiE |
Business in the Environment |
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BIG-TT |
BAHC-IGAC-GCTE Task Team |
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BIGSTIG |
biomass integrated gasifier steam-injected gas turbine |
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BIH |
Bureau International de l'Heureasures |
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Biochem |
Biochemistry |
|
BIOG |
Biography |
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Biogr |
biography |
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BIOL |
Biology |
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BIOME |
Global Biome Model |
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BIOMOVS |
Biospheric Model Validation Study |
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BIOSYNOP |
Biological Synoptic Ocean Prediction |
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BIOTRANS |
biological transformations |
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BIOTROP |
Regional Center for Tropical Biology |
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bipm |
Bureau International de Poids et Mesures |
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BIS |
Bank of International Settlements |
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BITNET |
Because It is Time NETwork |
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BK |
Book |
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bk |
Book Keeper |
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Bks |
books |
|
BLM |
Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior |
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BLS |
Basic Linked System |
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BM&F |
Bolsade Mercadorias and Futuros Exchange |
|
BMAP |
Biological Monitoring And Abatement Program |
|
BMC |
Baltic Marine Cooperation |
|
BMFT |
Bundes Ministerium fur Forschung und Technologie (Germany) |
|
BMG |
Meteorological and Geophysics Agency |
|
BMRC |
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre |
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BMWT |
Biofuels and Municipal Waste Technology |
|
BNA |
block numbering area |
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BNAP |
Basic Hydrological Network Assessment Project |
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BNC |
British National Corpus |
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BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
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BNSC |
British National Space Centre |
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BO |
CH4 producing potential |
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BOB |
Bureau of the Budget |
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BOC |
Bureau of Census |
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BOD |
Biochemical Oxygen Demand |
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BODC |
British Oceanographic Data Centre |
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BOF |
Basic Oxygen Furnace |
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BOFS |
Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (UK) |
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BOJ |
Bank Of Japan |
|
BOL |
Beginning of Life |
|
BoM |
Bureau of Meteorology (DASET) |
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BOR |
Bureau of Reclamation (Billings, MT) |
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Bord |
border |
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BOREAS |
Boreal Ecosystems Atmosphere Study |
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BORIS |
BOREAS Information System |
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BOT |
Botany |
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BOVESPA |
Bolsas de Valores de Sao Paulo |
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BP |
Before Present |
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BPA |
Bonneville Power Administration (US) |
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BPKM |
billion passenger kilo metre |
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BPPT |
Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (Indonesia) |
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BQ |
Becquerel |
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BR |
Bankruptcy |
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Braz |
Brazilian |
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BRD |
Broadcast |
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BRDF |
Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
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BRIT |
British |
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BRML |
Block Recorder Mission Log |
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BRO |
Bromine Monoxide |
|
BRU |
Battery Regulation Unit |
|
BRW |
Barrow Observatory (Barrow, Alaska) (CMDL) |
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Bs |
Natural forest biomass burned onsite |
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BSIP |
Birban Sahani Institute of Paleobotany |
|
BSR |
Back Surface Reflection |
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BSRN |
Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
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BTAN |
Bons du Trésor а intérët Annuel Normalisés |
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BTCs |
breakthrough curves (column-elution tests) |
|
BTP |
Buoni del Tesoro Poliennali |
|
BTU |
British Thermal Unit |
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BUBOR |
Budapest Interbank Offered Rate |
|
BUCKS |
Buckinghamshire |
|
BUFR |
Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data) |
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BULL |
Bulletin |
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BUR |
Bureau |
|
BuRec |
United States Bureau of Reclamation (government) |
|
BUV |
Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer |
|
BVB |
Belgische Vereniging van Banken |
|
BVE |
Barotropic Vorticity Equation |
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BVRJ |
Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro |
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BW |
bulk water |
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BWTP |
Basalt Waste Isolation Project |
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C |
Carbone |
|
C&DH |
Command & Data Handling |
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C&F |
Cost and Freight |
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C&W |
Animal population ratio living in warm climate region |
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C-C |
Counterclaim |
|
C-MACCS |
Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation |
|
c. |
Chapter |
|
C.F.R. |
Code of Federal Regulations |
|
C.V. |
coefficient of variation (math) |
|
C/A |
Coarse/Acquisition GPS signal structure |
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C3AT |
Ch3 Albedo Test (AVHRR) |
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CA |
Class action |
|
ca |
Copyright Act |
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CA # |
Court of Appeals |
|
ca. |
circa |
|
CAA |
Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990) |
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CAA |
Central Arid Asia (START) |
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CAAP |
Composition and Acidity of Southeast Asian Precipitation |
|
CAC |
Climate Analysis Centre (now CPC) (WMO) |
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CAC-40 |
Compagnie des Agents de Change-40 |
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CACGP |
Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (IAMAS) |
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CAD |
Computer-Aided Design |
|
CADD |
computer-aided design and drafting |
|
CAE |
Control and Actuation Electronic |
|
CAeM |
Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (WMO) |
|
CAF |
Clean Air Facility |
|
CAgM |
Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (WMO) |
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CAL |
Calendar |
|
Cal. Code |
California Code |
|
Cal. Code Reg. |
California Code of Regulations |
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CAL/VAL |
Calibration/Validation |
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CALC |
Calculus |
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CALCOFI |
California Cooperative Fisheries Investigation |
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Calend |
calendar |
|
CALIF |
California |
|
Calligr |
calligraphy |
|
CAM |
Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (photosynthetic Pathway) |
|
CAMB |
Cambridge Capital Acquisition C (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ]) |
|
Cambr |
Cambridge |
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Campanol |
campanology |
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CAMS |
Control and Monitoring System |
|
CAN |
Canberra |
|
CANAD |
Canadian |
|
Canterb |
Canterbury |
|
CAO |
Cold Air Outbreak |
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CAP |
Central Arizona Project (USBR) |
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CAPPI |
Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator |
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CAPT |
Captain |
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CAR |
Caribbean Region |
|
CARBICE |
Carbon Dioxide Intercalibration Experiment (IGAC) |
|
CARDS |
climatological aerological reference data set |
|
CARS |
Climate Applications Referral System |
|
CART |
Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM) |
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Cartogr |
cartography |
|
CAS |
Chemical Abstract Series |
|
CAS |
Chinese Academy of Science |
|
CASA |
Inter-Union Commission on the Application of Science to Agriculture,Forestry, and Aquaculture |
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CASSAD |
Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development |
|
CAST |
Chinese Academy of Science and Technology |
|
CAT |
Cataract |
|
Catal |
catalogue |
|
Catech |
catechism |
|
CB |
Casebook |
|
CBA |
Cost Benefit Analysis |
|
CBH |
Catalyst Bed Heater |
|
CBJ |
California Bar Journal |
|
cbj |
Certified Barbeque Judge |
|
CBO |
Congressional Budget Office |
|
cboe |
Chicago Board Options Exchange's |
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CBOT |
Chicago Board of Trade |
|
CBS |
Commission for Basic Systems |
|
CC |
Constitutional Court |
|
CC |
Combined Cycle |
|
cc |
Commerce Clause |
|
cc. |
Chapters |
|
CCAM |
Chikuko Cha Amayi M'Malawi (Women's NGO) |
|
CCAQ |
Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions |
|
CCB |
Configuration Control Board |
|
CCC |
Canadian Climate Centre |
|
CCCN |
CDIAC Computing System Network |
|
CCCO |
Committee on Climate Changes and the Ocean (SCOR and IOC) |
|
CCCP |
California Institute of Technology Concurrent Computation Project |
|
CCD |
Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge. |
|
CCDB |
Carbon content of dead biomass |
|
CCDP |
Climate Change Detection Project |
|
CCGT |
Combined Cycle Gas Turbine |
|
CCI |
Commission for Climatology |
|
CCIFP |
Chambre de Compensation des Instruments Financiers de Paris |
|
CCIR |
International Radio Consultative Committee (French Acronym) |
|
CCITT |
International Consultative Committee on Telegraphs andTelecommunications |
|
CCIW |
Canadian Centre for Inland Waters |
|
CCL |
Close Circuit Loop |
|
CCL |
Central CO2 Laboratory, SIO (WMO) |
|
CCLB |
Carbon content of living biomass |
|
CCM |
community climate model |
|
CCM0 |
Community Climate Model (NCAR) |
|
CCM1 |
community climate model one |
|
CCM2 |
community climate model two |
|
CCMS |
Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society |
|
CCN |
Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
|
CCOM |
Control Center Operations Manager |
|
CCOP |
Committee for the Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas |
|
CCR |
California Code of Regulation |
|
CCR |
Cost-Charge Ratio |
|
CCRS |
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing |
|
CCS |
Central Checkout System |
|
CCSDS |
Consultative Committee for Standard Data Services |
|
CCSDS |
Consultive Committee for Space Data Systems |
|
CCSM |
Control Center Systems Manager |
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CCT |
computer-compatible tape |
|
CCTV |
CLOSE CIRCUIT TELEVISION |
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CD |
Compact Disc |
|
CD-ROM |
compact disc-read only memory |
|
CDAS |
Climate Data Assimilation System |
|
CDC |
Control Data Corporation, Incorporated |
|
CDCR |
Conceptual Design and Cost Review |
|
CDDI |
Copper Distributed Data Interface |
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CDDIS |
Crustal Dynamics Data Information System |
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CDF |
Common Data Format |
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CDHF |
Central Data Handling Facility |
|
CDI |
Certificado de Depsito Interbancrio |
|
CDIAC |
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente |
|
CDIC |
Carbon Dioxide Information Center (now CDIAC) |
|
CDMS |
Cryospheric Data Management System |
|
CDMU |
Central Data Management Unit |
|
CDNC |
Cloud drop number concentration |
|
CDOS |
Customer Data and Operations System |
|
CDP |
Crustal Dynamics Project (NASA) |
|
CDRD |
Carbon Dioxide Research Division |
|
CDRP |
Carbon Dioxide Research Program (of US Department Of Energy) |
|
CDS |
Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer |
|
CDW |
Circumpolar Deep Water |
|
ce |
Collateral Estoppel |
|
CE |
Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy (US Department of Energy) |
|
CEA |
Central Electricity Authority |
|
CEA |
Council of Economic Advisors |
|
CEAREX |
Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment |
|
CEC |
Cation Exchange Capacity |
|
CEC |
Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC) |
|
CEDAR |
Coupled Energetics and Dynamics of the Atmospheric Regions |
|
CEDDA |
Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis (NOAA) |
|
Cedel |
Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs mobiles |
|
CEEM |
Center for Energy and Environmental Management |
|
CEES |
Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences |
|
CEI |
Center for Environmental Information |
|
CELIAS |
Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System |
|
CEM |
Cumulus Ensemble Model |
|
CEMA |
Council of Mutual Economic Aid (Russian Federation, formerly U.S.S.R.) |
|
CEN |
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) a European business organization aimed at removing trade barriers for European industry and consumers. |
|
CENELEC |
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (EC) |
|
CENR |
Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources |
|
CENTO |
Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact) |
|
CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
|
cep |
Comite Ecumenico de Proyectos |
|
CEP |
Circular Error Probable |
|
CEPAC |
COSTEP-ERNE Particle Analysis Collaboration |
|
CEPAL |
Comision Economica para America Latina (Spain) (ECLA) |
|
CEPEX |
Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment |
|
CEPT |
Conference Europeenne des Administration des Postes etTelecommunications |
|
CEQ |
Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.) |
|
CER |
carbon dioxide exchange rate |
|
Ceram |
Ceramic |
|
CERCLA |
Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 |
|
CERES |
Clouds And The Earth's Radiant Energy System (EOS) |
|
CERES |
Crop Environment Resource Synthesis |
|
CERGA |
Centre d'Etudes et de Rechereches Geodynamiques et Astronomiques |
|
CERL |
Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA) |
|
CERN |
Conseil European pour la Recherche Nuclaire, or European Organization for Nuclear Research |
|
CERN |
Chinese Ecological Research Network |
|
CERN |
European Laboratory for Particle Physics |
|
CERP |
Cooperative Ecological Research Project |
|
CERSAT |
French group for processing ERTS-1 low bit rate data from ocean areas |
|
CERT |
Certificate |
|
Certif |
certificate |
|
CES |
Committee on Earth Sciences (now CEES) |
|
CETA |
Comprehensive Education and Training Administration |
|
CETA |
Carbon Emissions Trajectory Assessment |
|
CF |
Carbon Fraction |
|
CfA |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA |
|
CFAGB |
Carbon fraction of above ground biomass |
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CFC |
Chloroflourocarbon |
|
CFC-11 |
CC13F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11 |
|
CFC-113 |
CCl2FCClF2, 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane |
|
CFC-12 |
CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12 |
|
CFEM |
Combined Fates and Effects Model |
|
CFF |
Carbon fraction of fuel |
|
CFM |
Chlorofluoromethane |
|
CFO |
Cancel Former Order |
|
CFP |
Cypher Feedback |
|
CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
|
cfr |
Call for Response |
|
CFRI |
Central Fuel Research Institute (India) |
|
CFTC |
Commodities Futures Trading Commission |
|
CGBAPS |
Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station |
|
CGC |
Management and Coordination Advisory Committee |
|
CGC |
Committee on Global Change |
|
CGCM |
coupled atmosphere/ocean general circulation model |
|
CGCP |
Canadian Global Change Program |
|
CGED |
Committee on Geophysical Environmental Data (NAS) |
|
CGES |
Center for Global Environmental Studies |
|
CGMS |
Coordination of Geostationary Meteorological Satellites |
|
CGMW |
Commission for the Geological Map of the World |
|
CGO |
Cape Grim (Tasmania) (baseline station) |
|
CGO |
Cape Grim Observatory |
|
Ch.Hist |
Church history |
|
CH.SS |
Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel |
|
CH3CCl3 |
methylchloroform (1,1,1-trichloroethane) |
|
CH3CL |
Methyl Chloride |
|
CH4 |
Methane, Natural Gas |
|
CH4-C |
Methane-carbon ratio |
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Chamb |
chamber |
|
CHAMMP |
Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model Physics |
|
CHAPS |
Clearing House Automated Payment System |
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Char |
Character |
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CHARAC |
Character |
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CHAS |
Charles |
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Chem.Engin |
chemical engineering |
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CHEMRAWN |
Chemical Research Applied to World Needs |
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Chesh |
Cheshire |
|
CHIPS |
Clearing House Interbank Payments System |
|
CHP |
Combined heat and power |
|
CHRIS |
Chemical Hazard Response Information System |
|
CHRON |
Chronicles |
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Chronol |
chronology |
|
Chrons |
chronicles |
|
CHY |
Commission for Hydrology |
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CI |
Conservation International (Washington, D.C.) (NGO) |
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CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
|
CIAP |
Climate Impact Assessment Program |
|
CIBOR |
Copenhagen Interbank Offered Rate |
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CIDA |
Canadian International Development Agency |
|
CIE |
Chinese Institute of Electronics |
|
CIEA |
Committee on International Environmental Activities |
|
CIESIN |
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network |
|
CIF |
Cost, Insurance, Freight |
|
CIF |
Coming into Force |
|
CIG |
Commonwealth Industrial Gases |
|
CIHEAM |
Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneenes |
|
CIL |
Coal India Limited |
|
CILSS |
Comite Inter-Etats pour la Lutte Contre laSecheresse au Sahel |
|
CIMO |
Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation |
|
CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies |
|
Cinematogr |
cinematography |
|
CINOF |
Campaign for Integrated Observations of Solar Flares |
|
CIR |
color-infrared |
|
CIRAC |
Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry |
|
CIRES |
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
|
CIRT |
cirrus test |
|
CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
|
CISPR |
International Special Committee on Radio Interference |
|
CISTI |
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information |
|
CIT |
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) |
|
CITE |
Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation |
|
CIUS |
Conseil International des Unions Scientifiqes (ICSU) |
|
Civ.Law |
civil law |
|
Civil Engin |
civil engineering |
|
CJS |
Corpus Juris Secundum |
|
CKE |
cumulus kinetic energy |
|
CL |
Common Law |
|
CLAES |
Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |
|
CLARET |
Cloud Lidar and Radar Exploratory Test |
|
Class |
classical |
|
CLASS |
Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System |
|
Class.Antiq |
classical antiquities |
|
Classif |
classification |
|
CLAVR |
Clouds from AVHRR |
|
CLI |
Climate Change (project) |
|
CLIC |
Climate Inventory and Catalog |
|
CLICOM |
Climate Computing |
|
CLIMAP |
Climate Applications Project (WMO) |
|
CLIMAP |
Climate Long-Range Investigation Mapping and Prediction (project) |
|
Climatol |
Climatology |
|
Clin |
Clinic |
|
CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability program |
|
ClNO3 |
chlorine nitrate |
|
ClO |
Chlorine Monoxide |
|
ClO2 |
chlorine dioxide |
|
ClONO2 |
chlorine nitrate |
|
CLP |
Contract Laboratory Program (EPA) |
|
CLRI |
Central Leather Research Institute |
|
CLS |
Collected Localization Satellites (France) |
|
cm |
Centimeter |
|
cm3 |
cubic centimeter (milliliter) |
|
CMA |
Cement Manufacturers'Association |
|
CMAP |
Climate Modeling, Analysis & Prediction |
|
CMC |
Canadian Meteorological Centre |
|
CMD |
Coordinator for Multi-lateral Development Program |
|
CMD |
Command |
|
CMDL |
Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder |
|
CME |
Community Modelling Effort (U.K.) |
|
CMIE |
Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy |
|
CMM |
Commission for Marine Meteorology |
|
CMO |
Configuration Management Office |
|
CMP |
Climate Modelling Programme |
|
CMP |
computer modeling package |
|
CMRS |
Coal Mines Research Station |
|
CMS |
Configuration Management System |
|
CMS |
Command Management System |
|
CMSE |
Command Management Systems Engineer |
|
CN |
condensation nuclei |
|
CNC |
Condensation Nucleus Counter |
|
CNeg |
Contributory negligence |
|
CNES |
Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales |
|
CNET |
Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (France) |
|
CNG |
Compressed natural gas |
|
CNR |
Committee on Natural Resources |
|
CNR |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) |
|
CNRET |
Centre for Natural Resources Energy and Transport (UN) |
|
CNRS |
National Scientific Research Center (Centre Nationale de la Recherche |
|
CO |
Carbon Monoxide |
|
CO-C |
Carbon monoxide carbon trace gas emission |
|
CO-I |
Co-Investigator |
|
CO2 |
Carbon Dioxide |
|
COADS |
Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
|
COARE |
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP) |
|
COBIOTECH |
Scientific Committee for Biotechnology |
|
COBS |
Central On Board Software |
|
CODATA |
Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU) |
|
CODMAC |
Committee On Data Management, Archiving, and Computation |
|
COE |
Creek Corps of Engineers |
|
COGEOMAP |
Federal-State Cooperative Geologic Mapping |
|
cogn.w |
cognate with |
|
COHMAP |
Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project |
|
COL |
Colonel |
|
COLA |
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies |
|
Coll |
COLLege |
|
collect |
collective |
|
Colloq |
colloquies |
|
Coloss |
Colossians |
|
Com |
Commission |
|
COM |
Communication Department |
|
COM |
Common |
|
COMB |
Combination |
|
comb.form |
combining form |
|
Combs |
combination |
|
COMM |
Commerce |
|
COMM |
Common |
|
COMM |
Commentary |
|
Conversat |
conversation |
|
Convoc |
convocation |
|
COP |
Conference of the Parties |
|
COPS |
continuously operating per fluorocarbon sniffer |
|
COPUOS |
Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN) |
|
COR |
Corinthians |
|
CORES |
Computer Assisted Order Routing and Execution System |
|
Cornw |
Cornwall |
|
Coron |
coronation |
|
Corp. |
Corporation |
|
CORR |
Correspondence |
|
Corresp |
correspondence |
|
COS |
Carbonyl sulfide |
|
CoSAMC |
Commission for Special Applications of Meteorology and Climatology |
|
COSPAR |
Committee on Space Research (ICSU) |
|
COST |
Committee on Science and Technology (ASEAN) |
|
COSTED |
Committee On Science & Technology in Developing Countries |
|
COSTEP |
Comprehensive Supra Thermal and Energetic Particle Analyzer |
|
COSTR |
Collaborative Solar-Terrestrial Research |
|
COTS |
Commercial Off the Shelf Software |
|
Counc |
council |
|
Courtsh |
courtship |
|
COW |
Committee on Water |
|
COWAR |
Committee on Water Research (ICSU and UATI) |
|
COWRR |
Committee on Water Resources Research |
|
CPA |
Centrally Planned Asia |
|
CPC |
Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center) |
|
cpd |
Compound |
|
CPE |
Eastern Europe (also called Centrally Planned Europe) |
|
CPEs |
Centrally-planned economies |
|
CPI |
Consumer Price Index |
|
CPM |
Critical Path Method |
|
CPMS |
climatological prediction by model statistics |
|
CPO |
Core Project Office |
|
CPP |
Cloud Photopolarimeter |
|
CPPC |
Core Project Planning Committee (IGBP) |
|
CPRS |
cloud-profiling radar system |
|
CPS |
Certified Professional Secretary |
|
CPU |
Central Processing Unit |
|
CPUE |
Catch Per Unit Effort |
|
CR |
Carrington Rotation |
|
Craniol |
craniology |
|
Craniom |
craniometry |
|
CRC |
Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check) |
|
CRC |
Climate Research Committee |
|
CRD |
Carbon released from dead biomass |
|
CRE |
Centro Ricerche Energia, Italy (ENEA) |
|
CRE |
Coal Research Establishment of BCC (U.K.) |
|
CREN |
Chemical Research and Environmental Needs |
|
CREO |
Cryosphere Research on Qingzang Plateau |
|
CRESP |
Coordinated Research and Environmental Surveillance Programme |
|
CRF |
Cloud Radiative Forcing |
|
CRI |
Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University) |
|
CRIC |
Computerized River Information System |
|
CRIM |
Criminal |
|
Crim.Law |
criminal law |
|
CRL |
Carbon released from living biomass |
|
CRM |
Certified Reference Material |
|
CRP |
Climate Research Program |
|
CRPE |
Centre de Recherches en Physique de l'Environment Terrestre et Planetaria |
|
CRREL |
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE) |
|
CRS |
cavity-ringdown spectrometer |
|
CRT |
Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV) |
|
Crts |
courts |
|
CRU |
Climatic Research Unit (UEA, Norwich, U.K.) |
|
Cryptogr |
cryptography |
|
Crystallogr |
crystallography |
|
CRYSYS |
Cryospheric System |
|
CS |
Computer Services Department |
|
CSA |
Chinese Society of Astronautics |
|
CSA |
Canadian Space Agency |
|
CSATA |
Centra Studi e Applicazioni in Tecnologie Avanzate (Italy) |
|
CSCE |
Coffe, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange |
|
csd |
Commission on Sustainable Development's |
|
CSEC |
Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (University of Lancaster) |
|
CSELI |
Centra Studi e Laboratori Telecommunicazioni (Italy) |
|
CSERGE |
Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment |
|
CSES |
Center for the Study of Earth from Space (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
|
CSIR |
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
|
CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and IndustrialResearch Organization |
|
CSIRO/DAR |
CSIRO/Division of Atmospheric Research |
|
CSM |
Climate System Monitoring |
|
CSMP |
Climate System Modeling Program |
|
CSO |
Central Statistical Organization |
|
CSPAAD |
Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Detection |
|
CSPP |
Collaborative Special Project and Programme |
|
CSR |
Centra de Sensores Remotes (Italy) |
|
CSRS |
Cooperative State Research Service (US Dept. Of Agriculture) |
|
CSSA |
Center for Space Science and Astrophysics |
|
CST |
CHAMMP Science Team |
|
CSTC |
Consolidated Satellite Test Center |
|
CSTR |
Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research (BASC) |
|
CSU |
Colorado State University (Fort Collins) |
|
Ct. Cl. |
the United States Court of Federal Claims Reporter |
|
CTA-21 |
Compatibility Test Area |
|
CTD |
Chemical Technology Division (ORNL) |
|
CTM |
Chemistry/Transport Models |
|
CTOF |
Charge Time-Of-Flight |
|
CTR |
computerized trading reconstruction system |
|
CTS |
Committee on the Teaching of Science |
|
CTSS |
Cray Time-Sharing System |
|
CTU |
Central Terminal Unit |
|
CTV |
Compatibility Test Van |
|
CU |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
|
CUF |
capacity utilization factor |
|
CUMB |
CUMBERLAND TECHNOLOGIES INC. |
|
Cumberld |
Cumberland |
|
Cumbld |
Cumberland |
|
CV |
Calorific Value |
|
CVS |
Conference and Visitors'Services |
|
CW |
"Conventional Wisdom" scenario, World Bank, 1990 |
|
CW |
Continuous Wave |
|
CWA |
Clean Water Act (1977) |
|
CWR |
continuous-wave radar |
|
CWSF |
Chemical Waste Storage Facility |
|
cx |
Cross-Examination |
|
Cx |
Constitution |
|
Cx-C |
Cross-claim |
|
Cxl |
Constitutional |
|
CY |
Calendar Year |
|
Cycl |
cyclopaedia |
|
Cytol |
Cytology |
|
CZCS |
Coastal Zone Color Scanner |
|
CZM |
Coastal Zone Management |
|
CZMA |
US Coastal Zone Management Act |
|
D |
Deuterium (also abbreviated as 2D or 2H) |
|
D.C |
District of Columbia |
|
D.C. |
District of Columbia |
|
D/H |
deuterium/hydrogen (ratio) |
|
D/L |
Downlink |
|
DA |
discretionary account |
|
DAA |
Data Availability Acknowledgment |
|
DAAC |
Data Active Archive Center |
|
DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Center |
|
DAC |
Days After Contract |
|
DAC |
Data Assembly Centre (WOCE) |
|
DADS |
Data Archive and Distribution System |
|
DAEDALUS |
Documenting Aerosol Electromagnetics, Defining Aerosol Lifetimes and Understanding Sources |
|
DAR |
Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO) |
|
DARA |
Deutsche Agentur fur Raumfahrtangelegenheiten (Germany) |
|
DARE |
data rescue |
|
DARPA |
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US) |
|
DAS |
Data Acquisition System |
|
DAS |
Direct Access System |
|
DASA |
Deutsche Aerospace Administration |
|
DASET |
Department of the Arts, Sports, the Environment, Tourism, and Territories |
|
DASETT |
Department of the Arts, Sports, the Environment, Tourism, and Territories |
|
DAT |
Dative (grammar) |
|
DAT |
Department of Science and Technology |
|
DAU |
Daughter |
|
DAX |
deutsche Aktienindex |
|
DB |
Direct Broadcast |
|
DB |
direct-beam (irradiance) |
|
DBE |
Deep Basin Experiment |
|
DBH |
Diameter at Breast Height |
|
dBI |
Decibels referenced to Isotropic gain |
|
dBm |
Decibels referenced to one milliwatt |
|
DBMS |
Data Base Management System |
|
DBS |
Doppler Beam Swinging |
|
dBW |
Decibels referenced to one watt |
|
DCAR |
Danish Centre for Atmospheric Research |
|
DCDS |
Digital Cartographic Data Standard |
|
DCDSTF |
Digital Cartographic Data Standards Task Force |
|
DCF |
discounted cash flow rate |
|
DCN |
Document Change Notice |
|
DCP |
Data Collection Platform |
|
DCP-OES |
direct coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy |
|
DCS |
Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites) |
|
DCT |
dedicated carbon tax |
|
DD |
degree day |
|
DDA |
Data Delivery Acknowledgement |
|
DDF |
descriptive data file |
|
DDFM |
Data Distribution Facility Manager |
|
DDL |
Direct Downlink |
|
DDMP |
domain-decomposition-message-passing |
|
DDN |
Data Delivery Notice |
|
DDRP |
Direct/Delayed Response Project |
|
DDT |
dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane (insecticide) |
|
dE/dt |
rate of evaporation (moisture loss from soil) |
|
DE08 |
designation for an ice core drilled in 1977 at Law Dome, Antarctica |
|
Deb |
debate |
|
DEBITS |
Deposition of Biogeochemically Important Trace Species (IGAC) |
|
DEC |
Digital Equipment Corporation |
|
Declar |
declaration |
|
DECNET |
Digital Equipment Corporation Network |
|
DED |
Dedicated |
|
DEF |
Defence |
|
Dehydrite |
magnesium perchlorate anhydrous granular |
|
DEIS |
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US) |
|
DEL |
Data Evaluation Laboratory |
|
Deliv |
deliverance |
|
DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
|
Demonstr |
demonstration |
|
DEMR |
Department of Energy Mines and Resources |
|
Depred |
depredation |
|
Depredat |
depredation |
|
Dept |
Department |
|
Derbysh |
Derbyshire |
|
deriv |
derivative |
|
derog |
derogatory |
|
Descr |
Description |
|
DEUT |
Deuteronomy |
|
Devel |
Development |
|
Devonsh |
Devonshire |
|
DEW |
distant early warning (radar) |
|
DFCD |
Data Format Control Documents |
|
DFD |
Data Flow Diagram |
|
DGCM |
Dynamic Global Vegetation Model |
|
DGIB |
DSN/GSFC Interface Blocks |
|
DGLR |
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany) |
|
DGS |
Diego Garcia Station |
|
DGVM |
Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM) |
|
DH |
chromosome-doubled haploid |
|
DHCN |
Daily Historical Climate Network |
|
DHHS |
Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.) |
|
DHP |
Direct High Power |
|
DHS |
Department of Human Services |
|
DHSS |
Data Handling Subsystem |
|
DI |
Direct Index |
|
DI |
Directorate of Intelligence |
|
DI |
Directorate |
|
DIA |
Denmark's Academy for Engineering |
|
DIAL |
Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing) |
|
DIARAD |
Dual Irradiance Absolute Radiometer |
|
Dibid |
Dublin interbank bid rate |
|
DIC |
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon |
|
DICE |
Dynamic Integrated Climate Economy |
|
DICT |
Dictionary |
|
DIDAC |
digital data acquisition system |
|
DIE |
Designated Investment Exchange |
|
DIF |
Data Interchange Format |
|
Diffic |
difficult |
|
DIM |
Diminutive |
|
Direct |
direction |
|
DIS |
Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP) |
|
Dis |
Disease |
|
DIS-SC |
DIS Standing Committee |
|
Disc |
discourse |
|
Discipl |
discipline |
|
Discov |
discovery |
|
Discovery |
Research vessel |
|
Discrim |
discrimination |
|
Discuss |
discussion |
|
DISORT |
Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer |
|
DISORT |
discrete ordinate (model) |
|
Diss |
Dissertation |
|
DISSPLA |
Display Integrated Software System & Plotting Language |
|
DIST |
District |
|
Distemp |
distemper |
|
Distill |
distilling |
|
Distrib |
distribution |
|
DIU |
Data Information Unit (of WOCE Data System) |
|
DIV |
Division |
|
Divers |
diversity |
|
DIW |
Department of Industrial Works |
|
DKD |
Deutscher Kalibrierdienst |
|
DL |
Downlink Message |
|
dlg |
Digital Line Graphic |
|
DLG-E |
Digital Line Graph-Enhanced |
|
DLR |
Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany) |
|
DLS |
Dynamic Limb Sounder |
|
DM |
Data Manual |
|
DM |
deep monitoring (wells)DMA |
|
DM-MIMD |
distributed memory, multiple instruction, multiple data (computer) |
|
DMA |
direct memory access (computer term) |
|
DMA |
U.S. Defense Mapping Agency |
|
DMDS |
Dimethyl Disulfide |
|
DMI |
Direct Member Input |
|
DML |
Direct Memory Load |
|
DMR |
Detailed Mission Requirements |
|
DMR1 |
Detailed Mission Requirements Issue #1 |
|
DMR2 |
Detailed Mission Requirements Issue #2 |
|
DMS |
Dimethyl Sulfide |
|
DMSO |
Dimethyl Sulfoxide |
|
DMSP |
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.) |
|
DNA |
Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid |
|
DND |
Department of National Defense (Canada) |
|
DNES |
Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources (India) |
|
DOA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
|
DOAI |
Department of Agriculture, Indonesia |
|
DOAS |
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
|
DOC |
United States Department of Commerce |
|
DOC |
dissolved organic carbon |
|
doc |
Documentary Organisation of Canada |
|
Doctr |
doctrine |
|
DOD |
United States Department of Defense |
|
DOD |
Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (Germany) |
|
DOE |
Department of the Environment (Canada) |
|
DOE |
United States Department of Energy (government) |
|
DOI |
United States Department of Interior |
|
DOJ |
Department of Justice (US) |
|
DOL |
United States Department of Labor |
|
DOLY |
Dynamic Global Phytogeography Model (GCTE) |
|
DOM |
Dissolved Organic Macromolecules |
|
DOM |
Dissolved Organic Matter |
|
Domest |
domestic |
|
DOMSAT |
Domestic Communications Satellite System |
|
DOMSTAR |
communications relay set |
|
DOPLID |
Doppler LIDAR |
|
DORIS |
Doppler Orbit And Radio Positioning Integration By Satellite |
|
DORIS |
Determination d'Orbite et Radio Positionement Integre par Satellite (France) |
|
DOS |
Department of Space |
|
DOS |
United States Department of State |
|
DOST |
Department of Science and Technology |
|
DOT |
Deployment Operations Team |
|
DOY |
Day of Year |
|
DP |
Direct Playback |
|
DPC |
display code (CDC) |
|
DPC |
Domestic Policy Council |
|
DPE |
Data Processing Engineer |
|
DPI |
Data Processing Installation |
|
DPR |
development planning review |
|
DPS |
Data Processing Segment |
|
DPS |
Digital Photogrammetry System |
|
DQM |
Data Quality Message |
|
DQO |
Data Quality Objective |
|
DR |
Discrepancy Report |
|
DRAC |
SOI/MDI Data Reduction and Analysis Center |
|
DRAW |
Direct Read After Write Animation System |
|
DRS |
Data Relay Satellite |
|
DRSS |
Data Relay Satellite System |
|
DS |
Data Set |
|
DSB |
Direct Sounding Broadcast |
|
DSCC |
Deep Space Communications Complex |
|
DSDP |
Deep-Sea Drilling Project |
|
DSDS |
Data Storage and Distribution System |
|
DSIR |
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research |
|
DSM |
demand-side management |
|
DSN |
Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities. |
|
DSP |
Digital Signal Processor |
|
DSR |
Delivery Status Report |
|
DSRT |
Deep Sea Reversing Thermometer |
|
DSS |
Data Support Section (NCAR) |
|
dst |
Department of Science and Technology's |
|
DST |
data system tests |
|
DTB |
Deutsche Terminborse |
|
DTD |
Digital Terrain Data |
|
DTH |
Technical University of Denmark |
|
DTR |
Diurnal Temperature Range |
|
DU |
Dobson Unit |
|
DUNDEE |
Down Under Doppler and Electricity Experiment |
|
Durh |
Durham |
|
DVP |
Delivery Versus Payment |
|
DWBM |
Office of Defense Waste Byproducts Management |
|
DWS |
Doppler Wind Sensor |
|
DYFAMED |
atmospheric dynamics and fluxes in the Mediterranean Sea (France) |
|
DYN |
Dynamic Systems Project |
|
dyslog |
dyslogistic |
|
E-LIDAR |
Experimental LIDAR |
|
E.Afr |
East Africa |
|
E.Angl |
East Anglia |
|
E.Anglian |
East Anglian |
|
E.D.D |
English Dialect Dictionary |
|
E.E.T.S |
Early English Text Society |
|
e.g. |
Exempli Gratia (for example) |
|
E.Ind |
East India |
|
e.midl |
east midland |
|
E/GDP |
Ratio of energy consumption to gross domestic product |
|
E/GNP |
Ratio of energy consumption to gross national product |
|
EAA |
Earth Attitude Angle |
|
EADS |
Environmental Assessment Data System |
|
EAF |
Experimenter's Analysis Facility |
|
EARN |
European Academic Research Network |
|
EARSEL |
European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories |
|
EAS |
Environmental Analyses Section (ORNL) |
|
EASIZ |
Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone |
|
EASOE |
European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment |
|
East Ind |
East Indies |
|
EAWEP |
East Asia and Western Pacific |
|
EAZO |
Energy Active Zones of the Ocean |
|
EBBR |
Energy-Balance Bowen Ratio |
|
EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Data Interchange Code (IBM) |
|
EBM |
energy-balance model |
|
EC |
European Community |
|
EC |
Executive Council (WMO) |
|
EC-GC |
Electron Capture-Gas Chromatograph |
|
ECA |
Economic Commission for Africa |
|
ECAFE |
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East |
|
ECAMP |
Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program |
|
ECC |
Electrochemical Concentration Cell |
|
Eccl |
ecclesiastical |
|
Eccl.Hist |
ecclesiastical history |
|
Eccl.Law |
ecclesiastical law |
|
Eccles |
ecclesiastical |
|
ECCLUS |
Ecclesiasticus |
|
ECD |
Electron Capture Detector (gas Chromatography) |
|
ECD |
Effective Cutoff Diameter |
|
ECDIS |
Electronic Chart Display and Information System |
|
ECE |
Economische Commissie voor Europa (United Nations) (Dutch: Economic Commission for Europe) |
|
ECG |
Ecosystem Conservation Group (UNEP, FAO, UNESCO, and IUCN) |
|
ECHAM |
European Centre/Hamburg Model (ECMWF/MPI) |
|
ECHIVAL |
European International Project on Climate and Hydrological Interactions between Vegetation, Atmosphere, and Land Surfaces |
|
ECHO |
Exchange Clearing House |
|
ecla |
Economic Commission for Latin American |
|
ECLAC |
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN) |
|
ECLIPS |
Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study |
|
ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
|
ECN |
Environmental Change Network |
|
ECN |
Netherlands Energy Research Foundation |
|
Ecom. |
EOS communications |
|
ECOMARGE |
ecology of the continental margins |
|
ECON |
Economics |
|
ECOSOC |
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
|
ECOWARM |
European Committee for Water Resources Management (IAHS) |
|
ECS |
Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies (project) |
|
ECS |
EOSDIS Core System |
|
ECSL |
European Centre for Space Law |
|
ECTF |
Edinburgh Centre for Tropical Forests |
|
ECU |
Environmental Change Unit (Oxford) |
|
ECWA |
Economic Commission for Western Asia |
|
ED |
Energy Division |
|
EDA |
elevation difference accuracy |
|
EDAS |
particulate/radon data system |
|
EDC |
EROS Data Center |
|
EDD |
Exchange of Digital Data |
|
EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
|
Edinb |
Edinburgh |
|
EDIS |
Environmental Data and Information Service |
|
EDL |
Ethernet Data Link |
|
EDOS |
EOS Data and Operations System |
|
EDP |
Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE]) |
|
EDS |
Environmental Data Service |
|
EDSG |
Energy Demand Steering Group |
|
EDSP |
Exchange Delivery Settlement Price |
|
EDTA |
ethylenediaminetetraacetate |
|
EDUC |
Educational Development Corporation |
|
EDX |
energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry |
|
EDXS |
Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy |
|
EE |
Employee |
|
EEC |
European Economic Commission |
|
EEFSU |
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union |
|
EEI |
Edison Electric Institute |
|
EEP |
east equatorial Pacific |
|
EER |
External Engineering Review |
|
EEZ |
Exclusive Economic Zone |
|
EF |
Emission Factor |
|
EFCC |
Externally Fired Combined Cycle |
|
EFEDTA |
European Field Experiment in Decertification Threatened Area |
|
EFP |
Exchange For Physicals |
|
EFQ |
Estimated fuel quantity consumed (Used to determine carbon stored) |
|
EFS |
exchange of futures for swaps |
|
EG&G |
Edgerton, Germeshauser, and Greer |
|
EGCM |
Eddy-Resolving General Circulation Model |
|
EGE |
Enhanced Greenhouse Effect |
|
EGS |
European Geophysical Society |
|
EGSE |
Electrical Ground Support Equipment |
|
Egypt |
Egyptian |
|
Egyptol |
Egyptology |
|
EHP |
Extended High Power |
|
EHPC |
Extended High Priority Command |
|
EIA |
Environmental impact assessment (international) |
|
EID |
Experiment Interface Document |
|
EIPO |
European IGAC Project Office Steering Committee |
|
EIS |
Environmental Impact Statement (US) |
|
EISCAT |
European Incoherent Scatter Facility |
|
EISMV |
Ecole Inter-Etats des Sciences et de Medecine Veterinaire (Dakar) |
|
EIT |
Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope |
|
EJ |
Exajoule |
|
ELEC |
Electronic |
|
Electr |
Electric |
|
Electr.Engin |
electrical engineering |
|
Electro-magn |
electro-magnetism |
|
Electro-physiol |
electro-physiology |
|
ELEM |
Element |
|
Eliz |
Elizabeth |
|
Elizab |
Elizabethan |
|
Ellipt |
Elliptical |
|
ELS |
Eastern Lake Survey |
|
ELV |
Expendable Launch Vehicle |
|
EM |
Electromagnetic |
|
EMAP |
Environmental Monitoring And Assessment Program (US EPA) |
|
EMB |
Embassy |
|
Embryol |
embryology |
|
EMEP |
Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of Long-Range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe |
|
EMEP-CCC |
EMEP-Chemical Coordination Centre |
|
EMEX |
Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment |
|
EMF |
Energy Modelling Forum |
|
EML |
Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE) |
|
EMOC |
EOSDIS Mission Operations Center |
|
emph |
emphatic |
|
EMR |
Electromagnetic Radiation |
|
EMSL |
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory (EPA) |
|
EMSL-LV |
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory - Las Vegas (Nevada) |
|
En |
Natural forest biomass used for energy |
|
Encycl |
encyclopaedia |
|
Encycl.Brit |
Encyclopaedia Britannica |
|
Encycl.Metrop |
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana |
|
ENEA |
Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Lo Sviluppo Dell' Energia Nucleare E Delle Energie Alternative |
|
ENEA |
Italian National Agency for New technology, Energy and the Environment |
|
ENG |
England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram) |
|
Engin |
engineering |
|
Englishw |
Englishwomen |
|
ENQ |
Enquiry |
|
ENRIC |
Environment and Natural Resources Information Center |
|
ENRICH |
European Network for Research on Global Change (CEC) |
|
ENSO |
El Nino/Southern Oscillation (coupled oceanic-atmospheric change) |
|
ENT |
Entomology (code) |
|
Enthus |
enthusiasm |
|
Entom |
entomology |
|
Entomol |
entomology |
|
ENVISAT |
European Space Agency Environmental Satellite |
|
Enzymol |
enzymology |
|
EO-ICWG |
Earth Observations International Coordination Working Group |
|
EOC |
EOS Operations Center (NASA) |
|
EOC |
Earth Observation Center (NASDA) |
|
EOCAP |
Earth Observation Commercialization Application Program |
|
EODC |
Earth Observing Data Center (U.K.) |
|
EOF |
Empirical Orthogonal Function |
|
EOM |
End of Mission |
|
EOPM |
electro-optic phase modulation |
|
EORCU |
European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit |
|
EOS |
Earth Observing System (U.S.) |
|
EOS PM |
Earth Observing System afternoon pass |
|
EOS-AERO |
EOS Aerosol Mission |
|
EOS-ALT |
EOS Altimetry Mission |
|
EOS-CHEM |
EOS Chemistry Mission |
|
EOSAT |
Earth Observation Satellite Co. |
|
EOSC |
Earth Observations Science Committee (of ESA) |
|
EOSDIS |
EOS Data and Information System (NASA) |
|
EOSP |
Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter |
|
EOTC |
European Organization for Testing and Certification (EC) |
|
EP |
Earth Probe |
|
EP |
Extraction Procedure |
|
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency (US) |
|
EPA |
Environmental Protection Authority (Victoria, Australia) |
|
EPC |
Environmental Protection Committee (Bahrain) |
|
EPD |
European Pollen Database |
|
EPER |
Environmental Processes and Effects Research (program) |
|
EPH |
Ephesians |
|
Ephes |
Ephesians |
|
EPHIN |
Electron Proton Helium Instrument |
|
EPI |
environmental productivity index |
|
EPICA |
European Programme for Ice Coring in Antarctica (PAGES) |
|
Epil |
epilogue |
|
Episc |
episcopacy |
|
Epist |
epistle |
|
Epit |
epitaph |
|
EPO |
EOS Project Office |
|
EPOCH |
European Programme on Climate and Hazards |
|
EPOP |
European Polar-Orbiting Platform |
|
EPOPE |
Etude de Processes dans l'Ocean Pacifique Equatorial |
|
EPRI |
Electric Power Research Institute (US) |
|
epsrc |
l'Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council |
|
EPSS |
Electrical Power Subsystem |
|
EPV |
Extended Precision Vector |
|
EQPAC |
Equatorial Pacific |
|
ER |
Energy Research |
|
ER |
Employer |
|
ER-2 |
Extended Range U-2 (aircraft) |
|
ERA |
Exchange Rate Agreement |
|
ERB |
Earth Radiation Budget |
|
ERBE |
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
|
ERBES |
Earth Radiation Budget Explorer Satellite |
|
ERBS |
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
|
ERD |
Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER) |
|
ERDA |
U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (formerly AEC; now DOE) |
|
ERDAS |
Earth Resources Data Analysis System |
|
ERFEN |
Estudio Regional Del Fenomeno El Nino |
|
ERFU |
Environmental Restoration and Facilities Upgrade Program |
|
ERIM |
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan |
|
ERL |
Environmental Research Laboratory |
|
ERNE |
Energetic and Relativistic Nuclei and Electron Experiment |
|
ERNets |
Energy Research Networks |
|
ERNI |
wet-only rainfall collector |
|
EROC |
Ecological Rates of Change (NSF) |
|
EROS |
Earth Resources Observation Satellite |
|
EROS |
European River Ocean System (EEC) |
|
EROS |
Earth Resources Observation System |
|
ERP |
Environmental Research Parks |
|
erron |
erroneous |
|
ERS |
Earth Resources Systems |
|
ERS |
Economic Research Service |
|
ERS |
Earth Resources Survey |
|
ERS |
ESA Remote Sensing Satellite |
|
ERS-1 |
European Remote-Sensing Satellite-1 |
|
ERS-2 |
European Remote-Sensing Satellite-2 |
|
ERTS |
Earth Resources Technology Satellite (now Landsat) |
|
ERTS-1 |
Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1 |
|
ESA |
Entomological Society of America |
|
ESA |
Endangered Species Act of 1973 |
|
ESA |
Ecological Society of America |
|
ESA |
European Space Agency |
|
ESA |
Equatorial South America (START) |
|
ESA/IRS |
European Space Agency/Information Retrieval Service |
|
ESAD |
Earth Science and Applications Division |
|
ESAER |
European Space Agency's Earth Resources (Satellite) |
|
ESAM |
Institute for Environmental Science and Management |
|
ESCAP |
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN) |
|
ESD |
Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL) |
|
ESDIS |
Earth Science Data and Information System |
|
ESDOC |
European Science Data and Operations Center |
|
ESF |
European Science Foundation |
|
ESF/EPC |
ESF/European Palaeoclimate and Man Project |
|
ESMAP |
Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme |
|
ESMC |
Eastern Space And Missile Center (formerly AFETR) |
|
ESMR |
Electronically Scanning Microwave Radiometer |
|
ESOC |
European Space Operations Center |
|
ESP |
Especially |
|
ESPOCC |
European Space Project Operations Control Center |
|
ESR |
Emergency Sun Reacquisition |
|
ESRC |
Environmental Science Research Center |
|
ESRC |
Economic and Social Research Council |
|
ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute (developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, Redlands, California) |
|
Ess |
essay |
|
ESSA |
U.S. Environmental Science Services Agency |
|
ESSC |
Earth System Sciences Committee |
|
Essent |
essential |
|
Establ |
establishment |
|
ESTAR |
electronically scanned thinned array radiometer (ARM) |
|
ESTEC |
European Research and Technology Center |
|
ESTH |
Esther |
|
ESTRACK |
European Space Tracking |
|
ET |
evapotranpiration |
|
ETA |
Estimated Time of Arrival |
|
ETAC |
(USAF) Environmental Technical Applications Center |
|
ETAP |
Expanded Technical Assistance Program |
|
ETC |
Energy Technology Center |
|
ETC |
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (EC) |
|
etc. |
and others especially of the same kind; and so forth |
|
ETF |
Environmental Task Force |
|
ETF |
Engineered Test Facility |
|
Ethernet |
Local area network defined by ISO 802.3 |
|
Ethnol |
Ethnology |
|
ETI |
Economic Transition and Integration (project) |
|
ETM |
Enhanced Thematic Mapper |
|
ETO |
Exchange Traded Option |
|
ETRP |
Education and Training Programme (WMO) |
|
ETSA |
electron transport system activity |
|
ETV |
electrothermal vaporizer |
|
ETYM |
Etymology |
|
ETYMOL |
Etymology |
|
EU |
European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC) |
|
EUMELI |
eutrophic, mesotrophic, and oligotrophic sites (France) (JGOFS) |
|
EUMETSAT |
European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
|
euphem |
euphemistic |
|
EUR |
Bureau of European Affairs |
|
EURECA |
European Retrievable Carrier |
|
EUROSTART |
European Planning Committee for START |
|
EUROTRAC |
European Experiment on Transport and Transformation of Environmentally Relevant Trace Constituents in the Troposphere over Europe |
|
EUV |
Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical |
|
EVA |
Extra-Vehicular Activity |
|
EVAL |
evaluation |
|
Evang |
evangelical |
|
Even |
evening |
|
EVID |
Evidence |
|
Evol |
Evolution |
|
Ex.doc |
executive document |
|
Exalt |
exaltation |
|
Exam |
Examination |
|
EXCH |
Exchange |
|
EXCH |
EXCHANGE BANKSHARES, INC. |
|
ExComm |
Executive Committee |
|
Exerc |
exercise |
|
Exhib |
exhibit |
|
EXOD |
Exodus |
|
EXP |
Experiment |
|
Explan |
explanation |
|
Explic |
explication |
|
Explor |
Exploration |
|
Expos |
exposition |
|
EZE |
Asociacion Protestante de Cooperacion para el Desarrollo en Alemania |
|
EZEK |
Ezekiel |
|
F |
Fraction |
|
F. |
Federal Reporter |
|
F.2d |
Federal Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
F.3d |
Federal Reporter, 3rd Series |
|
F.App'x |
Federal Appendix |
|
F.Cas. |
Federal Cases 1789–1880 |
|
f.o.b. |
free on board |
|
f.o.r. |
free on rail |
|
F.Supp. |
Federal Supplement |
|
F.Supp.2d |
Federal Supplement, 2nd Series |
|
FAB |
Finance and Budget |
|
FABF |
Fraction of agri-residue burned in fields |
|
FACE |
free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (GCTE) |
|
FAD |
Fraction actually degrades |
|
FAGS |
Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Services (ICSU) |
|
FAI |
Fertilizer Association of India |
|
Fam |
Family |
|
famil |
familiar |
|
FANGIO |
Feedback Analysis for GCM Intercomparison and Observations |
|
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
|
FAP |
Food and Agriculture Project |
|
FAPIS |
Formation en Amenagement Pastoral Integre au Sahel |
|
FAQ |
Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak) |
|
FAR |
Flight Analysis Review |
|
Farew |
farewell |
|
FARS |
Facility for Atmospheric Remove Sensing |
|
FAS |
Free Alongside Ship |
|
FASINEX |
Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment |
|
FAST |
Fourier amplitude-sensitivity test |
|
FATE |
Formation of Aerosol and their Transformation over Europe (EUROTRAC) |
|
FAZ |
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
|
FB |
Fraction burned annually |
|
FBC |
Fluidized Bed Combustor |
|
FBS |
Frontal Boundary Study |
|
FC |
Fuel Consumption |
|
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission (US) |
|
FCCC |
For the Framework Convention on Climate Change |
|
FCCSET |
Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology |
|
FCDS |
Fleet Consolidated Data Set (U.S. Navy) |
|
FCL |
Foldback Current Limiter |
|
FCOJ |
frozen concentrated orange juice |
|
FCST |
Federal Council for Science and Technology |
|
FCV |
Flow Control Valve |
|
FD |
Fraction that is dead |
|
FDA |
facility disposal area |
|
FDD |
Flight Dynamics Division |
|
FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
|
FDF |
Flight Dynamics Facility |
|
FDH |
Fixed Dynamical Heating |
|
FDI |
field data investor |
|
FDM |
Finite-Difference Method |
|
FDOC |
Fraction of degradable organic carbon |
|
FDSS |
Flight Dynamics Support System |
|
FDST |
Flight Dynamics Support Team |
|
FE |
Fossil Energy |
|
Fe |
Iron (Latin ''Ferrum'') |
|
FEB |
February |
|
Fed. R. Bankr. P. |
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure |
|
Fed. R. Crim. P. |
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure |
|
FEDC |
Fusion Energy Design Center |
|
FEDMAP |
Federal Geologic Mapping Project |
|
FEHEM |
Front-End Hardware Emulator |
|
FEIS |
Final Environmental impact statement (US) |
|
FeLINE |
Iron as a Limiting-Nutrient Experiment (CSIRO) |
|
FEM |
Finite Element Method |
|
FEMA |
Finite Element Model of Material Transport through Aquifers |
|
FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
|
FEP |
Front-End Processor |
|
FERC |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.) |
|
FEWA |
Finite Element of Water Flow through Aquifers |
|
FF |
Free Format |
|
FFES |
Fossil Free Energy System |
|
FFO |
Fraction of oxidized |
|
FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
FGCC |
Federal Geodetic Control Committee |
|
FGD |
Flue Gas Desulphurisation |
|
FGDC |
Federal Geographic Data Commission |
|
FGEF |
Federal Geographic Exchange Format |
|
FGGE |
First GARPGlobal Experiment |
|
Fgge Sop |
Fgge Special Observing Period |
|
FIBOR |
Frankfurt Interbank Offered Rate |
|
FICCDC |
Federal Interagency CoordinatingCommittee on Digital Cartography |
|
FICCDC/SWG |
FICCDC/Standards Working Group |
|
FID |
Flame Ionization Detector (gas Chromatography) |
|
FIELD |
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development |
|
FIEX-35 |
stock index |
|
FIFE |
First ISLSCP Field Experiment |
|
Fifesh |
Fifeshire |
|
FIFO |
First In, First Out |
|
FIFRA |
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (1972) |
|
fig |
figurative |
|
FIMBRA |
Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Authority |
|
FIN |
Fish Information Network (data base) |
|
FINEX |
a division of the New York Cotton Exchange |
|
FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standard |
|
FIRE |
First ISCCP Regional Experiment |
|
FIREIFO |
First ISCCP Regional Experiment |
|
FIRESCAN |
Fire Research Campaign Asia-North |
|
FIT |
Field Investigation Team (US EPA) |
|
FITS |
Flexible Image Transport System |
|
FIZ |
Fachinformationszentrum |
|
FL |
Fraction that live |
|
fl |
''floruit'' (Latin, "living") (genealogy) |
|
FLAIR |
Measurement of Micronutrient Absorption and Status |
|
FLINN |
Fiducial Laboratories for an International Natural Sciences Network |
|
FLM |
federal land manager (e.g., National Park Service) |
|
FLUPAC |
flux dans l'ouest du Pacifique equatorial (France) (JGOFS) |
|
FM |
Flight Module |
|
FMFR |
four-minus-five restoral |
|
FMFT |
four-minus-five test |
|
FMI |
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland |
|
FNOC |
Fleet Numerical Oceanographic Center (U.S. Navy) |
|
FNWC |
Fleet Numerical Weather Center (U.S. Navy) |
|
FO |
Furnace Oil |
|
FOAM |
Fates of Aromatic Model |
|
FOFs |
futures and options funds |
|
FOK |
fill or kill order |
|
FOLAN |
Flight Operations Local Area Network |
|
FOLD |
Federally-Owned LANDSAT Data |
|
FOM |
Finnish Options Market |
|
Footpr |
footprint |
|
FOP |
Fligth Operations Plan |
|
FOR |
Forestry Resources (project) |
|
FORAST |
Forest Response to Anthropogenic Stress (model) |
|
FORET |
Forest of East Tennessee (model) |
|
Forfarsh |
Forfarshire |
|
FORTE |
Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events |
|
Fortif |
fortification |
|
Fortn |
fortnightly |
|
FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation (a computer language) |
|
FOT |
Flight Operation Trainer |
|
FOT |
Fourier Optical Transform |
|
Found |
foundation |
|
FOV |
Field Of View (satellite) |
|
FOX |
London Futures and Options Exchange |
|
FPD |
Flame Photometric Detector |
|
FPSS |
Fine Pointing Sun Sensor |
|
FPSSE |
Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Electronics |
|
FPSSH |
Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Head |
|
FR |
Federal Register |
|
FR |
French Republic |
|
FRA |
Forward Rate Agreement |
|
Fragm |
fragment |
|
FRAM |
Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (U.K.) |
|
Fratern |
fraternity |
|
FRCP |
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
|
FRD |
Flight Requirements Document |
|
FRE |
Federal Rules of Evidence |
|
FREQ |
Frequent |
|
frg |
Federal Republic of Germany's |
|
FRI |
Forest Research Institute |
|
Friendsh |
friendship |
|
FRLAB |
Front Range Lidar, Aircraft, and Balloon (experiment) |
|
FRN |
Floating Rate Note |
|
FRONTAL |
frontal process studies (France) (JGOFS) |
|
FRR |
Fast Repetition Rate |
|
FRRPA |
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Planning Act (1974) |
|
FRTM |
Functional Requirements Traceability Matrix |
|
FS |
Forest Service (USDA) |
|
FSE |
File Server Ethernet |
|
FSI |
Forest Survey of India |
|
FSL |
Forecast Systems Laboratory (a NOAA ERL) |
|
FSM |
Flight Synchronizer Module |
|
FSMF |
Flight Software Maintenance Facility |
|
FSPAAD |
Fine Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Detection |
|
FSSP |
Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe |
|
FST |
Field Support Terminal |
|
FSU |
Florida State University (Tallahasee) |
|
FT |
Free troposphere |
|
FTA |
Financiele Termijnmarket Amsterdam |
|
FTIR |
Fourier transform infrared radiometer (spectroscopy) |
|
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
|
FTP/A |
field task proposal/agreement |
|
FTR |
Flight Tape Recorder |
|
FTs |
File Transfer System |
|
FTS |
Fournier transform spectrometer |
|
FTSE-100 |
Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 stock index |
|
FTU |
Formazin Turbidity Unit |
|
FUA |
The Fuel Use Act (US) |
|
FUND |
Fundamental |
|
Furnit |
furniture |
|
FUTOP |
Copenhagen Stock Exchange and Guaranteed Fund for Danish options and Futures |
|
FW |
filter wheel |
|
FWCA |
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1958) |
|
FWM |
food web model |
|
FWP |
Field Work Proposal |
|
FWPCA |
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (1972) |
|
FWS |
United States Fish and Wildlife Service |
|
FWWTA |
Fraction of waste water treated anaerobically |
|
FX |
Foreign Exchange |
|
FXA |
Foreign Exchange Agreement |
|
FY |
Fiscal Year |
|
G |
Gram (g) |
|
G-1 |
Gulfstream-1 (airplane) |
|
G-10 |
ten leading world industrial nations |
|
G-7 |
Group of Seven (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, |
|
GA |
geographic analysis |
|
GAC |
Global Area Coverage |
|
GAGE |
Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
|
GAIM |
Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling |
|
GAL |
Galatians |
|
GALE |
Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment |
|
GAME |
GEWEX-related Asian Monsoon Experiment |
|
GAMETAG |
Global Atmospheric Measurements Experiment of Tropospheric Aerosols and Gases |
|
Gard |
garden |
|
GARP |
Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA) |
|
Gastron |
gastronomy |
|
GATE |
Global Atmosphere Tropical Experiment |
|
GATE |
GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
|
GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government) |
|
GAW |
Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO) |
|
GAZ |
Gazette |
|
GB |
Gigabyte |
|
GBF/DIME |
Geographic Base Files/Dual Independent Map Encoding |
|
GBps |
Gigabits per second |
|
GBRS |
Generic Block Recording System |
|
GBSRN |
Global Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
|
gc |
gonococcus (gonnorhea germ) |
|
GC |
General Counsel |
|
GC/MS |
SX)-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry |
|
GCC |
Global Change Category |
|
GCCD |
Global Climate Change Digest (CEI) |
|
GCDB |
Geographic Coordinates Data Base |
|
GCDIS |
US Global Change Data and Information System |
|
GCEP |
Global Change Education Program |
|
GCF |
Ground Communications Facility |
|
GCHC |
Gulf Coast Hydroscience Center (USGS) |
|
GCIP |
GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project |
|
GCM |
General Court-Martial |
|
GCO |
Generation Certification Official (waste generation) |
|
GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU) |
|
GCP |
Ground Control Point |
|
GCPI |
Cape Grim Photochemical Intensive (CSIRO) |
|
GCRIO |
Global Change Research Information Office |
|
GCRP |
Global Change Research Program |
|
GCSS |
Global Cloud Systems Study |
|
GCTE |
Global Change in Terrestrial Ecosystems |
|
GCTE-SSC |
GCTE Scientific Steering Committee |
|
GCTM |
Global Chemical Transport Model |
|
GCV |
Gross Calorific Value |
|
GDAAC |
Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center |
|
GDAS |
Grimco data acquisition system |
|
GDC |
Global Data Centre |
|
GDCF/Pacor |
ISTP Program Generic Data Capture Facility / Packet Processor |
|
GDCLS |
General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services |
|
GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
|
GDPS |
Global Data-Processing System (WMO and WWW) |
|
GDR |
German Democratic Republic (now Germany) |
|
GDS |
Ground Data System, Goldstone |
|
GDSIDB |
Global Digital Sea-Ice Data Bank (WMO/CMM) |
|
GDSIRD |
Ground Data System Information Requirements Document |
|
GE |
General Electric American Communications Inc. |
|
GEBA |
Global Energy Balance Archive |
|
GEC |
Global Environment Change |
|
GEDEX |
Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment |
|
GEF |
Global Environmental Facility (environment) |
|
GEIA |
Global Emissions Inventory Activity (IGAC) |
|
GEISA |
Gestion et d'Etude des Information Spectroscopiques Atmospheriques |
|
GEM |
Geospace Environment Modeling Program |
|
GEM-HEX |
Geochemical, Microbiological, and Hydrological Experiment |
|
GEMM |
gilt-edged market maker |
|
GEMS |
Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP) |
|
GEMx |
German Equity Market index |
|
Gen |
General Motors |
|
GENESIS |
Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems |
|
GENIE |
Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange |
|
GENLEAF |
generic models of leaf response |
|
GenSAA |
Generic Spacecraft Analysis Assistant |
|
GEO |
Geostationary Earth Observation |
|
GEO |
George |
|
GEOG |
Geography |
|
Geogr |
Geography |
|
GEOL |
Geology |
|
GEOM |
geographically detailed model |
|
GEOM |
Geometry |
|
Geomorphol |
geomorphology |
|
GEOS |
Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite |
|
Geos-3 |
Geodetic Satellite Mission (NASA) |
|
Geosat |
Geodesy satellite (USN) |
|
Geosat |
Geologic Satellite (program) (USN) |
|
GEOSAT |
Geodesy Satellite |
|
GEOSECS |
Geochemical Ocean Sections Study |
|
GEOTAIL |
Geomagnetic Tail Laboratory |
|
GER |
Global Environmental Research (U.K.) |
|
GER |
Germany |
|
GERG |
Global Environment Research Group |
|
gerund |
gerundial |
|
GESAMP |
Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution |
|
GESS |
Graphics Executive Support System |
|
GEU |
Gyroscope Electronics Unit |
|
GEWEX |
Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP) |
|
GF3 |
General Format No 3 |
|
GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US) |
|
GFLOPS |
one gigaflop equals 1 billion (109) floating point operations |
|
GFO |
Geosat follow-on |
|
GFOF |
Geared Futures and Options Fund |
|
GGS |
Global Geospace Science |
|
GH |
Gas Heater |
|
GHCN |
Global Historical Climatology Network |
|
GHG |
Green House Gas |
|
GHz |
Gigahertz |
|
GIF |
Graphic Interchange Format |
|
GIGO |
Garbage In Garbage Out (computing) |
|
GIM |
Global Integration and Modeling (IGAC) |
|
GIMMS |
Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study |
|
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
|
GISMO |
graphic-information-system modeling |
|
GISP |
Greenland Ice Sheet Project (NSF and PAGES) |
|
GISP II |
Second Greenland Ice Sheet Project (U.S.) |
|
GISP2 |
Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two |
|
GISS |
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA) |
|
GIT |
Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) |
|
GJ |
giga joule |
|
GL |
Geophysics Laboratory |
|
GLAC |
Glacier National Park |
|
GLAS |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System |
|
GLAS |
Goddard Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences |
|
Glasg |
Glasgow |
|
GLBC |
Great Lakes Basin Commission |
|
GLI |
Global Imager |
|
GLIS |
Global Land Information System |
|
GLL |
Galileo |
|
GLOBE |
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment |
|
GLOBE |
Global Land One kilometer Base Elevation (DIS) |
|
GLOBEC |
Global Marine Ecosystem Dynamics |
|
GLOBEC |
Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (SCOR) |
|
GLOBEX |
Global Electronic Exchange |
|
GLOCARB |
Global Tropospheric Carbon Dioxide Network (IGAC) |
|
GLOCHANT |
Global Change Research in the Antarctic |
|
GLOCHEM |
Global Atmospheric Chemical Survey (IGAC) |
|
GloED |
Global Emissions Database |
|
GLONET |
Global Tropospheric Ozone Network (IGAC) |
|
GLOS |
Gloucestershire |
|
GLOSS |
Global Sea-Level Observing System |
|
Gloss |
Glossary |
|
Glouc |
Gloucestershire |
|
Gloucestersh |
Gloucestershire |
|
GLRC |
Great Lakes Research Center (LSC and NOAA) |
|
GLRD |
Great Lakes Research Division |
|
GLRS |
Geoscience Laser Ranging System |
|
GLRS-A |
Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Altimeter |
|
GLRS-R |
Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger |
|
GMAN |
General Maneuver |
|
GMCC |
Geophysical Monitoring for Climate Change (now CMDL) |
|
GMDSS |
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (IMO) |
|
GME |
Gyro Management Electronics |
|
GMP |
Genetically Modified Plants |
|
GMS |
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan) |
|
GMSC |
Geologic Map Standards Committee (USGS) |
|
GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu) |
|
GMU |
Gyro Mechanical Unit |
|
GN |
Ground Network |
|
GNIS |
Geographic Names Information System (USGS) |
|
GNMA |
Government National Mortgage Association |
|
GNO |
Gross Product Originating |
|
GNP |
gross national product (economics) |
|
GO3OS |
Global Ozone Observing System (WMO) |
|
GOALS |
Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Program |
|
GOED |
Global Oceans Ecosystems Dynamics |
|
GOES |
Global Oceans Ecosystems Dynamics |
|
GOES |
Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellite |
|
GOES |
Global Omnibus Environmental Survey (HDGEC) |
|
GOEZS |
Global Ocean Euphotic Zone Study (IGBP, SCOR, and WCRP) |
|
GOF |
Global Ocean Flux |
|
GOFS |
Global Ocean Flux Study |
|
GOI |
Government Of India |
|
GOIN |
Global Observation Information Network |
|
GOLF |
Global Oscillations at Low Frequency |
|
GOME |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
|
GOMI |
Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
|
GOMOS |
Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars |
|
GOMR |
Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer |
|
GONG |
Global Oscillation Network Group |
|
GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU) |
|
GOOS |
Global Ozone Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU) |
|
GOP |
Geographical Observatories Programme |
|
GOS |
Geomagnetic Observing System |
|
GOS |
Global Observing System (WMO and WWW) |
|
Gosp |
gospel |
|
GOVT |
Government |
|
GPC |
Global Processing Center |
|
GPCC |
Global Precipitation Climatology Center (data base) |
|
GPCP |
Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
|
GPI |
GOES Precipitation Index |
|
GPM |
Generic Payload Module |
|
GPO |
Government Printing Office |
|
GPR |
Greenwich Photoheliographic Results |
|
GPS |
Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR) |
|
GPSDR |
Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver |
|
GR |
Growth Rate |
|
GRADO |
CNES Gravity Satellite (France) |
|
Gram |
grammar |
|
Gramm.Analysis |
grammatical analysis |
|
GRASS |
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) |
|
GRDC |
Global Runoff Data Centre |
|
GRECA |
Group of Experts on Accident Consequences (NEA and OECD) |
|
GREENS |
Global Redevelopment with Energy Environment Sustainability |
|
GREENTIE |
Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange |
|
GRGS |
Groupe de Recherches de Geodesic Spatiale (France) |
|
GRID |
Global Resource Information Database (UNEP) |
|
GRIMCO |
CGBAPS computing system |
|
GRIP |
Greenland Icecore Project (PAGES) (Europe) |
|
GRM |
NASA Gravity Satellite (U.S.) |
|
GRO |
Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA) |
|
GS |
Ground System |
|
GS&M |
Modeling (task team) |
|
GSA |
Geological Society of America |
|
GSA |
U.S. General Services Administration |
|
GSC |
Geological Survey of Canada (DEMR) |
|
GSF |
Gesellschaft fur Strahlen und Umweltforschung mbH Munchen (Germany) |
|
GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) |
|
GSIRD |
Ground Data System Information Requirements Document |
|
GSL |
Gulf Stream Locale |
|
GSMNP |
Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
|
GSN |
Global Seismic Network |
|
GSP |
Greenland Sea Project |
|
GSPDC |
Geostationary Satellite Precipitation Data Centre |
|
GSRN |
Global Surface Radiation Network |
|
Gt |
Gigaton (1 billion tons) (measurement) |
|
GTAS |
Generic Testing and Analysis System |
|
GTC |
Gigatons Of Carbon |
|
GTCC |
Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (electricity) |
|
GTCE |
Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment |
|
GTDS |
Goddard Trajectory Determination System |
|
GTE |
Global Tropospheric Experiment |
|
GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System |
|
GTS |
Global Telecommunications System (WMO and |
|
GUI |
Graphical User Interface (goo-ey) |
|
GVaP |
GEWEX Water Vapor Project |
|
GVR |
Grant, Vacate and Remand |
|
GW |
Gigawatt (one billion watts) (measurement- elect) |
|
GWE |
Global Weather Experiment |
|
GWh |
Giga Watt hour |
|
GWP |
Greenhouse Warming Potential |
|
Gynaecol |
gynaecology |
|
GYP |
Gyroscope Package |
|
H-1211 |
Halon 1211; CBrClF2 |
|
H-1301 |
Halon 1301; CBrF3 |
|
H/W |
Hardware |
|
H2 |
Hydrogen |
|
H2O2 |
Hydrogen Peroxide |
|
HA |
Hectare |
|
HAAP |
high-altitude aerial photograph |
|
HAB |
Habakkuk |
|
HAE |
Height Above Ellipsoid |
|
Haematol |
haematology |
|
HAG |
Haggai |
|
HAGE |
human activity and global environment |
|
HALOE |
Halogen Occultation Experiment |
|
HALSS |
high-altitude lidar sensing station |
|
HAMOCC |
Hamburg Ocean Carbon Cycle Model |
|
Hampsh |
Hampshire |
|
Handbk |
handbook |
|
HANTS |
Hampshire |
|
HAO |
High Altitude Observatory (NCAR) |
|
HAP |
Hazardous Air Pollutant |
|
HAPEX |
Hydrological-Atmospheric Pilot Experiment |
|
HAPEX-MOBILHY |
HAPEX-MOdelisation du BILan Hydrique |
|
HARM |
Hazard Assessment Rating Methodology |
|
HASL |
Health and Safety Laboratory |
|
HASP |
High Altitude Sampling Program |
|
HBJ |
Hazira-Bijapur-Jagdishpur (India) |
|
HBL |
Hudson Bay Lowland |
|
HBr |
Hydrogen Bromide |
|
HBW |
half band-width |
|
HCBP |
hexachlorobiphenol |
|
HCCD |
Historical Canadian Climate Database |
|
HCFC |
Hydrochlorofluorocarbon |
|
HCFC-141b |
hydrochlorofluorocarbon-141b |
|
HCFC-142b |
hydrochloroflourocarbon-142b |
|
HCFC-22 |
hydrochloroflourocarbon-22 (CHClF2, |
|
HCHO |
formaldehyde (also written as CH2O) |
|
HCl |
Hydrogen Chloride |
|
HCMM |
Heat-Capacity Mapping Mission |
|
HCMM/AEM-1 |
HCMM/Applications Explorer Mission-1 |
|
HCMR |
heat-capacity mapping radiometer |
|
HCN |
US Historical Climatology Network |
|
HCN |
Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen |
|
HCND |
Historical Climatology Network-Daily |
|
HD |
hierarchical diagnosis |
|
HDC |
Holder in Due Course |
|
HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
|
HDGCB |
Human Dimensions of Global Change (programme) (UNU, ISSC, and IFIAS) |
|
HDGEC |
Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change |
|
HDP |
Human Dimensions Program (SEDAC) |
|
HDR |
Hardware Design Review |
|
HDRL |
High-Dose Reference Laboratory |
|
HDTV |
High-Definition Television |
|
HEC |
Hydro-Electric Commission (Tasmania) |
|
HECP |
Herbaceous Energy Crops Program |
|
HED |
High Energy Detector |
|
HEIFE |
Heihe River Field Experiment |
|
HELCOM |
Helsinki Commission, protection of Baltic marine environment |
|
HEM |
Harmonizations of Environmental Measurement (program) |
|
Hen |
Henry |
|
HEPL |
Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratories |
|
Her |
heraldry |
|
Herb |
herbalism |
|
Heref |
Herefordshire |
|
Hereford |
Herefordshire |
|
Herefordsh |
Herefordshire |
|
Hertfordsh |
Hertfordshire |
|
HESS |
High Latitude Ecosystems as Sources and Sinks of Trace Gases (IGAC) |
|
hew |
Health, Education, and Welfare's |
|
HF |
Hydrogen Fluoride |
|
HFC |
HydroFluoroCarbon |
|
HFO |
Heavy Fuel Oil |
|
HGA |
High Gain Antennae |
|
HGCC |
Hot Gas Clean Up |
|
HHMS |
Hydrostatic Head Monitoring Station |
|
HHS |
Health and Human Services Department |
|
HHV |
Higher Heating Value (thermal efficiency basis) |
|
HI |
human interactions |
|
Hibid |
Hong Kong interbank bid rate |
|
Hibor |
Hong Kong interbank offered rate |
|
HIC |
Habitat International Coalition |
|
Hierogl |
Hieroglyphic |
|
HILDA |
high-latitude diffusive-advective model |
|
HIMSS |
high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder |
|
HIRDLS |
HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS) |
|
HIRIS |
HIgh-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (EOS) |
|
HIRS |
High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder |
|
HIS |
high-spectral resolution interferometer sounder |
|
Histol |
histology |
|
HITRAN |
High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database |
|
HK |
Housekeeping |
|
HKFE |
Hong Kong Futures Exchange |
|
HLQ |
holocellulose/lignocellulose quotient |
|
HLW |
high-level waste |
|
HMCRI |
Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute |
|
HMMR |
High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer |
|
HMSU |
high-resolution microwave sounding unit |
|
HMTA |
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act |
|
HMW |
High Molecular Weight |
|
HNO3 |
Nitric Acid |
|
HNRC |
HOMS National Reference Centre |
|
HOC |
hydrophobic organic compounds |
|
HOCl |
Hypochlorous Acid |
|
HOI |
Halo Orbit Insertion |
|
Hom |
homilies |
|
HOMS |
Hydrological Operational Multipurpose Subprogramme |
|
HOP |
Halo Orbit Phase |
|
HOROL |
Horology |
|
HOS |
Hosea |
|
HOSP |
Hospital |
|
HOT |
Hawaii Ocean Timeseries |
|
Househ |
household |
|
Housek |
housekeeping |
|
HOx |
odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2) |
|
HP |
Hewlett-Packard Development Company |
|
HP |
High Pass |
|
HP |
Health Physics |
|
HPCC |
High Performance Computing and Communications (NOAA) |
|
HPCRC |
High Performance Computing Research Center (ORNL) |
|
Hpd |
Hydrometeorological Processes Division |
|
HPLC |
high-precision liquid chromatography |
|
HPS |
Health Physics Society |
|
HQ |
Headquarters (HDQ Preferred) |
|
HR |
High Rate |
|
HRDI |
high-resolution Doppler imager |
|
HRE |
Homogeneous Reactor Experiment (impoundment) |
|
HRIRS |
high-resolution infrared radiation sounder |
|
HROI |
high-resolution optical instrument |
|
HRPT |
high-resolution picture transmission (AVHRR) |
|
HRS |
Hazard Ranking System (EPA) |
|
HRSG |
Heat Recovery Steam Generator |
|
HRV |
High Resolution Visible |
|
HRV |
High Resolution Video |
|
HSA |
Historic Sites Act (1935) |
|
HSIO |
High Speed Input/Output |
|
HSL |
Hazardous Substance List (EPA) |
|
HSRL |
High Spectral Resolution Lidar |
|
HSRP |
High Speed Research Program |
|
HST |
Hubble Space Telescope |
|
HST |
Hawaii Standard Time |
|
HSWA |
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (RCRA, 1984) |
|
HTML |
Hypertext Meta-Language |
|
HTTP |
Hypertext Transport Protocol |
|
HTW |
High Temperature Winkler gasifier |
|
HUD |
Department of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.) |
|
HUMICAP |
Humidity sensor on drifters (FASINEX) |
|
Husb |
husbandry |
|
HVI |
high-volume impactor |
|
HVS |
high-volume sampler |
|
HWRP |
Hydrology and Water Resources Programme |
|
Hydraul |
hydraulic |
|
Hydrol |
Hydrology |
|
HYNET |
Intercomparison of Operational Hydrological Network Design Techniques |
|
Hz |
cycles per second (hertz) |
|
I |
Injection |
|
I&T |
Integration & Test |
|
I&TRR |
Integration and Test Readiness Review |
|
I.L.M. |
International Legal Materials |
|
I/F |
Interface |
|
I/O |
Input/Output |
|
IAA |
International Academy of Astronautics |
|
IABO |
International Association Of Biological Oceanography (ICSU) |
|
IABP |
International Arctic Buoy Programme |
|
IAC |
International Activities Committee |
|
IACG |
Interagency Committee on Geomatics (DEMR) |
|
IACGEC |
Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change |
|
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
|
IAEG |
International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment |
|
IAF |
International Astronautical Federation |
|
IAG |
International Association of Geodesy (IUGG) |
|
IAGA |
International Association ofGeomagnetism and Agronomy (IUGG) |
|
IAGC |
International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry |
|
IAH |
International Association of Hydrogeologists (IUGS) |
|
IAHR |
International Association for Hydraulic Research |
|
IAHS |
International Association of Hydrological Sciences |
|
IAI |
Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (START) |
|
IAL |
International Association of Theoretical Applied Limnologists |
|
IAMAP |
International Association Of Meteorology And Atmospheric Physics (ICSU) |
|
IAMAP-IAHS |
IAMAP-International Association of Hydrological Sciences |
|
IAMAS |
International Association of Meteorology andAtmospheric Sciences |
|
IAOPA |
International Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association |
|
IAP |
Institute of Atmospheric Physics |
|
IAPSO |
International Association for Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IUGG and ICSU) |
|
IAR |
Institute for Atmospheric Radioactivity (Feiberg, Germany) |
|
IAS |
Image Analysis System |
|
IASC |
International Arctic Sciences Committee |
|
IASI |
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
|
IASI |
Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
|
IASPEI |
International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior |
|
IASTED |
International Association of Science andTechnology for Development |
|
IATA |
International Air Transport Association |
|
IATUL |
International Association of Technological University Libraries |
|
IAU |
International Astronomical Union |
|
IAVCEI |
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior |
|
IAWPRC |
International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control |
|
IBEX-35 |
stock index |
|
IBM |
International Business Machines Corporation |
|
Ibm Pc |
International Business Machines Personal Computer |
|
IBP |
International Biological Programme (ICSU) |
|
IBRD |
International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (part Of The World Bank) |
|
IBSRAM |
International Board for Soil Research and Management |
|
IBSS |
Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (Russian Federation; |
|
IBWC |
International Boundary and Water Commission (Independent; U.S. and Mexico) |
|
IC |
Ion Chromatography |
|
ICA |
International Communication Agency |
|
ICACGP |
International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution |
|
ICALPE |
International Centre for Alpine Environments (Chambery, France) |
|
ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
|
ICAR |
Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
|
ICAR |
International Center for Action Research |
|
ICARDA |
International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas |
|
ICARUS |
Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities |
|
ICAS |
International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences |
|
ICASVR |
International Committee on Atmosphere-Soil-Vegetation Relations |
|
ICC |
Instrument Control Center |
|
ICCE |
International Commission on Continental Erosion (IAHS) |
|
ICCH |
International Commodities Clearing House |
|
ICDB |
Ice Core Data Bank |
|
ICE |
International Cirrus Experiment |
|
ICE |
International Cometary Explorer |
|
ICEAR |
International Centre for Equatorial Atmospheric Research |
|
ICES |
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
|
ICF |
Instrument Control Facility |
|
ICGW |
International Commission on Ground Water (IAHS) |
|
Ichth |
ichthyology |
|
ICIC |
Intercalibrations-Intercomparisons (IGAC) |
|
ICICI |
Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India |
|
ICID |
International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage |
|
ICIMOD |
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development |
|
ICIP |
International Conference on Image Processing |
|
ICl |
Integrated Cloud Liquid |
|
ICL |
International-Union Commission on the Lithosphere (ICSU) |
|
ICLD |
International Commission on Large Dams |
|
ICN |
ice condensation nuclei |
|
ICOLD |
International Commission on Large Dams |
|
ICP-OES |
inductively coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy |
|
ICP/MS |
Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry |
|
ICPP |
Idaho Chemical Processing Plant |
|
ICRAF |
International Council for Research in Agroforestry |
|
ICRCCM |
Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models (program) |
|
ICRM |
International Committee on Radionuclide Meteorology |
|
ICRP |
International Commission on Radiological Protection |
|
ICRSDT |
International Committee on Remote Sensing and Data Transmission |
|
ICRU |
International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements |
|
ICSC |
International Civil Service Commission |
|
ICSD |
International Continental Scientific Drilling (program) |
|
ICSI |
International Commission on Snow and Ice (IAHS) |
|
ICSTI |
International Council for Scientific and Technical Information |
|
ICSU |
International Council of Scientific Unions |
|
ICSU-ACE |
ICSU Advisory Committee on the Environment |
|
ICSW |
International Commission on Surface Water (IAHS) |
|
Icthyol |
icthyology |
|
ICTP |
International Centre for Theoretical Physics |
|
ICWG |
International Coordination Working Group |
|
ICWQ |
International Commission on Water Quality (IAHS) |
|
ICWRS |
International Commission on Water Resources Systems (IAHS) |
|
IDA |
International Development Agency |
|
IDASS |
Integrated Data Assimilation and Sounding System |
|
IDB |
Inter-American Development Bank |
|
IDCCC |
Interior Department Cartographic Coordinating Committee (DOI) |
|
IDCS |
Image-dissector Camera System |
|
IDDSAC |
Interim Data Documentation Standard for ARC/INFO Averages |
|
IDEAL |
International Decade for the East African Lakes (project) (PAGES) |
|
IDEM |
Italian Derivatives Market |
|
Ideol |
ideology |
|
IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
|
IDNDR |
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction |
|
Idol |
idolatry |
|
IDP |
Instrument Development Program |
|
IDRI |
Thailand Development Research Institute |
|
IDS |
Interdisciplinary Science |
|
IDSS |
Integrated Data Sounding System |
|
IEA |
International Energy Agency (Paris) |
|
IEA/ORAU |
Institute of Energy Analysis/Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
|
IEC |
Implementation and Effectiveness of International EnvironmentalCommitments |
|
IEE |
Institution of Electrical Engineers |
|
IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. |
|
IELV |
Intermediate Expendable Launch Vehicle |
|
IEM |
Institute of Experimental Meteorology |
|
IEOS |
International Earth Observing System |
|
IERS |
International Earth Reference System |
|
IERS |
International Ellipsoid Reference System |
|
IEW |
International Energy Workshop |
|
IFAD |
International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN) |
|
IFDC |
International Fertilizer Development Center |
|
IFE |
Institute for Energy Technology |
|
IFIAS |
International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study |
|
IFIM |
Instream Flow Incremental Methodology |
|
IFMH |
Institut fur Meereskunde, Hamburg, Germany |
|
IFMK |
Institut fur Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany |
|
Ifn |
Ice-Freezing Nuclei |
|
IFO |
Intensive Field Observation |
|
IFOV |
Instantaneous Field Of View |
|
IFOX |
Irish Futures and Options Exchange |
|
IFRB |
International Frequency Registration Board of the International Telecommunication Union |
|
IFREMER |
Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer, France |
|
IFRTP |
Institut Francais pour la Researche et la Technologie Polaire (French |
|
IFS |
International Foundation for Science |
|
IFS |
Integrated Forest Study on the Effects of Atmospheric Deposition |
|
IFU |
Fraunhofer Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research (Germany) |
|
IFYGL |
International Field Year for the Great Lakes (IHD) |
|
IG |
Institute of Geography |
|
IGAC |
International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project |
|
IGAC |
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
|
IGAC-SSC |
IGAC Scientific Steering Committee |
|
IGAP |
International Global Aerosol Program |
|
IGBP |
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
|
IGBP-DIS |
IGBP Data and Information System |
|
IGC |
International Geophysical Cooperation |
|
IGCC |
Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles (electric Power Generation Technology) |
|
IGCP |
International Geological Correlation Programme (IUGS and UNESCO) |
|
IGEA |
International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research |
|
IGFA |
Inter-Governmental Funding Agencies |
|
IGFA |
International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research |
|
IGLD |
International Great Lakes Datum |
|
IGN |
Institut Geographique National |
|
IGO |
Intergovernmental Organization |
|
IGOSS |
Integrated Global Ocean Station System (UNESCO) |
|
IGOSS |
Integrated Global Ocean Services System (WMO/IOC) |
|
Igpo |
International Gewex Project Office |
|
Igrss |
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society |
|
IGS |
International Glaciological Society |
|
IGT |
Institute of Gas Technology (Chicago) |
|
IGU |
International Geographical Union (ICSU) |
|
IGY |
International Geophysical Year (1 July 1957 - 31 December 1958) |
|
IHB |
International Hydrographic Bureau |
|
IHD |
International Hydrological Decade (UNESCO) |
|
IHO |
International Hydrographic Organization |
|
IHP |
International Hydrological Program (UNESCO) |
|
IHS |
International Heliospheric Study |
|
IHSS |
International Humic Substances Society |
|
II |
Interdisciplinary Investigator |
|
IIASA |
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna) |
|
IIG |
Indian Institute of Geomagnetism |
|
IIID |
International Institute of Information Design |
|
IIOE |
International Indian Ocean Expedition |
|
IISL |
International Institute of Space Law |
|
IITM |
Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology |
|
IJC |
International Joint Commission (Independent; Canada and U.S.) |
|
IKI |
Institut Kosmicheskikh Issledovanii |
|
ILAS |
Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer |
|
Illustr |
illustration |
|
ILO |
International Labor Organization (UN) |
|
ILWAS |
Integrated Lake-Watershed Acidification Study (EPRI) |
|
IM-Al |
inorganic monomeric aluminum |
|
IMA |
Information Management and Archives (Office) |
|
Imag |
imagination |
|
IMAGE |
Integrated Model to Assess the Greenhouse Effect |
|
IMAGES |
International Marine Global Change Study (PAGES and SCOR) |
|
IMB |
Investigator of Micro-Biosphere |
|
IMC |
ice mass content |
|
IMCO |
Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization |
|
IMD |
India Meteorological Department |
|
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
|
IMG |
Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases |
|
IMI |
International Market Index |
|
imit |
imitative |
|
IML |
Institut Montaire Lunxembourgeois |
|
IMM |
International Monetary Market |
|
Immunol |
Immunology |
|
IMO |
International Meteorological Organization (formerly WMO) |
|
IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
|
IMOP |
Instruments and Methods of Observation Programme (WMO) |
|
IMP |
ice mass path |
|
Imperf |
Imperfect |
|
impers |
impersonal |
|
impf |
imperfect |
|
improp |
improper |
|
IMRO |
Investment Managers' Regulatory Authority |
|
IMS |
International Mountain Society |
|
IMS |
Information Management Services, Inc. |
|
IMS |
Information Management System (LTPP) |
|
IMU |
International Mathematical Union |
|
IN |
ice nuclei |
|
IN. |
Inch |
|
Inaug |
inaugural |
|
INC |
Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee |
|
INC |
International Negotiating Convention |
|
Inc. |
Incorporated |
|
INCD |
International Convention to Combat Decertification |
|
Inclos |
inclosure |
|
INDEF |
Indefinite |
|
indic |
indicative |
|
INDIGO |
French programme, Indien Gaz Ocean |
|
indir |
indirect |
|
industr |
industrial |
|
Industr.Rel |
industrial relations |
|
INEL |
Idaho National Engineering Laboratory |
|
infin |
infinitive |
|
INFOCLIMA |
World Climate Data Information and Referral System |
|
INFOTERRA |
International Referral System for Sources of Environmental Information |
|
Innoc |
innocent |
|
INORG |
Inorganic |
|
INPA |
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazona (Brazil) |
|
INQUA |
International Union for Quaternary Research |
|
INRA |
Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France) |
|
INS |
Institute Scholars |
|
INS |
Inertial Navigation System |
|
INSA |
Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France) |
|
INSAT |
Indian satellite |
|
INSTARR |
Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
|
INSULA |
International Scientific Council for Island Development (NGO) |
|
INT |
p-iodonitrotetrazolium |
|
INTECOL |
International Association of Ecology (ICSU |
|
Intell |
Intelligent |
|
Intellect |
intellectual |
|
Interc |
intercourse |
|
interj |
interjection |
|
Interl |
interlude |
|
Internat |
international |
|
Interpr |
interpretation |
|
interrog |
interrogative |
|
intr |
Intransitive |
|
intrans |
intransitive |
|
INTRO |
Introduction |
|
Introd |
introduction |
|
Invert.Zool |
invertebrate zoology |
|
Invertebr |
invertebrate |
|
Investig |
investigation |
|
Investm |
investment |
|
Invoc |
invocation |
|
INZN |
Institut Zairois pour la Conservation de la Nature |
|
IO |
Input/Output |
|
IOB |
Inter-Organization Board for Information Systems and Related Activities |
|
IOC |
International Ozone Commission |
|
IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
|
IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Council (UNESCO) |
|
IOCARIBE |
IOC Sub-Commission for the Carribbean and Adjacent Regions |
|
IODE |
International Oceanographic Data/Information Exchange (IOC) |
|
IOM |
Index and Option Market |
|
IOP |
Intensive Observing Period |
|
IOPG |
Indian Ocean Planning Group (JGOFS) |
|
IOS |
Institute of Ocean Sciences |
|
IP |
Internet Protocol |
|
IP |
independent pixel |
|
IPB |
Bogor Agriculture Institute (Indonesia) |
|
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP) |
|
IPCC-EIS |
IPCC-Energy and Industry Subgroup |
|
IPCC/RSWG/EIS |
IPCC/Response Strategies WorkingGroup/Energy and Industry Subgroup |
|
IPE |
International Petroleum Exchange |
|
IPEI |
Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument |
|
IPHIR |
InterPlanetary Helioseismology with IRradiance observations |
|
IPMS |
International Polar Motion Service |
|
IPO |
WOCE International Planning Office |
|
IPOC |
International Partner Operations Center |
|
Ipr |
Intellectual Property Right |
|
IPS |
Inter Press Service |
|
IPV |
isentropic potential vorticity |
|
IQSY |
International Quiet Sun Year |
|
IR |
Infrared |
|
Irap |
Interdisciplinary Panel on Climate Change |
|
IRB |
Internal Revenue Bulletin |
|
IRC |
International Radiation Commission |
|
IRC |
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 |
|
IRD |
Instituto de Radioprotecao e Dosimetria (Brazil) |
|
Irel |
Ireland |
|
IRF |
instantaneous radiative transfer |
|
IRG |
Interest Rate Guarantee |
|
IRGA |
Infrared Gas Analyzer |
|
IRI |
International Reference Ionosphere |
|
IRIS |
Integrated Radar Imaging System |
|
IRIS |
Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology |
|
IRIS |
Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer |
|
iron |
ironically |
|
IRP |
Installation Restoration Program, Environmental, U.S. Air Force |
|
IRREG |
Irregular |
|
IRRI |
International Rice Research Institute |
|
IRSS |
Indian Remote Sensing Satellite |
|
IRSSP |
Interactive Remote Sensing Software Package |
|
Irtm |
Infrared Thermal Mapper |
|
Irts |
Infrared Temperature Sounder |
|
IRU |
Inertial Reference Unit |
|
IRV |
Improved Inter-Range Vector |
|
IS |
Image Subtraction |
|
IS92 |
IPCC Scenarios, 1992 |
|
ISA |
Italian Space Agency |
|
ISA |
Israel Space Agency |
|
ISAMS |
Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder |
|
ISAR |
Intelligent Synthetic Aperture Radar |
|
ISAS |
Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan) |
|
ISC |
International Seismological Centre |
|
ISCCP |
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program |
|
ISDA |
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. |
|
ISE |
International Stock Exchange |
|
ISEATRA |
International Symposium on Ecological Aspects of Tree-Ring Analysis |
|
ISEB 10 |
Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry |
|
ISEE |
International Sun-Earth Explorer |
|
ISEM |
International Society for Ecological Modelling |
|
ISEQ |
Irish Stock Exchange Equity Index |
|
ISFA |
International Scientific Film Association |
|
ISG |
ISTP Scheduling Group |
|
ISI |
International Statistical Institute |
|
ISLN |
International Standards Lawyer Number |
|
ISLSCP |
International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project |
|
ISMA |
International Securities Market Association |
|
ISO |
International Standard Organisation |
|
ISOS |
International Southern Ocean Studies |
|
ISP |
International Society for Photogrammetry |
|
ISPRS |
International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
|
ISPs |
Integrated Steel Plants |
|
ISRIC |
International Soil Reference and Information Centre |
|
ISRO |
Indian Space Research Organisation |
|
ISS |
Integrated Sounding System |
|
ISSC |
International Social Science Council |
|
ISSMFE |
International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering |
|
ISSP |
ICSU Solar System Panel |
|
ISSS |
International Society of Soil Science |
|
IST |
Instrument Support Terminal |
|
ISTAP |
International Space Technology Assessment Program |
|
ISTP |
International Solar Terrestrial Physics |
|
ISU |
International Space University |
|
ISWS |
Illinois State Water Survey |
|
ISY |
International Space Year (1992) |
|
Ital |
Italian |
|
ITASE |
International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition (PAGES) |
|
ITB |
Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia |
|
ITC |
International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences |
|
ITCZ |
Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater) |
|
ITE |
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (NERC) |
|
ITEM |
International Technology Environmental Management |
|
ITEX |
International Tundra Experiment |
|
ITIR |
infrared thermal imaging radiometer (now ASTER) |
|
ITM |
In the Money |
|
ITOS |
Improved TIROS Operational System |
|
ITOY |
International Tropospheric Ozone Year |
|
ITPO |
International TOGA Planning Office |
|
ITPP |
International TOVS Processing Package |
|
ITPR |
Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer |
|
ITRA |
Intercomparison of Transmittance and Radiance Algorithms |
|
ITRC |
Industrial Toxicology Research Centre |
|
ITRDB |
International Tree-Ring Data Bank |
|
ITSC |
International TOVS Study Conference |
|
ITU |
Integrated Terrain Unit |
|
ITU |
International Telecommunication Union |
|
IUAES |
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences |
|
IUB |
International Union of Biochemistry (ICSU) |
|
IUBMB |
International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
|
IUBS |
International Union of Biological Sciences (ICSU) |
|
IUCAF |
Inter-Union Commission on Frequency Allocation for Radio Astronomyand Space Science |
|
IUCC |
Information Unit on Climate Change |
|
IUCN |
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources |
|
IUCr |
International Union of Crystallography |
|
IUCRM |
Inter-Union Commission on Radio Meteorology |
|
IUCS |
Inter-Union Commission on Spectroscopy |
|
IUE |
International Ultraviolet Explorer |
|
IUFRO |
International Union of Forestry Research Organizations |
|
IUGG |
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
|
IUGS |
International Union of Geological Sciences (ICSU) |
|
IUHPS |
International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science |
|
IUNS |
International Union of Nutritional Sciences |
|
IUPAB |
International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (ICSU) |
|
IUPAC |
International Union of Pure and AppliedChemistry |
|
IUPAP |
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (ICSU) |
|
IUPHAR |
International Union of Pharmacology |
|
IUPS |
International Union of Physiological Sciences |
|
IUPSYS |
International Union of Psychological Science |
|
IUR |
International Union of Radioecologists |
|
IUTAM |
International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICSU) |
|
IV&V |
independent verification and validation |
|
IVA |
intra vehicular activities Instituto Venezuelan de Investigaciones Cientificas |
|
IVL |
Swedish Environmental Research Institute |
|
IWC |
Ice Water Content |
|
IWG |
Investigators Working Group |
|
IWGDMGC |
Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change |
|
IWP |
Ice Water Path |
|
IWRA |
International Water Resources Association (USA) |
|
IWS |
Instrument Work Stations |
|
IWSA |
International Water Supply Association |
|
IZMIRAN |
Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Radio Research, and the Ionosphere |
|
J |
Judge |
|
j |
Justice |
|
Jahrb |
Jahrbuch |
|
JAN |
January |
|
Jap |
Japanese |
|
Jasin |
Joint Sea-Air Interaction Experiment |
|
JASON |
Scientific panel (MITRE Corporation |
|
JAWS |
Joint Airport Weather Studies (project) |
|
JEC |
Joint Exchanges Committee |
|
JECOR |
U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission of Economic Cooperation |
|
JEDA |
Joint Environmental Data Center |
|
JEE |
Japan Environment Agency |
|
JEM |
Japanese Experiment Module |
|
JEOS |
Japanese Earth Observing System |
|
JEOS |
Japanese Earth Observing Satellite |
|
JER |
Jeremiah |
|
JERS |
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JPOP) |
|
JERS-1 |
Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1 |
|
JGB |
Japanese Government Bond |
|
JGOFS |
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme) |
|
JGOFS GS |
JGOFS Global Synthesis |
|
JGOFS PM |
JGOFS Photosynthetic Measurements |
|
JGOFS-SSC |
JGOFS Scientific Steering Committee |
|
JI |
Joint Implementation [with Regard To Greenhouse Gas Emission Redn.] |
|
JICST |
Japan Information Center of Science and Technology |
|
JIN |
Joint Implementation Network |
|
JIU |
Joint Inspection Unit |
|
JJA |
June-July-August |
|
JMA |
Japan Meteorological Agency |
|
JMOL |
Judgment as a Matter of Law |
|
JNOV |
Judgment notwithstanding verdict |
|
JOC |
Joint Organizing Committee |
|
JOI |
Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. |
|
JOSH |
Joshua |
|
JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA) |
|
JPOP |
Japanese Polar-Orbiting Platform (JERS) |
|
JRNL |
Journalism |
|
Jrnls |
journals |
|
JSC |
Joint Scientific Committee (ICSU, WCRP, and WMO) |
|
JSC |
Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) |
|
Jsc-wcrp |
Joint Scientific Committee for the Wcrp |
|
JST |
Japan Standard Time |
|
JTC |
joint transfer correlation |
|
JTU |
Jackson Turbidity Unit |
|
JUD |
Judges |
|
JUDG |
Judges |
|
JUL |
July |
|
Jurisd |
jurisdiction |
|
Jurisdict |
jurisdiction |
|
Jurispr |
jurisprudence |
|
Justif |
justification |
|
Justific |
justification |
|
Jx |
Jurisdiction |
|
K |
Contract |
|
k |
Kilogram |
|
ka |
thousands of years |
|
KAHE |
time series station off Kahe Point, Hawaii |
|
Kanex |
Kansai Agricultural Commodities Exchange |
|
kbps |
kilobits per second |
|
KCRT |
Keyboard CRT |
|
KEEP |
Kuroshio Edge Exchange Processes |
|
Kent |
Kentish |
|
KERFIX |
Kerguelen fixed station (France) (JGOFS) |
|
keV |
kilo electron volts |
|
kg |
Kilogram |
|
KHz |
kilohertz (1000 cycles per second) |
|
King's Bench Div |
King's Bench Division |
|
Kingd |
kingdom |
|
kJ |
kilojoule (energy measure) |
|
KLCE |
Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange |
|
KLOFFE |
Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange |
|
Km |
Kilometer (1,000 meters) |
|
KNMI |
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
|
Knowl |
Knowledge |
|
Kow |
octanol-water partition coefficient |
|
kPa |
kiloPascal (pressure above ambient (100 kPa = 1 atmosphere excess)) |
|
Kpr |
keeper |
|
KR |
Krypton |
|
KRE |
Kobe Rubber Exchange |
|
KSC |
John F. Kennedy Space Center |
|
KSE |
Korea Stock Exchange |
|
KUM |
Cape Kumukahi, Hawaii |
|
Kw |
Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement) |
|
kWh |
Kilowatt hour (one thousand watt hours) (measurement) |
|
KYR |
kiloyear |
|
L |
Literature |
|
L |
Liter |
|
L.Ed |
Lawyers Edition |
|
L.Ed.2d |
Lawyers 2nd Edition |
|
L/C |
Letter of Credit |
|
L/C |
land cover |
|
LAC |
Local Area Coverage |
|
LAF |
Lake Acidification and Fisheries (EPRI) |
|
LAGCM |
general circulation model at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) |
|
LAGEOS |
Laser Geodynamic Satellite |
|
LAI |
Leaf Area Index |
|
LAID |
land-atmosphere interactions dynamics |
|
LAM |
Lamentations |
|
LAMBADA |
Large-scale Atmospheric Moisture Balance of Amazona using DataAssimilation |
|
LAMP |
Lake Acidification Mitigation Project (EPRI) |
|
LAN |
Local Area Network |
|
Lanc |
Lancashire |
|
Lancash |
Lancashire |
|
LANCS |
Lancashire |
|
LANDSAT |
Land Remote-Sensing Satellite |
|
Landsat |
land satellite (photographs of the ground) |
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Lang |
language |
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Langs |
languages |
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LANL |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Lanl/acl |
Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory |
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LAPAN |
National Institute for Aeronautics and Space (Indonesia) |
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LaRC |
Langley Research Center (NASA) |
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LASCO |
White Light And Spectrometric Coronagraph |
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LASE |
Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
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LASER |
Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser) |
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LASR |
Library Access Search and Retrieval |
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LASS |
Local Area Sounding System |
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lat. |
latitude |
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LAUTRO |
Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Authority |
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LAWS |
Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA) |
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LBL |
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California) |
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LBLRTM |
Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model |
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LCC |
Land Cover Change |
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LCH |
London Clearing House |
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LCL |
lifting condensation level |
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LDB |
Liquidity Data Bank |
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LDC |
less-developed country |
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LDEO |
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
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LDGO |
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (now known as LDEO) |
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LDR |
Linear Depolarization Ratio |
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Lds |
Lords |
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LEADEX |
Leads Experiment |
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Leaps |
Low Electron Attachment Potential Species |
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LEB |
LASCO Electronics Box |
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LEBS |
Low Emission Boiler Systems |
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LECT |
Lecture |
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LED |
Low Energy Detector |
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Leechd |
leechdom |
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LEFI |
Local Electric Field Instrument |
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Leicest |
Leicestershire |
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Leicester |
Leicestershire |
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Leicestersh |
Leicestershire |
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LEICS |
Leicestershire |
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LEMA |
Long-term Ecological Modelling Activity (GCTE) |
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LEOP |
Launch and Early Orbit Phase |
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LEPO |
Low Exercise Price Option |
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LERTS |
Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetection Spatiale (France) |
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LES |
Lincoln Experimental Satellite |
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Lett |
letters |
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LEV |
Leviticus |
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LEX |
Lexicon |
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LFM |
limited fine-mesh model |
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LGM |
Last Glacial Maximum (most Recent Era Of Continental Glaciation; See Also PGP) |
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LHV |
lower heating value |
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LI |
library |
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Libid |
London Interbank Bid or Deposit Rate |
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LIBOR |
London Interbank Offered Rate |
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LIDAR |
Lander Light Detection and Ranging |
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LIDQA |
Landsat Image Data Quality and Analysis |
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Liffe |
London Interntional Financial Futures and Options Exchange |
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LIGA |
Last InterGlacial in the Arctic (project) |
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Limnol |
limnology |
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LIMS |
Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere |
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Lincolnsh |
Lincolnshire |
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Lincs |
Lincolnshire |
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Ling |
linguistic |
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Linn |
Linnean |
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LION |
Low Energy Ion and Electron Instrument |
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LIPI |
The Indonesian Institute of Sciences |
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LIPI |
Marine Pollution Monitoring Center (including LIPI's Network of the Center |
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LIPI |
Minister of State for Population and Research Environment (Indonesia) |
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LIRAD |
lidar/radiometer |
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LIS |
Lightning Imaging Sensor |
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LIS |
Land Information System |
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LITE |
Lidar In-space Technology Experiment |
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Lithogr |
lithography |
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Lithol |
lithology |
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Liturg |
liturgy |
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LLC |
Limited Liability Company |
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LLL |
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories |
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LLNL |
The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California |
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LLP |
Limited Liability Partnership |
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LLW |
low-level waste |
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LMA |
Laboratoire de Meteorologie |
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Lmd |
Laboratoire De Meteorologie Dynamique |
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LME |
London Metal Exchange |
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LMER |
Land Margins Ecosystem Research |
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LMER |
Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation (ORNL) |
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LMES |
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc. ("Energy Systems" is preferred) |
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LNG |
Liquefied Natural Gas |
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LOBT |
Local on Board Time |
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LOCH |
London Options Clearing House |
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LODYC |
Laboratoire d'Oceanographic Dynamique et de Climatologie |
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loe |
Late Old English |
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LOI |
Luminosity Oscillations Imager |
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LOICZ |
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone |
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LOICZ-SSC |
LOICZ Scientific Steering Committee |
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LOIS |
Land Oceans Interactions Study |
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long. |
longitude |
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LONGLINES |
Long Hydrographic Sections Programme |
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Loran |
Long-Range Area Navigation System |
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LORCS |
League of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
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los |
Lost of signal |
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LOTREX |
Longitudinal Land-Surface Traverse Experiment |
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LOTREX |
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP) |
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LOTUS |
Long-Term Upper Ocean Study, Woods Hole, 1983 |
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Lowess |
Locally Weighted Least Squares |
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LP |
Low Pressure |
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LPARL |
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratories |
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Lpda |
Laser-Phased Doppler Anemometer |
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Lpdm |
Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model |
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LPG |
Liquid Petroleum Gas |
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LPI |
low-pressure impactor |
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LPM |
liters per minute |
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LR |
Laser Retroreflector |
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LRA |
Laser Retroreflector Array |
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LRP |
Landscape Research Project (DOE) |
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LRPT |
low-resolution picture transmission |
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LRR |
Launch Readiness Review |
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LSB |
least-significant byte |
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LSC |
Lake Survey Center (NOAA) |
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LSD |
Least Significant Difference |
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LSM |
LAWS Simulation Model |
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LSN |
long- and short-normal resistivity (geophysical logging) |
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LSR |
Launch Support Room |
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LST |
Local Solar Time |
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LST |
Local Standard Time |
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LTER |
Long-Term Ecological Research (program) (NSF) |
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LTM |
Long-Term Monitoring |
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LTM |
linear tangent model |
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LTOM |
London Traded Options Market |
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LTREB |
Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology |
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LTRMP |
Long-Term Resource Monitoring Program (U.S. |
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LTRRS |
Long-Term Regional Research Site |
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LUCC |
Land Use and Cover Change (IGBP and HDP) |
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Lucc-cppc |
Lucc Core Project Planning Committee |
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LUCIE |
Study of circulation north and west of Australia (Leeuwin Current) |
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LV |
Large Volume water samples (>100 liters) |
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LVS |
Large Volume Sampling |
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LVS |
low-volume sampler |
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LW |
longwave |
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LWC |
Liquid Water Content |
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LWIR |
long-wavelength (thermal) infrared |
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LWP |
Liquid Water Path |
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LWRM |
longwave radiation model |
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LXX |
Septuagint |
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m |
Meter |
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m |
micrometer |
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M&CD |
Metals and Ceramics Division (ORNL) |
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m&e |
Monitoring and Enforcement |
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M-region |
Maunder region |
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MAA |
moist-adiabatic adjustment |
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MAB |
Man and the Biosphere (programme) (UNESCO) |
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MABL |
Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer |
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MAC |
Multiphase Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) |
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MAC |
Middle Atmosphere Cooperation (IGAC) |
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Macc |
Maccabees |
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MACDIF |
Mapping and Charting Data Interchange Format (Canada) |
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MACS |
Modular Attitude Control System |
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MAESA |
Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft |
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MAFF |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (U.K.) |
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MAG |
Magazine |
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MAGE |
Marine Gas Emissions, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Climate (IGAC) |
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MAGE |
Marine Aerosol and Gas Exchange (IGAC) |
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MAGIC |
Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchment |
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Magn |
magnetism |
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MAGS |
Mackenzie GEWEX Study (Canada) |
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MAGSAT |
Magnetic Field Satellite |
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MAHLOVS |
Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study |
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MAKS |
Martin and Kitzis Sampler (portable air sampler) |
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MAL |
Malachi |
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MAN |
Manual |
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Managem |
management |
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Manch |
Manchester |
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manip |
manipulation |
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Manuf |
Manufacture |
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MAP |
Middle Atmosphere Programme |
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MAP3S |
Multistate Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study |
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MAP3S/PCN |
Multistate Atmospheric Power Production Pollution Study/Precipitation Chemistry Network |
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MAPS |
Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System |
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MAPS |
Map Analysis Package System |
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MAPS |
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites |
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MARC |
The Middle Atmosphere Responses to Changes |
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MARDOS |
Sources of Radioactivity in the Marine Environment and Their Relative Contributors to Overall Dose Assessment from Marine Radioactivity |
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MARECO |
Marine Radioecology Working Group (IUR) |
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MARIA |
Methods for Assessing the Radiological Impact of Accidents (CEC) |
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MASC |
Mountain Administration Support Center (NOAA) |
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MASFLEX |
Marginal Sea Flux Experiment (in the West Pacific) (IGOPS) |
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MASMP |
Mission Analysis and Suport Management Plan |
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Mass |
Massachussets |
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MAST |
Marine Science and Technology Programme (CEC) |
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MAT |
marine air temperature |
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MATIF |
Marche а Terme International de France |
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MATS |
Mesoscale Atmospheric Transport Studies |
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MAW |
Ministry of Agriculture and Water (Saudi Arabia) |
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MB |
Manitoba |
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MB |
Millibar(s) |
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MBL |
Marine Boundary Layer |
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Mbps |
Megabits per second |
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MBS |
mortgage backed security |
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Mbt |
Mechanical Bathythermograph |
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MCC |
Mesoscale Convective Complex |
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MCC |
Mission Control Center (JSC) |
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MCF |
methane conversion factor |
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McIDAS |
Man-computer Interactive Data Access System |
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MCL |
Maximum Contaminant Level |
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mcm |
million cubic metre |
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MCP |
Meteorological Communications Package |
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MCS |
Mesoscale Cloud System |
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MCS |
Mesoscale Convective System |
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MCSST |
Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature (algorithm) |
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MCZ |
Mesoscale Compressible Community Model |
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MDA |
Methodology of Decision Analysis (project) |
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MDC |
More Developed Country |
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MDE |
Middle East |
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MDI |
Michelson Doppler Imager |
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MDI-H |
MDI-Helioseismology |
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MDI-M |
MDI-Magnetogram |
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MDR |
Minimum Detectable Radiance |
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MDSRS |
Morphology-Dependent Stimulated Raman Scattering |
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MDUL |
Missing Data Units List |
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MEA |
Monoethanolamine |
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Measurem |
measurement |
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MECCA |
Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment |
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MED |
Mediterranean (the region) (START) |
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MEDCOM |
Mediterranean Planning Committee (START) |
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MEDCOM |
Mediterranean Regional Committee (START) |
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Medias |
Mediterranean Basin and Sub-Tropical Africa |
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MEDIAS |
Reseau de Recherche Regionale pour le Bassin Mediterraneen etl'Afrique Subtropicale |
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Medit |
meditation |
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MEDS |
Marine Environmental Data Service (Canada) |
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MEFF Renta Fija |
derivatives exchange in Barcelona, Spain |
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MEFF Renta Variable |
derivatives exchange in Madrid, Spain |
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MEHALICE |
Methane and Halocarbons Intercalibrations Experiment |
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MELICA |
Medium Energy Ion Composition Analyzer |
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MELV |
Medium Expendable Launch Vehicle |
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Mem |
Memoirs |
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MEPED |
medium energy proton and electron detector |
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Merch |
Merchantable |
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Merfox |
Mercadode Futuros y Opciones |
|
MERGE |
Model for Evaluating Regional and Global Effects of GHG reduction policies |
|
MERIS |
medium-resolution imaging spectrometer |
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MERIT |
Monitoring Earth's Rotation and Intercomparison of Techniques |
|
MERS |
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
|
MES |
Military Engineering Services |
|
MESEEC |
Methodologies to Estimate Social, Environmental, and EconomicConsequences |
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Mesosoft |
Mesoscale Data Management Facility |
|
MESSR |
Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer |
|
Metall |
Metallurgy |
|
Metallif |
metalliferous |
|
Metallogr |
metallography |
|
Metamorph |
metamorphosis |
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Metaph |
Metaphysics |
|
metaphor |
metaphorical |
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METEOR |
Operational Weather Satellite (Russian Federation; formerly U.S.S.R.) |
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Meteor |
Research vessel (Germany) |
|
Meteorol |
Meteorology |
|
METEOSAT |
European Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
|
METOP |
Meteorological Operational Satellite (polar satellite series) |
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metr.gr |
metri gratia |
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Metrop |
metropolis |
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MeV |
mega electron volts |
|
MEX |
Mexican |
|
MFE |
Magnetic Fusion Energy (program) |
|
MFE/MAGNOLIA |
MFE/Magnetic Field Experiment |
|
Mflops |
One megaflop equals 1 million (106) floating point operations |
|
MFO |
mixed-function oxidase (enzyme system) |
|
MFRSR |
multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer |
|
MG |
milligram; 1/1000 gram |
|
MGE |
MicroStation Foundation and Modular GISEnvironment |
|
MGMI |
Metallgezellschaft Metals Index |
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MGO |
Main Geophysical Observatory |
|
Mha |
million hectare |
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MHRS |
Modified Hazard Ranking System (DOE) |
|
MHS |
Microwave Humidity Sounder |
|
MHS |
Message Handling System (electronic) |
|
MHZ |
Megahertz (Megacycles Per Second) |
|
MI |
Mode Indicator |
|
MIADS |
map information assembly and display system |
|
MIAS |
Marine Information Advisory Service (U.K.) |
|
MIB 30 |
Milano Indice Borsa |
|
Mibid |
Madrid Interbank Bid Rate |
|
MIBK |
Methyl IsoButyl Ketone traditional name for methyl pentanone |
|
MIBOR |
Madrid Interbank Offered Rate |
|
MIC |
Micah |
|
MICH |
Michigan |
|
MICROBIOL |
Microbiology |
|
Microsc |
Microscopic |
|
MidAm |
Midamerica Commodity Exchange |
|
MIF |
Mercato Italiano Futures |
|
MIFE |
Manila International Futures Exchange |
|
MIL-71 |
Merritt Island DSN Facility |
|
MILA |
Merritt Island Launch Area |
|
Milit |
military |
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mill(s) |
0.001 U.S. dollars |
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MILOX |
Mid-Latitude Ecosystems and Photochemical Oxidants (IGAC) |
|
MIMD |
multiple instruction, multiple data (system) |
|
MIMR |
multifrequency imaging microwave radiometer (formerly HIMSS) |
|
MIN |
Minute |
|
Mineral |
Mineralogy |
|
MINK |
Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas |
|
MIPAS |
Michelson interferometer for passive atmospheric sounding (sounder) |
|
MIPS |
Millions of Instructions Per Second |
|
MIR |
Orbital System (Russia) |
|
MIRSL |
Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory |
|
MIS |
Management Information System (OSHA) |
|
MISC |
Miscellany |
|
Miscell |
miscellany |
|
mispr |
misprinted |
|
MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS) |
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MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.) |
|
MITI |
Ministry of International Trade and Industry |
|
MITRE |
Miniature Individual Transmitter Receiver Equipment |
|
MITRE |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment |
|
MIZ |
Marginal Ice Zone |
|
MIZEX |
Marginal Ice Zone Experiment |
|
MJ |
Megajoule |
|
mks |
meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS") |
|
mksa |
meter-kilogram-second-ampere (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKSA") |
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MKT |
Market |
|
ML |
milliliter; 1/1000 liter |
|
MLC |
Meat and Livestock Commission |
|
MLE |
Maximum likelihood estimation |
|
MLI |
Multilayer Insulation |
|
MLO |
Mauna Loa Observatory (Hawaii) (CMDL) |
|
MLOPEX |
MLO Photochemical Experiment |
|
MLOPEX II |
Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemical Experiment II |
|
MLR |
Multiple Linear Regression |
|
MLS |
Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS) |
|
mm |
Millimeter |
|
MM-Al |
total monomeric aluminum |
|
MM4 |
Mesoscale model 4 (Pennsylvania State University/NCAR) |
|
MM5 |
Mesoscale model 5 (Pennsylvania State University/NCAR) |
|
MMAD |
Mass Median Aerodynamic Diameter (aerosol) |
|
Mmch4 |
Methane Emitted from Animal Manure |
|
MMES |
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. ("Energy Systems" is preferred) |
|
MMI |
Modified Mercalli Intensities |
|
MMS-F |
Matra Marconi Space-Toulouse, France |
|
mmscmd |
million metric standard cubic metre per day |
|
MMTS |
Maximum-Minimum Temperature System |
|
MNRT |
Minister of State for Research and Technology |
|
MO&DA |
Mission Operations and Data Analysis |
|
MO&DSD |
Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate |
|
MOA |
Memorandum Of Agreement |
|
Mobilhy |
Mobilisation Du Bilan Hydrique |
|
MOC |
Memorandum Of Cooperation |
|
MODE |
Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment |
|
Modecs |
Molecular Design of Chemical Systems |
|
MODIS |
moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC) |
|
MODIS-N |
moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer-Nadir |
|
MODIS-T |
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt |
|
MODMAP |
modernization of mapping techniques |
|
MODNET |
MO&DSD Operational/Development Network |
|
MOGUNTIA |
Model of the General Universal Tracer transport in the Atmosphere |
|
MOLA |
Mars Observer Laser Altimeter |
|
MOM |
Modular Ocean Model |
|
MOM |
Mission Operations Manager |
|
MOMS |
Modular Optoelectronic Multispectral Scanner |
|
MONEX |
Monsoon Experiment |
|
MONSEE |
Monitoring of the Sun-Earth Environment |
|
Monum |
monument |
|
MOP |
METEOSAT OPERATIONAL PROGRAM |
|
MOPITT |
Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS) |
|
Moracc |
Modeling Radiation Clouds and Convection |
|
Morflot |
Ministry of the Merchant Marine of the Soviet Union |
|
Morphol |
morphology |
|
MORS |
Group of Experts Monitoring of Radioactive Substances in the Baltic Sea |
|
MOS |
Model Output Statistics |
|
MOS |
Marine Observations Satellite |
|
MOS-1 |
Marine Observations Satellite-1 (Japan) |
|
MOSA |
Mission Operations Support Area |
|
MOSP |
Mission Operations Support Plan |
|
MOSS |
Map Overlay Statistical System (by Autometrics) |
|
MOT |
Ministry of Transport |
|
MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections) |
|
MOWG |
Mission Operations Working Group |
|
MP |
Medium Pressure |
|
MP&A |
Mission Planning and Analysis Area |
|
MPA |
MegaPascal |
|
MPAE |
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie, Germany |
|
MPC |
Model Penal Code |
|
MPC |
Maximum Permissible Concentration |
|
MPC |
Massively Parallel Computer |
|
MPE |
Mission to Planet Earth |
|
MPF |
momentary power failure |
|
MPI |
Max Planck Institut (Germany) |
|
MPL |
Marine Physical Laboratory |
|
MPL |
Micropulse Lidar |
|
MPSR |
Monthly Project Status Review |
|
MQP |
Mandatory Quote Period |
|
MR |
Methane Recovery |
|
MR |
Microwave Radiometer |
|
MRC |
Medical Research Council |
|
MRI |
Meteorology Research Inc |
|
MRIR |
Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer |
|
MRM |
Mission Readiness Manager |
|
MRR |
Mission Readiness Request |
|
MRT |
Mission Readiness Test |
|
MRTT |
Mission Readiness Test Team |
|
MS |
Mass Spectrometer |
|
MSA |
methanesulfonate |
|
MSB |
Most Significant Bit |
|
MSC |
Meteorological Satellite Center |
|
MSC |
Marine Sciences Council |
|
MSCI |
Morgan Stanley Capital Index |
|
MSE |
Mission Server Element |
|
MSFC |
Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL) |
|
MSL |
Mean Sea Level |
|
MSP |
Motion-Sensing Platform |
|
Msr |
Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
|
MSS |
Multispectral Scanner System |
|
MSS |
Mission Support System |
|
MSSL |
Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UK |
|
MST |
Ministry of Environment and Science |
|
MSU |
Microwave Sounding Unit |
|
MSW |
Municipal Solid Waste |
|
MT |
million tonne |
|
MT-CLIM |
Mountain Climate Model |
|
MTASS |
Multi-mission Three-Axis Stabilized Satellite |
|
MTCE |
Million Tonnes of Carbon Equivalent |
|
MTCR |
million tonnes of coal replacement |
|
MTG |
Meeting |
|
MTMC |
Military Traffic Management Command |
|
MTOE |
million tonnes of oil equivalent |
|
MTOF |
Mass-Time-of-Flight |
|
MTP |
Mission Test Plan |
|
MTR |
Magnetic Tape Recorder |
|
MTS |
Microwave Temperature Sounder |
|
MU |
Microwave Unit |
|
Muid |
Map Unit Identification Data |
|
MUIR |
map unit interpretation record |
|
Munic |
Municipal |
|
Munif |
munificence |
|
Munim |
muniment |
|
MVS |
Minimum-Variance-Simultaneous |
|
MW |
Megawatt (one million watts) |
|
mW |
Milliwatt |
|
MWDI |
Master Water Data Index |
|
MWh |
Megawatt hour (one million watt hours) |
|
MWIR |
medium-wavelength infrared |
|
Mwl |
Medicamunicipal Waste Leachate |
|
MWL |
Municipal Waste Leachate |
|
MWR |
Microwave Radiometer |
|
MWSR |
Microwave Water Substance Radiometer |
|
MX |
Merry Christmas |
|
MYST |
Mystery Science Theater |
|
Myth |
mythology |
|
Mythol |
mythology |
|
N-C |
Nitrogen-carbon ratio |
|
N.Afr |
North Africa |
|
N.Amer |
North America |
|
N.Carolina |
North Carolina |
|
N.Dakota |
North Dakota |
|
N.E. |
North Eastern Reporter |
|
N.E.2d |
North Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
N.E.D |
New English Dictionary |
|
N.Ir |
Northern Irish |
|
N.Irel |
Northern Ireland |
|
N.S.W |
New South Wales |
|
N.S.Wales |
New South Wales |
|
N.T |
New Testament |
|
N.W. |
North Western Reporter |
|
N.W.2d |
North Western Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
N.Y |
New York |
|
N.Z |
New Zealand |
|
N2 |
Nitrogen |
|
N2O |
nitrous oxide (anesthetic) |
|
N2O-N |
Nitrous oxide nitrogen trace gas emission ratio |
|
N2O5 |
nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride |
|
NA |
North America |
|
NAAQ |
National Ambient Air Quality |
|
NAAQS |
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US) |
|
NABE |
North Atlantic Bloom Experiment |
|
NACNEMS |
North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites |
|
NAD 27 |
North American Datum of 1927 |
|
NAD 83 |
North American Datum of 1983 |
|
NADP |
National Atmospheric Deposition Program (EPA) |
|
NADP/NTN |
National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network |
|
NADW |
North Atlantic Deep Water |
|
NAEG |
Nevada Applied Ecology Group (of US Department Of Energy) |
|
NAF |
Northern Africa (START) |
|
NAFCOM |
Northern Africa Committee (START) |
|
NAH |
Nahum |
|
NAIC |
Newly Agro-Industrialized Country |
|
NAL |
National Agricultural Library |
|
NALMS |
North American Lake Management Society |
|
NAM |
North America |
|
NAMAS |
National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK) |
|
NAPAP |
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program |
|
NAR |
Net Assimilation Rate |
|
NARA |
United States National Archives And Records Administration |
|
NARC |
National Atmospheric Radiation Centre (AES) |
|
NARE |
North Atlantic Regional Experiment (IGAC) |
|
NARL |
National Arctic Research Laboratory (Barrow, Alaska) |
|
NARR |
Narrative |
|
Narrat |
narrative |
|
NARS |
National Archives and Records Service (GSA) |
|
NARSNDF |
North Atlantic Regional Study Narrative Data File |
|
NAS |
United States National Academy of Sciences |
|
NASA/EDC |
NASA/Environmental Data Centre |
|
NASC |
North American Stratigraphic Code |
|
NASCOM |
NASA Communications System |
|
NASD |
National Assocaiation of Securities Dealers |
|
NASDA |
National Space Development Agency of Japan |
|
NASDAQ |
National Assocation of Securities Dealers Automated Quote System |
|
NASM |
National Air and Space Museum |
|
NASQUAN |
National Stream Water Quality Accounting Network |
|
NAST |
National Academy of Science and Technology |
|
Nat.Hist |
natural history |
|
Nat.Philos |
natural philosophy |
|
Nat.Sci |
natural science |
|
NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
|
NATT |
Northern Australian Tropical Transect |
|
naut |
Nautical |
|
NAVIG |
Navigational Log |
|
NAVSTAR |
Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging |
|
Navstar |
Global Positioning Satellite Communication Set |
|
NAVSWC |
Naval Surface Warfare Center (DOD) |
|
NBIOME |
Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment |
|
NBIS |
Northern Biosphere Information System |
|
NBRF |
National Biomedical Research Foundation |
|
NCAER |
National Council of Applied Economic Research |
|
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research (US) |
|
NCASI |
National Council on Air and Stream Improvement |
|
NCB |
Net change of biomass |
|
NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center |
|
NCDCDS |
National Committee-Digital Cartographic Data Standards |
|
NCDS |
NASA Climate Data System |
|
Nce |
Net Carbon Emission |
|
NCEP |
National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center) |
|
NCGIA |
National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis |
|
NCIC |
National Cartographic Information Center |
|
NCLAN |
National Crop Loss Assessment Network (EPA) |
|
NCMC |
National Critical Materials Council |
|
NCPDI |
National Coastal Pollutant Discharge Inventory |
|
NCPO |
National Climate Program Office |
|
NCRP |
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements |
|
NCS&T |
National Council for Science and Technology |
|
NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
|
NCSU |
North Carolina State University |
|
NCV |
Net Calorific Value |
|
NDA |
Non-Disclosure Agreement |
|
NDBC |
National Data Buoy Center |
|
NDCDB |
National Digital Cartographic Data Base |
|
NDF |
Narrative Data File |
|
NDIR |
non-dispersive infrared gas analyzer |
|
NDP |
Numeric Data Package |
|
NDSC |
Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change |
|
NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
|
NEAPACC |
North East Atlantic Palaeooceanography and Climate Change |
|
NEB |
National Environmental Board |
|
NECT |
National Research Council of Thailand |
|
NEG |
WOCE Numerical Experimentation Group |
|
NEH |
Nehemiah |
|
NEHA |
National Environmental Health Association |
|
NEIC |
National Enforcement Investigations Center |
|
NEIDA |
National Estuarine Inventory Data Atlas |
|
Neighb |
neighbour |
|
NEP |
Noise Equivalent Power |
|
NERC |
National Environmental Research Centre |
|
NERDDC |
National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council |
|
NERI |
National Environmental Research Institute |
|
NERP |
National Environmental Research Park |
|
NERSC |
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center |
|
Nerv |
nervous |
|
NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
|
NESDP |
National Economic and Social Development Plan |
|
NESHAP |
National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants |
|
Netcdf |
Network Common Data Format |
|
Neurol |
Neurology |
|
Neurosurg |
neurosurgery |
|
New Hampsh |
New Hampshire |
|
Newc |
Newcastle |
|
Newspr |
newsprint |
|
NEXRAD |
Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS) |
|
nf-EBM |
noise forced energy balance model |
|
NFA |
National Futures Association |
|
NFERC |
National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center |
|
NFS |
Network File System |
|
NGB |
Nordic Gene Bank |
|
NGDC |
National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA) |
|
NGM |
Nested Grid Model |
|
NGO |
Nongovernmental Organization |
|
NGO |
Non Government Organizational |
|
NGRS |
National Geodetic Reference System |
|
NGSDC |
National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center |
|
Ngvd 29 |
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 |
|
NH4 |
ammonium |
|
NHAP |
National High-Altitude Photography Program |
|
NHC |
United States National Hurricane Center |
|
NHEML |
United States National Hurricane Experimental Meteorological Laboratory |
|
NHRC |
National Hydrology Research Centre |
|
NHRE |
United States National Hail Research Experiment |
|
NHRI |
National Hydrology Research Institute |
|
NHTSA |
National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (DOT) |
|
NIAES |
National Institute of Agro-Environmental Studies |
|
NIC |
Newly Industrialized Country |
|
NIE |
National Institute for the Environment |
|
NIF |
Nascom Interface Facilities |
|
NIGEC |
National Institute for Global Environmental Change |
|
NIH |
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH |
|
NILU |
Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
|
NIO |
National Institute of Oceanography |
|
NIP |
Normal Incidence Pyrheliometer |
|
NIPDWS |
National Interim Primary Drinking Water Standards |
|
NIRP |
National Institute for Radiation Protection |
|
NIST |
National Institute of Standards & Technology (US) |
|
NISTEP |
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy |
|
NKA |
Nordic Liaison Committee for Atomic Energy |
|
NKO |
Nederlandse Kalibratie Organisatie |
|
NKS |
Nordic Nuclear Safety Project |
|
NLC |
National Laboratory Consortium |
|
NLE |
National Library for the Environment |
|
NLVF |
Norway Agricultural Research Council |
|
nm |
Nanometer |
|
NMFECC |
National Magnet Fusion Energy Computer Center |
|
NMFS |
National Marine Fisheries Services |
|
NMHC |
Nonmethane Hydrocarbons |
|
NMI |
NASA Management Instruction |
|
NMNH |
National Museum of Natural History |
|
NMOS |
Network Mission Operations Support |
|
NNSF |
National Natural Science Foundation |
|
NNSS |
Navy Navigational Satellite System |
|
NO. |
Number |
|
NO2 |
Nitrogen Dioxide |
|
No3 |
Nitrate Radical |
|
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US) |
|
NOAO |
National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Tucson, AZ) |
|
NOB |
Notes Over Bonds |
|
NOBREX |
North Brazil Current Experiment |
|
NOCC |
Network Operations Control Center (GSFC) |
|
NODS |
NASA Ocean Data System |
|
NOM |
Nominative |
|
Non-conf |
nonconformist |
|
nonce-wd |
nonce-word |
|
Nonconf |
nonconformist |
|
Noo |
National Oceanographic Office |
|
NOPE |
Network Operations Engineer |
|
NORDA |
Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity |
|
NORDMAP |
European Nordic Pollen Data Mapping Project |
|
Norf |
Norfolk |
|
Norpax |
North Pacific Expedition |
|
north |
northern |
|
Northamptonsh |
Northamptonshire |
|
NORTHANTS |
Northamptonshire |
|
Northumb |
Northumberland |
|
Northumbld |
Northumberland |
|
Northumbr |
Northumbrian |
|
NORW |
Norwegian |
|
Norweg |
Norwegian |
|
NOS |
National Ocean Survey |
|
NOSS |
National Oceanic Satellite System |
|
NOTTS |
Nottinghamshire |
|
NOV |
November |
|
NOWES |
Northern Wetlands Study |
|
NOx-N |
Nitrogen oxides nitrogen trace gas emission ratio |
|
NOy |
total active nitrogen |
|
NOZE |
National Ozone Expedition |
|
NPDES |
National Pollution Discharge Elimination System |
|
NPIC |
National Programme on Improved Chulhas |
|
NPL |
Nuclear Plasma Laboratory |
|
NPOP |
NASA Polar Orbiting Platform |
|
NPS |
National Park Service (US) |
|
NR |
Not Reported |
|
NRA |
NASA Research Announcement |
|
NRCA |
Nonconformance Report and Corrective Action |
|
NRCC |
National Research Council of Canada |
|
NRCP |
National Research Council for the Philippines |
|
NRCT |
National Research Council of Thailand |
|
NREN |
National Research and Education Network |
|
NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
|
NROSS |
Navy Remote Ocean Sensing System |
|
NRPGC |
National Research Program for Global Change |
|
NRSA |
National Remote Sensing Agency |
|
NRT |
Near Real-Time |
|
NRZ-L |
Non Return to Zero Level |
|
ns |
nouns |
|
NSA |
Northern Slope of Alaska |
|
NSA/AAO |
NSA/Adjacent Arctic Ocean |
|
NSBF |
National Scientific Balloon Facility |
|
Nscat |
Nasa Scatterometer Project |
|
NSDP |
Nascom System Development Plan |
|
NSF |
National Sanitation Foundation |
|
NSFNET |
National Science Foundation Network |
|
NSIDC |
National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder) |
|
NSJI |
North-South Joint Implementation |
|
NSN |
NASA Space Network |
|
NSO |
National Solar Observatory |
|
Nspc |
National Space Council |
|
NSPD |
National Space Policy Directive |
|
NSSDC |
National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD) |
|
NSSFC |
National Severe Storms Forecast Center |
|
NSSL |
National Severe Storms Laboratory |
|
NSTC |
National Science and Technology Council (U.S.) |
|
NSTS |
National Space Transportation System |
|
NTIS |
National Technical Information Service Technology Administration |
|
NTM |
Network Test Manager |
|
NTN |
National Trends Network |
|
NTOM |
Network Technical and Operations Manager |
|
NTS |
Nevada Test Site |
|
NUC |
National Underseas Research Center |
|
NUM |
Number |
|
Numism |
numismatics |
|
NVI |
normalized difference vegetation index |
|
Nwlisn |
Northwest Land Information System Network |
|
NWPM |
Numerical Weather Prediction Model |
|
NWRC |
National Weather Records Center |
|
NWWA |
National Water Well Association |
|
NYBID |
New York Interbank Bid Rate |
|
NYBOR |
New York Interbank Offered Rate |
|
NYCE |
New York Cotton Exchange |
|
NYMEX |
New York Mercantile Exchange |
|
NYU |
New York University |
|
Nyu/ultra |
New York University's Ultracomputer |
|
NZFOE |
New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange |
|
NZOI |
New Zealand Oceanographic Institute |
|
NZP |
National Zoological Park |
|
O&M |
Operation and Maintenance |
|
o.d. |
outside diameter |
|
O.E.D |
Oxford English Dictionary |
|
O.T |
Old Testament |
|
O/N |
oxygen-to-nitrogen ratio |
|
O2 |
Oxygen |
|
O3 |
Ozone |
|
OA |
Operations Agreement |
|
OARM |
Office Of Administration And Resources Management (USEPA) |
|
OAS |
Organization of American States |
|
OASIS |
Observation At Several Interacting Scales |
|
OAT |
obligations assumilables de Trésor |
|
OAXTC |
Ocean/Atmosphere Exchange of Trace Compounds |
|
OBAD |
Obadiah |
|
OBC |
On Board Computer |
|
OBDH |
On-Board Data Handling |
|
Obed |
obedience |
|
OBL |
OBLique |
|
OBO |
Order Book Official |
|
OBS |
Obsolete |
|
Observ |
observation |
|
Obstet |
obstetric |
|
Obstetr |
obstetric |
|
Obstetr.Med |
obstetric medicine |
|
OCAM |
Afro-Malagasy Common Organization |
|
Occurr |
occurrence |
|
Oceanogr |
Oceanography |
|
OClO |
chlorine dioxide |
|
OCN |
Oceania |
|
OCO |
One Cancels the Other Order |
|
OCT |
October |
|
OCTS |
ocean color and temperature sensor |
|
OD |
Orbit Determination |
|
ODAS |
Oceanic Data Assimilation System |
|
ODB |
Orbit Determination Beacon |
|
ODC |
Other Data Center |
|
OE |
Old English |
|
OEC |
Office of Environmental Compliance |
|
OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
|
OEG |
Office of Environmental Guidance |
|
OEP |
Office of Economic Planning |
|
OES |
Bureau of Oceans, International Environment, and Scientific Affairs |
|
OFA |
Office of Flight Assurance |
|
OFDA |
Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance |
|
offic |
official |
|
OFT |
Office of Fair Trading |
|
OGCM |
Ocean General Circulation Model |
|
OGE |
Osaka Grain Exchange |
|
OGIST |
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology |
|
OH |
Hydroxyl Radical |
|
OHER |
Office Of Health And Environmental Research (US Dept. Of Energy) |
|
OIE |
Overseas Investment Exchange |
|
OIP |
Offical Index Period |
|
OIRM |
Office of Information Resources Management (EPA) |
|
OKCS |
Oklahoma Climatological Survey |
|
OKLA |
Oklahoma |
|
OLR |
Outgoing Long-Wave Radiation |
|
OM |
OM Stockholm Fondkommission |
|
OM-Al |
organic monomeric aluminum |
|
OMB |
Office of Management and Budget (U.S.) |
|
Omcs |
Ozone Monitor Comparison System |
|
OMDR |
Optical Memory Disk Recorder Animation System |
|
OMEX |
Ocean Margin Exchanges |
|
OMLX |
The London Securities and Derivatives Exchange |
|
OMP |
Ocean Margins Program |
|
OMS |
margin system on OMLX |
|
Omwog |
Ocean-Based Measurements Working Group |
|
OMX |
Option Market Index |
|
ONEB |
Office of National Environmental Board |
|
ONR |
Office of Naval Research (U.S.) |
|
ONWI |
Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation |
|
OPC |
Ordinary Portland Cement |
|
OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
|
OPEX |
Operational and Executive Personnel for Civil Service |
|
Ophthalm |
ophthalmology |
|
Ophthalmol |
ophthalmology |
|
OPM |
Office of Personnel Management |
|
opp |
opposed |
|
Oppress |
oppression |
|
OPS |
Optical Sensor |
|
OPT |
Optimization Under Uncertainty Project |
|
ORAC |
Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters |
|
ORAU |
Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
|
ORD |
Office of Research & Development (EPA) |
|
Org.Chem |
organic chemistry |
|
Organ.Chem |
organic chemistry |
|
ORISE |
Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education |
|
Orkn |
Orkney |
|
Ornith |
ornithology |
|
Ornithol |
ornithology |
|
ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's |
|
ORNL/ACL |
ORNL/Advanced Computing Laboratory |
|
ORPA |
Operational Readiness and Performance Assurance |
|
ORR |
Oak Ridge Reservation |
|
Ors |
Others |
|
Orthogr |
orthography |
|
OSB |
Ocean Studies Board |
|
OSO |
Orbiting Solar Observatory |
|
OSR |
Office of Sponsored Research |
|
OSSE |
Observing System Simulation Experiment |
|
OSTI |
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE) |
|
OSTP |
Office of Science and Technology Policy |
|
OSU |
Oregon State University |
|
OTA |
Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.; abolished by Congress, Fall 1995) |
|
OTC |
Over The Counter (medications not requiring a prescription) |
|
OTEC |
ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity) |
|
OTM |
Out-Of-The-Money |
|
OTOB |
Oesterreichische Termin und OptionBorse |
|
OTT |
Over The Top |
|
Outl |
outline |
|
OWS |
Ocean Weather Station |
|
Owse |
Operational Www Systems Evaluation |
|
OWSE-NA |
Operational WWW Systems Evaluation -North America |
|
Oxfordsh |
Oxfordshire |
|
OXON |
Oxfordshire |
|
P |
significance level (statistical) |
|
P&S |
Purchase and Sale |
|
P-Code |
GPS precision transmission code |
|
P. |
Pacific Reporter |
|
p. |
Page |
|
P.2d |
Pacific Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
P.3d |
Pacific Reporter, 3rd Series |
|
P.R |
public records |
|
P/M |
Payload Module |
|
P/R |
productivity/respiration |
|
pa.t |
past tense |
|
PAAD |
Program Assistance Approval Document |
|
PAC |
Polar Atmospheric Chemistry |
|
PACER |
Program for the Acceleration of Commercial Energy Research |
|
PACOR |
Packet Processor |
|
PACORII |
Packet Processor Data Capture Facility II |
|
PAD |
Program Approval Document |
|
PAF |
Processing Archiving Facility |
|
PAGES-EXCOMM |
PAGES Executive Committee |
|
PAGES-SSC |
PAGES Scientific Steering Committee |
|
Palaeobot |
palaeobotany |
|
Palaeogr |
palaeography |
|
Palaeont |
palaeontology |
|
Palaeontol |
palaeontology |
|
PAM |
Portable Automated Mesonet |
|
PAN |
Peroxyacetylnitrate |
|
Paraphr |
paraphrase |
|
Parasitol |
parasitology |
|
PARCC |
precision, accuracy, representativeness, completeness, and comparability |
|
PARL |
Parliament |
|
Parnass |
Parnassus |
|
PASA |
Participating Agency Service Agreement |
|
PASC |
Polar Atmospheric and SnowChemistry (IGAC) |
|
PASE |
Polar Air-Snow Experiment |
|
Pathol |
Pathological |
|
PB |
Playback |
|
PBL |
Planetary Boundary Layer |
|
PBM |
peribacteroid membrane |
|
PBMR |
Pushbroom Microwave Radiometer |
|
PBOT |
Phildelphia Board Of Trade |
|
PBU |
peribacteroid unit |
|
PCA |
principal components analysis |
|
PCAST |
President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology |
|
PCB |
Polychlorinated Biphenyls |
|
PCC |
Power Converter for CDMU |
|
PCM |
Pulse-Code Modulation |
|
PCMDI |
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison |
|
pCO2 |
partial pressure of CO2 |
|
PCR |
polymerase chain technology |
|
PCS |
Predefined Command Sequence |
|
Pcssd |
Philippines Council for Sustainable Development |
|
PCU |
Platinum-Cobalt Unit |
|
PDA |
phased-Doppler anemometer |
|
PDE |
Partial Differential Equation |
|
PDF |
Probability Density Function |
|
PDFE |
Programmable Data Formatter Engineer |
|
PDI |
Payload Data Interleaver |
|
PDL |
polarization-diversity lidar |
|
PDRCA |
Participatory Development Resource Centre for Africa |
|
PDSI |
Palmer Drought Severity Index |
|
PDU |
Power Distribution Unit |
|
PE |
Pipeline Execution |
|
PECO |
CEC-COPERNICUS Program |
|
Peculat |
peculation |
|
PEGASUS |
Current profiling system |
|
PEM WEST |
Pacific Exploratory Mission - West |
|
PEMD |
personalized educational materials development |
|
Penins |
peninsula |
|
PEPCase |
Phosphenol-pyruvate carboxylase |
|
PER |
Program for Ecological Research |
|
PERD |
Panel for Energy Research and Development |
|
perh |
perhaps |
|
Periodontol |
periodontologic |
|
Persec |
persecution |
|
personif |
personified |
|
Perthsh |
Perthshire |
|
Petrogr |
petrographic |
|
Petrol |
petrologic |
|
PFBC |
Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustor |
|
Pfcs |
Perfluorocarbon Compounds |
|
PFRA |
Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration |
|
PFTs |
perfluorocarbon tracers |
|
PGS |
Product Generation System |
|
pharm |
pharmacology |
|
Pharmaceut |
pharmaceutical |
|
Pharmacol |
Pharmacology |
|
PHAS |
Payload Module Harness Subsystem |
|
Philad |
Philadelphia |
|
PHILEM |
Philemon |
|
Philipp |
Philippians |
|
Philol |
philologic |
|
Philos |
philosophic |
|
PHLX |
Philiadelphia Stock Exchange |
|
Phoen |
Phoenician |
|
phonet |
phonetic |
|
Phonol |
phonology |
|
Photog |
photography |
|
Photogr |
photographic |
|
PHOXA |
photochemical oxidant and acid deposition model application within the framework of control strategy development |
|
Phr |
Phrase |
|
Phrenol |
phrenology |
|
Phys |
Physiology |
|
Physical Chem |
physical chemistry |
|
Physical Geogr |
physical geography |
|
Physiogr |
physiography |
|
Physiol |
Physiology |
|
PIBOR |
Paris Interbank Offered Rate |
|
PICES |
North Pacific Marine Science Organization |
|
PILPS |
Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterization Schemes |
|
PIO/C |
PIO for Commodities |
|
PIO/P |
PIO for Participant Training |
|
PIO/T |
PIO for Contract Technicians or Contract Services |
|
PIR |
Precision Infrared Radiometer |
|
PIXE |
Proton induced x-ray emission analysis |
|
PJ |
Petajoule |
|
PL |
Public Law |
|
PLM |
Payload Module |
|
PLO |
Public Limit Order |
|
Plob |
Public Limit Oder Board |
|
plur |
plural |
|
PM-10 |
particulate matter less than 10 micrometers diameter |
|
PM-2.5 |
particulate matter of diameter less than 2.5 micrometers |
|
PMB |
Potato Marketing Board |
|
PME |
Pacor Mission Engineer |
|
PMEL |
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL) |
|
PMF |
Probable Maximum Flood |
|
PMIP |
Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (NATO and PAGES) |
|
PMIR |
Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer |
|
PMP |
Probable Maximum Precipitation |
|
PMR |
pressure-modulated radiometer |
|
PNEDC |
Programme Nationale d'Etude de la Dynamique du Climat (France) |
|
PNG |
Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension) |
|
Pnl |
Pacific Northwest Laboratory |
|
PNNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US) |
|
POC |
Particulate Organic Carbon |
|
POCC |
Payload Operations Control Center |
|
POCM |
parallel ocean-climate model |
|
POD |
Precision Orbit Determination |
|
POEM |
polar-orbiting earth observation mission (ESA) |
|
POEMS |
Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer |
|
POGO |
Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory |
|
Pol |
politics |
|
Pol.Econ |
political economy |
|
POLAR |
Polar Plasma Laboratory |
|
Polarstern |
Research vessel |
|
POLDER |
Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances |
|
POLES |
Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface |
|
Polit |
politics |
|
Polynya |
Wind or current driven opening in winter sea-ice |
|
Polytechn |
polytechnic |
|
PON |
Particulate Organic Nitrogen |
|
POOZ |
Permanently Open Ocean Zone |
|
Provis |
provisional |
|
PRS |
Price Reporting System |
|
PRT |
precision radiation thermometer |
|
PRTC |
Priority Real Time Commands |
|
PS |
Psalms |
|
PSA |
Pacific Sciences Association |
|
PSAC |
President's Science Advisory Committee |
|
PSC |
Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic) |
|
PSCN |
Program Support Comunications Network |
|
PSD |
Prevention of Significant Deterioration |
|
PSDPC |
Polar Satellite Data Processing Centre |
|
PSE |
Pacific Stock Exchange |
|
pseudo-arch |
pseudo-archaic |
|
pseudo-dial |
pseudo-dialect |
|
pseudo-Sc |
pseudo-Scots |
|
Psfc |
surface pressure |
|
PSFG |
Permanent Service on the Fluctuation of Glaciers |
|
PSI |
Pounds Per Square Inch (Static Pressure) |
|
Psk |
Phase Shift Key |
|
PSMSL |
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (U.K.) |
|
PSO |
Project Science Office |
|
PSP |
Precision Spectral Pyranometer |
|
PSPDC |
Polar Satellite Precipitation Data Centre |
|
PSS |
Portable Spacecraft Simulator |
|
PSSI |
Pacific/Sulfur/Stratus Investigation |
|
PSTS |
Payload Module Structure Subsystem |
|
PSU |
''Pennsylvania State University'' |
|
PSYCH |
Psychology |
|
Psychoanal |
psychoanalysis |
|
Psychoanalyt |
psychoanalytic |
|
Psychol |
Psychological |
|
Psychopathol |
psychopathologic |
|
PTB |
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig |
|
PTCS |
Payload Module Thermal Control Subsystem |
|
PTFE |
Polytetrafluoroethylene |
|
PU |
processing unit |
|
Pub.L. |
Public Law |
|
PUMS |
Public Use Microdata Samples |
|
Purg |
purgatory |
|
PUSPITEK |
Training Facilities in the Centre for Research, Science and Technology |
|
PV |
Potential Vorticity |
|
PVC |
Polyvinyl Chloride |
|
PVL |
Parameter Value Language |
|
PVM |
Parallel Virtual Machine |
|
PW |
Precipitable Water |
|
PWD |
Public Works Department |
|
PWV |
Precipitable Water Vapor |
|
PZT |
Piezoelectric Transducer |
|
Q.Eliz |
Queen Elizabeth |
|
q.v |
quod vide |
|
QA/QC |
Quality Assurance/Quality Control |
|
QAC |
Quality and Accounting Capsule |
|
QAE |
Quality Assurance Engineer |
|
QAMS |
Quality Assurance Management Staff (US EPA) |
|
QBO |
Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.) |
|
QC |
Quality Control |
|
QDRO |
Qualified Domestic Relations Order |
|
QLN |
Quantitative Links Networks |
|
QN |
quinoline |
|
Qto |
Quasi-Triennial Oscillation |
|
Quantum Mech |
quantum mechanics |
|
Queen's Bench Div |
Queen's Bench Division |
|
QUOT |
Quotation |
|
quots |
quotations |
|
R |
Regina |
|
R |
Rex |
|
R |
royal |
|
R J |
Recurring Judgement |
|
R&D |
Research & Development |
|
R&SSD |
Radiation and Safety Surveys Department (ORNL) |
|
R.A.F |
Royal Air Force |
|
R.C |
Roman Catholic |
|
R.C.Church |
Roman Catholic Church |
|
R.E. |
Real Estate |
|
R.N |
Royal Navy |
|
R/C |
Residue Crop ratio |
|
R/T |
Real-Time |
|
R/V |
Research Vessel |
|
r2 |
coefficient of determination (statistical) |
|
RA I |
Regional Association I - Africa (WMO) |
|
RA II |
Regional Association II - Asia (WMO) |
|
RA IV |
Regional Association IV - North and Central America (WMO) |
|
RA-2 |
POEM altimeter (ESA) |
|
RAAD |
Roll Attitude Anomaly Detection |
|
RAAM |
Roll Attitude Acquisition Mode |
|
RADARSAT |
Radar Satellite |
|
RADCAL |
Radiation Calibration Laboratory |
|
Radiol |
Radiology |
|
RADPATH |
Biochemical Pathways of Artificial Radionuclides (CEC) |
|
RAE |
Royal Aircraft Establishment |
|
RAES |
Retail Automated Execution System |
|
RAFOS |
SOFAR spelled backwards (float which |
|
RAI |
Rainfall Anomaly Index |
|
RAL |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK |
|
RAM |
random-access memory |
|
RAOB |
Radiosonde Observation |
|
RAPD |
Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA |
|
RARR |
Range and Range Rate |
|
RASC |
Radio Atmospheric Study Centre |
|
RASM |
Remote Access Scheduling Terminal |
|
RASS |
radio-acoustic sounding system |
|
RAWG/Hydrology |
Regional Associations'Working Groups on Hydrology |
|
RBV |
return-beam Vidicon |
|
RCF |
Relative Centrifugal Force |
|
RCH |
Recognised Clearing House |
|
RCM |
radiative-convective model |
|
RCRA |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984) |
|
RCRE |
required collaborative research experience |
|
RCS |
Radar Cross Section |
|
RCWP |
Rapidly Changing World Policy |
|
RD |
Reference Document |
|
RDAAC |
Remote Data Analysis and Archive Center |
|
RDP |
Radar Development Project |
|
RDT |
Remote Data Transmission |
|
RE |
Earth radii |
|
REAS |
reasonably expected as safe |
|
REB |
Rebel |
|
Rebell |
rebellion |
|
Reclam |
reclamation |
|
Recoll |
recollection |
|
Redempt |
redemption |
|
redupl |
reduplicating |
|
refash |
refashion |
|
Reflex |
Remote Fluvial Experimental Series |
|
Refus |
refusal |
|
Refut |
refutation |
|
Regic |
regicide |
|
Regist |
register |
|
Regr |
register |
|
REKLIP |
Regional Climate Project |
|
Relig |
religion |
|
Reminisc |
reminiscence |
|
Remonstr |
remonstrance |
|
Renfrewsh |
Renfrewshire |
|
repr |
representative |
|
Reprod |
Reproduction |
|
Repub |
republic |
|
RES |
Regional Evaporation Study |
|
RESA |
Scientific Research Society of America |
|
Resid |
residence |
|
RESSAC |
The Consequence of a Major Nuclear Accident on the Surrounding Environment: Soil and Surface Rehabilitation |
|
RET |
Renewable energy technologies |
|
Retrosp |
retrospective |
|
Rev. Proc. |
Revenue Procedure |
|
Rev. Rul. |
Revenue Ruling |
|
Revol |
revolution |
|
RF |
Radio Frequency |
|
RFC |
Registered Floor Clerk |
|
RFD |
Royal Forestry Department |
|
RFDU |
Radio Frequency Distribution Unit |
|
RFLP |
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism |
|
RFP |
Request For Proposal |
|
RFT |
Registered Floor Trader |
|
RGCT |
Reflective Gross Cloud Test |
|
RGI |
regional-global interactions |
|
RGIS |
regional geographic information system |
|
RGR |
Relative Growth Rate |
|
RGS |
Royal Geographic Society |
|
RH |
Relative Humidity |
|
Rhiessys |
Regional Hydro-Ecological Simulation System |
|
Rhode Isl |
Rhode Island |
|
RI |
radar interferometry |
|
RIC |
Regional Information Center |
|
RICE |
Rice Cultivation and Trace Gases Exchange (India) (IGAC) |
|
RIDGE |
Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment |
|
RIE |
Recognised Investment Exchange |
|
RIGES |
Renewable Intensive Global Energy System |
|
RIHMI-WDC |
All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information-World Data Center |
|
RILWAS |
Regional Integrated Lake-Watershed Acidification Study (EPRI) |
|
Rimi |
Riso Integrated Environmental Project |
|
RITS |
Radiatively Important Trace Species |
|
RIVM |
Netherlands National Institute of Public Health and EnvironmentalProtection |
|
Rk |
River Kilometer |
|
RLO |
retsricted life option |
|
RLU |
Relative Light Unit |
|
RMES |
Relay Mirror Experimental Satellite |
|
rms |
root mean square (preferred over "RMS") |
|
RMTC |
Regional Meteorological Training Centre |
|
RMW |
Roll Maneuver Wheels |
|
RN |
Radon |
|
RNA |
Ribo Nucleic Acid |
|
RNMI |
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
|
ROM |
Read-Only Memory |
|
Rom.Antiq |
Roman antiquities |
|
ROPME |
Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment |
|
Ross-sh |
Ross-shire |
|
ROT |
registered options trader |
|
Roxb |
Roxburgh |
|
RPA |
Remotely Piloted Aircraft |
|
RPB |
Recognised Professional Body |
|
RPC |
Remote Procedure Call |
|
RPE |
Office of OECD, European Community, andAtlantic |
|
RPI |
Retail Price Index |
|
RPN |
Division de la recherche en prevision numerique |
|
RPR |
Remote Procedure Request |
|
RPSS |
Relative Partial Sum of Squares |
|
RRAD |
Roll Rate Anomaly Detection |
|
RRCT |
Reflectance Ratio Cloud Test |
|
RRN |
Regional Research Networks (START) |
|
RRN ANT |
RRN Antarctic |
|
RRN ART |
RRN Arctic |
|
RRN CAA |
RRN Central Arid Asia |
|
RRN CAR |
RRN Caribbean |
|
RRN ESA |
RRN Equatorial South America |
|
RRN MED |
RRN Mediterranean |
|
RRN NAF |
RRN Northern Africa |
|
RRN OCE |
RRN Oceania |
|
RRN SAF |
RRN Southern and Eastern Africa |
|
RRN TAM |
RRN Tropical Asian Monsoon Region |
|
RRN TEA |
RRN Temperate East Asia |
|
RRN TNH |
RRN Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
|
RRN TSA |
RRN Temperate South America |
|
RRS |
regional research sites (START) |
|
RRTM |
Rapid Radiative Transfer Model |
|
RS |
Remote Sensing |
|
RSA |
Republic South Africa |
|
RSD |
Residual Standard Deviation |
|
RSF |
LANL computer code |
|
RSI |
relative strength indicator |
|
RSMC |
Regional/Specialized Meteorological Centre |
|
RSR |
Rotating Shadowband Radiometer |
|
RT |
Radiative Transfer |
|
RTD |
Real-Time Data |
|
RTFM |
Read The Fuck Manual |
|
RTH |
Regional Telecommunication Hub |
|
RTNEPH |
real-time nephanalysis |
|
RTU |
Remote Terminal Unit |
|
RUC |
Roskilde University Center |
|
Rudim |
rudiment |
|
RUST |
Remote User Scheduling Terminal |
|
Rut |
Reflectance Uniformity Test |
|
RVAU |
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University |
|
RVB |
return-beam Vidicon |
|
RW |
Reaction Wheel |
|
RWC |
Regional Warning Centre |
|
RWVL |
Raman Water Vapor Lidar |
|
Rx |
Receive |
|
S&P100,500 |
stock indices |
|
S&R |
Search & Rescue |
|
S-GCOS |
Space-Based Global Change Observation System |
|
S. Ct. |
Supreme Court Reporter |
|
S.Afr |
South Africa |
|
S.Carolina |
South Carolina |
|
s.d. |
standard deviation |
|
S.Dakota |
South Dakota |
|
S.E. |
South Eastern Reporter |
|
S.E.2d |
South Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
S.T.S |
Scottish Text Society |
|
s.v |
sub verbo |
|
S.W. |
South Western Reporter |
|
S.W.2d |
South Western Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
S.W.3d |
South Western Reporter, 3rd Series |
|
S/C |
Spacecraft |
|
S/J |
Summary judgment |
|
S/W |
Software |
|
SA90 |
IPCC Scenario A, 1990 |
|
SABLE |
simulator atmospheric boundary layer environment |
|
SAD |
Solar Array Deployment |
|
SADCC |
Southern African Development Coordination Conference |
|
saef |
Stock Exchange Automated Execution Facility |
|
SAFARI-92 |
South African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative |
|
SAFCOM |
Southern, Central, and Eastern Africa Regional Committee (START) |
|
SAFEX |
South African Futures Exchange |
|
SAFIRE |
Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission |
|
SAGA |
Soviet-American Gas and Aerosol Experiment |
|
SAGE |
Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment |
|
SAGE III |
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III |
|
SAHC |
South Asia Hydrological Cycle |
|
SAIC |
Science Applications International Corporation |
|
SAIL |
Steel Authority of India Limited |
|
SalArgos |
Argos-located buoy equipped with temperature and conductivity sensors |
|
SAM |
Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement |
|
SAM II |
Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement |
|
SAMBO |
Simultaneous Auroral Multi-Balloons Observations |
|
SAMS |
Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder |
|
SARB |
surface and atmospheric radiation budget |
|
SARCS-SAP |
SARCS Scientific Advisory Panel |
|
Sasanee |
South and Southeast Asia Network for Environmental Education |
|
SASK |
Saskatchewan |
|
SASS |
SEASAT-A Scatterometer System |
|
SAT |
surface air temperature |
|
SATOBS |
Satellite Observations |
|
SATOR |
Stratospheric and Tropospheric Ozone Research |
|
SAVE |
South Atlantic Ventilation Experiment |
|
saw |
Sawlog Harvest |
|
sax |
Saxon Capital, Inc. |
|
SBIR |
Small Business Innovation Research |
|
SBUV |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment) |
|
SBUV-2 |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet-2 |
|
SC-IGBP |
Special Committee of the International Geosphere BiosphereProgramme |
|
SCA |
snow-covered areas |
|
SCAMA |
Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement |
|
SCANSCAT |
scanning scatterometer |
|
SCAR |
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (ICSU) |
|
SCARAB |
Scanner for the Radiation Budget |
|
SCARABE |
Scanner for Radiative Budget Experiment |
|
SCAT |
radar scatterometer |
|
SCATT |
SCATTerometer |
|
SCF |
Scientific Computing Facility |
|
SCIAMACHY |
Scanning, imaging and absorption spectrometer for atmospheric cartography |
|
SCIBP |
Scientific Committee for the International Biological Programme |
|
SCID |
Spacecraft Identification |
|
SCM |
single-column model |
|
scms |
Société de Compensation des Marchés Conditionnels |
|
SCOPE |
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP) |
|
SCOR |
Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (ICSU) |
|
SCORPIO |
Oceanographic cruise in the South Pacific, 1968 (U.S.) |
|
SCOSTEP |
Scientific Committee On Solar-Terrestrial Physics |
|
SCOT |
Services Consultance en Observation de la Terre |
|
Scotl |
Scotland |
|
SCOTUS |
Supreme Court of the United States |
|
SCPP |
Seasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction Program |
|
SCR |
Stripchart Recorders |
|
SCRIPPS |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San |
|
Script |
scripture |
|
Sculpt |
sculpture |
|
SCWP |
Slowly Changing World Policy |
|
SD |
Standard Deviation |
|
sd |
said |
|
SDA |
Stanza di Compensazione Titoli |
|
SDAC |
Satellite Data Analysis Center |
|
SDB |
Spacecraft Data Base |
|
SDC |
Swiss Development Corporation |
|
SDPF |
Sensor Data Processing Facility |
|
SDSD |
Satellite Data Services Division |
|
SDSS |
Spatial Decision Support System |
|
SDTS |
Spatial Data Transfer Standard |
|
SEAMEO |
South East Asian MinistersEducation Organization |
|
SEAQ |
Stock Exchange Automated Quotation System |
|
SEAS |
Shipboard Environmental Data Acquisition Systems |
|
SEASPAN |
SEAREX South Pacific Aerosol Network |
|
SeaStar |
Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS |
|
SEATO |
Southeast Asian Treaty Organization |
|
SeaWIFS |
sea-viewing wide-field sensor |
|
SEB |
State Electricity Board |
|
SEBEX |
Sahelian Energy Balance Experiment |
|
SEBI |
Securities and Exchange Board of India |
|
SECO |
Sustainer Engine Cutoff |
|
SECTIONS |
Oceanographic Programme of the U.S.S.R. |
|
Sedac |
Socio-Economic Data and Applications Center |
|
SEHK |
Stock Exchange of Hong Kong |
|
Seismol |
seismology |
|
Sel.comm |
select committee |
|
SELDADS |
SEL Data Acquisition and Display System |
|
Select |
selection |
|
SELPER |
Society of Latin American Remote Sensing Specialists |
|
SELSIS |
SEL Solar Imaging System |
|
SELV |
Small Expendable Launch Vehicle |
|
SEPON |
Stock Exchange Pool Nominees |
|
SERDP |
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program |
|
SERI |
Solar Energy Research Institute |
|
Serm |
sermon |
|
SERP |
Sedimentary Rock Program |
|
SES |
Singapore Stock Exchange |
|
SESC |
Space Environment Service Center |
|
SET |
Securities Exchange of Thailand |
|
SETAC |
Society of Environmental Toxicology And Chemistry |
|
Settlem |
settlement |
|
Sev |
several |
|
SF |
screening factor |
|
sfa |
Securities and Futures Authority Limited |
|
SFDU |
Standard Formatted Data Units |
|
SFT |
System Functional Test |
|
SGCR |
Subcommittee on Global Change Research |
|
SGM |
second-generation model |
|
SGR |
Specific Growth Rate |
|
SGSS |
Solar Generator Subsystem |
|
SH |
Southern Hemisphere |
|
Shakes |
Shakespeare |
|
Shaks |
Shakespeare |
|
SHARE |
Software Help for Applications, Research, and Education |
|
SHAS |
Service Module Harness Subsystem |
|
SHEBA |
Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean |
|
Sheph |
shepherd |
|
Shetl |
Shetland |
|
SHPO |
State Historic Preservation Office (US) |
|
Shropsh |
Shropshire |
|
SHSS |
Structure and Harness Subsystem |
|
SI |
Statutory Instrument |
|
SIAM |
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) |
|
SIC |
Spacecraft Identification Code |
|
SID |
Spacecraft Identification Number |
|
SIDS |
Small Island Developing States |
|
SIFE |
Second ISCCP Field Experiment |
|
SIG-WAIS |
Special Interest Group-Wide Area Information Server |
|
SIMD |
Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor) |
|
SING |
Singular |
|
SINTEF |
Norwegian Institute of Technology |
|
SIO |
Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography |
|
SiO3 |
silicate |
|
SIP |
Solar Influences Program |
|
SIR-C |
Shuttle Imaging Radar-C |
|
SIROS |
solar and infrared radiation observation stations |
|
SIRS |
Satellite Infrared Spectrometer |
|
SISEX |
Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment |
|
SIT |
Servizio di Taratura in Italia |
|
SITE |
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment |
|
SIV |
solar and interplanetary variability |
|
SIZ |
Seasonal Ice Zone |
|
SJVF |
Veterinary Agricultural Research Council |
|
SK |
Saskatchewan |
|
SLA |
Special Libraries Association |
|
SLAR |
Side-Looking Airborne Radar |
|
SLB |
Shallow Land Burial |
|
SLEJF |
Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum |
|
SLIES |
Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer |
|
SLP |
sea-level pressure |
|
SLS |
stereo line scanner |
|
SLURP |
Simple Linear Unit Reservoir Program |
|
SM |
Structural Model |
|
SM-MIMD |
shared memory, multiple instruction, and multiple data (computer) |
|
Sm3 |
Standard meter3 |
|
SMC |
System Management Center |
|
SMIC |
Study of Mans Impact on Climate |
|
SMIP |
SOHO Mission Implementation Plan |
|
SMIRD |
SOHO Mission Implementation Requirements Document |
|
SMJ |
subject matter jurisdiction |
|
SMM |
Solar Maximum Mission |
|
SMOC |
SOHO Science and Mission Operations Center |
|
SMOCC |
SOHO Mission Operations Control Center |
|
SMOS |
Surface Meteorological Observation System |
|
SMOW |
Standard Mean Ocean Water |
|
SMP |
Systems Management Policy |
|
SMR |
Standard Malaysian Rubber |
|
SMS |
Synchronous Meteorological Satellite |
|
SMS/GOES |
SMS/Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite |
|
SMY |
Solar Maximum Year |
|
SN |
Space Network |
|
SNAS |
Strategic National Alternatives Study |
|
SNL |
Sandia National Laboratories |
|
Snl/ppg |
Snl/Parallel Processing Group |
|
Snotel |
Snow Survey and Remote Telemetry |
|
snr |
Signal-to-Noise |
|
SO |
Southern Oscillation |
|
So. |
Southern Reporter |
|
So. 2d |
Southern Reporter, 2nd Series |
|
SO2 |
Sulfur Dioxide |
|
so4 |
Sulfate radical |
|
SOA |
state-of-the-art |
|
SOCA |
Special Operations Control Area |
|
SOCC |
Satellite Operation Command and Control |
|
SOCEX |
Southern Ocean Cloud Experiment |
|
Sociol |
sociology |
|
SOFFEX |
Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange |
|
SOHO |
Solar Heliospheric Observatory |
|
SOL |
Statute of Limitations |
|
SOL |
Science Operations Leader |
|
SOLSTICE |
Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment |
|
SOMMA |
Single-Operator Multiparameter Metabolic Analyzer |
|
Song of Sol |
Song of Solomon |
|
Song Sol |
Song of Solomon |
|
Sonn |
sonnet |
|
SOP |
Ship of Opportunity Programme |
|
sopac |
South Pacific Applied Geosciences Commission |
|
SOR |
Statutory Orders and Regulations |
|
SORTI |
solar-radiance-transmission interferometer |
|
SOS |
Southern Oxidants Study |
|
SOS/SONIA |
SOS/Southeast Oxidant and Nitrogen Intensive Analysis |
|
SOSA |
Special Operations Support Area |
|
SOT |
Science Operations Team |
|
SOTA |
Science Operations and Test Area |
|
Soter |
Soil and Terrain Survey |
|
south |
southern |
|
SOWG |
SOHO Science Operations Working Team |
|
Sox |
Oxides of sulfur |
|
Space Physics Data System |
Solar Physics Data System |
|
Space Physics Division |
SPDS |
|
SPADE |
Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition |
|
SPAN |
Space Physics Analysis Network |
|
SPARC |
Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change |
|
Sparcle |
Spaceborne Aerosols and Cloud Lidar Earthprobe |
|
SPAS |
Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German) |
|
SPD |
Solar Physics Division |
|
Specif |
Specification |
|
Specim |
specimen |
|
SPECMAP |
Mapping Spectral Variability in Global Climate Project |
|
SPECTRE |
Spectral Radiance Experiment |
|
Spectrosc |
Spectroscopy |
|
SPELDA |
Structure Porteuse External pour Lancements Doubles Ariane (external |
|
SPIE |
The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers |
|
SPL |
Split Phase Level |
|
SPM |
Suspended Particulate Matter |
|
SPOF |
Science Planning and Operations Facility |
|
SPREP |
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme |
|
SPS |
Symbols Per Second |
|
SPSO |
Science Processing Support Office |
|
SQL |
Structured Query Language |
|
Sqq |
Standard Qulaity Quotation |
|
SRA |
Society for Risk Analysis |
|
Srad |
Spectral Radiometer |
|
SRB |
Surface Radiation Budget |
|
SRD |
System Requirements Document |
|
SRDC |
Surface Reference Data Centre |
|
Sric |
Short-Rotation Intensive Culture |
|
SRL |
Shuttle Research Laboratory |
|
SRM |
Standard Reference Material |
|
SRO |
Self Regulatory Organisation |
|
SRP |
Soluble Reactive Phosphorus |
|
SRR |
System Requirements Review |
|
SRS |
Statistical Reporting Service |
|
SRWCP |
Short Rotation Woody Crop Program |
|
SS |
Stainless Steel |
|
ssa |
Singular Spectrum Analysis |
|
SSALT |
solid-state (radar) altimeter |
|
SSBUV |
shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer) |
|
SSG |
Scientific Steering Group |
|
SSI |
Spectral Statistical Interpolation |
|
SSM |
Special Sensor Microwave |
|
SSM/I |
SSM/imager |
|
Ssm/t |
Ssm/Temperature |
|
Ssmr-ssm/i |
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer-Ssm/II |
|
SSP |
Scanning Spectral Polarimeter |
|
SSSC |
SOI Science Support Center |
|
SSSD |
state soil survey data base |
|
SST |
Sea surface temperature |
|
SSTS |
Service Module Structure Subsystem |
|
SSU |
Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS) |
|
SSURGO |
soil survey geographic data base (USDA and |
|
ST |
Steam Turbine |
|
staff |
Staffordshire |
|
Stafford |
Staffordshire |
|
Staffordsh |
Staffordshire |
|
stand |
Standard |
|
STAP |
Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (GEF) |
|
STAR |
Space Three-Axis Accelerometer for Research |
|
stare |
Southern Tropical Atlantic Region Experiment |
|
START |
System for Analysis, Research, and Training |
|
START-SC |
START Standing Committee |
|
STAT |
Statistical |
|
STAT. |
United States Statutes At Large |
|
Statist |
statistical |
|
STC |
Satellite Test Center |
|
STCS |
Service Module Thermal Control Subsystem |
|
STDN |
Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network |
|
STEM |
solar terrestrial environment model |
|
STI |
Straits Times Index |
|
STIB |
Stratosphere-Troposphere Interaction and the Biosphere (IGBP) |
|
STIKSCAT |
STIcK SCATterometer |
|
STIP |
Study of Travelling Interplanetary Phenomena |
|
STMW |
Sub-Tropical Mode Water |
|
Stock Exch |
stock exchange |
|
STOF |
Suprathermal-Time-Of-Flight |
|
STOL |
System Test and Operations Language |
|
STORM-FEST |
Storm-scale Observations Regional Measurement Program-Fronts Experiment Systems Test |
|
Stratigr |
stratigraphy |
|
STRATOZ |
Stratospheric Ozone (campaign) |
|
STRESS |
Sediment Transport Events on Shelves and Slopes |
|
STRI |
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute |
|
STRIVE |
Science Teachers Research Involvement for Vital Education |
|
STS |
Star Tracker Sensor |
|
STSP |
Solar Terrestrial Science Programme |
|
Subim |
Subsidiary Body on Implementation |
|
subjunct |
subjunctive |
|
SUBORD |
Subordinate |
|
subord.cl |
subordinate clause |
|
Subscr |
subscription |
|
Subscript |
subscription |
|
Subseq |
Subsequent |
|
subst |
substantive |
|
SUBSTA |
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice |
|
SUM |
SOHO User's Manual |
|
SUMER |
Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation |
|
SUNY |
State Universityrsity of New York |
|
SUP |
Soluble Unreactive Phosphorus |
|
SUPERL |
Superlative |
|
SUPPL |
Supplement |
|
Supplic |
supplication |
|
Suppress |
suppression |
|
surg |
Surgery |
|
SURTROPAC |
Survey of the Tropical Pacific Experiment |
|
sus |
Susanna |
|
SUSIM |
Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor |
|
SVATS |
Surface Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer Scheme |
|
SWACOM |
Standard Water Column Model |
|
SWADE |
Surface Wave Dynamic Experiment |
|
SWAN |
Solar Wind ANisotropies |
|
SWDA |
Solid Waste Disposal Act |
|
SWE |
shallow-water equations |
|
SWEDAC |
Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation |
|
SWF |
Social Welfare Function |
|
SWINGS |
Sterling warrants into gilt-edged securities |
|
SWIRLS |
Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder |
|
SWSA |
Solid Waste Storage Area |
|
SWT |
Science Working Team |
|
SY |
Seasonal Year |
|
SYCOM |
Sydney computerised overnight market |
|
syll |
syllable |
|
Symmetr |
symmetrical |
|
T |
tonne |
|
T&DA |
Telemetry and Data Acquisition |
|
T&DS |
Tracking and Data Systems |
|
T.D. |
Treasury Decision |
|
T/C |
Temperature/Conductivity sensor chains on drifters |
|
T/P SWT |
TOPEX/Poseidon Science Working Team |
|
T/S |
Temperature/Salinity |
|
ta |
Trace Analytical |
|
TAB |
Timing and Acquisition Bit |
|
TABLE |
Tsukuba Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment |
|
TAE |
Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface) |
|
TAGA |
Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer |
|
TAI |
Temps Atomique International |
|
TALISMAN |
Transfer account lodgement for investors, stock management for market-makers |
|
TALK |
Total Alkalinity |
|
Tappi |
Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Inc. |
|
TARFOX |
Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observation Experiment |
|
TC |
Telecommand |
|
TC/OPC |
Technical Committee on Ocean Processes and Climate (Germany) |
|
TCAD |
Tradeable Carbon Absorption Obligation |
|
TCDC |
Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries |
|
TCOPS |
Trajectory Computation and Orbit Products System |
|
TCP/IP |
Transmission Control/Internet Protocol |
|
TCR |
tonnes of coal replacement |
|
TCS |
Thermal Control Subsystem |
|
TCXO |
Temperature-Controlled Crystal Oscillator |
|
TDA |
Telecommunications and Data Acquisition |
|
TDC |
Tropical Data Centre |
|
TDDR |
Total Direct Diffuse Radiometer |
|
TDLS |
Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy |
|
TDMA |
Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer |
|
TDR |
Time-Domain Reflectometry |
|
TDRS |
Tracking and Data Relay Systems |
|
TDRSS |
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System |
|
TDS |
Total Dissolved Solids |
|
TDSM |
Tracking and Data Systems Manager |
|
TEAM |
Technology Base Enhancement for Autonomous Machines |
|
TEAMA |
Terrestrial Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia |
|
TEC |
Total Electron Content |
|
techn |
technical |
|
Technol |
technology |
|
TEDDY |
TERI Energy Data Directory Yearbook |
|
TEESE |
TERI Energy Economy Simulation Evaluation |
|
TEGD |
Technical Enforcement Guidance Document (EPA) |
|
TEHM |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Hydrology Model |
|
Telecomm |
telecommunications |
|
Teleph |
telephony |
|
TEM |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Model |
|
Teratol |
teratology |
|
TERI |
Tata Energy Research Institute |
|
TERLS |
Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (India) |
|
Terminol |
terminology |
|
TERRA |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Regional Researchand Analysis |
|
Terrestr |
terrestrial |
|
TERSE |
Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth |
|
TES |
Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS) |
|
Test |
testament |
|
Textbk |
textbook |
|
TF |
throughfall |
|
TFAP |
Tropical Forestry Action Plan (coordinated by FAO) |
|
TFG |
Transfer Frame Generator |
|
Tflops |
One teraflop equals 1 trillion (1012) floating point operations |
|
TGCR |
thermal gross cloud restoral |
|
tgct |
Thermal Gross Cloud Test |
|
TGDDIS |
Trace Gas Dynamics Data Information System |
|
TGE |
Tokyo Grain Exchange |
|
TGI |
Temperature Growth Index |
|
TGS |
Timeline Generation System |
|
TGT |
TDRSS Ground Terminal |
|
Theat |
theatre |
|
Theatr |
theatre |
|
Theol |
theology |
|
Theoret |
theoretical |
|
Thermonucl |
thermonuclear |
|
THES |
Thesaurus |
|
THESS |
Thessalonians |
|
TI |
thermal imagery |
|
TIA |
Territorial and International Affairs |
|
TIBOR |
Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate |
|
TIC |
Total Inorganic Carbon |
|
TIFFE |
Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange |
|
TIGER |
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Reference |
|
TIGER |
Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research |
|
TIGER/GICS |
TIGER/Geographic Identification CodeScheme |
|
Tiger/grf-n |
Tiger/Geographic Reference File-Names |
|
TIGGER |
Earth sciences dimension to TIGER |
|
TIGR |
TOVS Initial Guess Retrieval |
|
TIMS |
Theoretical Indicatve Margin System |
|
TIMSS |
thermal infrared spectral scanner |
|
TIN |
Triangular Irregular Network |
|
TIR |
Tabula Imperii Romani |
|
TIRIO |
Table of Incompatibilities and Requirements for the Instruments Operation |
|
TIROS |
Television and Infrared Observation Satellite |
|
TIRS |
Thermal Infrared Scanner |
|
TISAB |
total ionic strength adjustment buffer (analytical method) |
|
TISGLOW |
TERI Information Service on GlobalWarming |
|
TIT |
Titus |
|
TKE |
Turbulent Kinetic Energy |
|
TL |
Team Leader |
|
TLA |
Three Letter Abbreviation |
|
Tlan |
Tpocc Lan |
|
TLCF |
Team Leader Computing Facility |
|
TLM |
Telemetry |
|
TLV |
Threshold Limit Value |
|
TM |
Thematic Mapper (Landsat) |
|
TM |
Trademark |
|
TMACS |
International Mathematics and Computer Simulations |
|
TMC |
Thinking Machine Corporation |
|
TME |
Tropical mountain ecosystems |
|
TMI |
TRMM Microwave Imager |
|
TMR |
TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS) |
|
TMS |
Thematic Mapper Simulator |
|
TNH |
Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
|
TOA |
top of the atmosphere |
|
TOC |
Total Organic Carbon |
|
TOCE |
tonne of carbon equivalent |
|
TOCOM |
Tokyo Commodity Exchange |
|
TOCSEEG |
Tradeoffs Among Competing Social, Environmental, and Economic Goals |
|
TOD |
Time-Out Detection |
|
TOF |
theoretical orthogonal function |
|
TOGA |
Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program |
|
Toga-coare |
Toga Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
|
TOMCAT |
Toulouse Off-Line Model of Chemistry and Transport |
|
TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument) |
|
TOMUIS |
3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer |
|
Ton |
Total Organic Nitrogen |
|
TOPEX |
Ocean Topography Experiment |
|
TOPEX/POSEIDON |
Ocean Topography Experiment |
|
TOPIC |
Teletex output of price informationby computer |
|
Topogr |
topography |
|
TOR |
Tropospheric Ozone Research |
|
torr |
pressure in millimeters of mercury with respect to vacuum |
|
TOS |
TIROS Observational System |
|
TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
|
TOX |
total organic halides |
|
TPOCC |
Transportable POCC |
|
TRAC |
Teacher Research Associate |
|
TRACE-A |
Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator-Atlantic |
|
trad |
traditional |
|
TRAG |
Tragedy |
|
TRAGEX |
Trace Gas Exchange between Midlatitude Terrestrial Ecosystems and Atmosphere |
|
Transf |
Transfer |
|
TRANSIT |
Satellite Navigation System |
|
TRANSL |
Translation |
|
Transpac |
Trans-Pacific Experiment |
|
Transubstant |
transubstantiation |
|
TRAV |
Travel |
|
TRB |
TDR Review Board |
|
TREAS |
Treasury |
|
Treat |
treatise |
|
Treatm |
treatment |
|
TREES |
Tropical Ecosystem Environmental Observations by Satellite |
|
TREM |
Tropical Rainfall Experimental Mission |
|
Trib |
Chicago Tribune Newspaper |
|
TRIG |
Trigonometry |
|
Trigonom |
trigonometry |
|
TRL |
Transuranium Research Laboratory |
|
trmm |
Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission |
|
TROP |
Tropical |
|
TROPOZ |
Tropospheric Ozone |
|
Troub |
troublesome |
|
Troubl |
troublesome |
|
TRPSA |
Transponder Assembly |
|
TRS |
Trade Registration System |
|
TRSC |
Thailand Remote Sensing Centre |
|
Truce |
Tropical Urban Climate Experiment |
|
TSA |
Temperate South America |
|
TSAR |
Time-series Storage and Retrieval |
|
TSC |
Transportation Systems Center (DOT) |
|
TSCA |
Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 |
|
TSD |
Treatment, Storage, and Disposal (facilities) |
|
Tsfc |
surface temperature |
|
Tsi |
Thermo Systems Inc |
|
TSL |
Technical Services Laboratory |
|
TSP |
total suspended particles |
|
tsp |
Total Soluble Phosphorus |
|
TSS |
Total Surveying Systems |
|
TSS |
Total Suspended Solids |
|
TSTOL |
TPOCC System Test and Operations Language |
|
TT |
task team |
|
TT&C |
Telemetry, Tracking and Command |
|
TTB |
Time-Tagged Buffer |
|
TTI |
Transfer Trajectory Insertion |
|
Tto |
Total Toxic Organic |
|
TTO |
Transient Tracers in the Ocean |
|
TTP |
Transfer Trajectory Phase |
|
TUNES |
Thomas Washington's Unexpected Nautical Extravaganza South-north |
|
TUR |
thermal uniformity restoral |
|
Tut |
Thermal Uniformity Test |
|
TVA |
Tennessee Valley Authority (US) (electricity) |
|
TVCF |
Transportable Vehicle Checkout Facility |
|
Twas |
Third World Academy of Science |
|
TWP |
Tropical Western Pacific |
|
TWPO |
Tropical Western Pacific Ocean |
|
TWRA |
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency |
|
TWT |
Traveling Wave Tube |
|
Typog |
typography |
|
Typogr |
typography |
|
U.K |
United Kingdom |
|
U.K. |
United Kingdom (preferred over "UK"; use as |
|
U.S |
United States |
|
U.S. |
United States Reports |
|
U.S. |
United States |
|
U.S.A. |
United States of America |
|
U.S.A.F |
United States Air Force |
|
U.S.S.R |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
|
U.S.S.R. |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
|
UAF |
University of Alaska Fairbanks |
|
UAOB |
Upper Air Observation |
|
UARP |
Upper Atmosphere Research Program |
|
UARS |
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA) |
|
UATI |
Union des Associations Techniques Internationals |
|
UAV |
Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle |
|
UBA |
Umweltbundesamt |
|
UC |
University of California |
|
UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
|
UCC |
Uniform Commercial Code |
|
UCI |
University of California, Irvine |
|
UCLA |
University of California at Los Angeles (U.S.) |
|
UCMJ |
Uniform Code of Military Justice |
|
UCR |
University of California at Riverside |
|
UCRL |
UC Radiation Laboratory |
|
UCS |
Secretariat to the U.S. National Commission |
|
UCSB |
University Of California Santa Barbara |
|
ucsf |
University of California at San Francisco's |
|
UDF |
UAV demonstration flights |
|
UEA |
University of East Anglia |
|
Ufacnc |
Ultrafine Aerosol Condensation Nucleus Counter |
|
UGAMP |
U.K. Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Project |
|
UGM |
University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia |
|
UH |
University of Heidelberg |
|
UHF |
Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm) |
|
Ui/csrd |
University of Illinois/Center for Supercomputing Research and Development |
|
UIC |
Ukpeaguik Inupiat Corp |
|
UIC |
Underground Injection Control |
|
UITA |
Union of International Technical Associations |
|
UKAEA |
U.K. Atomic Energy Authorities |
|
Ukmo |
U.K. Meteorological Office |
|
UL |
Uplink |
|
ULS |
Upward-Looking SONAR |
|
ULST |
uniform low stratus test |
|
ult |
ultimately |
|
UMTA |
Urban Mass Transportation Administration |
|
UMTRAP |
Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program |
|
UMTRCA |
Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act |
|
un |
United Narions |
|
Unars |
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
|
UNCED |
United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development |
|
UNCHS |
United Nations Commission for Human Settlement |
|
UNCTAD |
United Nations Commission on Trade and Development |
|
UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
|
undp |
United Nations Developmental Program |
|
UNDRC |
Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator |
|
UNEC |
United Nations Economic Committee |
|
UNEP |
United Nations Environmental Program |
|
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
|
UNFCCC |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
|
Unfpa |
United Nations Program for Population |
|
UNGA |
United Nations General Assembly |
|
UNGCRP |
United Nations Global Change Research Program |
|
Unhcr |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program |
|
UNIDO |
United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
|
UNIFEM |
United Nations Development Fund for Women |
|
Unisist |
United Nations System for Scientific and Technological Information |
|
UNITAR |
United Nations Institute for Training and Research |
|
UNIV |
University |
|
UNJSPF |
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund |
|
UNKN |
Unknown |
|
UNM |
University of New Mexico |
|
Unnat |
unnatural |
|
UNO |
United Nations Organization |
|
Unoffic |
unofficial |
|
UNP |
United Nations Political Affairs |
|
UNRWA |
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East |
|
UNSCEAR |
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of AtomicRadiation |
|
UNSO |
United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office |
|
unstr |
unstressed |
|
UNTAB |
United Nations Technical Assistance Board |
|
UNU |
United Nations University |
|
UPC |
Uniform Probate Code |
|
UPS |
Uninterruptible Power Supply |
|
UPU |
Universal Postal Union |
|
URAS |
(a commercial CO2 analyzer) |
|
URI |
University of Rhode Island, Narragansett |
|
Urin |
urinary |
|
URL |
Universal Resource Locator |
|
URL |
Upper Range Limit |
|
URSI |
International Union of Radio Science, IEEE |
|
US-AID |
U.S. Agency for International Development |
|
US-IGBP |
United States Geosphere/Biosphere Program |
|
USACE |
United State Army Corps of Engineers |
|
USAF |
United States Air Force |
|
USBCF |
United States Bureau of Commercial Fisheries |
|
USBM |
United States Bureau of Mines |
|
USBR |
United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI) |
|
USC |
United States Code (book of laws) |
|
USCA |
United States Code Annotated |
|
USCCAN |
United States Code Congressional and Administrative News |
|
USCG |
United States Coast Guard |
|
USCGS |
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey |
|
Uscs |
United States Code System |
|
USCS |
United States Code Service |
|
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
|
USDA-SCS |
United States Department of Agriculture-Soil Conservation Service |
|
USDC |
United States Department of Commerce |
|
USDD |
United States Department of Defense |
|
USDI |
United States Department of the Interior (also |
|
USDOC |
United States Department of Commerce |
|
USDOD |
United States Department Of Defense |
|
USDOE |
United States Department Of Energy |
|
USDOI |
United States Department of the Interior (also |
|
USDW |
usable supply of drinking water |
|
USEPA |
United States Environmental Protection Agency |
|
USFS |
United States Forest Service |
|
USFWS |
United State Fish and Wildlife Service |
|
USGCRP |
United States Global Change Research Program |
|
USGCRPO |
United States Global Change Research Program Office |
|
USGS |
United States Geological Survey (DOI) |
|
USIA |
United States Information Agency (changed To IIP) |
|
USJGOFS |
United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
|
USMAB |
United States Man and the Biosphere |
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USMAPS |
United States Map Analysis Package System |
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USN |
United States Navy |
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USNC/IHP |
United States National Committee for IHP |
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USNC/SH |
United States National Committee on Scientific Hydrology |
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USNMAS |
United States National Map Accuracy Standard |
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uso |
UltraStable Oscillator |
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UST |
United States Treaties and Other International Agreements |
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USU |
Usually |
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USWB |
United States Weather Bureau |
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Uswoce |
United States Component of Woce |
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UT |
University of Tennessee |
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UT |
Universal Time |
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utc |
Universal Time Coordinate |
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Utilit |
utilitarian |
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UTM |
University transverse mercator |
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UV |
Ultraviolet (Light) |
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uv-A |
ultraviolet type A |
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uv-B |
ultraviolet type B (280-320 nanometer wavelength interval) |
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UV-Vis |
UltraViolet-Visible Spectroscopy |
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UVCS |
Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer |
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UVR |
Ultraviolet Radiation |
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UW/UD |
University of Wisconsin/University of Denver |
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UWG |
user working group |
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V |
Verb |
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V-PDB |
international scale for expressing C and O isotopic composition relative to PDB carbonate |
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v. |
versus |
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V/W |
Vaporware |
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VACM |
Vector Averaging Current Meter |
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VAD |
Velocity-Azimuth Display |
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Valedict |
valediction |
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vam |
Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal |
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VAMP |
Validation of Model Project |
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VAR |
Variant |
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varr |
variants |
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vars |
variants |
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VAS |
VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |
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VBB |
VIRGO Blue Book |
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vbl |
verbal |
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vbl.n |
verbal noun |
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vbl.ns |
verbal nouns |
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vbs |
verbs |
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VC |
Virtual Channel |
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VCID |
Virtual Channel Identification |
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VCP(ES) |
Voluntary Cooperation Program Equipment and Services |
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VCP(F) |
Voluntary Cooperation Program fund |
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Vds |
Virtual Data Set |
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VEG |
Vegetable |
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Veg.Phys |
vegetable physiology |
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Veg.Physiol |
vegetable physiology |
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VEI |
Volcano Explosivity Index |
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VENET |
Venetian |
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Vertebr |
vertebrate |
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Vet.Med |
veterinary medicine |
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Vet.Path |
veterinary pathology |
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Vet.Sci |
veterinary science |
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Vet.Surg |
veterinary surgery |
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vfr |
very far radiation |
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VHF |
Very High Frequency |
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VHRR |
Very High-Resolution Radiometer |
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Vhsa |
Variable Hydrologic Source Areas |
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VIBOR |
Vienna Interbank Offered Rate |
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VIC |
Victoria |
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Vict |
Victoria |
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VID |
Vehicle Identification Number |
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Vind |
vindication |
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Vindic |
vindication |
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Virg |
virgin |
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VIRGO |
Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations |
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Virol |
virology |
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VIRS |
Visible Infrared Scanner |
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VIRSR |
Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer |
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Vis |
Visible |
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VISSR |
visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (GOES) |
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Viz |
Videlicet |
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VLBI |
Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
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VLSI |
Very-Large-Scale Integration |
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VMS |
Virtual Memory System |
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VMVM |
Vector Measuring Current Meter |
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VNIR |
Visible And Near InfraRed |
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VOC |
Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution) |
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VOCAB |
Vocabulary |
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VOS |
Voluntary Observing Ship |
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VPB |
VIRGO Purple Book |
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VSE |
Vancouver Stock Exchange |
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VSSC |
vikram sarabhai space center |
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VTIR |
visible and thermal infrared radiometer |
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VTPR |
Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer |
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VTR |
Video Tape Recording |
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W |
Watt |
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W. Va. Code |
West Virginia Code |
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W.Afr |
West Africa |
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W.Ind |
West India |
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W.Indies |
West Indies |
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W.Va |
West Virginia |
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W3C |
World Wide Web Consortium |
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WAIS |
West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
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WAMEX |
West African Monsoon Experiment |
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WARC |
World Administrative Radio Conference |
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Warwicksh |
Warwickshire |
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WATFLOOD |
University of Waterloo Flood Forecasting System |
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WATOX |
Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment |
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Watstore |
Water Data Storage and Retrieval System |
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WB |
World Bank |
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Wbc |
Western Boundary Current |
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WBDCS |
Wide-Band Data Collection System |
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WBIS |
Walker Branch Information System |
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wbw |
Walker Branch Watershed |
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WCAP |
World Climate Applications Program |
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Wcasp |
World Climate Applications and Services Program |
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WCDMP |
World Climate Data and Monitoring Program |
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WCDP |
World Climate Data Program |
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WCE |
Winnipeg Commodity Exchange |
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WCIP |
World Climate Impact Program |
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WCIRP |
World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Program |
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WCP |
World Climate Programme (WMO/ICSU) |
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WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
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WCRP-JSC |
Joint Scientific Committee for the World Climate Research Programme |
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WD |
Wind Direction |
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WDC |
World Data Center (ICSU) |
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WDCGG |
World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases |
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WDE |
Wheel Drive Electronic |
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WDSD |
Water Data Sources Directory |
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WEAVE |
Water and Energy: Atmospheric, Vegetative, and Earth Interactions |
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WEBB |
Water, Energy, and Biogeochemical Budget (USGS) |
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WEC |
World Energy Council |
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WECC |
Western European Calibration Cooperation |
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WEFAX |
Weather Facsimile |
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Wenpex |
Western North Pacific Cloud-Radiation Experiment |
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Weo |
Western European Organization |
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WES |
Waterways Experiment Station (USACE) |
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Westm |
Westminster |
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Westmld |
Westmoreland |
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Westmorld |
Westmoreland |
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Westmrld |
Westmoreland |
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WESTPAC |
IOC - Programme Group on the WesternPacific |
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WET |
Waste Extraction Test |
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WetNet |
Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data |
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Weu |
Western Europe Union |
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Wev |
Water Energy-Vegetation |
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WEVS |
Wetland Ecosystem Vulnerability Study |
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WFC |
World Food Council |
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WFEO |
World Federation Of Engineering Organizations |
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WFF |
Wallops Flight Facility |
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WFOV |
Wide Field Of View |
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WFP |
World Food Program |
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WG |
Working Group |
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WGDM |
Working Group on Data Management |
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WGEP |
Working Group on Energy Policy |
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WGGC |
Working Group on Global Change |
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WGNE |
working group on numerical experimentation (JSC/CAS) |
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WGR |
Waste Generation Rate |
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WGRF |
Working Group on Radiative Fluxes |
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WHO |
World Health Organization |
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WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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WHP |
WOCE Hydrographic Programme |
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WI |
When Issued |
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WIHG |
Waclia Institute of Himalayan Geology |
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WILASS |
Water Infiltration in Layered Subfreezing Snow |
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WILL |
William |
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WILTS |
Wiltshire |
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Wiltsh |
Wiltshire |
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Wind |
Weather Information Display |
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WINDII |
Wind Imaging Interferometer |
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WIPO |
World Intellectual Property Organization |
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WIRP |
Watershed Integrated Research Program |
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WISP |
Winter Icing and Storms Programs |
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WITS |
World Ionosphere Thermosphere Study |
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WKLY |
Weekly |
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WMC |
World Meteorological Center |
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WMO |
World Meteorological Organization (ICSU) |
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WMS |
World Magnetic Survey |
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WOCE |
World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
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Woce/hp |
Woce/Hydrographic Program |
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WODC |
World Ozone Data Center |
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Wonderf |
wonderful |
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Worc |
Worcestershire |
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Worcestersh |
Worcestershire |
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WORCS |
Worcestershire |
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WOVO |
World Organization of Volcano Observatories |
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wp |
Wind Profilers |
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WPCF |
Water Pollution Control Federation |
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WPL |
Wave Propagation Laboratory |
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WPR |
Water Resource Planning |
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WRC |
Water Resources Council |
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Wrc |
World Radiation Center |
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WRD |
Water Resources Divistion |
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WRDD |
Water Resources Development Department |
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WRI |
World Resources Institute (Washington, D.C.) |
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Writ |
writing |
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WRR |
World Radiometric Reference |
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wrrc |
Water Resources Research Center's |
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