Acronyms

Organization acronyms

AEFF = Alaska Experimental Forecast Facility
AMBCS = Alaska Snow Water & Climate Services AMBCS
AMIS = Alaska Marine Information System
FNMOC = Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
EVOS = Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
HADS = Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCEP = National Centers for Environmental Prediction NCEP
NDBC = National Data Buoy Center
NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPRB = North Pacific Research Board
NRCS = Natural Rescources Conservation Service
NSIDC = National Snow and Ice Data Center
NWCC = National Water and Climate Center NWCC home
NWS = National Weather Service
RWIS = Road Weather Information System RWIS info
SHEF = Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format SHEF
SNoTel = SNOwpack TELemetry

Data acronyms

AMSR-E = Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System
AVHRR GAC= Advanced Very High Resolution Radar Global Area Coverage
DMSP = Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
FNMOC = Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
GFS = Global Forecast System GFS info
GODAE = Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GHRSST = GODAE High Resolution SST

Oceanographic acronyms

ADCP = Acoustic Dopplar Current Profiler
SAR = Synthetic Aperature Radar
SST = Sea Surface Temperature

Other acronyms

DMAC = Data Management and Communications Committee
FGDC = Federal Geographic Data Committee
NetCDF = Network Common Data Format
OPeNDAP = Open Source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol