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• ADDIT — addition
• ENTHUS — enthusiasm
• ANNIV — Anniversary
• URL — Universal Resource Locator
• DEROG — derogatory
• LAN — Local Area Network
• F.2D — Federal Reporter, 2nd Series
• N2O-N — Nitrous oxide nitrogen trace gas emission ratio
• U.S.S.R — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• IGO — Intergovernmental Organization
• CA # — Court of Appeals
• ETA — Estimated Time of Arrival
• XXN — Cross examination
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• R.E. — Real Estate
• L.ED.2D — Lawyers 2nd Edition
• N.W.2D — North Western Reporter, 2nd Series
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• C.F.R. — Code of Federal Regulations
• F.SUPP.2D — Federal Supplement, 2nd Series
• F.3D — Federal Reporter, 3rd Series
• MHA — million hectare
• ACGIH — American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Inc.
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• PPM — parts per million
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• COMMUNIC — communication
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• E.D.D — English Dialect Dictionary
• H-1301 — Halon 1301; CBrF3
• B.A.U. — business as usual (scenario)
• S.E.2D — South Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series
• H-1211 — Halon 1211; CBrClF2
• N.E.2D — North Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series
• S.W.2D — South Western Reporter, 2nd Series
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• A.L.R.2D — American Law Reports, 2nd Series
• ABSOL — absolute
• R J — Recurring Judgement
• P.2D — Pacific Reporter, 2nd Series
• § — Section
• KANEX — Kansai Agricultural Commodities Exchange
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• ASAP — As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap)
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• F.O.B. — free on board
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• DR — Discrepancy Report

• A.2D — Atlantic Reporter 2nd Series
• A.D — Anno Domini
• R.N — Royal Navy
• R.C.CHURCH — Roman Catholic Church
• A.L.R.3D — American Law Reports, 3rd Series
• T.D. — Treasury Decision
• A.L.R. FED. — American Law Reports, Federal
• N.Y — New York
• U.S.A. — United States of America
• N.E.D — New English Dictionary
• D.C — District of Columbia
• ZEPH — Zephaniah
• DRSS — Data Relay Satellite System
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• QDRO — Qualified Domestic Relations Order
• U.K. — United Kingdom (preferred over "UK"; use as
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• U.S.S.R. — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• SD — Standard Deviation
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• A.L.R.4TH — American Law Reports, 4th Series
• CH4-C — Methane-carbon ratio
• E.E.T.S — Early English Text Society
• MM — Millimeter
• E/GDP — Ratio of energy consumption to gross domestic product
• S.V — sub verbo
• O.T — Old Testament
• S.W.3D — South Western Reporter, 3rd Series
• A.L.R.6TH — American Law Reports, 6th Series
• A.L.R. — American Law Reports
• L.ED — Lawyers Edition
• GASTRON — gastronomy
• F.APP'X — Federal Appendix
• S. CT. — Supreme Court Reporter
• MP&A — Mission Planning and Analysis Area
• API — American Petroleum Institute (oil)
• PA.T — past tense
• E/GNP — Ratio of energy consumption to gross national product
• ZEITSCHR — Zeitschrift
• A.L.R.5TH — American Law Reports, 5th Series
• U.S — United States
• C-MACCS — Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation
• S.T.S — Scottish Text Society
• §§ — Sections
• W. VA. CODE — West Virginia Code
• B.A.P. — Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
• R.A.F — Royal Air Force
• U.K — United Kingdom

• RA IV — Regional Association IV - North and Central America (WMO)
• R.C — Roman Catholic
• BALTEX — Baltic Sea Experiment
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• I.L.M. — International Legal Materials
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• WATFLOOD — University of Waterloo Flood Forecasting System
• IP — Internet Protocol
• W.VA — West Virginia
• A.V — Authorized Version
• LLC — Limited Liability Company
• W.AFR — West Africa
• RA I — Regional Association I - Africa (WMO)
• QC — Quality Control
• RFP — Request For Proposal
• MMAD — Mass Median Aerodynamic Diameter (aerosol)
• N.AMER — North America
• FAREW — farewell
• WHO — World Health Organization
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• ¶ — (Pilcrow) Paragraph
• W.IND — West India
• © — Copyright
• B%T — Animal population ratio living in temperate climate region
• I&TRR — Integration and Test Readiness Review
• SAGE III — Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III
• S.CAROLINA — South Carolina
• OCCURR — occurrence
• P.3D — Pacific Reporter, 3rd Series
• F.O.R. — free on rail
• ACCT — Account
• SA90 — IPCC Scenario A, 1990
• N.AFR — North Africa
• SAFARI-92 — South African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative
• S.DAKOTA — South Dakota
• T/P SWT — TOPEX/Poseidon Science Working Team
• RA II — Regional Association II - Asia (WMO)
• N.T — New Testament
• S.AFR — South Africa
• NAD 27 — North American Datum of 1927
• CY — Calendar Year
• RA-2 — POEM altimeter (ESA)
• F.SUPP. — Federal Supplement
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• F.CAS. — Federal Cases 1789–1880
• E.ANGL — East Anglia
• A%C — Animal population ratio living in cool climate region
• MOA — Memorandum Of Agreement

• V/W — Vaporware
• W.INDIES — West Indies
• VBL.N — verbal noun
• N.S.WALES — New South Wales
• U.S.A.F — United States Air Force
• HAEMATOL — haematology
• S&P100,500 — stock indices
• INC — Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
• GDP — Gross Domestic Product
• E.IND — East India
• P.R — public records
• PM-2.5 — particulate matter of diameter less than 2.5 micrometers
• N.IR — Northern Irish
• YEARBK — yearbook
• E.AFR — East Africa
• N.S.W — New South Wales
• EDI — Electronic Data Interchange
• E.ANGLIAN — East Anglian
• OBSERV — observation
• WATSTORE — Water Data Storage and Retrieval System
• O.E.D — Oxford English Dictionary
• O&M — Operation and Maintenance
• RAWG/HYDROLOGY — Regional Associations'Working Groups on Hydrology
• M-REGION — Maunder region
• RF — Radio Frequency
• N.Z — New Zealand
• FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak)
• R&SSD — Radiation and Safety Surveys Department (ORNL)
• LANGS — languages
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• NAD 83 — North American Datum of 1983
• UAOB — Upper Air Observation
• N.CAROLINA — North Carolina
• OBSTETR.MED — obstetric medicine
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• N.DAKOTA — North Dakota
• YR — Years old
• Q.V — quod vide
• LANCS — Lancashire
• Q.ELIZ — Queen Elizabeth
• VALEDICT — valediction
• CAC-40 — Compagnie des Agents de Change-40
• VBL.NS — verbal nouns
• E.MIDL — east midland
• M&CD — Metals and Ceramics Division (ORNL)
• AIAA — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
• N.IREL — Northern Ireland
• WATOX — Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment
• OBSTETR — obstetric

• NADP/NTN — National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network
• R&D — Research & Development
• LAGCM — general circulation model at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• RADPATH — Biochemical Pathways of Artificial Radionuclides (CEC)
• NAAQ — National Ambient Air Quality
• WARWICKSH — Warwickshire
• OAXTC — Ocean/Atmosphere Exchange of Trace Compounds
• LLP — Limited Liability Partnership
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• PALAEONT — palaeontology
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• PALAEOBOT — palaeobotany
• BACTERIOL — bacteriology
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• OBSTET — obstetric
• LANL/ACL — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• BFP — Bona Fide Purchaser
• C&F — Cost and Freight
• HAPEX-MOBILHY — HAPEX-MOdelisation du BILan Hydrique
• C3AT — Ch3 Albedo Test (AVHRR)
• PACORII — Packet Processor Data Capture Facility II
• BAPDE — chemically reactive diolepoxides
• USU — Usually
• PAGES-EXCOMM — PAGES Executive Committee
• FY — Fiscal Year
• ADP — Automated Data Processing
• PALAEONTOL — palaeontology
• CBA — Cost Benefit Analysis
• JAHRB — Jahrbuch
• OTC — Over The Counter (medications not requiring a prescription)
• ASME — American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• CPI — Consumer Price Index
• IAMAP-IAHS — IAMAP-International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• BAHC-SSC — BAHC Scientific Steering Committee
• CCB — Configuration Control Board
• HAMPSH — Hampshire
• PAGES-SSC — PAGES Scientific Steering Committee
• DVP — Delivery Versus Payment
• PALAEOGR — palaeography
• LANCASH — Lancashire
• IACGEC — Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• HANDBK — handbook
• ERA — Exchange Rate Agreement
• SIO3 — silicate
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• MODNET — MO&DSD Operational/Development Network

• ACCOMM — accommodation
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• NDA — Non-Disclosure Agreement
• MIS — Management Information System (OSHA)
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• WWW — World Wide Web
• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• ESSENT — essential
• FR — Federal Register
• CD — Compact Disc
• ANN — Annual
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• ESA — European Space Agency
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• RPI — Retail Price Index
• IBM — International Business Machines Corporation
• UCC — Uniform Commercial Code
• EE — Employee
• FIPS — Federal Information Processing Standard
• ER — Employer
• RAM — random-access memory
• CM3 — cubic centimeter (milliliter)
• CPM — Critical Path Method
• GNP — gross national product (economics)
• SEBI — Securities and Exchange Board of India
• MANCH — Manchester
• IMF — International Monetary Fund
• FX — Foreign Exchange
• ICAO — International Civil Aviation Organization
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• ML — milliliter; 1/1000 liter
• UCMJ — Uniform Code of Military Justice
• METAMORPH — metamorphosis
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• ASL — Above Sea Level
• AGA — American Gas Association
• ALARA — As Low As Reasonably Achievable
• QA/QC — Quality Assurance/Quality Control
• FAS — Free Alongside Ship
• APR — April River Airport, April River, Papua New Guinea
• CIS — Commonwealth of Independent States
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• IATA — International Air Transport Association
• DEPT — Department
• NM — Nanometer
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• FAO — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• KPA — kiloPascal (pressure above ambient (100 kPa = 1 atmosphere excess))
• GSA — U.S. General Services Administration
• IRC — Internal Revenue Code of 1986
• NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• KG — Kilogram
• GIGO — Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• AMS — American Mathematical Society
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• NFS — Network File System
• IAEA — International Atomic Energy Agency
• CCAQ — Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions
• IBRD — International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (part Of The World Bank)
• MSL — Mean Sea Level
• FORTRAN — FORmula TRANslation (a computer language)
• MHZ — Megahertz (Megacycles Per Second)
• LNG — Liquefied Natural Gas
• BIG-TT — BAHC-IGAC-GCTE Task Team
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• ABA — American Bar Association
• ANNEX I — Countries committed to a quantified CO2 target (OECD, EU, Central and Eastern European countries)
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• CEP — Circular Error Probable
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• PSI — Pounds Per Square Inch (Static Pressure)
• AAS — American Astronomical Society
• IMO — International Maritime Organization
• W — Watt
• AUX — Auxiliary
• AEEI — Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument
• PROVIS — provisional
• DIV — Division
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• ITU — International Telecommunication Union
• CM — Centimeter
• GT — Gigaton (1 billion tons) (measurement)
• BOD — Biochemical Oxygen Demand
• FCC — Federal Communications Commission (US)
• HQ — Headquarters (HDQ Preferred)
• KWH — Kilowatt hour (one thousand watt hours) (measurement)
• UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• NTIS — National Technical Information Service Technology Administration
• DCF — discounted cash flow rate
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View

• DURH — Durham
• ABOL — abolition
• SQL — Structured Query Language
• PPI — Producer Price Index
• CONVOC — convocation
• HIBOR — Hong Kong interbank offered rate
• TM — Trademark
• ALT — Alteration
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• UNU — United Nations University
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• BLM — Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior
• DOL — United States Department of Labor
• OPM — Office of Personnel Management
• DFD — Data Flow Diagram
• HUD — Department of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.)
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• LIBOR — London Interbank Offered Rate
• ASC — American Society of Cinematographers
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• OTT — Over The Top
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• AL — Aluminium
• SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
• W3C — World Wide Web Consortium
• NSO — National Solar Observatory
• DOMSAT — Domestic Communications Satellite System
• GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
• UN — United Narions
• TLA — Three Letter Abbreviation
• REGIST — register
• ASCE — l'American Society of Civil Engineers
• REVOL — revolution
• CIA — Central Intelligence Agency
• CIF — Cost, Insurance, Freight
• ESCAP — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN)
• ACAD — Academy
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• LEPO — Low Exercise Price Option
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• HOSP — Hospital
• ELV — Expendable Launch Vehicle
• ISMA — International Securities Market Association
• MIPS — Millions of Instructions Per Second
• SELPER — Society of Latin American Remote Sensing Specialists
• ALLIT — alliterative
• WTO — World Trade Organisation

• ECA — Economic Commission for Africa
• ARCH — Architect
• CONST — Under Construction
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• GPO — Government Printing Office
• GEN — General Motors
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• BIS — Bank of International Settlements
• AFF — Affairs
• EIS — Environmental Impact Statement (US)
• MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
• O3 — Ozone
• AEST — Australian Eastern Standard Time
• UPU — Universal Postal Union
• ISDA — International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• L — Liter
• L/C — Letter of Credit
• USAF — United States Air Force
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• WIPO — World Intellectual Property Organization
• CBOT — Chicago Board of Trade
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• GE — General Electric American Communications Inc.
• IFAD — International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN)
• WFC — World Food Council
• TSS — Total Suspended Solids
• ATM — Atmosphere
• FERC — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
• LRR — Launch Readiness Review
• ERS — Economic Research Service
• GOI — Government Of India
• COMPAN — companion
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• EM — Electromagnetic
• USC — United States Code (book of laws)
• ADJ.PHR — adjectival phrase
• INC. — Incorporated
• DDT — dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane (insecticide)
• ECE — Economische Commissie voor Europa (United Nations) (Dutch: Economic Commission for Europe)
• SOL — Statute of Limitations
• REV. RUL. — Revenue Ruling
• O2 — Oxygen
• UNCTAD — United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• CMD — Command

• MIN — Minute
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer  
• DE/DT — rate of evaporation (moisture loss from soil)
• UNHCR — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program
• REV. PROC. — Revenue Procedure
• M — Meter
• ANON — Anonymous
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• ADM — Admiral
• DOST — Department of Science and Technology
• CPD — Compound
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• LANG — language
• ACS — American Chemical Society
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• NCSA — National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• AEC — Atomic Energy Commission (superseded by ERDA)
• RLU — Relative Light Unit
• UNIFEM — United Nations Development Fund for Women
• FDDI — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• BCD — Binary-Coded Decimal
• ISO — International Standard Organisation
• GOVT — Government
• TAPPI — Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Inc.
• AFSCN — Air Force Satellite Control Network
• NOX-N — Nitrogen oxides nitrogen trace gas emission ratio
• CW — Continuous Wave
• MJ — Megajoule
• EVAL — evaluation
• MS — Mass Spectrometer
• RFLP — Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software
• ACABQ — Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
• EIA — Environmental impact assessment (international)
• ASU — Air Separation Unit
• ATS — Advanced Technology Satellite
• RPC — Remote Procedure Call
• I/O — Input/Output
• ECAFE — Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
• IMD — India Meteorological Department
• GNMA — Government National Mortgage Association
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• ISRO — Indian Space Research Organisation

• DMA — direct memory access (computer term)
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• GEF — Global Environmental Facility (environment)
• ILO — International Labor Organization (UN)
• AMMS — Advanced Multichannel Microwave Sensor
• AMS — Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
• BER — Bit-Error Rate
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• BOJ — Bank Of Japan
• JST — Japan Standard Time
• EDP — Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE])
• IR — Infrared
• RMS — root mean square (preferred over "RMS")
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• RTU — Remote Terminal Unit
• LP — Low Pressure
• MBS — mortgage backed security
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• BP — Before Present
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• CENTO — Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
• SMS — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• DQO — Data Quality Objective
• ICICI — Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
• SHAKS — Shakespeare
• IDNDR — International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• SO. 2D — Southern Reporter, 2nd Series
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• COP — Conference of the Parties
• CDF — Common Data Format
• AFEAS — Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• GB — Gigabyte
• L — Literature
• AON — All or None
• ICSC — International Civil Service Commission
• ADC — Analog-Digital Converter
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• CEA — Council of Economic Advisors
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• FORTE — Fast On-orbit Recording of Transient Events
• RNA — Ribo Nucleic Acid
• WKLY — Weekly
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• CONTRADICT — contradiction
• NOV — November
• GTOS — Global Terrestrial Observing System

• CSD — Commission on Sustainable Development's
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• APEC — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• CONF — Conference
• AASP — American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
• MOT — Ministry of Transport
• AICHE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• ESP — Especially
• CAPT — Captain
• HWRP — Hydrology and Water Resources Programme
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• KSE — Korea Stock Exchange
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• GAW — Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO)
• AERI — Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument
• UNJSPF — United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
• ICP-OES — inductively coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• ANAL — Analyst
• BIA — Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)
• IRB — Internal Revenue Bulletin
• UNIDO — United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• FRN — Floating Rate Note
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• MG — milligram; 1/1000 gram
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power Supply
• DOAS — Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
• TOC — Total Organic Carbon
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• WCP — World Climate Programme (WMO/ICSU)
• DND — Department of National Defense (Canada)
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• GC — General Counsel
• RH — Relative Humidity
• AAS — atomic absorption spectrometry (spectrometer, spectroscopy)
• IRU — Inertial Reference Unit
• UNSO — United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• PSYCHOL — Psychological
• FS — Forest Service (USDA)
• IUCN — International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• CFA — Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
• MOS — Model Output Statistics
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• JX — Jurisdiction
• JECOR — U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission of Economic Cooperation
• IEE — Institution of Electrical Engineers
• LST — Local Standard Time

• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• NMFS — National Marine Fisheries Services
• DEF — Defence
• GMDSS — Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (IMO)
• WWF — World Wildlife Fund
• REDEMPT — redemption
• JAN — January
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• SN — Space Network
• ABST — Abstract
• WI — When Issued
• TCDC — Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
• AIT — Asian Institute of Technology
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• ESA — Endangered Species Act of 1973
• SUBSCR — subscription
• STAT. — United States Statutes At Large
• LHV — lower heating value
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• ART — Article (part of speech)
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• FAM — Family
• COM — Common
• DAU — Daughter
• HEREF — Herefordshire
• K — Contract
• ECD — Electron Capture Detector (gas Chromatography)
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• ACS — Attitude Control System
• COE — Creek Corps of Engineers
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• AIT — Assembly, Integration, and Test
• CC — Combined Cycle
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• OPEC — Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• JTU — Jackson Turbidity Unit
• ADDR — Address
• PCM — Pulse-Code Modulation
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• AABW — Antarctic Bottom Water
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the United States
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• HRSG — Heat Recovery Steam Generator
• BFI — Baltic Freight Index
• ER — Energy Research
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)

• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• WG — Working Group
• G — Gram (g)
• SPM — Suspended Particulate Matter
• AUG — August
• ECDIS — Electronic Chart Display and Information System
• EVEN — evening
• WB — World Bank
• CT. CL. — the United States Court of Federal Claims Reporter
• DISTRIB — distribution
• ARINC — Aeronautical Radio Incorporated
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• AFSCF — Air Force Satellite Control Facility
• DOS — United States Department of State
• YR — Year
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• HAP — Hazardous Air Pollutant
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• CBOE — Chicago Board Options Exchange's
• ICSI — International Commission on Snow and Ice (IAHS)
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• OCT — October
• ADV — Advance
• CONVERSAT — conversation
• NOAO — National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Tucson, AZ)
• E.G. — Exempli Gratia (for example)
• TEAM — Technology Base Enhancement for Autonomous Machines
• PL — Public Law
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• 1-D RCM — one-dimensional radiative-convective model
• EMR — Electromagnetic Radiation
• GLOBE — Global Land One kilometer Base Elevation (DIS)
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• ADJS — adjective
• MW — Megawatt (one million watts)
• TVA — Tennessee Valley Authority (US) (electricity)
• OAS — Organization of American States
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• HCFC-22 — hydrochloroflourocarbon-22 (CHClF2,
• HSIO — High Speed Input/Output
• CEC — Cation Exchange Capacity
• FCV — Flow Control Valve
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• MP — Medium Pressure
• DHS — Department of Human Services
• ACH4 — Annual methane (CH4) emission from enteric fermentation

• MX — Merry Christmas
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• EC — European Community
• ATP — Adenosine Triphosphate (reg: 56-65-5)
• COL — Colonel
• FORTIF — fortification
• ECOM. — EOS communications
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• CEQ — Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• ALEXIS — Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
• RCS — Radar Cross Section
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• BAU — business-as-usual
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• HA — Hectare
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• ITM — In the Money
• CH3CCL3 — methylchloroform (1,1,1-trichloroethane)
• UC — University of California
• GARD — garden
• APHET — aphetic
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• CERCLA — Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980
• JOSH — Joshua
• EODC — Earth Observing Data Center (U.K.)
• FE — Fossil Energy
• AAIW — Antarctic Intermediate Water
• RCF — Relative Centrifugal Force
• VIBOR — Vienna Interbank Offered Rate
• NYMEX — New York Mercantile Exchange
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• BUBOR — Budapest Interbank Offered Rate
• AFBC — Atmospheric Fluidized Bed Combustor
• DOC — United States Department of Commerce
• PROVID — providence
• MCS — Mesoscale Convective System
• CEN — The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) a European business organization aimed at removing trade barriers for European industry and consumers.
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• ESMC — Eastern Space And Missile Center (formerly AFETR)
• TERMINOL — terminology
• USMAB — United States Man and the Biosphere
• PHILAD — Philadelphia
• CNES — Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales

• GLRC — Great Lakes Research Center (LSC and NOAA)
• TWT — Traveling Wave Tube
• IO — Input/Output
• MAN — Manual
• ERTS — Earth Resources Technology Satellite (now Landsat)
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• USCG — United States Coast Guard
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• SRR — System Requirements Review
• DPC — Domestic Policy Council
• GC — gonococcus (gonnorhea germ)
• UL — Uplink
• DEPRED — depredation
• TEC — Total Electron Content
• NAST — National Academy of Science and Technology
• AERODYNAM — aerodynamic
• ISU — International Space University
• CLO2 — chlorine dioxide
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• CONTR — Contract
• AGAGE — Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• OSTP — Office of Science and Technology Policy
• PWD — Public Works Department
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• LES — Lincoln Experimental Satellite
• MCL — Maximum Contaminant Level
• SYLL — syllable
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• MFO — mixed-function oxidase (enzyme system)
• NO. — Number
• HHV — Higher Heating Value (thermal efficiency basis)
• ADD — Addenda
• ASE — Airborne Support Equipment
• AIHA — American Industrial Hygiene Association
• OTA — Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.; abolished by Congress, Fall 1995)
• BPA — Bonneville Power Administration (US)
• SWT — Science Working Team
• FEIS — Final Environmental impact statement (US)
• UIC — Underground Injection Control
• IFMK — Institut fur Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany
• MWH — Megawatt hour (one million watt hours)
• RS — Remote Sensing
• EEZ — Exclusive Economic Zone
• NEP — Noise Equivalent Power
• NFA — National Futures Association
• DOI — United States Department of Interior
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• NA — North America

• HK — Housekeeping
• CONFID — confidential
• P&S — Purchase and Sale
• TDS — Total Dissolved Solids
• INTERL — interlude
• MSS — Multispectral Scanner System
• ARS — United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service
• PMP — Probable Maximum Precipitation
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• KSC — John F. Kennedy Space Center
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• UNTAB — United Nations Technical Assistance Board
• PDF — Probability Density Function
• HLW — high-level waste
• 1-D — one-dimensional
• ACC — Account
• ETC. — and others especially of the same kind; and so forth
• DEIS — Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US)
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• STC — Satellite Test Center
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• VC — Virtual Channel
• MSR — Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• AR — Argon
• TKE — Turbulent Kinetic Energy
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• BQ — Becquerel
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• ONEB — Office of National Environmental Board
• APP — Apparently
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• SO — Southern Oscillation
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• INS — Inertial Navigation System
• TEAMA — Terrestrial Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia
• EGS — European Geophysical Society
• NARA — United States National Archives And Records Administration
• EPRI — Electric Power Research Institute (US)
• TRAD — traditional
• ABR — Abridged
• OPC — Ordinary Portland Cement
• ATT — Attic
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• PV — Potential Vorticity
• HPS — Health Physics Society
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• EDC — EROS Data Center

• PW — Precipitable Water
• AM/FM — Automated Mapping/Facilities Management (Society)
• CTU — Central Terminal Unit
• GW — Gigawatt (one billion watts) (measurement- elect)
• MEA — Monoethanolamine
• HOUSEK — housekeeping
• CFO — Cancel Former Order
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• VLSI — Very-Large-Scale Integration
• EXPLAN — explanation
• DMSO — Dimethyl Sulfoxide
• MAG — Magazine
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• NREN — National Research and Education Network
• ASCS — Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• DIC — Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
• SBIR — Small Business Innovation Research
• RRN SAF — RRN Southern and Eastern Africa
• TLV — Threshold Limit Value
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• FID — Flame Ionization Detector (gas Chromatography)
• FTU — Formazin Turbidity Unit
• TOS — TIROS Observational System
• 18O — oxygen-18 (oxygen isotope with atomic weight of 18)
• IHB — International Hydrographic Bureau
• I/F — Interface
• CONTEMPT — contemptuous
• SLAR — Side-Looking Airborne Radar
• LME — London Metal Exchange
• MCC — Mesoscale Convective Complex
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• IJC — International Joint Commission (Independent; Canada and U.S.)
• CHAPS — Clearing House Automated Payment System
• QAE — Quality Assurance Engineer
• VAD — Velocity-Azimuth Display
• CATECH — catechism
• ANNEX II — OECD countries and EU
• CAM — Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (photosynthetic Pathway)
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• DOMEST — domestic
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• EVOL — Evolution
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• AA — Atomic Absorption
• PJ — Petajoule
• EXAM — Examination
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)

• IC — Ion Chromatography
• APP — Appendix
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• IAP — Institute of Atmospheric Physics
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• IHO — International Hydrographic Organization
• HP — High Pass
• VMS — Virtual Memory System
• S/W — Software
• ACCTS — Accounts
• EEI — Edison Electric Institute
• REFASH — refashion
• DI — Directorate of Intelligence
• OCN — Oceania
• ADJ — Adjective
• UNIV — University
• MSB — Most Significant Bit
• RAE — Royal Aircraft Establishment
• 13C — carbon-13 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 13)
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• GHG — Green House Gas
• (D)PR — dual precipitation radar
• PLO — Public Limit Order
• FUA — The Fuel Use Act (US)
• FEM — Finite Element Method
• DISCUSS — discussion
• NYBOR — New York Interbank Offered Rate
• QUOT — Quotation
• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• IPE — International Petroleum Exchange
• CIDA — Canadian International Development Agency
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• LCH — London Clearing House
• PTFE — Polytetrafluoroethylene
• IUE — International Ultraviolet Explorer
• PSEUDO-ARCH — pseudo-archaic
• DIF — Data Interchange Format
• LBLRTM — Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• 2-D RCAM — two-dimensional radiative-advective-convective equilibrium model
• ARC/INFO — GIS software
• IBP — International Biological Programme (ICSU)
• SRD — System Requirements Document
• HDC — Holder in Due Course
• FEP — Front-End Processor
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• MAFF — Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (U.K.)

• GC/MS — SX)-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• ABP — Archbishop
• SCOSTEP — Scientific Committee On Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• 14C — carbon-14 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 14)
• K — Kilogram
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• CHAS — Charles
• INNOC — innocent
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• ADDNET — Acid Deposition Data Network (EPA)
• CCIR — International Radio Consultative Committee (French Acronym)
• COMMEND — commendation
• DIE — Designated Investment Exchange
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• ANOR — Another
• CNEG — Contributory negligence
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• FRRPA — Forest and Rangeland Renewable Planning Act (1974)
• FRA — Forward Rate Agreement
• CAT — Cataract
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• IRRI — International Rice Research Institute
• GSA — Geological Society of America
• ARIZ. REV. STAT. — Arizona Revised Statutes
• PDE — Partial Differential Equation
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• C — Carbone
• AOD — Aerosol Optical Depth
• SHPO — State Historic Preservation Office (US)
• PPFD — Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• LWC — Liquid Water Content
• NYU — New York University
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• UNKN — Unknown
• MIMD — multiple instruction, multiple data (system)
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• UT — Universal Time
• SRM — Standard Reference Material
• VID — Vehicle Identification Number
• GCM — General Court-Martial
• IGT — Institute of Gas Technology (Chicago)

• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• FAR — Flight Analysis Review
• SI — Statutory Instrument
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• LSD — Least Significant Difference
• BK — Book
• EP — Earth Probe
• AT — Acceptance Test
• ESMAP — Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme
• TL — Team Leader
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• WCE — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
• ERB — Earth Radiation Budget
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• PREROG — prerogative
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• XBT — expendable bathythermograph (oceanography)
• TCS — Thermal Control Subsystem
• OIE — Overseas Investment Exchange
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handling
• LSB — least-significant byte
• ADMONIT — admonition
• LOE — Late Old English
• FO — Furnace Oil
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• AFS — American Fisheries Society
• CAN — Canberra
• FE — Iron (Latin ''Ferrum'')
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• DBH — Diameter at Breast Height
• ADVOC — advocate
• NASM — National Air and Space Museum
• USN — United States Navy
• JUL — July
• GTCC — Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (electricity)
• DOY — Day of Year
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• 3-D — Three-Dimensional
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• EXCH — Exchange
• EAS — Environmental Analyses Section (ORNL)
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• THEORET — theoretical

• AWWA — American Water Works Association (Denver)
• FOT — Flight Operation Trainer
• JRNL — Journalism
• CONGREG — congregation
• ESF — European Science Foundation
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• UNGA — United Nations General Assembly
• GPI — GOES Precipitation Index
• CADD — computer-aided design and drafting
• GLRD — Great Lakes Research Division
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• ICRP — International Commission on Radiological Protection
• RD — Reference Document
• RX — Receive
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• BETW — between
• ASSAS — Advanced Solid State Array Sensor
• ETO — Exchange Traded Option
• DOM — Dissolved Organic Matter
• MIDAM — Midamerica Commodity Exchange
• FURNIT — furniture
• IPR — Intellectual Property Right
• COMB — Combination
• FPD — Flame Photometric Detector
• SIAM — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• RAPD — Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
• EXP — Experiment
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• -S — Arakawa-Schubert
• IDA — International Development Agency
• GIT — Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• TMS — Thematic Mapper Simulator
• WEC — World Energy Council
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• H2 — Hydrogen
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• HTW — High Temperature Winkler gasifier
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• 3I — improved initialization inversion
• IGS — International Glaciological Society
• APA — Alkaline Phosphatase Activity
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• GCV — Gross Calorific Value
• N2 — Nitrogen
• BIOTRANS — biological transformations
• ASA — American Statistical Association

• DB — Direct Broadcast
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• DAC — Days After Contract
• 4DDA — Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• DS — Data Set
• COMM — Common
• ERDAS — Earth Resources Data Analysis System
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• ESA — Entomological Society of America
• IOP — Intensive Observing Period
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• CX — Cross-Examination
• FEB — February
• FWPCA — Federal Water Pollution Control Act (1972)
• VENET — Venetian
• IQSY — International Quiet Sun Year
• FTSE-100 — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 stock index
• PROV — Proverbs
• AMER — America
• POD — Precision Orbit Determination
• IDB — Inter-American Development Bank
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• NPDES — National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
• M — micrometer
• SEHK — Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• ESA — Ecological Society of America
• DPI — Data Processing Installation
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• ASAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 
• FIBOR — Frankfurt Interbank Offered Rate
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• JUSTIFIC — justification
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• DAS — Data Acquisition System
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• MSS — Mission Support System
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• FDM — Finite-Difference Method
• EDS — Environmental Data Service
• RAOB — Radiosonde Observation
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• LEX — Lexicon

• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• ISC — International Seismological Centre
• USEPA — United States Environmental Protection Agency
• TRS — Trade Registration System
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• TDR — Time-Domain Reflectometry
• NAPAP — National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
• LDR — Linear Depolarization Ratio
• CDC — Control Data Corporation, Incorporated
• ACC — Air Combat Command (formerly TAC)
• CIBOR — Copenhagen Interbank Offered Rate
• TCP/IP — Transmission Control/Internet Protocol
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• EXCOMM — Executive Committee
• BUR — Bureau
• DIST — District
• FRD — Flight Requirements Document
• CMO — Configuration Management Office
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• BNA — block numbering area
• NZFOE — New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange
• DEM — Digital Elevation Model
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• MB — Millibar(s)
• SCULPT — sculpture
• MPL — Marine Physical Laboratory
• WMC — World Meteorological Center
• WET — Waste Extraction Test
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• OMX — Option Market Index
• ESOC — European Space Operations Center
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• ABL — Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• YRS — Years
• AAD — Attitude Anomaly Detector
• MTMC — Military Traffic Management Command
• EC-GC — Electron Capture-Gas Chromatograph
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• DCP-OES — direct coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy
• POC — Particulate Organic Carbon
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• ADMC — Agri-residue dry matter content
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• OBS — Obsolete
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• MMSCMD — million metric standard cubic metre per day
• HP — Hewlett-Packard Development Company
• MES — Military Engineering Services

• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• AODC — Acridine Orange Direct Count [of Bacteria]
• UW/UD — University of Wisconsin/University of Denver
• GSMNP — Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• NAL — National Agricultural Library
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• LIS — Land Information System
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• MWR — Microwave Radiometer
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• EPHIN — Electron Proton Helium Instrument
• HCFC — Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
• SUBSEQ — Subsequent
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• CHIPS — Clearing House Interbank Payments System
• COMB.FORM — combining form
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• IDEOL — ideology
• ASCHE — American Society of Chemical Engineers
• CDDI — Copper Distributed Data Interface
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• A.D. — anno domini (latin)
• AD — Acronym Dictionary
• UT — University of Tennessee
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade and Industry
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• NDIR — non-dispersive infrared gas analyzer
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• CLIN — Clinic
• ASTROL — Astrology
• CTV — Compatibility Test Van
• MDI — Michelson Doppler Imager
• AIREP — Aircraft Weather Report
• JASON — Scientific panel (MITRE Corporation
• EP — Extraction Procedure
• TIFFE — Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange
• OFT — Office of Fair Trading
• NEHA — National Environmental Health Association
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• HFO — Heavy Fuel Oil
• AAWORD — Association of African Women for Research and Development
• SLA — Special Libraries Association
• HST — Hawaii Standard Time
• CPO — Core Project Office
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• ISLN — International Standards Lawyer Number

• BOC — Bureau of Census
• AFGWC — Air Force Global Weather Central (U.S.)
• NSFNET — National Science Foundation Network
• SOFFEX — Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange
• V — Verb
• APA — Adirondack Park Agency
• CAEM — Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (WMO)
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• WFF — Wallops Flight Facility
• R — Rex
• RARR — Range and Range Rate
• DISCRIM — discrimination
• HMW — High Molecular Weight
• TRANSUBSTANT — transubstantiation
• AOGCM — Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
• MACS — Modular Attitude Control System
• EPSRC — l'Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• APPOS — appositive
• DL — Downlink Message
• ICIMOD — International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• MLR — Multiple Linear Regression
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• CORP. — Corporation
• ENQ — Enquiry
• SS — Stainless Steel
• FTIR — Fourier transform infrared radiometer (spectroscopy)
• EMPH — emphatic
• OWS — Ocean Weather Station
• ABBREV — abbreviation
• EDSP — Exchange Delivery Settlement Price
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• WARC — World Administrative Radio Conference
• FRCP — Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• AI — Associate Investigator
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
• I — Injection
• FSI — Forest Survey of India
• DMS — Dimethyl Sulfide
• MOC — Memorandum Of Cooperation
• ANC — Ancient
• DSR — Delivery Status Report
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• MIBOR — Madrid Interbank Offered Rate
• VOCAB — Vocabulary
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• CPUE — Catch Per Unit Effort
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)

• VSE — Vancouver Stock Exchange
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• CA. — circa
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• BDR — Battery Discharge Regulator
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• BCF — Bio-Concentration Factor
• RPA — Remotely Piloted Aircraft
• IAF — International Astronautical Federation
• TC — Telecommand
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• CJS — Corpus Juris Secundum
• ATTY — Attorney
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• BFE — Baltic Futures Exchange
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• CONSTR — Construct
• KLOFFE — Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange
• OBL — OBLique
• CSIR — Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
• MM-AL — total monomeric aluminum
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review
• CORES — Computer Assisted Order Routing and Execution System
• FRG — Federal Republic of Germany's
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• JERS — Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JPOP)
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• CONV — Convention
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• MDSRS — Morphology-Dependent Stimulated Raman Scattering
• HCFC-141B — hydrochlorofluorocarbon-141b
• CRM — Certified Reference Material
• TSCA — Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
• PMF — Probable Maximum Flood
• IASI — Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• SNL — Sandia National Laboratories
• STSP — Solar Terrestrial Science Programme
• GISP2 — Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two
• ANT — Antarctica
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• IMM — International Monetary Market
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• DU — Dobson Unit
• DICT — Dictionary
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer

• 4-D — four-dimensional
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• HIBID — Hong Kong interbank bid rate
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• CBS — Commission for Basic Systems
• GL — Geophysics Laboratory
• FTS — File Transfer System
• NSTC — National Science and Technology Council (U.S.)
• POSTM — postmaster
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• MTCE — Million Tonnes of Carbon Equivalent
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• ACCS — accounts
• DM-MIMD — distributed memory, multiple instruction, multiple data (computer)
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• DECNET — Digital Equipment Corporation Network
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• INTERNAT — international
• RIE — Recognised Investment Exchange
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• PECULAT — peculation
• SMIRD — SOHO Mission Implementation Requirements Document
• FXA — Foreign Exchange Agreement
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• GN — Ground Network
• EOM — End of Mission
• NGVD 29 — National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
• PRN — Pseudo-Random Noise
• WILTS — Wiltshire
• TIGGER — Earth sciences dimension to TIGER
• CD-ROM — compact disc-read only memory
• PDI — Payload Data Interleaver
• ERIM — Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• DORIS — Doppler Orbit And Radio Positioning Integration By Satellite
• SAIL — Steel Authority of India Limited
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• ACU — Attitude Control Unit
• STMW — Sub-Tropical Mode Water
• HDTV — High-Definition Television
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• MONUM — monument
• VISSR — visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (GOES)
• TWRA — Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite

• STAT — Statistical
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• MORFLOT — Ministry of the Merchant Marine of the Soviet Union
• PORC — Porcelain
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• ANU — Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
• DEW — distant early warning (radar)
• PORT — Portuguese
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• NUM — Number
• JURISDICT — jurisdiction
• AGCM — Atmospheric General Circulation Model
• DOA — United States Department of Agriculture
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• NAVIG — Navigational Log
• TT&C — Telemetry, Tracking and Command
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• 2-D — a.k.a. 2D, two-dimension, two-dimensional
• KNOWL — Knowledge
• PB — Playback
• NCRP — National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
• CAL — Calendar
• GS&M — Modeling (task team)
• USCCAN — United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
• AID — Agency for International Development (U.S.)
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• ACTM — Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• IPS — Inter Press Service
• COLA — Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• KA — thousands of years
• PPL.ADJ — participial adjective
• MAW — Ministry of Agriculture and Water (Saudi Arabia)
• BOB — Bureau of the Budget
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• RECOLL — recollection
• ESRC — Economic and Social Research Council
• BITNET — Because It is Time NETwork
• CCN — Cloud Condensation Nuclei
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• MTG — Meeting
• ALL ER — All England Law Reports
• CONFUT — confutation
• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• SINTEF — Norwegian Institute of Technology
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program

• USCA — United States Code Annotated
• KERFIX — Kerguelen fixed station (France) (JGOFS)
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• CEA — Central Electricity Authority
• CLONO2 — chlorine nitrate
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• EMSL — Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory (EPA)
• MW — Milliwatt
• SGR — Specific Growth Rate
• INTERC — intercourse
• CORON — coronation
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• FEHEM — Front-End Hardware Emulator
• SSM — Special Sensor Microwave
• IRREG — Irregular
• BTP — Buoni del Tesoro Poliennali
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• JUD — Judges
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• MIADS — map information assembly and display system
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• COLL — COLLege
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• BEL-20 — stock index
• SIFE — Second ISCCP Field Experiment
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• NSSFC — National Severe Storms Forecast Center
• POSTH — posthumous
• ECON — Economics
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• SEV — several
• TEESE — TERI Energy Economy Simulation Evaluation
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• TRAV — Travel
• UVR — Ultraviolet Radiation
• VIS — Visible
• STRI — Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• AIME — American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
• AMEDAS — Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System
• CLIMAP — Climate Long-Range Investigation Mapping and Prediction (project)
• FWCA — Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1958)
• EJ — Exajoule
• PNL — Pacific Northwest Laboratory

• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• AET — Actual Evapotranspiration
• ART — Arctica
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• PHR — Phrase
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• NASCOM — NASA Communications System
• CCS — Central Checkout System
• PSK — Phase Shift Key
• WS — Wind Speed
• CFC-113 — CCl2FCClF2, 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane
• SMIC — Study of Mans Impact on Climate
• S/C — Spacecraft
• HAE — Height Above Ellipsoid
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• MILA — Merritt Island Launch Area
• EMAP — Environmental Monitoring And Assessment Program (US EPA)
• AO — Atmosphere-Ocean
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• GVR — Grant, Vacate and Remand
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• TLM — Telemetry
• GCC — Global Change Category
• SURG — Surgery
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• FSL — Forecast Systems Laboratory (a NOAA ERL)
• ACA — Advanced Computer Applications (project)
• MDE — Middle East
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• ECOWARM — European Committee for Water Resources Management (IAHS)
• SFT — System Functional Test
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• CONSID — consideration
• LTOM — London Traded Options Market
• RFT — Registered Floor Trader
• ADVERT — Advertisement
• ENT — Entomology (code)
• AAPP — Average All Pig Price
• PAD — Program Approval Document
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation

• HTTP — Hypertext Transport Protocol
• LEV — Leviticus
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• MOM — Modular Ocean Model
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• ALM — Almanac
• NH4 — ammonium
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development
• OFFIC — official
• ABRIDG — abridged
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• ACARS — Aircraft Communication and Recording System
• HASP — High Altitude Sampling Program
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• A. — Atlantic Reporter
• METAPHOR — metaphorical
• ABSTR — Abstract
• IBEX-35 — stock index
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• CO-C — Carbon monoxide carbon trace gas emission
• EFP — Exchange For Physicals
• MONEX — Monsoon Experiment
• KR — Krypton
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• IFRB — International Frequency Registration Board of the International Telecommunication Union
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• BATS — Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• RBV — return-beam Vidicon
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• HP — Health Physics
• FWS — United States Fish and Wildlife Service
• CLASSIF — classification
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• JSC — Joint Scientific Committee (ICSU, WCRP, and WMO)
• CNR — Committee on Natural Resources
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• IUFRO — International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• RESID — residence
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• DCN — Document Change Notice
• SST — Sea surface temperature
• MKSA — meter-kilogram-second-ampere (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKSA")
• IBSRAM — International Board for Soil Research and Management
• BBL — Billion Barrels

• ROPME — Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
• NONCE-WD — nonce-word
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• RPB — Recognised Professional Body
• WSC — Water Survey of Canada
• XPNDR — Transponder
• SCMS — Société de Compensation des Marchés Conditionnels
• PRINC — principle
• ATTRIB — Attribute
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• VAS — VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• BAO — Boulder Atmospheric Observatory
• ASOEN — ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• EPH — Ephesians
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• ALA. CODE — Code of Alabama 1975
• SMJ — subject matter jurisdiction
• ATA — Agrarische Termijnmarkt Amsterdam
• EX.DOC — executive document
• RGS — Royal Geographic Society
• IRF — instantaneous radiative transfer
• PPBV — parts per billion (109) by volume
• EOTC — European Organization for Testing and Certification (EC)
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• JOC — Joint Organizing Committee
• TISAB — total ionic strength adjustment buffer (analytical method)
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• IVL — Swedish Environmental Research Institute
• PUB.L. — Public Law
• ADVTS — advertisement
• ACE — Advisory Committee on the Environment
• IUB — International Union of Biochemistry (ICSU)
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• DOC — dissolved organic carbon
• DSIR — Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
• GF3 — General Format No 3
• ST — Steam Turbine
• IOC — International Ozone Commission
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• CHY — Commission for Hydrology
• BBF — Bolsa Brasileira de Futuros
• FRTM — Functional Requirements Traceability Matrix
• VMVM — Vector Measuring Current Meter
• BIOL — Biology
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation

• FCL — Foldback Current Limiter
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• S&R — Search & Rescue
• GLI — Global Imager
• LITHOL — lithology
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• USWB — United States Weather Bureau
• CISPR — International Special Committee on Radio Interference
• BERKS — Berkshire (English County)
• FORET — Forest of East Tennessee (model)
• DIU — Data Information Unit (of WOCE Data System)
• AUTH — Author
• IM-AL — inorganic monomeric aluminum
• B.C — British Columbia
• PHOEN — Phoenician
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• CLP — Contract Laboratory Program (EPA)
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• MKT — Market
• MANIP — manipulation
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• MYTH — mythology
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• IGFA — International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
• LOBT — Local on Board Time
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• AFR — Africa
• INTRANS — intransitive
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• B.C — Before Christ
• ABI — Association of Italian Bankers
• TOCOM — Tokyo Commodity Exchange
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• FOK — fill or kill order
• BPPT — Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (Indonesia)
• ELEM — Element
• REGIC — regicide
• ARCH — Archive
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• BBAISR — British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate
• APPLIC — application
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• CODATA — Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)

• BAPMON — Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• DED — Dedicated
• PPLES — participles
• NPS — National Park Service (US)
• IUGG — International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• CNET — Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (France)
• CDDIS — Crustal Dynamics Data Information System
• JMOL — Judgment as a Matter of Law
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• AGSS — Attitude Ground Support System
• CV — Calorific Value
• ERBES — Earth Radiation Budget Explorer Satellite
• BULL — Bulletin
• AM. JUR. 2D. — American Jurisprudence, 2nd Series
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• SUBORD — Subordinate
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• WD — Wind Direction
• MERIS — medium-resolution imaging spectrometer
• ADMON — admonition
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observing System
• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• RFD — Royal Forestry Department
• IRG — Interest Rate Guarantee
• RW — Reaction Wheel
• NMI — NASA Management Instruction
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• AAF — Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France
• LBL — Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California)
• NAM — North America
• CCC — Canadian Climate Centre
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• SMR — Standard Malaysian Rubber
• GNO — Gross Product Originating
• OIP — Offical Index Period
• SEATO — Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
• GBRS — Generic Block Recording System
• ADVT — advertisement
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• VIC — Victoria
• AIV — Assembly-Integration-Verification
• H/W — Hardware
• VTIR — visible and thermal infrared radiometer
• DD — degree day
• HVS — high-volume sampler
• IGY — International Geophysical Year (1 July 1957 - 31 December 1958)
• IUCR — International Union of Crystallography

• INTELL — Intelligent
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• GRO — Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA)
• WWO — Waste Water Outflow
• CAMS — Control and Monitoring System
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• B/W — Black and White
• LIMNOL — limnology
• PURG — purgatory
• ESR — Emergency Sun Reacquisition
• MAGIC — Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchment
• JUDG — Judges
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• INSTARR — Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• CSPAAD — Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Detection
• TIT — Titus
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• LONGLINES — Long Hydrographic Sections Programme
• PHOTOG — photography
• AFDM — Ash Free Dry Mass
• GTDS — Goddard Trajectory Determination System
• PIBOR — Paris Interbank Offered Rate
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• OSU — Oregon State University
• FAGS — Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Services (ICSU)
• GFLOPS — one gigaflop equals 1 billion (109) floating point operations
• UNISIST — United Nations System for Scientific and Technological Information
• CHRON — Chronicles
• R — Regina
• IAEG — International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment
• DOLY — Dynamic Global Phytogeography Model (GCTE)
• ABRIDGEM — abridgement
• MISC — Miscellany
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• MTOE — million tonnes of oil equivalent
• ECCL.HIST — ecclesiastical history
• CDS — Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer
• FR — French Republic
• ISSMFE — International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• IFU — Fraunhofer Institute for Atmospheric Environmental Research (Germany)
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• U.S. — United States
• PBU — peribacteroid unit
• IMPROP — improper
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente

• SMOW — Standard Mean Ocean Water
• DEVEL — Development
• IBWC — International Boundary and Water Commission (Independent; U.S. and Mexico)
• INTERJ — interjection
• BVRJ — Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro
• C.V. — coefficient of variation (math)
• FIRE — First ISCCP Regional Experiment
• RFDU — Radio Frequency Distribution Unit
• COMMERC — commercial
• IDOL — idolatry
• GLIS — Global Land Information System
• INDIR — indirect
• APM — Antenna Pointing Mechanism
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• PR.PPLE — present participle
• AUSTRAL — Australia
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• AGST — Against
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• DSRT — Deep Sea Reversing Thermometer
• TROP — Tropical
• SSU — Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS)
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• ORNITH — ornithology
• FTA — Financiele Termijnmarket Amsterdam
• IRSS — Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• NBRF — National Biomedical Research Foundation
• LDC — less-developed country
• CONVENT — convention
• NVI — normalized difference vegetation index
• AIT — Atomic International Time
• ISA — Israel Space Agency
• GS — Ground System
• ITC — International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences
• DOD — Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (Germany)
• PDSI — Palmer Drought Severity Index
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• PSS — Portable Spacecraft Simulator
• MARECO — Marine Radioecology Working Group (IUR)
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• HMTA — Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
• NOB — Notes Over Bonds
• CXL — Constitutional
• URL — Upper Range Limit
• MR — Microwave Radiometer

• IOM — Index and Option Market
• CALIF — California
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• ENEA — Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Lo Sviluppo Dell' Energia Nucleare E Delle Energie Alternative
• TSP — total suspended particles
• SASK — Saskatchewan
• BAA — benz[a]anthracene
• IUBMB — International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• APPL — Applied
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• LI — library
• CPE — Eastern Europe (also called Centrally Planned Europe)
• CPS — Certified Professional Secretary
• NORTHANTS — Northamptonshire
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System
• MPC — Model Penal Code
• R2 — coefficient of determination (statistical)
• IOS — Institute of Ocean Sciences
• HANTS — Hampshire
• ESRI — Environmental Systems Research Institute (developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, Redlands, California)
• ECU — Environmental Change Unit (Oxford)
• CL — Common Law
• CIESIN — Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
• STOF — Suprathermal-Time-Of-Flight
• ITAL — Italian
• CMM — Commission for Marine Meteorology
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• FRI — Forest Research Institute
• ACAST — Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology toDevelopment
• BCP1 — Broadcast Pulse 1
• MAGS — Mackenzie GEWEX Study (Canada)
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• PERH — perhaps
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• COM — Commission
• CALC — Calculus
• AIBD — Association of International Bond Dealers
• AASSREC — Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils
• PMB — Potato Marketing Board
• J — Justice
• COPUOS — Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN)
• ATX — Austrian Traded Index
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• CODMAC — Committee On Data Management, Archiving, and Computation
• DLG — Digital Line Graphic

• CUF — capacity utilization factor
• ISSS — International Society of Soil Science
• ED — Energy Division
• OD — Orbit Determination
• LTM — Long-Term Monitoring
• ESA/IRS — European Space Agency/Information Retrieval Service
• COMP — company
• MIC — Micah
• ASPRS — American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• TGE — Tokyo Grain Exchange
• LPM — liters per minute
• FAZ — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• AH — Air Heater
• ICAR — Indian Council of Agricultural Research
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• MIF — Mercato Italiano Futures
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• MASFLEX — Marginal Sea Flux Experiment (in the West Pacific) (IGOPS)
• RAL — Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• CELIAS — Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System
• HEREFORD — Herefordshire
• AEDD — Arctic Environment Data Directory
• ORS — Others
• BECO — Booster Engine Cutoff
• BARA — Pressure in Atmosphere
• CLICOM — Climate Computing
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• Π — (Greek letter Pi) Plaintiff
• DSM — demand-side management
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• DOT — Deployment Operations Team
• ERDA — U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (formerly AEC; now DOE)
• SM-MIMD — shared memory, multiple instruction, and multiple data (computer)
• AAG — American Association of Geographers
• GLOBEX — Global Electronic Exchange
• PSYCH — Psychology
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• ANSW — Answer
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• GSIRD — Ground Data System Information Requirements Document
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• MYST — Mystery Science Theater
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• AOCE — Attitude and Orbit Control Electronics

• APID — Application Identification
• BNAP — Basic Hydrological Network Assessment Project
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• USIA — United States Information Agency (changed To IIP)
• IUR — International Union of Radioecologists
• CAL. CODE REG. — California Code of Regulations
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• MPC — Maximum Permissible Concentration
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• BIE — Business in the Environment
• DEHYDRITE — magnesium perchlorate anhydrous granular
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• ALARA — As Late As Reasonably Achievable
• IFO — Intensive Field Observation
• DIS — Disease
• ADB — Asian Developing Bank
• ACCEPT — acceptance
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• CE — Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy (US Department of Energy)
• T — tonne
• OPEX — Operational and Executive Personnel for Civil Service
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• ART — Another Ray Tracer
• IMCO — Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization
• ITPR — Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer
• FEMA — Finite Element Model of Material Transport through Aquifers
• ELEC — Electronic
• ABERD — Aberdeen or Aberdonensis (Latin)
• CHAR — Character
• OBO — Order Book Official
• SPD — Solar Physics Division
• VIZ — Videlicet
• RAES — Retail Automated Execution System
• WFP — World Food Program
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• EQPAC — Equatorial Pacific
• NGM — Nested Grid Model
• DKD — Deutscher Kalibrierdienst
• LECT — Lecture
• COMM.LAW — commercial law
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• MIBK — Methyl IsoButyl Ketone traditional name for methyl pentanone
• ANIM — animal
• LONG. — longitude
• CAMB — Cambridge Capital Acquisition C (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ])
• PRINT — Printing
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• IRGA — Infrared Gas Analyzer
• DMI — Direct Member Input
• MODIS — moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC)

• MB — Manitoba
• FSSP — Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
• BOR — Bureau of Reclamation (Billings, MT)
• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• AGWAT — Agriculture and Water Project (JECOR)
• FPSSE — Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Electronics
• MEV — mega electron volts
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• CIL — Coal India Limited
• NRZ-L — Non Return to Zero Level
• FCCSET — Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology
• RN — Radon
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• CERN — European Laboratory for Particle Physics
• RPR — Remote Procedure Request
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• BMFT — Bundes Ministerium fur Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• EMSL-LV — Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory - Las Vegas (Nevada)
• CSM — Climate System Monitoring
• GLRS-R — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazona (Brazil)
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• FGCC — Federal Geodetic Control Committee
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• ARCHIT — Architecture
• CCM — community climate model
• CEPAC — COSTEP-ERNE Particle Analysis Collaboration
• WSMC — Western Space and Missile Center
• VAR — Variant
• SK — Saskatchewan
• TIBOR — Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate
• RFC — Registered Floor Clerk
• ITB — Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• IRIS — Integrated Radar Imaging System
• GRM — NASA Gravity Satellite (U.S.)
• EPV — Extended Precision Vector
• AIS — Automated Information Security
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• CCT — computer-compatible tape
• WRI — World Resources Institute (Washington, D.C.)
• SM — Structural Model
• CCCO — Committee on Climate Changes and the Ocean (SCOR and IOC)
• CHAMB — chamber
• ATF — atmospheric transmission factor
• AMBIACE — Amazon Biogeochemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment
• IDEM — Italian Derivatives Market
• EPA — Environmental Protection Authority (Victoria, Australia)

• ANAT — Anatomy
• PCSSD — Philippines Council for Sustainable Development
• ACID — Acidification Chemistry Information Data Base (BNL)
• METAPH — Metaphysics
• IDCCC — Interior Department Cartographic Coordinating Committee (DOI)
• USDOE — United States Department Of Energy
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• WPCF — Water Pollution Control Federation
• DHP — Direct High Power
• HAGE — human activity and global environment
• DECLAR — declaration
• POLAR — Polar Plasma Laboratory
• MPC — Massively Parallel Computer
• ANG — Anglian
• INDEF — Indefinite
• GEOM — Geometry
• LAI — Leaf Area Index
• CASSAD — Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
• ALACE — Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (float)
• ABE — Advisory Board on Energy (India)
• GCO — Generation Certification Official (waste generation)
• PCU — Platinum-Cobalt Unit
• GLOS — Gloucestershire
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• CCIFP — Chambre de Compensation des Instruments Financiers de Paris
• APCA — Air Pollution Control Association (Pittsburgh)
• ETV — electrothermal vaporizer
• IIOE — International Indian Ocean Expedition
• HUMICAP — Humidity sensor on drifters (FASINEX)
• AD. — ad sectam (Latin)
• SDAC — Satellite Data Analysis Center
• G-7 — Group of Seven (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom,
• DDFM — Data Distribution Facility Manager
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• CANAD — Canadian
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• CR — Carrington Rotation
• AEF — Average Emission Factor
• DA — discretionary account
• AOM — Australian Options Market
• AWRA — American Water Resources Association's
• GLOUC — Gloucestershire
• KING'S BENCH DIV — King's Bench Division
• NAIC — Newly Agro-Industrialized Country
• OA — Operations Agreement
• ACC — Audit-Comptabilité-Conseil (French: Auditing-Accounting Council)
• ARCHIPEL — archipelago
• IFIAS — International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study

• GEC — Global Environment Change
• PON — Particulate Organic Nitrogen
• GSC — Geological Survey of Canada (DEMR)
• ICACGP — International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution
• BSRN — Baseline Surface Radiation Network
• GDSIRD — Ground Data System Information Requirements Document
• PASA — Participating Agency Service Agreement
• HRE — Homogeneous Reactor Experiment (impoundment)
• CETA — Carbon Emissions Trajectory Assessment
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• MAB — Man and the Biosphere (programme) (UNESCO)
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• ARTEMIS — Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite (ESA)
• COMM — Commission
• HISTOL — histology
• SIO — Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography
• MARIA — Methods for Assessing the Radiological Impact of Accidents (CEC)
• ASF — Alaska SAR Facility
• IMG — Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases
• F — Fraction
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• SIDS — Small Island Developing States
• WVR — Water Vapor Radiometer
• HELCOM — Helsinki Commission, protection of Baltic marine environment
• GR — Growth Rate
• CGO — Cape Grim (Tasmania) (baseline station)
• MHRS — Modified Hazard Ranking System (DOE)
• C&DH — Command & Data Handling
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• ACCOMPL — accomplished
• NARS — National Archives and Records Service (GSA)
• PTB — Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig
• NOCC — Network Operations Control Center (GSFC)
• BBZ — benthic boundary zone
• MCF — methane conversion factor
• HGA — High Gain Antennae
• HKFE — Hong Kong Futures Exchange
• IAVCEI — International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
• IPHIR — InterPlanetary Helioseismology with IRradiance observations
• USDI — United States Department of the Interior (also
• OBED — obedience
• PHYSICAL CHEM — physical chemistry
• CSO — Central Statistical Organization
• INDUSTR — industrial
• ICP/MS — Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry
• CDAS — Climate Data Assimilation System
• IFOX — Irish Futures and Options Exchange
• ENSO — El Nino/Southern Oscillation (coupled oceanic-atmospheric change)
• CRF — Cloud Radiative Forcing

• HPD — Hydrometeorological Processes Division
• TTO — Total Toxic Organic
• TRIB — Chicago Tribune Newspaper
• ASLO — American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• APOL — apology
• APDA — Arctic Precipitation Data Archive (ACSYS)
• UNARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
• CCTV — CLOSE CIRCUIT TELEVISION
• PWV — Precipitable Water Vapor
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• EURECA — European Retrievable Carrier
• CERSAT — French group for processing ERTS-1 low bit rate data from ocean areas
• DISTILL — distilling
• TVCF — Transportable Vehicle Checkout Facility
• ICSD — International Continental Scientific Drilling (program)
• SMC — System Management Center
• IUGS — International Union of Geological Sciences (ICSU)
• BIOG — Biography
• IAG — International Association of Geodesy (IUGG)
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• GNIS — Geographic Names Information System (USGS)
• ESAER — European Space Agency's Earth Resources (Satellite)
• ALASKA ADMIN. CODE — Alaska Administrative Code
• FTR — Flight Tape Recorder
• HCMM — Heat-Capacity Mapping Mission
• SOR — Statutory Orders and Regulations
• HED — High Energy Detector
• HTML — Hypertext Meta-Language
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
• ECHAM — European Centre/Hamburg Model (ECMWF/MPI)
• DB — direct-beam (irradiance)
• AIJ — Activities Implemented Jointly
• DNES — Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources (India)
• DOMSTAR — communications relay set
• FDOC — Fraction of degradable organic carbon
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• ISEQ — Irish Stock Exchange Equity Index
• MABL — Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• COSTED — Committee On Science & Technology in Developing Countries
• FOM — Finnish Options Market
• EOC — EOS Operations Center (NASA)
• ASAS — Advanced Solid-State Array Sensor
• VLBI — Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• WPL — Wave Propagation Laboratory
• NCGIA — National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
• GCEP — Global Change Education Program
• NGSDC — National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
• SSMR-SSM/I — Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer-Ssm/II
• ABB — Association des Banques Belges
• GWE — Global Weather Experiment

• MDUL — Missing Data Units List
• ABORIG — aboriginal
• METEOSAT — European Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
• DISS — Dissertation
• IAH — International Association of Hydrogeologists (IUGS)
• LORAN — Long-Range Area Navigation System
• GOIN — Global Observation Information Network
• CEPAL — Comision Economica para America Latina (Spain) (ECLA)
• FOFS — futures and options funds
• PSP — Precision Spectral Pyranometer
• EBM — energy-balance model
• TRIG — Trigonometry
• LCL — lifting condensation level
• MEFF RENTA VARIABLE — derivatives exchange in Madrid, Spain
• PREDIC — predicate
• BIOGR — biography
• WGDM — Working Group on Data Management
• REBELL — rebellion
• STDN — Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network
• ACCM — Atmospheric General Circulation Model
• BARM — Block Acceptance Reporting Mechanism
• OCO — One Cancels the Other Order
• BUV — Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer
• MI — Mode Indicator
• ASEAMS — Association of Southeast Asian Marine Scientists
• D.C. — District of Columbia
• D — Deuterium (also abbreviated as 2D or 2H)
• UCLA — University of California at Los Angeles (U.S.)
• CIG — Commonwealth Industrial Gases
• ZOOL — Zoology
• TOPEX/POSEIDON — Ocean Topography Experiment
• MIZEX — Marginal Ice Zone Experiment
• DERIV — derivative
• DMDS — Dimethyl Disulfide
• UV-VIS — UltraViolet-Visible Spectroscopy
• MEFF RENTA FIJA — derivatives exchange in Barcelona, Spain
• ADVS — adverbs
• CAGM — Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (WMO)
• DISORT — discrete ordinate (model)
• CHEMRAWN — Chemical Research Applied to World Needs
• EDSG — Energy Demand Steering Group
• APOC — apocalyptic
• EZEK — Ezekiel
• CONCL — conclusion
• MANUF — Manufacture
• IACG — Interagency Committee on Geomatics (DEMR)
• ARMA — Autoregressive moving-average
• GER — Germany
• CIAP — Climate Impact Assessment Program
• IRI — International Reference Ionosphere

• MATIF — Marche а Terme International de France
• CX — Constitution
• CFC-11 — CC13F, trichlorofluoromethane, Freon-11
• OPHTHALM — ophthalmology
• FWP — Field Work Proposal
• CIF — Coming into Force
• EMEP-CCC — EMEP-Chemical Coordination Centre
• AFFM — Austrlian Financial Futures Market
• ADVB — adverb
• GCCD — Global Climate Change Digest (CEI)
• JIN — Joint Implementation Network
• GEOL — Geology
• RRN TSA — RRN Temperate South America
• FGD — Flue Gas Desulphurisation
• PAN — Peroxyacetylnitrate
• RDAAC — Remote Data Analysis and Archive Center
• HOUSEH — household
• BIPM — Bureau International de Poids et Mesures
• ACTS — African Centre for Technology Studies
• NIC — Newly Industrialized Country
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter
• ODB — Orbit Determination Beacon
• ESAM — Institute for Environmental Science and Management
• CDHF — Central Data Handling Facility
• FED. R. CRIM. P. — Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• ASXD — Australian Stock Exchange Derivatives
• ACHEX — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• ETAC — (USAF) Environmental Technical Applications Center
• LSN — long- and short-normal resistivity (geophysical logging)
• BCC — British Coal Corporation
• FIN — Fish Information Network (data base)
• ICCH — International Commodities Clearing House
• IUNS — International Union of Nutritional Sciences
• AGRIC — Agriculture
• ARK. CODE — Arkansas Code
• ETRP — Education and Training Programme (WMO)
• EN — Natural forest biomass used for energy
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observation Satellite (Japan)
• HSA — Historic Sites Act (1935)
• TDMA — Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer
• HPCC — High Performance Computing and Communications (NOAA)
• GDAS — Grimco data acquisition system
• ARAB — Arabic
• GRDC — Global Runoff Data Centre
• KYR — kiloyear
• IUHPS — International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
• SEAWIFS — sea-viewing wide-field sensor
• GCHC — Gulf Coast Hydroscience Center (USGS)
• HDGEC — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• IMU — International Mathematical Union

• HSWA — Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (RCRA, 1984)
• CRYSYS — Cryospheric System
• MASC — Mountain Administration Support Center (NOAA)
• UNO — United Nations Organization
• EPO — EOS Project Office
• DYFAMED — atmospheric dynamics and fluxes in the Mediterranean Sea (France)
• LASE — Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment
• CNRS — National Scientific Research Center (Centre Nationale de la Recherche
• IRTM — Infrared Thermal Mapper
• GEBA — Global Energy Balance Archive
• GALE — Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment
• BGC — Biogeochemical Cycle
• TERLS — Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (India)
• LANDSAT — land satellite (photographs of the ground)
• USDOD — United States Department Of Defense
• DDL — Direct Downlink
• LEECHD — leechdom
• CAR — Caribbean Region
• RIVM — Netherlands National Institute of Public Health and EnvironmentalProtection
• ELIZAB — Elizabethan
• AERONAUT — aeronautic
• CEMA — Council of Mutual Economic Aid (Russian Federation, formerly U.S.S.R.)
• IGCP — International Geological Correlation Programme (IUGS and UNESCO)
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• SLEJF — Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum
• GENLEAF — generic models of leaf response
• IEM — Institute of Experimental Meteorology
• DQM — Data Quality Message
• IOB — Inter-Organization Board for Information Systems and Related Activities
• IFREMER — Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer, France
• ATPEX — ARM Tropical Pacific Experiment
• TDSM — Tracking and Data Systems Manager
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Council (UNESCO)
• GMU — Gyro Mechanical Unit
• ESD — Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL)
• VTPR — Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• ISE — International Stock Exchange
• SOS — Southern Oxidants Study
• USDOC — United States Department of Commerce
• ICPP — Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
• EGCM — Eddy-Resolving General Circulation Model
• GCTM — Global Chemical Transport Model
• GESS — Graphics Executive Support System
• COMPL — Complete
• HEIFE — Heihe River Field Experiment
• CZM — Coastal Zone Management
• XDR — External Data Representation
• CLS — Collected Localization Satellites (France)
• DTR — Diurnal Temperature Range

• SECO — Sustainer Engine Cutoff
• RECLAM — reclamation
• PSE — Pacific Stock Exchange
• ECAMP — Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program
• SCF — Scientific Computing Facility
• ARRCC — Analysis of Rapid and Recent Climate Change (project)
• ESF/EPC — ESF/European Palaeoclimate and Man Project
• CSRS — Cooperative State Research Service (US Dept. Of Agriculture)
• FASINEX — Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment
• IERS — International Ellipsoid Reference System
• PVM — Parallel Virtual Machine
• MILL(S) — 0.001 U.S. dollars
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• ISEB 10 — Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry
• COMP.ANAT — comparative anatomy
• PARCC — precision, accuracy, representativeness, completeness, and comparability
• CORR — Correspondence
• SONG SOL — Song of Solomon
• CERT — Certificate
• CSEC — Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (University of Lancaster)
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis & Prediction
• SQQ — Standard Qulaity Quotation
• EHP — Extended High Power
• CMIE — Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy
• CCGT — Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
• IFDC — International Fertilizer Development Center
• CCM2 — community climate model two
• IS92 — IPCC Scenarios, 1992
• HRDI — high-resolution Doppler imager
• ASTRON — Astronomy
• IUCS — Inter-Union Commission on Spectroscopy
• COWAR — Committee on Water Research (ICSU and UATI)
• BAAS — British Association for the Advancement of Science
• CSES — Center for the Study of Earth from Space (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• AL2O3 — alumina
• ALBIOS — Aluminum Biogeochemistry in Soils (EPRI)
• ABERDEENSH — Aberdeenshire
• GENESIS — Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems
• CSERGE — Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment
• CONSECR — consecrated
• ACCI — Advisory Committee on Climate Applications and Data (WMO)
• HMCRI — Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute
• BASE — Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment
• ASTEX — Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment
• INTRO — Introduction
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• IGCC — Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles (electric Power Generation Technology)
• ECLIPS — Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study
• SCAR — Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (ICSU)

• NPL — Nuclear Plasma Laboratory
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (EC)
• IGEA — International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
• MODMAP — modernization of mapping techniques
• EOSDIS — EOS Data and Information System (NASA)
• FIFESH — Fifeshire
• WFEO — World Federation Of Engineering Organizations
• MIZ — Marginal Ice Zone
• EXPLOR — Exploration
• GO3OS — Global Ozone Observing System (WMO)
• BTAN — Bons du Trésor а intérët Annuel Normalisés
• FDST — Flight Dynamics Support Team
• LXX — Septuagint
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetection Spatiale (France)
• NESDP — National Economic and Social Development Plan
• GOP — Geographical Observatories Programme
• CGO — Cape Grim Observatory
• INFOTERRA — International Referral System for Sources of Environmental Information
• EXOD — Exodus
• BRU — Battery Regulation Unit
• OLR — Outgoing Long-Wave Radiation
• LV — Large Volume water samples (>100 liters)
• KLCE — Kuala Lumpur Commodity Exchange
• MO&DA — Mission Operations and Data Analysis
• SDTS — Spatial Data Transfer Standard
• FUND — Fundamental
• FORTN — fortnightly
• ASAP — Automated Shipboard Aerological Program
• ROXB — Roxburgh
• SCOR — Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (ICSU)
• M&E — Monitoring and Enforcement
• GOFS — Global Ocean Flux Study
• GEOG — Geography
• VAM — Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal
• IDEAL — International Decade for the East African Lakes (project) (PAGES)
• IGN — Institut Geographique National
• IAS — Image Analysis System
• NSN — NASA Space Network
• DIFFIC — difficult
• DDMP — domain-decomposition-message-passing
• DSCC — Deep Space Communications Complex
• AGAL — Australian Government Analytical Laboratories
• DRAW — Direct Read After Write Animation System
• ACATS — Airborne Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species
• EARN — European Academic Research Network
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror
• MPA — MegaPascal
• SEB — State Electricity Board
• SUPPRESS — suppression
• HOMS — Hydrological Operational Multipurpose Subprogramme

• TIGER — Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research
• MFLOPS — One megaflop equals 1 million (106) floating point operations
• OPPRESS — oppression
• CONGRESS — congressional
• SPELDA — Structure Porteuse External pour Lancements Doubles Ariane (external
• PEM WEST — Pacific Exploratory Mission - West
• GLRS — Geoscience Laser Ranging System
• PDU — Power Distribution Unit
• CRPE — Centre de Recherches en Physique de l'Environment Terrestre et Planetaria
• NYCE — New York Cotton Exchange
• AGID — Association for Geoscientists for International Development
• IIID — International Institute of Information Design
• GRIMCO — CGBAPS computing system
• IPMS — International Polar Motion Service
• HIC — Habitat International Coalition
• ALA. ADMIN. CODE — Alabama Administrative Code
• NR — Not Reported
• FBC — Fluidized Bed Combustor
• APN — Asia-Pacific Network (for Global Change Research) (START)
• HSRL — High Spectral Resolution Lidar
• FAI — Fertilizer Association of India
• SWACOM — Standard Water Column Model
• PUMS — Public Use Microdata Samples
• VET.MED — veterinary medicine
• ALLEG — allegiance
• CERES — Clouds And The Earth's Radiant Energy System (EOS)
• CCCP — California Institute of Technology Concurrent Computation Project
• ICARDA — International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas
• NNSF — National Natural Science Foundation
• ECCL — ecclesiastical
• ACC — Association of Corporate Counsel
• BIH — Bureau International de l'Heureasures
• BVE — Barotropic Vorticity Equation
• CCM0 — Community Climate Model (NCAR)
• BNC — British National Corpus
• ICIP — International Conference on Image Processing
• FNOC — Fleet Numerical Oceanographic Center (U.S. Navy)
• IDSS — Integrated Data Sounding System
• GSL — Gulf Stream Locale
• NRCP — National Research Council for the Philippines
• SWEDAC — Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation
• FDSS — Flight Dynamics Support System
• BMWT — Biofuels and Municipal Waste Technology
• BVB — Belgische Vereniging van Banken
• CETA — Comprehensive Education and Training Administration
• GME — Gyro Management Electronics
• DCDSTF — Digital Cartographic Data Standards Task Force
• AOVP — Arctic Ocean Variability Project
• DARE — data rescue
• CILSS — Comite Inter-Etats pour la Lutte Contre laSecheresse au Sahel

• IHSS — International Humic Substances Society
• EADS — Environmental Assessment Data System
• AGASP — Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Programme
• PIO/T — PIO for Contract Technicians or Contract Services
• ERRON — erroneous
• ICES — International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• LDEO — Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• GLOBEC — Global Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
• ENEA — Italian National Agency for New technology, Energy and the Environment
• LMES — Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc. ("Energy Systems" is preferred)
• AEROCE — Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment
• ETM — Enhanced Thematic Mapper
• GHCN — Global Historical Climatology Network
• AERI-FEP — AERI Front End Processor
• TRAC — Teacher Research Associate
• IAI — Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (START)
• PACOR — Packet Processor
• CGMW — Commission for the Geological Map of the World
• COST — Committee on Science and Technology (ASEAN)
• DPS — Data Processing Segment
• CSTC — Consolidated Satellite Test Center
• CMC — Canadian Meteorological Centre
• GLOBE — Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
• GLL — Galileo
• DFCD — Data Format Control Documents
• ECWA — Economic Commission for Western Asia
• GREENTIE — Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange
• EPD — European Pollen Database
• FRONTAL — frontal process studies (France) (JGOFS)
• AMAP — Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
• NUMISM — numismatics
• CEPT — Conference Europeenne des Administration des Postes etTelecommunications
• SPACE PHYSICS DATA SYSTEM — Solar Physics Data System
• SPL — Split Phase Level
• LAPAN — National Institute for Aeronautics and Space (Indonesia)
• BCP3 — Broadcast Pulse 3
• LIPI — The Indonesian Institute of Sciences
• EDX — energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry
• CREN — Chemical Research and Environmental Needs
• ETI — Economic Transition and Integration (project)
• AGR. — Agriculture (USDA)
• FCOJ — frozen concentrated orange juice
• CES — Committee on Earth Sciences (now CEES)
• NON-CONF — nonconformist
• ELECTR — Electric
• LST — Local Solar Time
• CIUS — Conseil International des Unions Scientifiqes (ICSU)
• FDF — Flight Dynamics Facility
• POLARSTERN — Research vessel
• ICARUS — Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities

• ACE-2 — North Atlantic Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment (IGAC)
• COWRR — Committee on Water Resources Research
• AMEX — Atlantic Meteorology Experiment
• INVESTIG — investigation
• PROVINC — provincial
• CCOM — Control Center Operations Manager
• IRSSP — Interactive Remote Sensing Software Package
• ISPRS — International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• CCL — Central CO2 Laboratory, SIO (WMO)
• SERDP — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
• ASCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• FPSSH — Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Head
• EGE — Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
• ECLAC — Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)
• FSMF — Flight Software Maintenance Facility
• ZPC — Zero Point of Change
• IMS — Information Management Services, Inc.
• GRAMM.ANALYSIS — grammatical analysis
• FED. R. BANKR. P. — Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
• BRIT — British
• RSA — Republic South Africa
• RRN OCE — RRN Oceania
• INFOCLIMA — World Climate Data Information and Referral System
• SHEPH — shepherd
• PROBL — Problem
• ETSA — electron transport system activity
• ANTS — Antenna Subsystem
• GLOCHANT — Global Change Research in the Antarctic
• CSCE — Coffe, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange
• ADJ. — see "ad." above.
• NAMAS — National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK)
• ARIZ. ADMIN. REG. — Arizona Administrative Register
• TOR — Tropospheric Ozone Research
• ESMR — Electronically Scanning Microwave Radiometer
• GOS — Global Observing System (WMO and WWW)
• BOF — Basic Oxygen Furnace
• COMM — Commerce
• BTCS — breakthrough curves (column-elution tests)
• FUTOP — Copenhagen Stock Exchange and Guaranteed Fund for Danish options and Futures
• PSEUDO-SC — pseudo-Scots
• ITRC — Industrial Toxicology Research Centre
• ACMAD — African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development
• I&T — Integration & Test
• HRS — Hazard Ranking System (EPA)
• EER — External Engineering Review
• ARTILL — artillery
• ITU — Integrated Terrain Unit
• GRADO — CNES Gravity Satellite (France)
• ARAC — Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (program)
• MERCH — Merchantable

• GLOCARB — Global Tropospheric Carbon Dioxide Network (IGAC)
• AOCMS — Attitude and Orbit Control Measurement System
• CCLB — Carbon content of living biomass
• GEMM — gilt-edged market maker
• C. — Chapter
• DAX — deutsche Aktienindex
• DBM — Decibels referenced to one milliwatt
• STAND — Standard
• TRANSF — Transfer
• CONSTIT — constitution
• DOCTR — doctrine
• ICCE — International Commission on Continental Erosion (IAHS)
• CONN — Connecticut
• MMS-F — Matra Marconi Space-Toulouse, France
• ICWQ — International Commission on Water Quality (IAHS)
• NTOM — Network Technical and Operations Manager
• ASSOC.FOOTBALL — Association Football
• NWWA — National Water Well Association
• CERGA — Centre d'Etudes et de Rechereches Geodynamiques et Astronomiques
• KRE — Kobe Rubber Exchange
• MANAGEM — management
• PSFC — surface pressure
• CBJ — Certified Barbeque Judge
• IWSA — International Water Supply Association
• ALTA — Active Long Term Archive
• PCO2 — partial pressure of CO2
• GYNAECOL — gynaecology
• IAWPRC — International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control
• GLOED — Global Emissions Database
• CCDB — Carbon content of dead biomass
• ASASP — Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
• FRAGM — fragment
• SUBSCRIPT — subscription
• SOCA — Special Operations Control Area
• CFAGB — Carbon fraction of above ground biomass
• DI — Directorate
• OBC — On Board Computer
• LOICZ — Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
• CDMU — Central Data Management Unit
• ANSTO — Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Menai, New
• MCZ — Mesoscale Compressible Community Model
• MISCELL — miscellany
• ACM — advanced climate model
• DEMR — Department of Energy Mines and Resources
• ANL/ACRF — ANL's Advanced Computing Research Facility
• RRN TNH — RRN Temperate Northern Hemisphere
• ANBS — Asian Network of Biological Sciences
• METOP — Meteorological Operational Satellite (polar satellite series)
• SUP — Soluble Unreactive Phosphorus
• HAB — Habakkuk

• DARA — Deutsche Agentur fur Raumfahrtangelegenheiten (Germany)
• CGC — Management and Coordination Advisory Committee
• NAUT — Nautical
• CRIC — Computerized River Information System
• CEI — Center for Environmental Information
• FORFARSH — Forfarshire
• CONCR — Concrete
• MAGN — magnetism
• TRANSIT — Satellite Navigation System
• IRV — Improved Inter-Range Vector
• MIMR — multifrequency imaging microwave radiometer (formerly HIMSS)
• COMMISS — commission
• IELV — Intermediate Expendable Launch Vehicle
• CA — Copyright Act
• G-1 — Gulfstream-1 (airplane)
• CBJ — California Bar Journal
• ITOS — Improved TIROS Operational System
• NARL — National Arctic Research Laboratory (Barrow, Alaska)
• CCOP — Committee for the Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas
• DIS-SC — DIS Standing Committee
• ENG — England (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
• NARR — Narrative
• PNEDC — Programme Nationale d'Etude de la Dynamique du Climat (France)
• IRC — International Radiation Commission
• CLIC — Climate Inventory and Catalog
• PFRA — Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
• DI — Direct Index
• IASPEI — International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
• GENIE — Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange
• LITHOGR — lithography
• AOSIS — Association of Small Island States
• EPIST — epistle
• ACL — alternate concentration level
• ICHTH — ichthyology
• FAMIL — familiar
• LPDA — Laser-Phased Doppler Anemometer
• IMOP — Instruments and Methods of Observation Programme (WMO)
• IBSS — Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (Russian Federation;
• DESCR — Description
• UAV — Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle
• MDC — More Developed Country
• STOL — System Test and Operations Language
• NOM — Nominative
• FICCDC — Federal Interagency CoordinatingCommittee on Digital Cartography
• AFFECT — affection
• INZN — Institut Zairois pour la Conservation de la Nature
• SAFEX — South African Futures Exchange
• FIFRA — Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (1972)
• PRES.PPLE — present participle
• AWIS — Association for Women in Science

• MUNIC — Municipal
• HARM — Hazard Assessment Rating Methodology
• BIOCHEM — Biochemistry
• NONCONF — nonconformist
• RAAD — Roll Attitude Anomaly Detection
• SCAMA — Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement
• CEPEX — Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
• EUROTRAC — European Experiment on Transport and Transformation of Environmentally Relevant Trace Constituents in the Troposphere over Europe
• MOGUNTIA — Model of the General Universal Tracer transport in the Atmosphere
• HMSU — high-resolution microwave sounding unit
• CEEM — Center for Energy and Environmental Management
• HCMR — heat-capacity mapping radiometer
• FAB — Finance and Budget
• PRD — Program Requirements Documents (UDS)
• PE — Pipeline Execution
• ECCLES — ecclesiastical
• APARE — East Asian-North Pacific Regional Experiment (IGAC)
• NNSS — Navy Navigational Satellite System
• EARSEL — European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories
• APME — Attitude Pointing Mechanism Electronics
• HDGCB — Human Dimensions of Global Change (programme) (UNU, ISSC, and IFIAS)
• SPECMAP — Mapping Spectral Variability in Global Climate Project
• CSELI — Centra Studi e Laboratori Telecommunicazioni (Italy)
• WDE — Wheel Drive Electronic
• ICRM — International Committee on Radionuclide Meteorology
• ALE — Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment
• SMY — Solar Maximum Year
• RDP — Radar Development Project
• MOP — METEOSAT OPERATIONAL PROGRAM
• FFO — Fraction of oxidized
• ADMIR — admiralty
• CONSC — conscience
• EPIL — epilogue
• METR.GR — metri gratia
• C-C — Counterclaim
• SATOR — Stratospheric and Tropospheric Ozone Research
• HRIRS — high-resolution infrared radiation sounder
• DBE — Deep Basin Experiment
• QUANTUM MECH — quantum mechanics
• ORG.CHEM — organic chemistry
• HDR — Hardware Design Review
• CEAREX — Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment
• FWM — food web model
• EVID — Evidence
• FPSS — Fine Pointing Sun Sensor
• FGGE SOP — Fgge Special Observing Period
• CEM — Cumulus Ensemble Model
• AIDJEX — Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment
• MECCA — Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
• AGRHYMET — Agronmeteorology and Operational Hydrology and Their Applications

• USNMAS — United States National Map Accuracy Standard
• CI — Conservation International (Washington, D.C.) (NGO)
• WCAP — World Climate Applications Program
• ULS — Upward-Looking SONAR
• CIRT — cirrus test
• ACE-1 — Southern Hemisphere Marine Aerosol Characterization Experiment (IGAC)
• ITRDB — International Tree-Ring Data Bank
• OES — Bureau of Oceans, International Environment, and Scientific Affairs
• IWRA — International Water Resources Association (USA)
• OSSE — Observing System Simulation Experiment
• GMP — Genetically Modified Plants
• MRIR — Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• ADCP — Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler
• MERFOX — Mercadode Futuros y Opciones
• EFQ — Estimated fuel quantity consumed (Used to determine carbon stored)
• HASL — Health and Safety Laboratory
• LDGO — Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory (now known as LDEO)
• STS — Star Tracker Sensor
• DEUT — Deuteronomy
• SUPPL — Supplement
• GATE — Global Atmosphere Tropical Experiment
• PRED — predicate
• PVL — Parameter Value Language
• SECTIONS — Oceanographic Programme of the U.S.S.R.
• XCTD — Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth (probe)
• EBBR — Energy-Balance Bowen Ratio
• AVD — acoustic variable density
• EZE — Asociacion Protestante de Cooperacion para el Desarrollo en Alemania
• IFRTP — Institut Francais pour la Researche et la Technologie Polaire (French
• CGED — Committee on Geophysical Environmental Data (NAS)
• LAID — land-atmosphere interactions dynamics
• START — System for Analysis, Research, and Training
• OHER — Office Of Health And Environmental Research (US Dept. Of Energy)
• BEDFORD — Bedfordshire
• NAR — Net Assimilation Rate
• EPSS — Electrical Power Subsystem
• GEOS-3 — Geodetic Satellite Mission (NASA)
• ITIR — infrared thermal imaging radiometer (now ASTER)
• HPCRC — High Performance Computing Research Center (ORNL)
• GERG — Global Environment Research Group
• MIFE — Manila International Futures Exchange
• NCIC — National Cartographic Information Center
• CFF — Carbon fraction of fuel
• PENINS — peninsula
• CGES — Center for Global Environmental Studies
• GAME — GEWEX-related Asian Monsoon Experiment
• IMO — International Meteorological Organization (formerly WMO)
• APMP — Acid Precipitation Mitigation Program (NAPAP)
• CPP — Cloud Photopolarimeter
• DOE — Department of the Environment (Canada)

• FNWC — Fleet Numerical Weather Center (U.S. Navy)
• CTA-21 — Compatibility Test Area
• CMRS — Coal Mines Research Station
• VBB — VIRGO Blue Book
• PUSPITEK — Training Facilities in the Centre for Research, Science and Technology
• MAP — Middle Atmosphere Programme
• IAGC — International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
• ALK — alkalinity
• BR — Bankruptcy
• ITSC — International TOVS Study Conference
• GISMO — graphic-information-system modeling
• GDR — German Democratic Republic (now Germany)
• FATE — Formation of Aerosol and their Transformation over Europe (EUROTRAC)
• GAZ — Gazette
• RRN CAR — RRN Caribbean
• MQP — Mandatory Quote Period
• SUPPLIC — supplication
• IAHS — International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• ALG — Algebra
• MUID — Map Unit Identification Data
• DSDS — Data Storage and Distribution System
• GEOS — Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite
• EAWEP — East Asia and Western Pacific