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• ETA — Estimated Time of Arrival
• F.2D — Federal Reporter, 2nd Series
• LAN — Local Area Network
• XXN — Cross examination
• IGO — Intergovernmental Organization
• FTP — File Transfer Protocol
• DEROG — derogatory
• MM — Millimeter
• WWW — World Wide Web
• CO2 — Carbon Dioxide
• ROM — Read-Only Memory
• CSA — Canadian Space Agency
• ELV — Expendable Launch Vehicle
• WHO — World Health Organization
• ESA — European Space Agency
• QC — Quality Control
• ASAP — As Soon As Possible (pronounced AY-sap)
• QA/QC — Quality Assurance/Quality Control
• H2O2 — Hydrogen Peroxide
• DFD — Data Flow Diagram
• AATSR — Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• MMAD — Mass Median Aerodynamic Diameter (aerosol)
• EDI — Electronic Data Interchange
• LASER — Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation (cf. Maser)
• RPI — Retail Price Index
• N2O-N — Nitrous oxide nitrogen trace gas emission ratio
• NFS — Network File System
• CD — Compact Disc
• H-1211 — Halon 1211; CBrClF2
• CY — Calendar Year
• INC — Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
• GDP — Gross Domestic Product
• LRR — Launch Readiness Review
• ANSI — American National Standards Institute, Inc.
• SN — Space Network
• F.SUPP.2D — Federal Supplement, 2nd Series
• USMAB — United States Man and the Biosphere
• MOA — Memorandum Of Agreement
• APT — Automatic Picture Transmission
• BOD — Biochemical Oxygen Demand
• CBO — Congressional Budget Office
• AGA — American Gas Association
• N.W.2D — North Western Reporter, 2nd Series
• SMS — Synchronous Meteorological Satellite
• F.3D — Federal Reporter, 3rd Series
• CCB — Configuration Control Board
• PCB — Polychlorinated Biphenyls
• OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
• USDA — United States Department of Agriculture
• ASL — Above Sea Level

• H-1301 — Halon 1301; CBrF3
• NSO — National Solar Observatory
• CPI — Consumer Price Index
• ADM — Admiral
• FR — Federal Register
• UNESCO — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
• CPU — Central Processing Unit
• LNG — Liquefied Natural Gas
• S.W.2D — South Western Reporter, 2nd Series
• UCC — Uniform Commercial Code
• DVP — Delivery Versus Payment
• ASU — Air Separation Unit
• TSS — Total Suspended Solids
• USAF — United States Air Force
• S.E.2D — South Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series
• AVHRR — Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer  
• AGL — Above Ground Level
• WWW — World Weather Watch
• FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency
• OTC — Over The Counter (medications not requiring a prescription)
• LLC — Limited Liability Company
• ICAO — International Civil Aviation Organization
• IP — Internet Protocol
• BFP — Bona Fide Purchaser
• N2O — nitrous oxide (anesthetic)
• AAS — American Astronomical Society
• RPC — Remote Procedure Call
• RFP — Request For Proposal
• GIS — Geographic Information System
• SD — Standard Deviation
• CEP — Circular Error Probable
• R&D — Research & Development
• RF — Radio Frequency
• LLP — Limited Liability Partnership
• ASME — American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• AMS — American Mathematical Society
• CO — Carbon Monoxide
• AIT — Asian Institute of Technology
• MOU — Memorandum of Understanding (an MOU between Food & Drug Administratin and a regulatory agency in another country allows mutual recognition of inspections)
• ISRO — Indian Space Research Organisation
• GC — General Counsel
• ATS — Advanced Technology Satellite
• N.E.2D — North Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series
• MS — Mass Spectrometer
• ACS — American Chemical Society
• N2O5 — nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride
• FOV — Field Of View (satellite)
• FX — Foreign Exchange
• I/O — Input/Output

• WB — World Bank
• AEC — Atomic Energy Commission (superseded by ERDA)
• ALT — Alteration
• NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• MOS — Model Output Statistics
• LES — Lincoln Experimental Satellite
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• L.ED.2D — Lawyers 2nd Edition
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• ADP — Automated Data Processing
• NM — Nanometer
• KG — Kilogram
• RLU — Relative Light Unit
• IEE — Institution of Electrical Engineers
• CDF — Common Data Format
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• UCMJ — Uniform Code of Military Justice
• AIAA — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
• PL — Public Law
• STC — Satellite Test Center
• M — Meter
• ALARA — As Low As Reasonably Achievable
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• UNU — United Nations University
• AIHA — American Industrial Hygiene Association
• ER — Energy Research
• CIS — Commonwealth of Independent States
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• CBA — Cost Benefit Analysis
• ACCT — Account
• CPM — Critical Path Method
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• CM — Centimeter
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• ANON — Anonymous
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• A.L.R.2D — American Law Reports, 2nd Series
• AL — Aluminium
• ASC — American Society of Cinematographers
• NOV — November
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• GSA — Geological Society of America
• P.2D — Pacific Reporter, 2nd Series
• LIBOR — London Interbank Offered Rate
• TEC — Total Electron Content
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• APEC — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation

• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• L — Liter
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar
• S.W.3D — South Western Reporter, 3rd Series
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• AMS — Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• A.L.R.3D — American Law Reports, 3rd Series
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• JAN — January
• AFSCN — Air Force Satellite Control Network
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• R J — Recurring Judgement
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• E.E.T.S — Early English Text Society
• UIC — Underground Injection Control
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• RS — Remote Sensing
• SWT — Science Working Team
• A.2D — Atlantic Reporter 2nd Series
• L.ED — Lawyers Edition
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• ATM — Atmosphere
• RA IV — Regional Association IV - North and Central America (WMO)
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• S. CT. — Supreme Court Reporter
• WCE — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
• A.L.R. FED. — American Law Reports, Federal
• MSL — Mean Sea Level
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• C-MACCS — Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• ZEPH — Zephaniah
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• ALEXIS — Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
• PM-2.5 — particulate matter of diameter less than 2.5 micrometers
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• TOC — Total Organic Carbon
• AFSCF — Air Force Satellite Control Facility
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• ESMC — Eastern Space And Missile Center (formerly AFETR)
• A.D — Anno Domini
• B.A.U. — business as usual (scenario)
• A.L.R.4TH — American Law Reports, 4th Series

• C.F.R. — Code of Federal Regulations
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• ECOM. — EOS communications
• COM — Common
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• IRC — Internal Revenue Code of 1986
• IAEA — International Atomic Energy Agency
• ABA — American Bar Association
• IC — Ion Chromatography
• R.C.CHURCH — Roman Catholic Church
• NA — North America
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• O3 — Ozone
• A.L.R. — American Law Reports
• AR — Argon
• MX — Merry Christmas
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• MAG — Magazine
• CW — Continuous Wave
• I&TRR — Integration and Test Readiness Review
• DI — Directorate of Intelligence
• CENTO — Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
• SEBI — Securities and Exchange Board of India
• A.L.R.5TH — American Law Reports, 5th Series
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• W — Watt
• EM — Electromagnetic
• MSR — Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• A.L.R.6TH — American Law Reports, 6th Series
• FAR — Flight Analysis Review
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• FE — Fossil Energy
• KSC — John F. Kennedy Space Center
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• SO — Southern Oscillation
• § — Section
• ERB — Earth Radiation Budget
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• A.V — Authorized Version
• DOST — Department of Science and Technology
• CCAQ — Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• F.O.R. — free on rail
• RAE — Royal Aircraft Establishment
• FAS — Free Alongside Ship
• B%T — Animal population ratio living in temperate climate region
• S.V — sub verbo
• WG — Working Group

• U.S.S.R — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• ADDIT — addition
• BCD — Binary-Coded Decimal
• FO — Furnace Oil
• BOJ — Bank Of Japan
• CIA — Central Intelligence Agency
• NASM — National Air and Space Museum
• COL — Colonel
• CFO — Cancel Former Order
• EGS — European Geophysical Society
• NMFS — National Marine Fisheries Services
• ¶ — (Pilcrow) Paragraph
• U.S.S.R. — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• PPM — parts per million
• IO — Input/Output
• MSS — Multispectral Scanner System
• S.T.S — Scottish Text Society
• B.A.P. — Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
• QDRO — Qualified Domestic Relations Order
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• ASE — Airborne Support Equipment
• S.AFR — South Africa
• SIO3 — silicate
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• © — Copyright
• HAP — Hazardous Air Pollutant
• UL — Uplink
• §§ — Sections
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• MP&A — Mission Planning and Analysis Area
• TCS — Thermal Control Subsystem
• CONST — Under Construction
• F.APP'X — Federal Appendix
• WET — Waste Extraction Test
• AT — Acceptance Test
• IMF — International Monetary Fund
• VAD — Velocity-Azimuth Display
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• ENTHUS — enthusiasm
• SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the United States
• OAS — Organization of American States
• OCT — October
• RH — Relative Humidity
• U.S.A.F — United States Air Force
• CEC — Cation Exchange Capacity
• ERTS — Earth Resources Technology Satellite (now Landsat)
• DB — Direct Broadcast
• U.K. — United Kingdom (preferred over "UK"; use as
• ANAL — Analyst

• R.N — Royal Navy
• TWT — Traveling Wave Tube
• ESA — Ecological Society of America
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• DIV — Division
• MHZ — Megahertz (Megacycles Per Second)
• O.T — Old Testament
• POD — Precision Orbit Determination
• U.S — United States
• GASTRON — gastronomy
• MOT — Ministry of Transport
• W. VA. CODE — West Virginia Code
• D.C — District of Columbia
• ABR — Abridged
• MP — Medium Pressure
• N.E.D — New English Dictionary
• PW — Precipitable Water
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• OTT — Over The Top
• DDT — dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane (insecticide)
• F.O.B. — free on board
• M&CD — Metals and Ceramics Division (ORNL)
• LP — Low Pressure
• S.DAKOTA — South Dakota
• ACS — Attitude Control System
• ASCE — l'American Society of Civil Engineers
• DPC — Domestic Policy Council
• ASA — American Statistical Association
• O2 — Oxygen
• HPS — Health Physics Society
• SLAR — Side-Looking Airborne Radar
• S.CAROLINA — South Carolina
• MCS — Mesoscale Convective System
• ESSENT — essential
• E/GNP — Ratio of energy consumption to gross national product
• BALTEX — Baltic Sea Experiment
• CC — Combined Cycle
• USU — Usually
• V/W — Vaporware
• TM — Trademark
• ESP — Especially
• R.E. — Real Estate
• CAPT — Captain
• U.S.A. — United States of America
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• DRSS — Data Relay Satellite System
• EP — Earth Probe
• OPC — Ordinary Portland Cement
• E.D.D — English Dialect Dictionary
• PV — Potential Vorticity

• VC — Virtual Channel
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• PMP — Probable Maximum Precipitation
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• T.D. — Treasury Decision
• IGS — International Glaciological Society
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• KANEX — Kansai Agricultural Commodities Exchange
• F.CAS. — Federal Cases 1789–1880
• P.3D — Pacific Reporter, 3rd Series
• IDA — International Development Agency
• IAP — Institute of Atmospheric Physics
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• U.K — United Kingdom
• W3C — World Wide Web Consortium
• A%C — Animal population ratio living in cool climate region
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• ART — Article (part of speech)
• C&F — Cost and Freight
• FRA — Forward Rate Agreement
• DS — Data Set
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• SI — Statutory Instrument
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• I.L.M. — International Legal Materials
• E/GDP — Ratio of energy consumption to gross domestic product
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• ISC — International Seismological Centre
• GIGO — Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
• ABSOL — absolute
• TMS — Thematic Mapper Simulator
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• F.SUPP. — Federal Supplement
• Q.V — quod vide
• ZEITSCHR — Zeitschrift
• FDM — Finite-Difference Method
• R.C — Roman Catholic
• ECA — Economic Commission for Africa
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• UW/UD — University of Wisconsin/University of Denver
• SBIR — Small Business Innovation Research
• OBS — Obsolete
• CX — Cross-Examination
• USCG — United States Coast Guard
• EE — Employee
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)

• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• GIT — Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• MCL — Maximum Contaminant Level
• ANNEX I — Countries committed to a quantified CO2 target (OECD, EU, Central and Eastern European countries)
• BER — Bit-Error Rate
• ADC — Analog-Digital Converter
• PPI — Producer Price Index
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• IOP — Intensive Observing Period
• O.E.D — Oxford English Dictionary
• RA I — Regional Association I - Africa (WMO)
• PB — Playback
• UC — University of California
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• FDDI — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• Q.ELIZ — Queen Elizabeth
• LEX — Lexicon
• WFF — Wallops Flight Facility
• MLR — Multiple Linear Regression
• ERS — Economic Research Service
• GPO — Government Printing Office
• ESA — Endangered Species Act of 1973
• W.VA — West Virginia
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• ESA — Entomological Society of America
• AIT — Assembly, Integration, and Test
• URL — Universal Resource Locator
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• SOL — Statute of Limitations
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• RAM — random-access memory
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• BK — Book
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• WS — Wind Speed
• APR — April River Airport, April River, Papua New Guinea
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• IR — Infrared
• CPD — Compound
• E.AFR — East Africa
• N.Y — New York
• N.DAKOTA — North Dakota
• T/P SWT — TOPEX/Poseidon Science Working Team
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• TEESE — TERI Energy Economy Simulation Evaluation
• UT — University of Tennessee
• N.AMER — North America
• W.IND — West India
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)

• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• E.IND — East India
• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• HAEMATOL — haematology
• RA-2 — POEM altimeter (ESA)
• APA — Adirondack Park Agency
• C — Carbone
• FOT — Flight Operation Trainer
• SEHK — Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
• W.INDIES — West Indies
• ESF — European Science Foundation
• SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
• N.S.W — New South Wales
• FY — Fiscal Year
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• S&P100,500 — stock indices
• E.ANGL — East Anglia
• E.ANGLIAN — East Anglian
• FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak)
• RA II — Regional Association II - Asia (WMO)
• GOI — Government Of India
• E.MIDL — east midland
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• W.AFR — West Africa
• R.A.F — Royal Air Force
• CAN — Canberra
• APA — Alkaline Phosphatase Activity
• APP — Apparently
• APP — Appendix
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• R — Rex
• DPI — Data Processing Installation
• R&SSD — Radiation and Safety Surveys Department (ORNL)
• AUG — August
• N.CAROLINA — North Carolina
• ML — milliliter; 1/1000 liter
• CONTRADICT — contradiction
• GB — Gigabyte
• LME — London Metal Exchange
• AFS — American Fisheries Society
• BP — Before Present
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• N.IR — Northern Irish
• USCCAN — United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
• IRU — Inertial Reference Unit
• N.Z — New Zealand
• SAGE III — Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III
• MIS — Management Information System (OSHA)
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
• ATT — Attic

• N.S.WALES — New South Wales
• ERA — Exchange Rate Agreement
• NYU — New York University
• ESOC — European Space Operations Center
• USEPA — United States Environmental Protection Agency
• ER — Employer
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• SAIL — Steel Authority of India Limited
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• DOMSAT — Domestic Communications Satellite System
• CAT — Cataract
• UT — Universal Time
• BDR — Battery Discharge Regulator
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• ECAFE — Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
• ACAD — Academy
• IASI — Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• M-REGION — Maunder region
• CHAS — Charles
• TRS — Trade Registration System
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• NYMEX — New York Mercantile Exchange
• VALEDICT — valediction
• CIDA — Canadian International Development Agency
• N.AFR — North Africa
• S&R — Search & Rescue
• CMO — Configuration Management Office
• SPM — Suspended Particulate Matter
• DIC — Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
• P.R — public records
• SSM — Special Sensor Microwave
• EMR — Electromagnetic Radiation
• PDI — Payload Data Interleaver
• HP — High Pass
• ANC — Ancient
• TIFFE — Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange
• PDF — Probability Density Function
• WI — When Issued
• ART — Arctica
• CTU — Central Terminal Unit
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• METAMORPH — metamorphosis
• SA90 — IPCC Scenario A, 1990
• EXCH — Exchange
• V — Verb
• ABP — Archbishop
• BUR — Bureau
• GSA — U.S. General Services Administration
• CRM — Certified Reference Material

• HCFC-22 — hydrochloroflourocarbon-22 (CHClF2,
• VIBOR — Vienna Interbank Offered Rate
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• PORT — Portuguese
• ACU — Attitude Control Unit
• CM3 — cubic centimeter (milliliter)
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• L — Literature
• DBH — Diameter at Breast Height
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• IUCN — International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• MDI — Michelson Doppler Imager
• DIE — Designated Investment Exchange
• FORTRAN — FORmula TRANslation (a computer language)
• NAD 27 — North American Datum of 1927
• ITU — International Telecommunication Union
• OWS — Ocean Weather Station
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• N.T — New Testament
• OSTP — Office of Science and Technology Policy
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• HIBID — Hong Kong interbank bid rate
• HRSG — Heat Recovery Steam Generator
• GCM — General Court-Martial
• DOM — Dissolved Organic Matter
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• PLO — Public Limit Order
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• IUE — International Ultraviolet Explorer
• ADJ — Adjective
• LEV — Leviticus
• AOD — Aerosol Optical Depth
• POC — Particulate Organic Carbon
• MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
• I — Injection
• UNGA — United Nations General Assembly
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• NAL — National Agricultural Library
• CATECH — catechism
• ANT — Antarctica
• MACS — Modular Attitude Control System
• WMC — World Meteorological Center
• EXP — Experiment
• DICT — Dictionary
• N.IREL — Northern Ireland
• JUD — Judges
• LEPO — Low Exercise Price Option
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• UAOB — Upper Air Observation
• M — micrometer

• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• BFI — Baltic Freight Index
• SQL — Structured Query Language
• FSI — Forest Survey of India
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• NUM — Number
• JERS — Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JPOP)
• STAT — Statistical
• ENT — Entomology (code)
• ATP — Adenosine Triphosphate (reg: 56-65-5)
• RD — Reference Document
• EDS — Environmental Data Service
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• YRS — Years
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• PAD — Program Approval Document
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• TWRA — Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
• MODNET — MO&DSD Operational/Development Network
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• JTU — Jackson Turbidity Unit
• CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
• MOM — Modular Ocean Model
• PROVIS — provisional
• STRI — Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• NOX-N — Nitrogen oxides nitrogen trace gas emission ratio
• MIC — Micah
• USCA — United States Code Annotated
• BNA — block numbering area
• CONV — Convention
• PMF — Probable Maximum Flood
• TIT — Titus
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• LDR — Linear Depolarization Ratio
• SAFARI-92 — South African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative
• MISC — Miscellany
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• TROP — Tropical
• WEC — World Energy Council
• WWF — World Wildlife Fund
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• R — Regina
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handling
• EP — Extraction Procedure
• NEP — Noise Equivalent Power
• REV. PROC. — Revenue Procedure
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.

• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• KWH — Kilowatt hour (one thousand watt hours) (measurement)
• ST — Steam Turbine
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• MWR — Microwave Radiometer
• SLA — Special Libraries Association
• AICHE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• IMM — International Monetary Market
• B.C — Before Christ
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• B.C — British Columbia
• CV — Calorific Value
• CEA — Central Electricity Authority
• IUFRO — International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
• AO — Atmosphere-Ocean
• ALM — Almanac
• IAF — International Astronautical Federation
• CH4-C — Methane-carbon ratio
• NADP/NTN — National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network
• DMA — direct memory access (computer term)
• PSI — Pounds Per Square Inch (Static Pressure)
• VIC — Victoria
• UNIFEM — United Nations Development Fund for Women
• GSMNP — Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• CL — Common Law
• WD — Wind Direction
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• ARINC — Aeronautical Radio Incorporated
• WATFLOOD — University of Waterloo Flood Forecasting System
• VID — Vehicle Identification Number
• WATSTORE — Water Data Storage and Retrieval System
• VBL.N — verbal noun
• IBM — International Business Machines Corporation
• PA.T — past tense
• NAAQ — National Ambient Air Quality
• MILA — Merritt Island Launch Area
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• FRD — Flight Requirements Document
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software
• HP — Health Physics
• MPL — Marine Physical Laboratory
• IDEOL — ideology
• SM — Structural Model
• FR — French Republic
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• NASCOM — NASA Communications System
• RPB — Recognised Professional Body
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• MCC — Mesoscale Convective Complex
• FCC — Federal Communications Commission (US)

• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• SNL — Sandia National Laboratories
• IPS — Inter Press Service
• VSE — Vancouver Stock Exchange
• NMI — NASA Management Instruction
• MW — Megawatt (one million watts)
• CIF — Cost, Insurance, Freight
• AI — Associate Investigator
• ICIMOD — International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
• CCN — Cloud Condensation Nuclei
• PCM — Pulse-Code Modulation
• PALAEONT — palaeontology
• DCF — discounted cash flow rate
• SRM — Standard Reference Material
• PACORII — Packet Processor Data Capture Facility II
• MAN — Manual
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• GPI — GOES Precipitation Index
• TKE — Turbulent Kinetic Energy
• VBL.NS — verbal nouns
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• TL — Team Leader
• HQ — Headquarters (HDQ Preferred)
• TLM — Telemetry
• WATOX — Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment
• MIPS — Millions of Instructions Per Second
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• DEPT — Department
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• SMJ — subject matter jurisdiction
• HST — Hawaii Standard Time
• CPS — Certified Professional Secretary
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• NAD 83 — North American Datum of 1983
• TOCOM — Tokyo Commodity Exchange
• EOM — End of Mission
• ARCH — Architect
• LCH — London Clearing House
• NARA — United States National Archives And Records Administration
• PDE — Partial Differential Equation
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• CDS — Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer
• AIT — Atomic International Time
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• FIPS — Federal Information Processing Standard
• EXCOMM — Executive Committee
• OPM — Office of Personnel Management
• GEN — General Motors

• UN — United Narions
• BFE — Baltic Futures Exchange
• RTU — Remote Terminal Unit
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• U.S. — United States
• DURH — Durham
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• JX — Jurisdiction
• SIDS — Small Island Developing States
• STMW — Sub-Tropical Mode Water
• OCCURR — occurrence
• CBS — Commission for Basic Systems
• JUDG — Judges
• GS — Ground System
• HK — Housekeeping
• ACE — Advisory Committee on the Environment
• MIF — Mercato Italiano Futures
• CH3CCL3 — methylchloroform (1,1,1-trichloroethane)
• CCC — Canadian Climate Centre
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• DOL — United States Department of Labor
• MPC — Model Penal Code
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• ESCAP — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN)
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• CNR — Committee on Natural Resources
• EC — European Community
• OAXTC — Ocean/Atmosphere Exchange of Trace Compounds
• API — American Petroleum Institute (oil)
• CPO — Core Project Office
• RAES — Retail Automated Execution System
• RADPATH — Biochemical Pathways of Artificial Radionuclides (CEC)
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• PSP — Precision Spectral Pyranometer
• ISMA — International Securities Market Association
• GN — Ground Network
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• IBRD — International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (part Of The World Bank)
• MIN — Minute
• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• RFLP — Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
• LWC — Liquid Water Content
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• SGR — Specific Growth Rate
• PNL — Pacific Northwest Laboratory
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• DOS — United States Department of State
• MI — Mode Indicator

• AD — Acronym Dictionary
• DHS — Department of Human Services
• SUBSCR — subscription
• TC — Telecommand
• EDSP — Exchange Delivery Settlement Price
• NTIS — National Technical Information Service Technology Administration
• GNP — gross national product (economics)
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• UPU — Universal Postal Union
• MPC — Maximum Permissible Concentration
• HIBOR — Hong Kong interbank offered rate
• URL — Upper Range Limit
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• CFA — Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
• COMMUNIC — communication
• AON — All or None
• RAWG/HYDROLOGY — Regional Associations'Working Groups on Hydrology
• YEARBK — yearbook
• RW — Reaction Wheel
• HUD — Department of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.)
• EDP — Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE])
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• UNHCR — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program
• IACGEC — Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change
• WARC — World Administrative Radio Conference
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power Supply
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• SELPER — Society of Latin American Remote Sensing Specialists
• OBSERV — observation
• PMB — Potato Marketing Board
• VMS — Virtual Memory System
• IQSY — International Quiet Sun Year
• WARWICKSH — Warwickshire
• NH4 — ammonium
• CAC-40 — Compagnie des Agents de Change-40
• SOFFEX — Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• ABL — Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• RNA — Ribo Nucleic Acid
• RPR — Remote Procedure Request
• HASP — High Altitude Sampling Program
• PALAEONTOL — palaeontology
• ECDIS — Electronic Chart Display and Information System
• UNTAB — United Nations Technical Assistance Board
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• LANCS — Lancashire
• PRN — Pseudo-Random Noise
• BAO — Boulder Atmospheric Observatory
• JECOR — U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission of Economic Cooperation

• ARIZ. REV. STAT. — Arizona Revised Statutes
• CAM — Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (photosynthetic Pathway)
• CJS — Corpus Juris Secundum
• GE — General Electric American Communications Inc.
• OBSTETR.MED — obstetric medicine
• GL — Geophysics Laboratory
• CDDIS — Crustal Dynamics Data Information System
• REV. RUL. — Revenue Ruling
• IMD — India Meteorological Department
• ISU — International Space University
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• TLV — Threshold Limit Value
• IFMK — Institut fur Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• LAGCM — general circulation model at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• G — Gram (g)
• OBSTETR — obstetric
• AIS — Automated Information Security
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder
• PAN — Peroxyacetylnitrate
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• OIE — Overseas Investment Exchange
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• NSSFC — National Severe Storms Forecast Center
• NAPAP — National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• CTV — Compatibility Test Van
• RFD — Royal Forestry Department
• IFO — Intensive Field Observation
• DAC — Days After Contract
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• NDA — Non-Disclosure Agreement
• MMSCMD — million metric standard cubic metre per day
• PALAEOBOT — palaeobotany
• AFF — Affairs
• IOS — Institute of Ocean Sciences
• PALAEOGR — palaeography
• DIST — District
• IATA — International Air Transport Association
• HFO — Heavy Fuel Oil
• CHY — Commission for Hydrology
• WPL — Wave Propagation Laboratory
• CBOT — Chicago Board of Trade
• RFT — Registered Floor Trader
• PPFD — Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density
• MONUM — monument
• EMPH — emphatic
• BLM — Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior

• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• PAGES-EXCOMM — PAGES Executive Committee
• CBOE — Chicago Board Options Exchange's
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• BIS — Bank of International Settlements
• ASAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• IAEG — International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment
• RFC — Registered Floor Clerk
• RMS — root mean square (preferred over "RMS")
• FAREW — farewell
• REVOL — revolution
• LHV — lower heating value
• AGAGE — Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• EIS — Environmental Impact Statement (US)
• MONEX — Monsoon Experiment
• O&M — Operation and Maintenance
• C3AT — Ch3 Albedo Test (AVHRR)
• LANGS — languages
• INS — Inertial Navigation System
• PAGES-SSC — PAGES Scientific Steering Committee
• ISE — International Stock Exchange
• ICRP — International Commission on Radiological Protection
• TLA — Three Letter Abbreviation
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• ASSAS — Advanced Solid State Array Sensor
• NGVD 29 — National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
• RCF — Relative Centrifugal Force
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• DOC — United States Department of Commerce
• CMM — Commission for Marine Meteorology
• ASCHE — American Society of Chemical Engineers
• PWV — Precipitable Water Vapor
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• ESR — Emergency Sun Reacquisition
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• TGE — Tokyo Grain Exchange
• ATA — Agrarische Termijnmarkt Amsterdam
• LANL/ACL — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory
• NYBOR — New York Interbank Offered Rate
• CA # — Court of Appeals
• CMD — Command
• WTO — World Trade Organisation
• MORFLOT — Ministry of the Merchant Marine of the Soviet Union
• NAIC — Newly Agro-Industrialized Country
• L/C — Letter of Credit
• FEP — Front-End Processor
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide

• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• SDAC — Satellite Data Analysis Center
• IFAD — International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN)
• SCF — Scientific Computing Facility
• USC — United States Code (book of laws)
• HANDBK — handbook
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• HAPEX-MOBILHY — HAPEX-MOdelisation du BILan Hydrique
• EIA — Environmental impact assessment (international)
• 18O — oxygen-18 (oxygen isotope with atomic weight of 18)
• BCF — Bio-Concentration Factor
• OBSTET — obstetric
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• GISP2 — Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two
• JASON — Scientific panel (MITRE Corporation
• DMSO — Dimethyl Sulfoxide
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• WIPO — World Intellectual Property Organization
• IOC — International Ozone Commission
• ADVOC — advocate
• XBT — expendable bathythermograph (oceanography)
• RECOLL — recollection
• HAMPSH — Hampshire
• DMI — Direct Member Input
• PSE — Pacific Stock Exchange
• TOR — Tropospheric Ozone Research
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• AA — Atomic Absorption
• GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
• GCC — Global Change Category
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• MPC — Massively Parallel Computer
• PSS — Portable Spacecraft Simulator
• MAGIC — Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchment
• AM/FM — Automated Mapping/Facilities Management (Society)
• HVS — high-volume sampler
• SOS — Southern Oxidants Study
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• FERC — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
• SRR — System Requirements Review
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• KPA — kiloPascal (pressure above ambient (100 kPa = 1 atmosphere excess))
• LST — Local Standard Time
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• DOT — Deployment Operations Team
• JAHRB — Jahrbuch
• MHA — million hectare

• AGWAT — Agriculture and Water Project (JECOR)
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• K — Kilogram
• CCIR — International Radio Consultative Committee (French Acronym)
• ISA — Israel Space Agency
• POLAR — Polar Plasma Laboratory
• ARC/INFO — GIS software
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• FIBOR — Frankfurt Interbank Offered Rate
• OA — Operations Agreement
• CLONO2 — chlorine nitrate
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• ITB — Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
• LBLRTM — Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model
• AUX — Auxiliary
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• BACTERIOL — bacteriology
• N2 — Nitrogen
• BATS — Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
• BOC — Bureau of Census
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• DR — Discrepancy Report
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• MJ — Megajoule
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• DDL — Direct Downlink
• LANCASH — Lancashire
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• HCFC-141B — hydrochlorofluorocarbon-141b
• FE — Iron (Latin ''Ferrum'')
• FCV — Flow Control Valve
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• NOAO — National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Tucson, AZ)
• ETO — Exchange Traded Option
• OTA — Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.; abolished by Congress, Fall 1995)
• COPUOS — Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN)
• ATTRIB — Attribute
• BBF — Bolsa Brasileira de Futuros
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• ADV — Advance
• HA — Hectare
• DQO — Data Quality Objective
• FID — Flame Ionization Detector (gas Chromatography)
• ROPME — Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
• OFT — Office of Fair Trading
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• BUBOR — Budapest Interbank Offered Rate
• SO. 2D — Southern Reporter, 2nd Series
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder

• BAPDE — chemically reactive diolepoxides
• ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
• JST — Japan Standard Time
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• MSB — Most Significant Bit
• AGSS — Attitude Ground Support System
• RPA — Remotely Piloted Aircraft
• BAHC-SSC — BAHC Scientific Steering Committee
• RX — Receive
• APM — Antenna Pointing Mechanism
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• ARS — United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• ITPR — Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer
• FTA — Financiele Termijnmarket Amsterdam
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• TAPPI — Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Inc.
• GMDSS — Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (IMO)
• KERFIX — Kerguelen fixed station (France) (JGOFS)
• UNKN — Unknown
• VTPR — Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
• S/C — Spacecraft
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• ADDR — Address
• OD — Orbit Determination
• FTU — Formazin Turbidity Unit
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• UNCTAD — United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• KLOFFE — Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange
• USN — United States Navy
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• ASXD — Australian Stock Exchange Derivatives
• HOSP — Hospital
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• WFC — World Food Council
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• UAV — Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle
• GNMA — Government National Mortgage Association
• ISDA — International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
• OCO — One Cancels the Other Order
• IGFA — International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• AFGWC — Air Force Global Weather Central (U.S.)
• RARR — Range and Range Rate
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• NAR — Net Assimilation Rate
• EEZ — Exclusive Economic Zone
• QAE — Quality Assurance Engineer

• VAR — Variant
• RAPD — Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA
• AAWORD — Association of African Women for Research and Development
• ANU — Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• ABST — Abstract
• CDC — Control Data Corporation, Incorporated
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• GOVT — Government
• CAEM — Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (WMO)
• P&S — Purchase and Sale
• CLO2 — chlorine dioxide
• LIS — Land Information System
• ERDAS — Earth Resources Data Analysis System
• FWPCA — Federal Water Pollution Control Act (1972)
• ECE — Economische Commissie voor Europa (United Nations) (Dutch: Economic Commission for Europe)
• GTOS — Global Terrestrial Observing System
• IRRI — International Rice Research Institute
• FAO — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• PIBOR — Paris Interbank Offered Rate
• MB — Millibar(s)
• TDS — Total Dissolved Solids
• PE — Pipeline Execution
• UNSO — United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• TIGER — Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• ESRC — Economic and Social Research Council
• KNOWL — Knowledge
• NCSA — National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• EVOL — Evolution
• INTRANS — intransitive
• IAMAP-IAHS — IAMAP-International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• LTOM — London Traded Options Market
• DL — Downlink Message
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• MAFF — Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (U.K.)
• NREN — National Research and Education Network
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• VLSI — Very-Large-Scale Integration
• OBO — Order Book Official
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• GBRS — Generic Block Recording System
• DA — discretionary account
• ACABQ — Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
• AAS — atomic absorption spectrometry (spectrometer, spectroscopy)
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• SRS — Statistical Reporting Service
• IMO — International Maritime Organization

• WCAP — World Climate Applications Program
• C&DH — Command & Data Handling
• CDHF — Central Data Handling Facility
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• AOGCM — Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
• ILO — International Labor Organization (UN)
• S/W — Software
• MG — milligram; 1/1000 gram
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• COE — Creek Corps of Engineers
• ACC — Air Combat Command (formerly TAC)
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• ISO — International Standard Organisation
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• ECOWARM — European Committee for Water Resources Management (IAHS)
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• IBEX-35 — stock index
• BAPMON — Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• INC. — Incorporated
• IDB — Inter-American Development Bank
• KYR — kiloyear
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• SPL — Split Phase Level
• YR — Year
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• KING'S BENCH DIV — King's Bench Division
• CCS — Central Checkout System
• BULL — Bulletin
• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• JUL — July
• ECD — Electron Capture Detector (gas Chromatography)
• MSS — Mission Support System
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• OCN — Oceania
• TRIG — Trigonometry
• DEW — distant early warning (radar)
• SHAKS — Shakespeare
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• DOY — Day of Year
• MIBK — Methyl IsoButyl Ketone traditional name for methyl pentanone
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• OLR — Outgoing Long-Wave Radiation
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• BETW — between
• GC — gonococcus (gonnorhea germ)
• HHV — Higher Heating Value (thermal efficiency basis)

• ACC — Account
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis & Prediction
• MTMC — Military Traffic Management Command
• APHET — aphetic
• JRNL — Journalism
• RBV — return-beam Vidicon
• AEST — Australian Eastern Standard Time
• PSYCHOL — Psychological
• COMB — Combination
• DPS — Data Processing Segment
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• AWWA — American Water Works Association (Denver)
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• BCP1 — Broadcast Pulse 1
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• BQ — Becquerel
• ACARS — Aircraft Communication and Recording System
• APPOS — appositive
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• ALA. CODE — Code of Alabama 1975
• RIE — Recognised Investment Exchange
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• FSSP — Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
• FAM — Family
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• HDC — Holder in Due Course
• RCS — Radar Cross Section
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• DD — degree day
• PREROG — prerogative
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• VISSR — visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (GOES)
• FEB — February
• COP — Conference of the Parties
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• NSN — NASA Space Network
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• POSTH — posthumous
• DIF — Data Interchange Format
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• QUOT — Quotation
• DMS — Dimethyl Sulfide
• AGU — American Geophysical Union

• PHOEN — Phoenician
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• GTDS — Goddard Trajectory Determination System
• HMCRI — Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• WKLY — Weekly
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• MANIP — manipulation
• AASP — American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• DED — Dedicated
• TCP/IP — Transmission Control/Internet Protocol
• BIA — Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• IRREG — Irregular
• UNIV — University
• TEAMA — Terrestrial Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• RAOB — Radiosonde Observation
• SK — Saskatchewan
• ICICI — Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• BEL-20 — stock index
• GS&M — Modeling (task team)
• DND — Department of National Defense (Canada)
• DOAS — Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• SOCA — Special Operations Control Area
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• 3-D — Three-Dimensional
• GLRD — Great Lakes Research Division
• THEORET — theoretical
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• HUMICAP — Humidity sensor on drifters (FASINEX)
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• FTS — File Transfer System
• AH — Air Heater
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• FEMA — Finite Element Model of Material Transport through Aquifers
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade and Industry
• ARK. CODE — Arkansas Code
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• ESA/IRS — European Space Agency/Information Retrieval Service
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)

• MARECO — Marine Radioecology Working Group (IUR)
• PARCC — precision, accuracy, representativeness, completeness, and comparability
• FEHEM — Front-End Hardware Emulator
• SASK — Saskatchewan
• UNDRC — Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• I/F — Interface
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• MIMD — multiple instruction, multiple data (system)
• IDEM — Italian Derivatives Market
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• HDTV — High-Definition Television
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• XPNDR — Transponder
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
• SS — Stainless Steel
• AID — Agency for International Development (U.S.)
• SPECMAP — Mapping Spectral Variability in Global Climate Project
• TRAV — Travel
• SQQ — Standard Qulaity Quotation
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• DOMSTAR — communications relay set
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• ADVTS — advertisement
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• C-C — Counterclaim
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• SEV — several
• HSIO — High Speed Input/Output
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• FED. R. CRIM. P. — Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• VAS — VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• SIAM — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• FRN — Floating Rate Note
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• EPRI — Electric Power Research Institute (US)
• UCLA — University of California at Los Angeles (U.S.)
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• YR — Years old

• DISCRIM — discrimination
• CDDI — Copper Distributed Data Interface
• EOC — EOS Operations Center (NASA)
• LSD — Least Significant Difference
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• (D)PR — dual precipitation radar
• FSL — Forecast Systems Laboratory (a NOAA ERL)
• IBSRAM — International Board for Soil Research and Management
• PPBV — parts per billion (109) by volume
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• TEAM — Technology Base Enhancement for Autonomous Machines
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• FRG — Federal Republic of Germany's
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• ADDNET — Acid Deposition Data Network (EPA)
• AABW — Antarctic Bottom Water
• MIBOR — Madrid Interbank Offered Rate
• DEIS — Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US)
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• CT. CL. — the United States Court of Federal Claims Reporter
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• CA. — circa
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• DAU — Daughter
• 14C — carbon-14 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 14)
• VIS — Visible
• STAND — Standard
• PSK — Phase Shift Key
• EVAL — evaluation
• CRF — Cloud Radiative Forcing
• IRIS — Integrated Radar Imaging System
• ICSC — International Civil Service Commission
• NKO — Nederlandse Kalibratie Organisatie
• FWCA — Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1958)
• COM — Commission
• TOPEX/POSEIDON — Ocean Topography Experiment
• UVR — Ultraviolet Radiation
• CHAPS — Clearing House Automated Payment System
• DOA — United States Department of Agriculture
• DEF — Defence
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• RRN SAF — RRN Southern and Eastern Africa
• ASOEN — ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• HP — Hewlett-Packard Development Company
• SCULPT — sculpture
• INDIR — indirect

• MCF — methane conversion factor
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• CCT — computer-compatible tape
• EPHIN — Electron Proton Helium Instrument
• CUF — capacity utilization factor
• TT&C — Telemetry, Tracking and Command
• REBELL — rebellion
• BECO — Booster Engine Cutoff
• HAGE — human activity and global environment
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• MANCH — Manchester
• LSB — least-significant byte
• METEOSAT — European Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
• VDS — Virtual Data Set
• GME — Gyro Management Electronics
• E.G. — Exempli Gratia (for example)
• NO. — Number
• AFR — Africa
• ATX — Austrian Traded Index
• -S — Arakawa-Schubert
• JMOL — Judgment as a Matter of Law
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• DEM — Digital Elevation Model
• 1-D — one-dimensional
• GLIS — Global Land Information System
• CIL — Coal India Limited
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• MBS — mortgage backed security
• COMMEND — commendation
• CEQ — Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)
• KSE — Korea Stock Exchange
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• CELIAS — Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System
• CONTR — Contract
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• HWRP — Hydrology and Water Resources Programme
• MOC — Memorandum Of Cooperation
• LANG — language
• GCV — Gross Calorific Value
• ITU — Integrated Terrain Unit
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• IDOL — idolatry
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• TDR — Time-Domain Reflectometry
• USDOD — United States Department Of Defense
• VENET — Venetian

• GF3 — General Format No 3
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• PRINC — principle
• HTTP — Hypertext Transport Protocol
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• JOSH — Joshua
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observing System
• CONSTR — Construct
• GSIRD — Ground Data System Information Requirements Document
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• ACCTS — Accounts
• PORC — Porcelain
• EPSRC — l'Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• RRN CAR — RRN Caribbean
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• ALASKA ADMIN. CODE — Alaska Administrative Code
• ADB — Asian Developing Bank
• ADVERT — Advertisement
• UNIDO — United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• MEA — Monoethanolamine
• CCM2 — community climate model two
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• PHOTOG — photography
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• IRB — Internal Revenue Bulletin
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• ANN — Annual
• 13C — carbon-13 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 13)
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project
• GRO — Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA)
• PHR — Phrase
• ADJ.PHR — adjectival phrase
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• TCDC — Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
• CEA — Council of Economic Advisors
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• CODMAC — Committee On Data Management, Archiving, and Computation
• CAMS — Control and Monitoring System
• TIBOR — Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate
• LITHOL — lithology
• HGA — High Gain Antennae
• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite

• ADJS — adjective
• 4-D — four-dimensional
• ALARA — As Late As Reasonably Achievable
• CR — Carrington Rotation
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• ABBREV — abbreviation
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• MFO — mixed-function oxidase (enzyme system)
• CCGT — Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
• GEF — Global Environmental Facility (environment)
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• COMPL — Complete
• CSM — Climate System Monitoring
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• ADD — Addenda
• AAPP — Average All Pig Price
• SMIRD — SOHO Mission Implementation Requirements Document
• DOC — dissolved organic carbon
• LONGLINES — Long Hydrographic Sections Programme
• GT — Gigaton (1 billion tons) (measurement)
• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• USWB — United States Weather Bureau
• ISLN — International Standards Lawyer Number
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• EFP — Exchange For Physicals
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• SST — Sea surface temperature
• 1-D RCM — one-dimensional radiative-convective model
• LANDSAT — land satellite (photographs of the ground)
• IUB — International Union of Biochemistry (ICSU)
• UNARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• TSCA — Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
• TRANSUBSTANT — transubstantiation
• DE/DT — rate of evaporation (moisture loss from soil)
• PBU — peribacteroid unit
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• ENEA — Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Lo Sviluppo Dell' Energia Nucleare E Delle Energie Alternative
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center

• ALL ER — All England Law Reports
• NZFOE — New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange
• MB — Manitoba
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• CSD — Commission on Sustainable Development's
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• AUTH — Author
• CASSAD — Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development
• WPCF — Water Pollution Control Federation
• AAD — Attitude Anomaly Detector
• FTIR — Fourier transform infrared radiometer (spectroscopy)
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• COMPAN — companion
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• BERKS — Berkshire (English County)
• IMG — Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases
• SPELDA — Structure Porteuse External pour Lancements Doubles Ariane (external
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• AEF — Average Emission Factor
• IMS — Information Management Services, Inc.
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• ADMIR — admiralty
• HMW — High Molecular Weight
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• ULS — Upward-Looking SONAR
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• SUP — Soluble Unreactive Phosphorus
• HDR — Hardware Design Review
• 4DDA — Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation
• ANOR — Another
• AMER — America
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• ECAMP — Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program
• TDMA — Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• GARD — garden
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• DHP — Direct High Power
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• DP — Direct Playback
• BPA — Bonneville Power Administration (US)
• UNJSPF — United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
• SEB — State Electricity Board
• EBM — energy-balance model
• IMS — International Mountain Society
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System

• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• INSAT — Indian satellite
• ACTM — Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model
• BIE — Business in the Environment
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• SEATO — Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
• MKSA — meter-kilogram-second-ampere (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKSA")
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• DCN — Document Change Notice
• NFA — National Futures Association
• CERCLA — Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980
• GHG — Green House Gas
• VAM — Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal
• FOX — London Futures and Options Exchange
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• AASSREC — Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils
• NBRF — National Biomedical Research Foundation
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• LOBT — Local on Board Time
• DU — Dobson Unit
• ASAP — Automated Shipboard Aerological Program
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• EEI — Edison Electric Institute
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• ART — Another Ray Tracer
• NSTC — National Science and Technology Council (U.S.)
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• GLL — Galileo
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• DISTILL — distilling
• AAF — Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France
• SRD — System Requirements Document
• NOCC — Network Operations Control Center (GSFC)
• BBAISR — British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• GENESIS — Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• IRC — International Radiation Commission
• AMEDAS — Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• TRAD — traditional
• CALIF — California
• A. — Atlantic Reporter

• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• FEM — Finite Element Method
• TOS — TIROS Observational System
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• EPO — EOS Project Office
• CEN — The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) a European business organization aimed at removing trade barriers for European industry and consumers.
• ELEM — Element
• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• BRU — Battery Regulation Unit
• KINGD — kingdom
• MIDAM — Midamerica Commodity Exchange
• CZM — Coastal Zone Management
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• H/W — Hardware
• BIOL — Biology
• STAT. — United States Statutes At Large
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• FT — Free troposphere
• LOE — Late Old English
• SURG — Surgery
• CAR — Caribbean Region
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• NRCP — National Research Council for the Philippines
• USIA — United States Information Agency (changed To IIP)
• BAU — business-as-usual
• WVR — Water Vapor Radiometer
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• DIU — Data Information Unit (of WOCE Data System)
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• GCEP — Global Change Education Program
• SWEDAC — Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation
• ITM — In the Money
• WILL — William
• MODIS — moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC)
• LI — library
• WRC — World Radiation Center
• CIBOR — Copenhagen Interbank Offered Rate
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• CPE — Eastern Europe (also called Centrally Planned Europe)
• WCP — World Climate Programme (WMO/ICSU)
• VIZ — Videlicet
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• WRI — World Resources Institute (Washington, D.C.)
• FASINEX — Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment
• GOP — Geographical Observatories Programme
• CAL — Calendar
• DSCC — Deep Space Communications Complex
• DFCD — Data Format Control Documents

• OMX — Option Market Index
• ESRI — Environmental Systems Research Institute (developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, Redlands, California)
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• AIREP — Aircraft Weather Report
• GC/MS — SX)-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
• MTG — Meeting
• WGDM — Working Group on Data Management
• FS — Forest Service (USDA)
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• COLL — COLLege
• ICP/MS — Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry
• ONEB — Office of National Environmental Board
• CD-ROM — compact disc-read only memory
• AMBIACE — Amazon Biogeochemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment
• TRIB — Chicago Tribune Newspaper
• BVRJ — Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro
• MERCH — Merchantable
• ISEB 10 — Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• HDGEC — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• MASC — Mountain Administration Support Center (NOAA)
• VTR — Video Tape Recording
• DECNET — Digital Equipment Corporation Network
• PAF — Processing Archiving Facility
• EOTC — European Organization for Testing and Certification (EC)
• DOLY — Dynamic Global Phytogeography Model (GCTE)
• FBC — Fluidized Bed Combustor
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• ICACGP — International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• GCTM — Global Chemical Transport Model
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• NCV — Net Calorific Value
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• CLIMAP — Climate Long-Range Investigation Mapping and Prediction (project)
• IPR — Intellectual Property Right
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• AUSTRAL — Australia
• SGCR — Subcommittee on Global Change Research
• ARIZ. ADMIN. CODE — Arizona Administrative Code
• VTIR — visible and thermal infrared radiometer
• CMC — Canadian Meteorological Centre

• IUBMB — International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• CSPAAD — Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Detection
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• SRO — Self Regulatory Organisation
• BPPT — Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (Indonesia)
• NNSS — Navy Navigational Satellite System
• NPDES — National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• BIPM — Bureau International de Poids et Mesures
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• IUR — International Union of Radioecologists
• TIA — Territorial and International Affairs
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• CNEG — Contributory negligence
• AODC — Acridine Orange Direct Count [of Bacteria]
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• HELCOM — Helsinki Commission, protection of Baltic marine environment
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• DAS — Data Acquisition System
• CPP — Cloud Photopolarimeter
• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• POCM — parallel ocean-climate model
• RTD — Real-Time Data
• FPD — Flame Photometric Detector
• ITC — International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• ETYMOL — Etymology
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• KR — Krypton
• DSM — demand-side management
• CX — Constitution
• HEREFORD — Herefordshire
• ETC. — and others especially of the same kind; and so forth
• WTI — West Texas Crude
• TDLS — Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy
• AAIW — Antarctic Intermediate Water
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR
• AOCE — Attitude and Orbit Control Electronics
• SLEJF — Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum
• PTFE — Polytetrafluoroethylene
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• SMC — System Management Center
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• TIGGER — Earth sciences dimension to TIGER
• LVS — Large Volume Sampling
• SMOCC — SOHO Mission Operations Control Center
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• ODB — Orbit Determination Beacon
• PSEUDO-SC — pseudo-Scots

• IFRB — International Frequency Registration Board of the International Telecommunication Union
• SUBSEQ — Subsequent
• GAW — Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO)
• ORNITH — ornithology
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (EC)
• UNISIST — United Nations System for Scientific and Technological Information
• ICA — International Communication Agency
• ERIM — Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
• TIC — Total Inorganic Carbon
• BBZ — benthic boundary zone
• SERDP — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
• VLBI — Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• MRTT — Mission Readiness Test Team
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• SUPPL — Supplement
• DISTRIB — distribution
• INAUG — inaugural
• ACL — alternate concentration level
• CSIR — Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
• MASFLEX — Marginal Sea Flux Experiment (in the West Pacific) (IGOPS)
• HAE — Height Above Ellipsoid
• GENIE — Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange
• SSU — Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS)
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• ANNIV — Anniversary
• TRSC — Thailand Remote Sensing Centre
• HTW — High Temperature Winkler gasifier
• WBC — Western Boundary Current
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• AIME — American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
• ASTRON — Astronomy
• RGS — Royal Geographic Society
• AIV — Assembly-Integration-Verification
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter
• MDC — More Developed Country
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• GALE — Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment
• CONF — Conference
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• MEFF RENTA FIJA — derivatives exchange in Barcelona, Spain
• AITP — Arctic Ice Thickness Project (WCRP)
• ACCOMPL — accomplished
• NOB — Notes Over Bonds
• CORES — Computer Assisted Order Routing and Execution System
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• OSSE — Observing System Simulation Experiment
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)

• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• NORTHANTS — Northamptonshire
• IRSS — Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
• CE — Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy (US Department of Energy)
• CLP — Contract Laboratory Program (EPA)
• ECCLES — ecclesiastical
• NORF — Norfolk
• MODECS — Molecular Design of Chemical Systems
• ICP-OES — inductively coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy
• IUCR — International Union of Crystallography
• ACCS — accounts
• EPH — Ephesians
• NGM — Nested Grid Model
• BTP — Buoni del Tesoro Poliennali
• GONG — Global Oscillation Network Group
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• ASASP — Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
• DTD — Digital Terrain Data
• PJ — Petajoule
• WEVS — Wetland Ecosystem Vulnerability Study
• ABI — Association of Italian Bankers
• IGY — International Geophysical Year (1 July 1957 - 31 December 1958)
• 2-D — a.k.a. 2D, two-dimension, two-dimensional
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• ALBIOS — Aluminum Biogeochemistry in Soils (EPRI)
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• FEIS — Final Environmental impact statement (US)
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• GVR — Grant, Vacate and Remand
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• CNES — Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales
• TIRIO — Table of Incompatibilities and Requirements for the Instruments Operation
• SSI — Spectral Statistical Interpolation
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• ABERD — Aberdeen or Aberdonensis (Latin)
• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• QUANTUM MECH — quantum mechanics
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• AIBD — Association of International Bond Dealers
• ANL/ACRF — ANL's Advanced Computing Research Facility
• ADVB — adverb
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• POLARSTERN — Research vessel
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• OSU — Oregon State University
• CODATA — Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)
• BITNET — Because It is Time NETwork
• CHIPS — Clearing House Interbank Payments System
• ECON — Economics
• ANARE — Australian National Antarctic Research Establishment

• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• AL2O3 — alumina
• CIESIN — Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• AEROCE — Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment
• CXL — Constitutional
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
• IGEA — International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
• PHILAD — Philadelphia
• LIBID — London Interbank Bid or Deposit Rate
• EVEN — evening
• ABB — Association des Banques Belges
• CCCO — Committee on Climate Changes and the Ocean (SCOR and IOC)
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• FF — Free Format
• AAG — American Association of Geographers
• AEDD — Arctic Environment Data Directory
• VOCAB — Vocabulary
• XCTD — Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth (probe)
• PROV — Proverbs
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• WIRP — Watershed Integrated Research Program
• ENQ — Enquiry
• EXPLOR — Exploration
• INDUSTR — industrial
• ASTROL — Astrology
• TISAB — total ionic strength adjustment buffer (analytical method)
• LDC — less-developed country
• CSTC — Consolidated Satellite Test Center
• ADVT — advertisement
• AOSIS — Association of Small Island States
• LASE — Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment
• TVCF — Transportable Vehicle Checkout Facility
• PROVID — providence
• ICCE — International Commission on Continental Erosion (IAHS)
• FLINN — Fiducial Laboratories for an International Natural Sciences Network
• OBL — OBLique
• HSWA — Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (RCRA, 1984)
• GESS — Graphics Executive Support System
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• AD. — ad sectam (Latin)
• IDNDR — International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• ORNL/ACL — ORNL/Advanced Computing Laboratory
• MW — Milliwatt
• 2-D RCAM — two-dimensional radiative-advective-convective equilibrium model
• FRCP — Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• ABSTR — Abstract
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• APPL — Applied

• MPL — Micropulse Lidar
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• ISEQ — Irish Stock Exchange Equity Index
• ETC — Energy Technology Center
• NASDAQ — National Assocation of Securities Dealers Automated Quote System
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• DISCIPL — discipline
• CSO — Central Statistical Organization
• OGCM — Ocean General Circulation Model
• ARIZ. ADMIN. REG. — Arizona Administrative Register
• AICRIP — All India Coordinated Programme for Rice Improvement
• NARS — National Archives and Records Service (GSA)
• ANBS — Asian Network of Biological Sciences
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• TOGA-COARE — Toga Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• TTO — Total Toxic Organic
• MDSRS — Morphology-Dependent Stimulated Raman Scattering
• DSRT — Deep Sea Reversing Thermometer
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• BASE — Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment
• LSN — long- and short-normal resistivity (geophysical logging)
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• TALK — Total Alkalinity
• NRCT — National Research Council of Thailand
• TVA — Tennessee Valley Authority (US) (electricity)
• A.D. — anno domini (latin)
• ARTILL — artillery
• AOM — Australian Options Market
• GLI — Global Imager
• ADVANCEM — advancement
• BVE — Barotropic Vorticity Equation
• I&T — Integration & Test
• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• MANUF — Manufacture
• PRT — precision radiation thermometer
• IGFA — Inter-Governmental Funding Agencies
• HPD — Hydrometeorological Processes Division
• JER — Jeremiah
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• APID — Application Identification
• EDSG — Energy Demand Steering Group
• SSP — Scanning Spectral Polarimeter
• NAST — National Academy of Science and Technology
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
• DOI — United States Department of Interior
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• SM-MIMD — shared memory, multiple instruction, and multiple data (computer)
• ODC — Other Data Center

• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• ED — Energy Division
• FUA — The Fuel Use Act (US)
• USBCF — United States Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
• NCIC — National Cartographic Information Center
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• FGCC — Federal Geodetic Control Committee
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• MTCE — Million Tonnes of Carbon Equivalent
• IHSS — International Humic Substances Society
• ICHTH — ichthyology
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• ASAS — Advanced Solid-State Array Sensor
• TRL — Transuranium Research Laboratory
• MFLOPS — One megaflop equals 1 million (106) floating point operations
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• NESDP — National Economic and Social Development Plan
• NTOM — Network Technical and Operations Manager
• ERDA — U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (formerly AEC; now DOE)
• C.V. — coefficient of variation (math)
• MERFOX — Mercadode Futuros y Opciones
• TRANSF — Transfer
• CEPAL — Comision Economica para America Latina (Spain) (ECLA)
• STOF — Suprathermal-Time-Of-Flight
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• IGCC — Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles (electric Power Generation Technology)
• AM. JUR. 2D. — American Jurisprudence, 2nd Series
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• EJ — Exajoule
• BSRN — Baseline Surface Radiation Network
• ALCH — ALCHEMY HOLDINGS, INC.
• PSFC — surface pressure
• ANALYT — analytic)
• ASAP — Against Sailormoon Anti Pages
• COLA — Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• FRTM — Functional Requirements Traceability Matrix
• WSMC — Western Space and Missile Center
• CMRS — Coal Mines Research Station
• JSC — Joint Scientific Committee (ICSU, WCRP, and WMO)
• QN — quinoline
• CCL — Central CO2 Laboratory, SIO (WMO)
• HMSU — high-resolution microwave sounding unit
• BAAS — British Association for the Advancement of Science
• MHRS — Modified Hazard Ranking System (DOE)
• ISSMFE — International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
• GDSIRD — Ground Data System Information Requirements Document
• STOL — System Test and Operations Language
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• FUND — Fundamental

• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• TERLS — Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (India)
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• ZPC — Zero Point of Change
• FURNIT — furniture
• NONCONF — nonconformist
• NERP — National Environmental Research Park
• AGST — Against
• ADJ. — see "ad." above.
• BOB — Bureau of the Budget
• K — Contract
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• USDD — United States Department of Defense
• UATI — Union des Associations Techniques Internationals
• PAC — Polar Atmospheric Chemistry
• GLOCHANT — Global Change Research in the Antarctic
• ACHEX — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• MERIS — medium-resolution imaging spectrometer
• SHPO — State Historic Preservation Office (US)
• PURG — purgatory
• ACID — Acidification Chemistry Information Data Base (BNL)
• FOK — fill or kill order
• INTERNAT — international
• USNMAS — United States National Map Accuracy Standard
• AMEX — Atlantic Meteorology Experiment
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• CTA-21 — Compatibility Test Area
• CPUE — Catch Per Unit Effort
• EVID — Evidence
• DOD — Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (Germany)
• CRPE — Centre de Recherches en Physique de l'Environment Terrestre et Planetaria
• MKT — Market
• HKFE — Hong Kong Futures Exchange
• GATE — Global Atmosphere Tropical Experiment
• COMM — Commission
• NERDDC — National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
• MILL(S) — 0.001 U.S. dollars
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• NOTTS — Nottinghamshire
• UNCHS — United Nations Commission for Human Settlement
• ERBES — Earth Radiation Budget Explorer Satellite
• IRI — International Reference Ionosphere
• IUNS — International Union of Nutritional Sciences
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• CONVERSAT — conversation
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• FGGE SOP — Fgge Special Observing Period
• CALC — Calculus
• HANTS — Hampshire

• NFERC — National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center
• DORIS — Doppler Orbit And Radio Positioning Integration By Satellite
• RN — Radon
• MIZEX — Marginal Ice Zone Experiment
• COMM — Common
• LPM — liters per minute
• CIF — Coming into Force
• ICES — International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• INDEF — Indefinite
• HCFC — Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
• CHAMB — chamber
• ACCLAIM — ACC Levels by Altimetrics and Island Measurements
• LPDA — Laser-Phased Doppler Anemometer
• AWRA — American Water Resources Association's
• JICST — Japan Information Center of Science and Technology
• MED — Mediterranean (the region) (START)
• NDIR — non-dispersive infrared gas analyzer
• SSURGO — soil survey geographic data base (USDA and
• STDN — Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network
• WILTS — Wiltshire
• DBE — Deep Basin Experiment
• SEAWIFS — sea-viewing wide-field sensor
• GEOM — Geometry
• GFLOPS — one gigaflop equals 1 billion (109) floating point operations
• BNAP — Basic Hydrological Network Assessment Project
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• ASCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• RSD — Residual Standard Deviation
• ADVS — adverbs
• NAMAS — National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK)
• SECTIONS — Oceanographic Programme of the U.S.S.R.
• AMMS — Advanced Multichannel Microwave Sensor
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• CEEM — Center for Energy and Environmental Management
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• LECT — Lecture
• GDAS — Grimco data acquisition system
• J — Justice
• WFEO — World Federation Of Engineering Organizations
• HED — High Energy Detector
• MUNIC — Municipal
• GLOBEC — Global Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
• ARAB — Arabic
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• ASTR — Astronomy
• AGCM — Atmospheric General Circulation Model
• APME — Attitude Pointing Mechanism Electronics
• MTOE — million tonnes of oil equivalent
• PDSI — Palmer Drought Severity Index
• TSP — total suspended particles

• PEM WEST — Pacific Exploratory Mission - West
• MABL — Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• CONG. REC. — Congressional Record
• NVI — normalized difference vegetation index
• DDMP — domain-decomposition-message-passing
• SMOW — Standard Mean Ocean Water
• SIO — Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography
• ACC — Association of Corporate Counsel
• RESSAC — The Consequence of a Major Nuclear Accident on the Surrounding Environment: Soil and Surface Rehabilitation
• MTR — Magnetic Tape Recorder
• MO&DA — Mission Operations and Data Analysis
• ACGIH — American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Inc.
• BOR — Bureau of Reclamation (Billings, MT)
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• CCIFP — Chambre de Compensation des Instruments Financiers de Paris
• DEVEL — Development
• F — Fraction
• CCOM — Control Center Operations Manager
• TERATOL — teratology
• PCU — Platinum-Cobalt Unit
• IMPERF — Imperfect
• IFRTP — Institut Francais pour la Researche et la Technologie Polaire (French
• CISPR — International Special Committee on Radio Interference
• RIHMI-WDC — All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information-World Data Center
• ATF — atmospheric transmission factor
• FFES — Fossil Free Energy System
• CERES — Clouds And The Earth's Radiant Energy System (EOS)
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• EOSDIS — EOS Data and Information System (NASA)
• SMR — Standard Malaysian Rubber
• CATAL — catalogue
• ECWA — Economic Commission for Western Asia
• ICRU — International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements
• DOMEST — domestic
• ACA — Advanced Computer Applications (project)
• MDE — Middle East
• NAT.HIST — natural history
• GEOS-3 — Geodetic Satellite Mission (NASA)
• LIMNOL — limnology
• LIPI — Marine Pollution Monitoring Center (including LIPI's Network of the Center
• IDCCC — Interior Department Cartographic Coordinating Committee (DOI)
• SDTS — Spatial Data Transfer Standard
• ATLAS — Airborne Turnable Laser Absorption Spectrometer
• ALA. ADMIN. CODE — Alabama Administrative Code
• RFDU — Radio Frequency Distribution Unit
• FRE — Federal Rules of Evidence
• CCIW — Canadian Centre for Inland Waters
• AIDJEX — Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment
• NSFNET — National Science Foundation Network
• ANGLO-IND — Anglo-Indian

• FDSS — Flight Dynamics Support System
• IRSSP — Interactive Remote Sensing Software Package
• RAL — Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
• 3I — improved initialization inversion
• CLS — Collected Localization Satellites (France)
• PROBL — Problem
• GEOGR — Geography
• SIFE — Second ISCCP Field Experiment
• ECCLUS — Ecclesiasticus
• MDUL — Missing Data Units List
• UMTA — Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• TSFC — surface temperature
• ECLIPS — Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study
• CIAP — Climate Impact Assessment Program
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
• IAVCEI — International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
• CONTEMPT — contemptuous
• SPACE PHYSICS DIVISION — SPDS
• IBP — International Biological Programme (ICSU)
• LIPI — The Indonesian Institute of Sciences
• IDEAL — International Decade for the East African Lakes (project) (PAGES)
• BMFT — Bundes Ministerium fur Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• GYNAECOL — gynaecology
• FIG — figurative
• USJGOFS — United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
• GLRS-R — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger
• IODE — International Oceanographic Data/Information Exchange (IOC)
• NDCDB — National Digital Cartographic Data Base
• COHMAP — Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• AGASP — Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Programme
• VEG — Vegetable
• ANSTO — Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Menai, New
• MGMI — Metallgezellschaft Metals Index
• IUGS — International Union of Geological Sciences (ICSU)
• UARP — Upper Atmosphere Research Program
• SINTEF — Norwegian Institute of Technology
• LAI — Leaf Area Index
• UV-VIS — UltraViolet-Visible Spectroscopy
• XDR — External Data Representation
• ASSEMB — assembly
• CAL. CODE REG. — California Code of Regulations
• SCOSTEP — Scientific Committee On Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• FIRE — First ISCCP Regional Experiment
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
• FPSSE — Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Electronics
• COWRR — Committee on Water Resources Research
• APSRS — Aerial Photo Summary Records System
• GNIS — Geographic Names Information System (USGS)
• IIASA — International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna)

• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• WFP — World Food Program
• GDR — German Democratic Republic (now Germany)
• MIBID — Madrid Interbank Bid Rate
• LXX — Septuagint
• B/W — Black and White
• AM. JUR. — American Jurisprudence
• IMU — International Mathematical Union
• MMS-F — Matra Marconi Space-Toulouse, France
• DEHYDRITE — magnesium perchlorate anhydrous granular
• IFOX — Irish Futures and Options Exchange
• STAP — Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (GEF)
• PIO/P — PIO for Participant Training
• ARINC — Aeronautical Research, Inc.
• UITA — Union of International Technical Associations
• CLIC — Climate Inventory and Catalog
• EMAP — Environmental Monitoring And Assessment Program (US EPA)
• ICARDA — International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas
• SRIC — Short-Rotation Intensive Culture
• CONTIN — continuation
• REDEMPT — redemption
• HTML — Hypertext Meta-Language
• CRE — Coal Research Establishment of BCC (U.K.)
• PVM — Parallel Virtual Machine
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• VHRR — Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• ACCEPT — acceptance
• CREN — Chemical Research and Environmental Needs
• OBC — On Board Computer
• USDOC — United States Department of Commerce
• ZOOL — Zoology
• BCC — British Coal Corporation
• SDPF — Sensor Data Processing Facility
• AGRHYMET — Agronmeteorology and Operational Hydrology and Their Applications
• CHEMRAWN — Chemical Research Applied to World Needs
• ARO — Automatic Reconfiguration Order
• COSTED — Committee On Science & Technology in Developing Countries
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• RPN — Division de la recherche en prevision numerique
• OBED — obedience
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetection Spatiale (France)
• IMRO — Investment Managers' Regulatory Authority
• ACM — advanced climate model
• BBSR — Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• GDCLS — General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services
• INFOCLIMA — World Climate Data Information and Referral System
• IERS — International Ellipsoid Reference System
• EZEK — Ezekiel
• DARE — data rescue
• MYST — Mystery Science Theater

• RTH — Regional Telecommunication Hub
• ITOS — Improved TIROS Operational System
• NYBID — New York Interbank Bid Rate
• RT — Radiative Transfer
• IGT — Institute of Gas Technology (Chicago)
• DYFAMED — atmospheric dynamics and fluxes in the Mediterranean Sea (France)
• FWS — United States Fish and Wildlife Service
• CAGM — Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (WMO)
• POSTM — postmaster
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• BTAN — Bons du Trésor а intérët Annuel Normalisés
• MELICA — Medium Energy Ion Composition Analyzer
• NHRC — National Hydrology Research Centre
• MSC — Meteorological Satellite Center
• FXA — Foreign Exchange Agreement
• NPS — National Park Service (US)
• CCLB — Carbon content of living biomass
• WECC — Western European Calibration Cooperation
• GEOG — Geography
• GMP — Genetically Modified Plants
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• MLI — Multilayer Insulation
• PFTS — perfluorocarbon tracers
• FTS — Fournier transform spectrometer
• RADIOL — Radiology
• TERMINOL — terminology
• ASEAMS — Association of Southeast Asian Marine Scientists
• ARTIFIC — artificial
• AEEI — Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument
• IHO — International Hydrographic Organization
• DKD — Deutscher Kalibrierdienst
• VACM — Vector Averaging Current Meter
• LFM — limited fine-mesh model
• EURECA — European Retrievable Carrier
• IFIAS — International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study
• NCRP — National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
• AERONAUT — aeronautic
• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone (campaign)
• CEI — Center for Environmental Information
• CEM — Cumulus Ensemble Model
• CLICOM — Climate Computing
• R2 — coefficient of determination (statistical)
• IGN — Institut Geographique National
• MECCA — Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
• NGRS — National Geodetic Reference System
• ROSS-SH — Ross-shire
• INVOC — invocation
• FCL — Foldback Current Limiter
• M&E — Monitoring and Enforcement
• TUT — Thermal Uniformity Test

• CONGRESS — congressional
• TFG — Transfer Frame Generator
• PUSPITEK — Training Facilities in the Centre for Research, Science and Technology
• CENR — Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources
• BIH — Bureau International de l'Heureasures
• ALIAS — Aircraft Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer
• PAAD — Program Assistance Approval Document
• CDMU — Central Data Management Unit
• BIOG — Biography
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling
• FAB — Finance and Budget
• PRD — Program Requirements Documents (UDS)
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
• SHEPH — shepherd
• INTELL — Intelligent
• ALF — Grimco A-700 processor used for data analysis
• ABRIDG — abridged
• TABLE — Tsukuba Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• EQPAC — Equatorial Pacific
• BATGE — Biosphere-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange in the Tropics
• UNCTAD — United Nations Commission on Trade and Development
• ESPOCC — European Space Project Operations Control Center
• UCS — Secretariat to the U.S. National Commission
• IPHIR — InterPlanetary Helioseismology with IRradiance observations
• EPOP — European Polar-Orbiting Platform
• ITRDB — International Tree-Ring Data Bank
• GLAC — Glacier National Park
• GENLEAF — generic models of leaf response
• ITSC — International TOVS Study Conference
• GA — geographic analysis
• GLOSS — Glossary
• IMPERS — impersonal
• ICSD — International Continental Scientific Drilling (program)
• DM-MIMD — distributed memory, multiple instruction, multiple data (computer)
• FTSE-100 — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 stock index
• MEV — mega electron volts
• ABRIDGEM — abridgement
• AIRS-AMSU — Atmospheric Infrared-Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• GOIN — Global Observation Information Network
• ITPP — International TOVS Processing Package
• ANNEX II — OECD countries and EU
• RRN TSA — RRN Temperate South America
• ARCS — Atmospheric Radiation and Cloud Station
• CDAS — Climate Data Assimilation System
• CSA — Chinese Society of Astronautics
• JIN — Joint Implementation Network
• USDOE — United States Department Of Energy
• ALLIT — alliterative
• PDRCA — Participatory Development Resource Centre for Africa
• CFC-113 — CCl2FCClF2, 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane

• GRDC — Global Runoff Data Centre
• ARCH — Archive
• NAUT — Nautical
• WSC — Water Survey of Canada
• IUHPS — International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
• ASLO — American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• ACCM — Atmospheric General Circulation Model
• FAMIL — familiar
• IBWC — International Boundary and Water Commission (Independent; U.S. and Mexico)
• RGIS — regional geographic information system
• LBL — Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California)
• IUPAB — International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (ICSU)
• IAC — International Activities Committee
• NARR — Narrative
• REB — Rebel
• AIJ — Activities Implemented Jointly
• CEPEX — Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
• GMU — Gyro Mechanical Unit
• ANTHROP — Anthropology
• GCP — Ground Control Point
• GSL — Gulf Stream Locale
• CRYSYS — Cryospheric System
• ANAT — Anatomy
• URAS — (a commercial CO2 analyzer)
• PFRA — Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
• TRANSL — Translation
• FOFS — futures and options funds
• ACC — Audit-Comptabilité-Conseil (French: Auditing-Accounting Council)
• HIEROGL — Hieroglyphic
• IJC — International Joint Commission (Independent; Canada and U.S.)
• ECG — Ecosystem Conservation Group (UNEP, FAO, UNESCO, and IUCN)
• ORNITHOL — ornithology
• LMA — Laboratoire de Meteorologie
• NOPE — Network Operations Engineer
• RGCT — Reflective Gross Cloud Test
• MIRSL — Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory
• HIRIS — HIgh-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (EOS)
• CCM — community climate model
• NOZE — National Ozone Expedition
• ZEEI — Exclusive Economic Zone of Indonesia
• ICPP — Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
• EGCM — Eddy-Resolving General Circulation Model
• BASC — Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate, National Research Council
• ITRC — Industrial Toxicology Research Centre
• DLG — Digital Line Graphic
• NORPAX — North Pacific Expedition
• PHYSICAL CHEM — physical chemistry
• EFQ — Estimated fuel quantity consumed (Used to determine carbon stored)
• GEISA — Gestion et d'Etude des Information Spectroscopiques Atmospheriques
• MESOSOFT — Mesoscale Data Management Facility

• PPLES — participles
• DNES — Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources (India)
• EXAM — Examination
• RHODE ISL — Rhode Island
• ACCOMM — accommodation
• PICES — North Pacific Marine Science Organization
• LCC — Land Cover Change
• PUB.L. — Public Law
• STRIVE — Science Teachers Research Involvement for Vital Education
• OTOB — Oesterreichische Termin und OptionBorse
• HRIRS — high-resolution infrared radiation sounder
• AOVP — Arctic Ocean Variability Project
• PWD — Public Works Department
• POOZ — Permanently Open Ocean Zone
• ESTH — Esther
• IASC — International Arctic Sciences Committee
• ACAST — Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology toDevelopment
• SUBORD — Subordinate
• WSO — Wilcox Solar Observatory
• APOL — apology
• NZOI — New Zealand Oceanographic Institute
• CIRT — cirrus test
• ESS — essay
• SFA — Securities and Futures Authority Limited
• GCO — Generation Certification Official (waste generation)
• DEPRED — depredation
• MACC — Maccabees
• FEDC — Fusion Energy Design Center
• CSELI — Centra Studi e Laboratori Telecommunicazioni (Italy)
• ARTIC — articulation
• ORS — Others
• DDFM — Data Distribution Facility Manager
• MO&DSD — Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System
• BSIP — Birban Sahani Institute of Paleobotany
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror
• IEM — Institute of Experimental Meteorology
• FEDMAP — Federal Geologic Mapping Project
• TAI — Temps Atomique International
• MWH — Megawatt hour (one million watt hours)
• OPEC — Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• NEUROL — Neurology
• CCSM — Control Center Systems Manager
• OMWOG — Ocean-Based Measurements Working Group
• CNRS — National Scientific Research Center (Centre Nationale de la Recherche
• MFRSR — multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer
• METAPH — Metaphysics
• TIN — Triangular Irregular Network
• ALA — American Library Association-Library
• GDCF/PACOR — ISTP Program Generic Data Capture Facility / Packet Processor

• CAMB — Cambridge Capital Acquisition C (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ])
• GESAMP — Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution
• ESF/EPC — ESF/European Palaeoclimate and Man Project
• RASC — Radio Atmospheric Study Centre
• DSIR — Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
• NNSF — National Natural Science Foundation
• RRTM — Rapid Radiative Transfer Model
• COMM — Commerce
• NGSDC — National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
• EAWEP — East Asia and Western Pacific
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development
• SCAMA — Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement
• AFDM — Ash Free Dry Mass
• DGCM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
• NEAPACC — North East Atlantic Palaeooceanography and Climate Change
• PHARM — pharmacology
• FRONTAL — frontal process studies (France) (JGOFS)
• MIB 30 — Milano Indice Borsa
• CONVENT — convention
• MASMP — Mission Analysis and Suport Management Plan
• TIR — Tabula Imperii Romani
• COMM.LAW — commercial law
• GWH — Giga Watt hour
• ETSA — electron transport system activity
• COMPOS — composition
• HGCC — Hot Gas Clean Up
• MORACC — Modeling Radiation Clouds and Convection
• CERN — European Laboratory for Particle Physics
• GRAMM.ANALYSIS — grammatical analysis
• AVD — acoustic variable density
• CADD — computer-aided design and drafting
• IAMAP — International Association Of Meteorology And Atmospheric Physics (ICSU)
• ATTY — Attorney
• ASPRS — American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• AET — Actual Evapotranspiration
• DASA — Deutsche Aerospace Administration
• UNM — University of New Mexico
• RDAAC — Remote Data Analysis and Archive Center
• LINCS — Lincolnshire
• GDPS — Global Data-Processing System (WMO and WWW)
• OCEANOGR — Oceanography
• NDP — Numeric Data Package
• TGI — Temperature Growth Index
• DCP-OES — direct coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy
• C. — Chapter
• BBL — Billion Barrels
• UNGCRP — United Nations Global Change Research Program
• ANIM — animal
• ANG — Anglian
• IPE — International Petroleum Exchange

• PSAC — President's Science Advisory Committee
• EARN — European Academic Research Network
• OE — Old English
• ICARUS — Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities
• ADCP — Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler
• DRAW — Direct Read After Write Animation System
• DISTEMP — distemper
• SAEF — Stock Exchange Automated Execution Facility
• DAC — Data Assembly Centre (WOCE)
• SPACE PHYSICS DATA SYSTEM — Solar Physics Data System
• IGAC — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• STI — Straits Times Index
• TRANSPAC — Trans-Pacific Experiment
• HALSS — high-altitude lidar sensing station
• STAFFORD — Staffordshire
• CONCL — conclusion
• INNOC — innocent
• SOTA — Science Operations and Test Area
• PENINS — peninsula
• CES — Committee on Earth Sciences (now CEES)
• USDOI — United States Department of the Interior (also
• DIBID — Dublin interbank bid rate
• HITRAN — High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database
• NAFCOM — Northern Africa Committee (START)
• BPKM — billion passenger kilo metre
• PASA — Participating Agency Service Agreement
• ANTIQ — antiquity
• PDU — Power Distribution Unit
• CIUS — Conseil International des Unions Scientifiqes (ICSU)
• ANTARES — Antarctic research (France) (JGOFS)
• VINDIC — vindication
• GDAAC — Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center
• STAFF — Staffordshire
• LPDM — Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model
• QUOTS — quotations
• ACE-1 — Southern Hemisphere Marine Aerosol Characterization Experiment (IGAC)
• COMP — company
• INZN — Institut Zairois pour la Conservation de la Nature
• PPL.ADJS — participial adjectives
• PERH — perhaps
• FUTOP — Copenhagen Stock Exchange and Guaranteed Fund for Danish options and Futures
• CORP. — Corporation
• PRONUNC — pronunciation
• TIMSS — thermal infrared spectral scanner
• DISORT — Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer
• HASL — Health and Safety Laboratory
• BUV — Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer
• NALMS — North American Lake Management Society
• USMAPS — United States Map Analysis Package System
• CGMW — Commission for the Geological Map of the World

• ARW — An Advanced Research Workshop
• CCTV — CLOSE CIRCUIT TELEVISION
• GBF/DIME — Geographic Base Files/Dual Independent Map Encoding
• CAE — Control and Actuation Electronic
• IFREMER — Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer, France
• EX.DOC — executive document
• CNET — Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (France)
• ENEA — Italian National Agency for New technology, Energy and the Environment
• BIOCHEM — Biochemistry
• UFACNC — Ultrafine Aerosol Condensation Nucleus Counter
• FORET — Forest of East Tennessee (model)
• IAS — Image Analysis System
• SHSS — Structure and Harness Subsystem
• IELV — Intermediate Expendable Launch Vehicle
• NMNH — National Museum of Natural History
• KRE — Kobe Rubber Exchange
• GCIP — GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
• NHTSA — National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (DOT)
• IFDC — International Fertilizer Development Center
• CETA — Comprehensive Education and Training Administration
• DISSPLA — Display Integrated Software System & Plotting Language
• UMTRAP — Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program
• ESD — Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL)
• DB — direct-beam (irradiance)
• NYU/ULTRA — New York University's Ultracomputer
• LAF — Lake Acidification and Fisheries (EPRI)
• EUR — Bureau of European Affairs
• FIFESH — Fifeshire
• ORTHOGR — orthography
• LOCH — London Options Clearing House
• CMS — Command Management System
• PDFE — Programmable Data Formatter Engineer
• LODYC — Laboratoire d'Oceanographic Dynamique et de Climatologie
• STS — Star Tracker Sensor
• GTAS — Generic Testing and Analysis System
• NGB — Nordic Gene Bank
• PHILEM — Philemon
• ARRANGEM — arrangement
• AMA — African Mountains Association
• WRDD — Water Resources Development Department
• RRN OCE — RRN Oceania
• AGRIC — Agriculture
• EORCU — European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit
• ALK — alkalinity
• CHRIS — Chemical Hazard Response Information System
• YORKS — Yorkshire
• GLRS — Geoscience Laser Ranging System
• PCAST — President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
• T — tonne
• ICDB — Ice Core Data Bank

• DOC — Documentary Organisation of Canada
• IMA — Information Management and Archives (Office)
• COUNC — council
• ITPO — International TOGA Planning Office
• DISORT — discrete ordinate (model)
• FMI — Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
• HDGCB — Human Dimensions of Global Change (programme) (UNU, ISSC, and IFIAS)
• INTERL — interlude
• INFOTERRA — International Referral System for Sources of Environmental Information
• MODIS-T — Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• GOFS — Global Ocean Flux Study
• GLOED — Global Emissions Database
• MRIR — Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• MAW — Ministry of Agriculture and Water (Saudi Arabia)
• ESAM — Institute for Environmental Science and Management
• ETF — Environmental Task Force
• MQP — Mandatory Quote Period
• ISWS — Illinois State Water Survey
• ASB — Association of Southeastern Biologists
• CEDEL — Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs mobiles
• APPLIC — application
• ANSW — Answer
• CN — condensation nuclei
• DERIV — derivative
• CGO — Cape Grim (Tasmania) (baseline station)
• FRLAB — Front Range Lidar, Aircraft, and Balloon (experiment)
• MEFF RENTA VARIABLE — derivatives exchange in Madrid, Spain
• DST — Department of Science and Technology's
• IAPSO — International Association for Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IUGG and ICSU)
• EPI — environmental productivity index
• IRTM — Infrared Thermal Mapper
• WONDERF — wonderful
• NEUROSURG — neurosurgery
• IMPF — imperfect
• MAGN — magnetism
• CONGREG — congregation
• AV — acoustic velocity
• CLARET — Cloud Lidar and Radar Exploratory Test
• NRPGC — National Research Program for Global Change
• BCP3 — Broadcast Pulse 3
• WCIRP — World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Program
• BOF — Basic Oxygen Furnace
• TRAC — Teacher Research Associate
• ELEC — Electronic
• JI — Joint Implementation [with Regard To Greenhouse Gas Emission Redn.]
• HIC — Habitat International Coalition
• CANAD — Canadian
• WAMEX — West African Monsoon Experiment
• BERKSH — Berkshire
• GEC — Global Environment Change

• CFAGB — Carbon fraction of above ground biomass
• HAG — Haggai
• PON — Particulate Organic Nitrogen
• CHAR — Character
• TREAS — Treasury
• ASF — Alaska SAR Facility
• SMOS — Surface Meteorological Observation System
• FWM — food web model
• LAUTRO — Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Authority
• ECN — Netherlands Energy Research Foundation
• EXPLAN — explanation
• SEPON — Stock Exchange Pool Nominees
• ECCL.HIST — ecclesiastical history
• LUCC-CPPC — Lucc Core Project Planning Committee
• FORTIF — fortification
• BIOTROP — Regional Center for Tropical Biology
• CLIN — Clinic
• SELV — Small Expendable Launch Vehicle
• IUCC — Information Unit on Climate Change
• AERI — Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument
• ANC — acid-neutralizing capacity
• CRIM — Criminal
• SETAC — Society of Environmental Toxicology And Chemistry
• AMIGO — America's Inter-hemispheric Geobiosphere Organization
• INQUA — International Union for Quaternary Research
• ATDL — Atmospheric Turbulence and DiffusionLaboratory
• ALACE — Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (float)
• TCR — tonnes of coal replacement
• IAGC — International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
• NARSNDF — North Atlantic Regional Study Narrative Data File
• PUMS — Public Use Microdata Samples
• O.D. — outside diameter
• TFLOPS — One teraflop equals 1 trillion (1012) floating point operations
• JAWS — Joint Airport Weather Studies (project)
• BTCS — breakthrough curves (column-elution tests)
• REPROD — Reproduction
• GOS — Global Observing System (WMO and WWW)
• GAME — GEWEX-related Asian Monsoon Experiment
• JUSTIF — justification
• IMO — International Meteorological Organization (formerly WMO)
• ORG.CHEM — organic chemistry
• REAS — reasonably expected as safe
• TOD — Time-Out Detection
• COBIOTECH — Scientific Committee for Biotechnology
• AIP-3 — Algorithm Intercomparison Project-3
• MODMAP — modernization of mapping techniques
• IHB — International Hydrographic Bureau
• HSRP — High Speed Research Program
• BM&F — Bolsade Mercadorias and Futuros Exchange
• GAZ — Gazette

• ITEX — International Tundra Experiment
• MT-CLIM — Mountain Climate Model
• CAF — Clean Air Facility
• CCI — Commission for Climatology
• ARSMC — ASEAN Regional SpecializedMeteorological Centre
• HMTA — Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
• CAS — Chemical Abstract Series
• OHER — Office Of Health And Environmental Research (US Dept. Of Energy)
• SCARAB — Scanner for the Radiation Budget
• H2 — Hydrogen
• NADW — North Atlantic Deep Water
• GCRIO — Global Change Research Information Office
• RUDIM — rudiment
• LIFFE — London Interntional Financial Futures and Options Exchange
• COMB.FORM — combining form
• INTECOL — International Association of Ecology (ICSU
• FOUND — foundation
• DEB — debate
• FIN — Fish Information Network (data base)
• IGCP — International Geological Correlation Programme (IUGS and UNESCO)
• AXCTD — autonomous expendable CTD profiler
• FIT — Field Investigation Team (US EPA)
• GOMI — Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument
• LUCC — Land Use and Cover Change (IGBP and HDP)
• MM4 — Mesoscale model 4 (Pennsylvania State University/NCAR)
• ECN — Environmental Change Network
• BAHC — Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle
• HAB — Habakkuk
• WGEP — Working Group on Energy Policy
• ARCHIPEL — archipelago
• HSA — Historic Sites Act (1935)
• MAPS — Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System
• ELECTR — Electric
• MTCR — million tonnes of coal replacement
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observation Satellite (Japan)
• LITHOGR — lithography
• SAFEX — South African Futures Exchange
• PTCS — Payload Module Thermal Control Subsystem
• PDA — phased-Doppler anemometer
• PACOR — Packet Processor
• VIRGO — Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations
• IRGA — Infrared Gas Analyzer
• MAPS — Map Analysis Package System
• NEG — WOCE Numerical Experimentation Group
• SSG — Scientific Steering Group
• HR — High Rate
• IUPSYS — International Union of Psychological Science
• PASE — Polar Air-Snow Experiment
• FPSSH — Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Head
• LUCIE — Study of circulation north and west of Australia (Leeuwin Current)

• CAMPANOL — campanology
• GEOSAT — Geodesy Satellite
• GO3OS — Global Ozone Observing System (WMO)
• IAH — International Association of Hydrogeologists (IUGS)
• ELIZ — Elizabeth
• CACGP — Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (IAMAS)
• INPA — Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazona (Brazil)
• MERIT — Monitoring Earth's Rotation and Intercomparison of Techniques
• TRIGONOM — trigonometry
• IMMUNOL — Immunology
• BET — Grimco A-700 processor used for data collection
• HLQ — holocellulose/lignocellulose quotient
• ICSTI — International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
• SPD — Solar Physics Division
• AJAX — 1983 Oceanographic cruise along; Meridian into Weddell Sea
• GLOS — Gloucestershire
• BMWT — Biofuels and Municipal Waste Technology
• ESTRACK — European Space Tracking
• IERS — International Earth Reference System
• FED. R. BANKR. P. — Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure