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

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

• GC — General Counsel
• ATS — Advanced Technology Satellite
• ALARA — As Low As Reasonably Achievable
• I/O — Input/Output
• NM — Nanometer
• IEE — Institution of Electrical Engineers
• MOS — Model Output Statistics
• BTU — British Thermal Unit
• RLU — Relative Light Unit
• ALT — Alteration
• NATO — North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• AEC — Atomic Energy Commission (superseded by ERDA)
• IPCC — Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO and UNEP)
• KG — Kilogram
• WB — World Bank
• MSFC — Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville AL)
• CFC-12 — CCl2F2, dichlorodifluoromethane, Freon-12
• UCMJ — Uniform Code of Military Justice
• CDF — Common Data Format
• LPG — Liquid Petroleum Gas
• LES — Lincoln Experimental Satellite
• DMSP — Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (U.S.)
• CIS — Commonwealth of Independent States
• PR — Precipitation Radar
• AIAA — American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc.
• M — Meter
• A-SCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• PL — Public Law
• ER — Energy Research
• A.L.R.2D — American Law Reports, 2nd Series
• CBA — Cost Benefit Analysis
• UNU — United Nations University
• STC — Satellite Test Center
• P.2D — Pacific Reporter, 2nd Series
• CM — Centimeter
• PM-2.5 — particulate matter of diameter less than 2.5 micrometers
• CPM — Critical Path Method
• AIHA — American Industrial Hygiene Association
• ANON — Anonymous
• AL — Aluminium
• DEC — Digital Equipment Corporation
• UHF — Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz; 1m-10cm)
• ACCT — Account
• PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
• IFOV — Instantaneous Field Of View
• MHS — Microwave Humidity Sounder
• LIBOR — London Interbank Offered Rate
• SISEX — Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
• ASC — American Society of Cinematographers
• A-SAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar

• A.2D — Atlantic Reporter 2nd Series
• E.E.T.S — Early English Text Society
• AMS — American Meteorological Society
• COSPAR — Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
• FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
• S.W.3D — South Western Reporter, 3rd Series
• NOV — November
• A.L.R.3D — American Law Reports, 3rd Series
• C-MACCS — Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation
• CCAQ — Consultative Committee on Administrative Questions
• ACR — Active Cavity Radiometer
• APEC — Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• NSTS — National Space Transportation System
• GSA — Geological Society of America
• LAC — Local Area Coverage
• L — Liter
• TEC — Total Electron Content
• R J — Recurring Judgement
• RA IV — Regional Association IV - North and Central America (WMO)
• AMS — Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
• PVC — Polyvinyl Chloride
• JAN — January
• ADDIT — addition
• C.F.R. — Code of Federal Regulations
• AOS — Acquisition Of Signal
• ATSR — Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
• L.ED — Lawyers Edition
• MSL — Mean Sea Level
• A.L.R. FED. — American Law Reports, Federal
• ECOM. — EOS communications
• AMU — Atomic Mass Unit
• S-GCOS — Space-Based Global Change Observation System
• DRS — Data Relay Satellite
• B.A.U. — business as usual (scenario)
• ATM — Atmosphere
• GPS — Global Positioning System (ex-NAVSTAR)
• AFSCN — Air Force Satellite Control Network
• SWT — Science Working Team
• UIC — Underground Injection Control
• S. CT. — Supreme Court Reporter
• A.D — Anno Domini
• RS — Remote Sensing
• JSC — Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)
• A.L.R.4TH — American Law Reports, 4th Series
• VHF — Very High Frequency
• PNG — Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
• ADPE — Automatic Data Processing Equipment
• UNRWA — United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
• AOCS — Attitude and Orbit Control System
• ZEPH — Zephaniah

• U.S.S.R — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• IAEA — International Atomic Energy Agency
• TOC — Total Organic Carbon
• ABA — American Bar Association
• COM — Common
• R.C.CHURCH — Roman Catholic Church
• MSU — Microwave Sounding Unit
• AIS — Airborne Imaging Spectrometer
• ASCII — American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
• WCE — Winnipeg Commodity Exchange
• SEBI — Securities and Exchange Board of India
• A.L.R. — American Law Reports
• ALEXIS — Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors
• AFSCF — Air Force Satellite Control Facility
• O3 — Ozone
• MX — Merry Christmas
• CH4 — Methane, Natural Gas
• EPA — Environmental Protection Agency (US)
• S.V — sub verbo
• A.L.R.5TH — American Law Reports, 5th Series
• CW — Continuous Wave
• A.L.R.6TH — American Law Reports, 6th Series
• IRC — Internal Revenue Code of 1986
• ENVISAT — European Space Agency Environmental Satellite
• NSF — National Sanitation Foundation
• ESSENT — essential
• § — Section
• I&TRR — Integration and Test Readiness Review
• ESMC — Eastern Space And Missile Center (formerly AFETR)
• PPM — parts per million
• IC — Ion Chromatography
• MP&A — Mission Planning and Analysis Area
• AR — Argon
• A.V — Authorized Version
• B%T — Animal population ratio living in temperate climate region
• MAG — Magazine
• S.T.S — Scottish Text Society
• F.O.R. — free on rail
• NA — North America
• ASTM — American Society for Testing and Materials (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• DI — Directorate of Intelligence
• GUI — Graphical User Interface (goo-ey)
• EM — Electromagnetic
• W — Watt
• NESDIS — National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• MSR — Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• ¶ — (Pilcrow) Paragraph
• BCD — Binary-Coded Decimal
• F.APP'X — Federal Appendix
• SO — Southern Oscillation

• CENTO — Central Treaty Organization (Baghdad Pact)
• SH — Southern Hemisphere
• FAS — Free Alongside Ship
• ERB — Earth Radiation Budget
• SIO3 — silicate
• TWP — Tropical Western Pacific
• ERBS — Earth Radiation Budget Satellite
• B.A.P. — Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
• DDT — dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane (insecticide)
• FAR — Flight Analysis Review
• DOST — Department of Science and Technology
• CIA — Central Intelligence Agency
• QDRO — Qualified Domestic Relations Order
• U.S.S.R. — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• KSC — John F. Kennedy Space Center
• © — Copyright
• RCRA — Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (1976, 1984)
• U.K. — United Kingdom (preferred over "UK"; use as
• §§ — Sections
• FE — Fossil Energy
• WG — Working Group
• S.AFR — South Africa
• ENTHUS — enthusiasm
• EGS — European Geophysical Society
• OECD — Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• MHZ — Megahertz (Megacycles Per Second)
• UL — Uplink
• BALTEX — Baltic Sea Experiment
• W. VA. CODE — West Virginia Code
• N.E.D — New English Dictionary
• RAE — Royal Aircraft Establishment
• OAS — Organization of American States
• O.T — Old Testament
• NMFS — National Marine Fisheries Services
• OCT — October
• BOJ — Bank Of Japan
• RH — Relative Humidity
• GASTRON — gastronomy
• DRSS — Data Relay Satellite System
• M&CD — Metals and Ceramics Division (ORNL)
• GIGO — Garbage In Garbage Out (computing)
• FO — Furnace Oil
• CFO — Cancel Former Order
• IO — Input/Output
• OPS — Optical Sensor
• D.C — District of Columbia
• LARC — Langley Research Center (NASA)
• TWT — Traveling Wave Tube
• COL — Colonel
• IMF — International Monetary Fund

• SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the United States
• HAP — Hazardous Air Pollutant
• BRDF — Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
• ANAL — Analyst
• F.O.B. — free on board
• NASM — National Air and Space Museum
• DIAL — Differential Absorption Lidar (laser Radar Sensing)
• U.S.A.F — United States Air Force
• CEC — Cation Exchange Capacity
• AT — Acceptance Test
• DIV — Division
• FITS — Flexible Image Transport System
• EU — European Union (1994; formerly referred to as the EEC or EC)
• VAD — Velocity-Azimuth Display
• MSS — Multispectral Scanner System
• R.N — Royal Navy
• MOT — Ministry of Transport
• DB — Direct Broadcast
• CONST — Under Construction
• ASE — Airborne Support Equipment
• S.CAROLINA — South Carolina
• V/W — Vaporware
• PW — Precipitable Water
• GATT — General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (government)
• U.S — United States
• POD — Precision Orbit Determination
• ERTS — Earth Resources Technology Satellite (now Landsat)
• S.DAKOTA — South Dakota
• E.D.D — English Dialect Dictionary
• AMSR — Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
• WET — Waste Extraction Test
• USU — Usually
• ALPEX — Alpine Experiment
• OTT — Over The Top
• LP — Low Pressure
• E/GNP — Ratio of energy consumption to gross national product
• R.E. — Real Estate
• TCS — Thermal Control Subsystem
• O2 — Oxygen
• T.D. — Treasury Decision
• MP — Medium Pressure
• MSW — Municipal Solid Waste
• MRC — Medical Research Council
• E/GDP — Ratio of energy consumption to gross domestic product
• ACS — Attitude Control System
• ASCE — l'American Society of Civil Engineers
• HPS — Health Physics Society
• ABR — Abridged
• E-LIDAR — Experimental LIDAR
• F.CAS. — Federal Cases 1789–1880

• TM — Trademark
• W3C — World Wide Web Consortium
• ESA — Ecological Society of America
• KANEX — Kansai Agricultural Commodities Exchange
• DPC — Domestic Policy Council
• U.S.A. — United States of America
• CC — Combined Cycle
• PV — Potential Vorticity
• ART — Article (part of speech)
• MCS — Mesoscale Convective System
• F.SUPP. — Federal Supplement
• ASA — American Statistical Association
• ISI — International Statistical Institute
• U.K — United Kingdom
• A%C — Animal population ratio living in cool climate region
• OPC — Ordinary Portland Cement
• SLAR — Side-Looking Airborne Radar
• VC — Virtual Channel
• IAP — Institute of Atmospheric Physics
• CAPT — Captain
• BNL — Brookhaven National Laboratory
• CRT — Cathode Ray Tube (type of TV)
• I.L.M. — International Legal Materials
• JPL — Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California Institute of Technology) (NASA)
• ESP — Especially
• CH3CL — Methyl Chloride
• USCG — United States Coast Guard
• P.3D — Pacific Reporter, 3rd Series
• R.C — Roman Catholic
• IGS — International Glaciological Society
• PMP — Probable Maximum Precipitation
• ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations
• UEA — University of East Anglia
• O.E.D — Oxford English Dictionary
• IDA — International Development Agency
• EE — Employee
• TMI — TRMM Microwave Imager
• GSFC — Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• ANNEX I — Countries committed to a quantified CO2 target (OECD, EU, Central and Eastern European countries)
• APR — April River Airport, April River, Papua New Guinea
• EP — Earth Probe
• FDDI — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
• Q.V — quod vide
• ASTER — Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer (EOS)
• C&F — Cost and Freight
• UC — University of California
• ECA — Economic Commission for Africa
• CX — Cross-Examination
• SI — Statutory Instrument
• ZEITSCHR — Zeitschrift

• BER — Bit-Error Rate
• BK — Book
• E.AFR — East Africa
• W.VA — West Virginia
• IRIS — Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer
• RAM — random-access memory
• SBIR — Small Business Innovation Research
• OBS — Obsolete
• TMS — Thematic Mapper Simulator
• DOD — United States Department of Defense
• FDM — Finite-Difference Method
• RA I — Regional Association I - Africa (WMO)
• MIS — Management Information System (OSHA)
• ISC — International Seismological Centre
• ADC — Analog-Digital Converter
• MCL — Maximum Contaminant Level
• FRA — Forward Rate Agreement
• HF — Hydrogen Fluoride
• AFGL — Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
• DS — Data Set
• HAEMATOL — haematology
• PPI — Producer Price Index
• ESA — Entomological Society of America
• HRSG — Heat Recovery Steam Generator
• DOJ — Department of Justice (US)
• GPO — Government Printing Office
• GB — Gigabyte
• URL — Universal Resource Locator
• E.IND — East India
• GIT — Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
• LAGEOS — Laser Geodynamic Satellite
• CLO — Chlorine Monoxide
• Q.ELIZ — Queen Elizabeth
• ERS — Economic Research Service
• WFF — Wallops Flight Facility
• ESA — Endangered Species Act of 1973
• IAU — International Astronomical Union
• N.Y — New York
• E.ANGL — East Anglia
• E.ANGLIAN — East Anglian
• UW/UD — University of Wisconsin/University of Denver
• W.IND — West India
• E.MIDL — east midland
• N.AMER — North America
• PB — Playback
• T/P SWT — TOPEX/Poseidon Science Working Team
• SOL — Statute of Limitations
• S&P100,500 — stock indices
• OH — Hydroxyl Radical
• N.DAKOTA — North Dakota

• AIT — Assembly, Integration, and Test
• IOP — Intensive Observing Period
• W.INDIES — West Indies
• ESF — European Science Foundation
• BNSC — British National Space Centre
• IR — Infrared
• SRB — Surface Radiation Budget
• SAIC — Science Applications International Corporation
• FORTRAN — FORmula TRANslation (a computer language)
• CONTRADICT — contradiction
• RA-2 — POEM altimeter (ESA)
• UT — University of Tennessee
• FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions (sometimes Pronounced Fak)
• W.AFR — West Africa
• TEESE — TERI Energy Economy Simulation Evaluation
• IST — Instrument Support Terminal
• LEX — Lexicon
• FY — Fiscal Year
• ECAFE — Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East
• NASDA — National Space Development Agency of Japan
• MLR — Multiple Linear Regression
• CCRS — Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• C — Carbone
• APA — Adirondack Park Agency
• PDF — Probability Density Function
• AVNIR — advanced visible and near-infrared radiometer
• GOI — Government Of India
• FOT — Flight Operation Trainer
• ML — milliliter; 1/1000 liter
• DIC — Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
• R.A.F — Royal Air Force
• RA II — Regional Association II - Asia (WMO)
• CAL/VAL — Calibration/Validation
• N.S.W — New South Wales
• WS — Wind Speed
• ERA — Exchange Rate Agreement
• N.CAROLINA — North Carolina
• CFR — Code of Federal Regulations
• N.Z — New Zealand
• R&SSD — Radiation and Safety Surveys Department (ORNL)
• LME — London Metal Exchange
• CAN — Canberra
• DURH — Durham
• AUG — August
• CPD — Compound
• N.IR — Northern Irish
• SEHK — Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
• EDC — EROS Data Center
• AFS — American Fisheries Society
• ATT — Attic

• N.S.WALES — New South Wales
• APP — Apparently
• DOE — United States Department of Energy (government)
• SAGE III — Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III
• USCCAN — United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
• CIDA — Canadian International Development Agency
• NOSS — National Oceanic Satellite System
• HNO3 — Nitric Acid
• DARPA — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US)
• UT — Universal Time
• P.R — public records
• ALT — Radar Altimeter
• APA — Alkaline Phosphatase Activity
• CM3 — cubic centimeter (milliliter)
• APP — Appendix
• USEPA — United States Environmental Protection Agency
• M-REGION — Maunder region
• IRU — Inertial Reference Unit
• JEM — Japanese Experiment Module
• HCFC-22 — hydrochloroflourocarbon-22 (CHClF2,
• N.AFR — North Africa
• BDR — Battery Discharge Regulator
• CHAS — Charles
• VIBOR — Vienna Interbank Offered Rate
• BRO — Bromine Monoxide
• EMR — Electromagnetic Radiation
• METAMORPH — metamorphosis
• NYMEX — New York Mercantile Exchange
• ER — Employer
• DPI — Data Processing Installation
• BP — Before Present
• R — Rex
• SA90 — IPCC Scenario A, 1990
• VALEDICT — valediction
• CAT — Cataract
• GSA — U.S. General Services Administration
• SAIL — Steel Authority of India Limited
• NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
• ACAD — Academy
• SPM — Suspended Particulate Matter
• UV — Ultraviolet (Light)
• HP — High Pass
• ABP — Archbishop
• MHS — Message Handling System (electronic)
• NAD 27 — North American Datum of 1927
• ESOC — European Space Operations Center
• WI — When Issued
• ITU — International Telecommunication Union
• DOMSAT — Domestic Communications Satellite System
• CTU — Central Terminal Unit

• IASI — Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• SSM — Special Sensor Microwave
• TRS — Trade Registration System
• LIDAR — Lander Light Detection and Ranging
• NYU — New York University
• CRM — Certified Reference Material
• LEPO — Low Exercise Price Option
• CMO — Configuration Management Office
• IUE — International Ultraviolet Explorer
• S&R — Search & Rescue
• ART — Arctica
• PROVIS — provisional
• FIFO — First In, First Out
• TIFFE — Tokyo International Financial Futures Exchange
• N.T — New Testament
• DIE — Designated Investment Exchange
• NSSL — National Severe Storms Laboratory
• ACRIM — Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (EOS)
• ATP — Adenosine Triphosphate (reg: 56-65-5)
• EDS — Environmental Data Service
• OMB — Office of Management and Budget (U.S.)
• AOD — Aerosol Optical Depth
• UAOB — Upper Air Observation
• PDI — Payload Data Interleaver
• NAL — National Agricultural Library
• V — Verb
• ANC — Ancient
• PORT — Portuguese
• BUR — Bureau
• WMC — World Meteorological Center
• AAAS — American Association for the Advancement of Science
• N.IREL — Northern Ireland
• NAS — United States National Academy of Sciences
• WWF — World Wildlife Fund
• OSTP — Office of Science and Technology Policy
• WFOV — Wide Field Of View
• NCSU — North Carolina State University
• EXCH — Exchange
• RD — Reference Document
• BFI — Baltic Freight Index
• ACU — Attitude Control Unit
• HZ — cycles per second (hertz)
• CRC — Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
• DICT — Dictionary
• MODNET — MO&DSD Operational/Development Network
• EXP — Experiment
• DBH — Diameter at Breast Height
• IUCN — International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
• GCM — General Court-Martial
• MDI — Michelson Doppler Imager

• ADJ — Adjective
• I — Injection
• KWH — Kilowatt hour (one thousand watt hours) (measurement)
• UNGA — United Nations General Assembly
• SQL — Structured Query Language
• ECS — EOSDIS Core System
• DSN — Deep Space Network - network of large antennas and communication facilities.
• HIBID — Hong Kong interbank bid rate
• L — Literature
• JTU — Jackson Turbidity Unit
• NOX-N — Nitrogen oxides nitrogen trace gas emission ratio
• DOM — Dissolved Organic Matter
• LEV — Leviticus
• CNG — Compressed natural gas
• PLO — Public Limit Order
• FSI — Forest Survey of India
• POC — Particulate Organic Carbon
• SPAS — Shuttle Pallet Satellite(German)
• MACS — Modular Attitude Control System
• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc.
• TWRA — Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
• OWS — Ocean Weather Station
• ENT — Entomology (code)
• PSI — Pounds Per Square Inch (Static Pressure)
• CATECH — catechism
• JUD — Judges
• M — micrometer
• SAFARI-92 — South African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative
• DMA — direct memory access (computer term)
• ANT — Antarctica
• ISAS — Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (Japan)
• WATFLOOD — University of Waterloo Flood Forecasting System
• NUM — Number
• CONV — Convention
• SUBSCR — subscription
• TOVS — TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
• IBM — International Business Machines Corporation
• STAT — Statistical
• PMF — Probable Maximum Flood
• DCP — Data Collection Platform
• UBA — Umweltbundesamt
• SAM — Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
• JOI — Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc.
• WEC — World Energy Council
• MWR — Microwave Radiometer
• BNA — block numbering area
• MIC — Micah
• EP — Extraction Procedure
• NADP/NTN — National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network
• JERS — Japanese Earth Resources Satellite (JPOP)

• UNIFEM — United Nations Development Fund for Women
• NEP — Noise Equivalent Power
• TIT — Titus
• REV. PROC. — Revenue Procedure
• IDEOL — ideology
• CEA — Central Electricity Authority
• MOM — Modular Ocean Model
• VID — Vehicle Identification Number
• AICHE — American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• YRS — Years
• PAD — Program Approval Document
• DSP — Digital Signal Processor
• LDR — Linear Depolarization Ratio
• COTS — Commercial Off the Shelf Software
• MISC — Miscellany
• NAAQ — National Ambient Air Quality
• MPL — Marine Physical Laboratory
• TROP — Tropical
• OBDH — On-Board Data Handling
• VBL.N — verbal noun
• ICF — Instrument Control Facility
• R — Regina
• STRI — Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• USCA — United States Code Annotated
• CV — Calorific Value
• ARINC — Aeronautical Radio Incorporated
• HK — Housekeeping
• PCM — Pulse-Code Modulation
• IUFRO — International Union of Forestry Research Organizations
• WATSTORE — Water Data Storage and Retrieval System
• RTU — Remote Terminal Unit
• CH4-C — Methane-carbon ratio
• AO — Atmosphere-Ocean
• ST — Steam Turbine
• NASCOM — NASA Communications System
• PA.T — past tense
• HIBOR — Hong Kong interbank offered rate
• ICE — International Cometary Explorer
• GSMNP — Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• MPE — Mission to Planet Earth
• IPS — Inter Press Service
• SNL — Sandia National Laboratories
• B.C — Before Christ
• CIF — Cost, Insurance, Freight
• B.C — British Columbia
• GNP — gross national product (economics)
• IMM — International Monetary Market
• SLA — Special Libraries Association
• CL — Common Law
• VIC — Victoria

• NAD 83 — North American Datum of 1983
• WD — Wind Direction
• JX — Jurisdiction
• PACORII — Packet Processor Data Capture Facility II
• DCF — discounted cash flow rate
• FCC — Federal Communications Commission (US)
• PCMDI — Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
• IAF — International Astronautical Federation
• ALM — Almanac
• MCC — Mesoscale Convective Complex
• HQ — Headquarters (HDQ Preferred)
• MW — Megawatt (one million watts)
• FRD — Flight Requirements Document
• PALAEONT — palaeontology
• HP — Health Physics
• LCH — London Clearing House
• SRM — Standard Reference Material
• FR — French Republic
• PDE — Partial Differential Equation
• AI — Associate Investigator
• SM — Structural Model
• NMI — NASA Management Instruction
• MIPS — Millions of Instructions Per Second
• MAN — Manual
• CCN — Cloud Condensation Nuclei
• TL — Team Leader
• API — American Petroleum Institute (oil)
• MILA — Merritt Island Launch Area
• WATOX — Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment
• SSBUV — shuttle solar backscatter ultraviolet (radiometer)
• XRD — X-Ray Diffraction
• ADC — Affiliated Data Center
• DNA — Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
• LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory
• VSE — Vancouver Stock Exchange
• CCD — Charge Coupled Device - a device for the movement of electrical charge.
• ICIMOD — International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
• VBL.NS — verbal nouns
• TKE — Turbulent Kinetic Energy
• RPB — Recognised Professional Body
• DEPT — Department
• NARA — United States National Archives And Records Administration
• FIPS — Federal Information Processing Standard
• GPI — GOES Precipitation Index
• ARC — Ames Research Center (NASA)
• MIT — Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)
• ARCH — Architect
• OCCURR — occurrence
• DBMS — Data Base Management System
• CPS — Certified Professional Secretary

• SMJ — subject matter jurisdiction
• KHZ — kilohertz (1000 cycles per second)
• EC — European Community
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• UNHCR — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Program
• UCI — University of California, Irvine
• NIH — NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH
• OAXTC — Ocean/Atmosphere Exchange of Trace Compounds
• GEN — General Motors
• UN — United Narions
• OPM — Office of Personnel Management
• HST — Hawaii Standard Time
• CDS — Coronal Diagnostic Spectrometer
• ACE — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• ISMA — International Securities Market Association
• EOM — End of Mission
• STMW — Sub-Tropical Mode Water
• TLM — Telemetry
• COMMUNIC — communication
• AON — All or None
• TOMS — Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite Instrument)
• ESCAP — Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN)
• LLNL — The Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
• NIST — National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
• PNL — Pacific Northwest Laboratory
• AIT — Atomic International Time
• ACE — Advisory Committee on the Environment
• AMI — Active Microwave Instrument
• CH3CCL3 — methylchloroform (1,1,1-trichloroethane)
• TOCOM — Tokyo Commodity Exchange
• MIN — Minute
• RADPATH — Biochemical Pathways of Artificial Radionuclides (CEC)
• DOL — United States Department of Labor
• SIDS — Small Island Developing States
• REVOL — revolution
• NTIS — National Technical Information Service Technology Administration
• EDP — Electronic Data Processing Plc (London Stock Exchange [LSE])
• LAGCM — general circulation model at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• GS — Ground System
• BFE — Baltic Futures Exchange
• UPS — Uninterruptible Power Supply
• EXCOMM — Executive Committee
• ARISTOTELES — Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite
• U.S. — United States
• JECOR — U.S.-Saudi Arabian Joint Commission of Economic Cooperation
• CBS — Commission for Basic Systems
• NSSDC — National Space Science Data Center (Greenbelt, MD)
• RFLP — Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism
• JUDG — Judges
• MPC — Model Penal Code

• DHS — Department of Human Services
• REV. RUL. — Revenue Ruling
• ASI — Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
• DOS — United States Department of State
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu)
• SELPER — Society of Latin American Remote Sensing Specialists
• CAC-40 — Compagnie des Agents de Change-40
• ABLE — Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• MIF — Mercato Italiano Futures
• IBRD — International Bank For Reconstruction And Development (part Of The World Bank)
• IACGEC — Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change
• EDSP — Exchange Delivery Settlement Price
• YEARBK — yearbook
• BIBEX — Biomass Burning Experiment (IGAC programme)
• CNR — Committee on Natural Resources
• HUD — Department of Housing and Urban Development (U.S.)
• AOL — Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR
• CPO — Core Project Office
• MOM — Mission Operations Manager
• TC — Telecommand
• RAWG/HYDROLOGY — Regional Associations'Working Groups on Hydrology
• RAES — Retail Automated Execution System
• ECDIS — Electronic Chart Display and Information System
• CAA — Clean Air Act (1970, amended in 1977, and again in 1990)
• CFA — Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA
• CCC — Canadian Climate Centre
• LWC — Liquid Water Content
• CAD — Computer-Aided Design
• LANCS — Lancashire
• OBSERV — observation
• UPU — Universal Postal Union
• SGR — Specific Growth Rate
• PRN — Pseudo-Random Noise
• GN — Ground Network
• PSP — Precision Spectral Pyranometer
• CAM — Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (photosynthetic Pathway)
• WARC — World Administrative Radio Conference
• PALAEONTOL — palaeontology
• G — Gram (g)
• KW — Kilowatt (one thousand watts) (measurement)
• RW — Reaction Wheel
• AD — Acronym Dictionary
• MI — Mode Indicator
• WARWICKSH — Warwickshire
• LHV — lower heating value
• VMS — Virtual Memory System
• MORFLOT — Ministry of the Merchant Marine of the Soviet Union
• O&M — Operation and Maintenance
• GHZ — Gigahertz
• IMD — India Meteorological Department

• AFF — Affairs
• RARR — Range and Range Rate
• AURIO — Auroral Imaging Observatory
• IFMK — Institut fur Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany
• CBOT — Chicago Board of Trade
• MAHLOVS — Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
• RNA — Ribo Nucleic Acid
• RPR — Remote Procedure Request
• SEASTAR — Spacecraft flying SeaWIFS
• LANL/ACL — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory
• UNTAB — United Nations Technical Assistance Board
• TLV — Threshold Limit Value
• IATA — International Air Transport Association
• BAO — Boulder Atmospheric Observatory
• TGT — TDRSS Ground Terminal
• CBOE — Chicago Board Options Exchange's
• LANGS — languages
• MPC — Maximum Permissible Concentration
• OBSTETR.MED — obstetric medicine
• URL — Upper Range Limit
• MMSCMD — million metric standard cubic metre per day
• ABL — Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• ARIZ. REV. STAT. — Arizona Revised Statutes
• ISU — International Space University
• HASP — High Altitude Sampling Program
• FAREW — farewell
• GIF — Graphic Interchange Format
• MCC — Mission Control Center (JSC)
• IQSY — International Quiet Sun Year
• PMB — Potato Marketing Board
• SOFFEX — Swiss Options and Financial Futures Exchange
• GE — General Electric American Communications Inc.
• INS — Inertial Navigation System
• OBSTETR — obstetric
• NSSFC — National Severe Storms Forecast Center
• NAPAP — National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
• NH4 — ammonium
• TLA — Three Letter Abbreviation
• AA — Atomic Absorption
• DAC — Days After Contract
• IEA — International Energy Agency (Paris)
• NDVI — Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
• OTA — Office of Technology Assessment (U.S.; abolished by Congress, Fall 1995)
• MBPS — Megabits per second
• MTS — Microwave Temperature Sounder
• ICC — Instrument Control Center
• SO4 — Sulfate radical
• C3AT — Ch3 Albedo Test (AVHRR)
• USGS — United States Geological Survey (DOI)
• AMTS — Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder

• NDA — Non-Disclosure Agreement
• CDDIS — Crustal Dynamics Data Information System
• PALAEOGR — palaeography
• GL — Geophysics Laboratory
• PAGES-EXCOMM — PAGES Executive Committee
• CA # — Court of Appeals
• OIE — Overseas Investment Exchange
• KM — Kilometer (1,000 meters)
• MONUM — monument
• RMS — root mean square (preferred over "RMS")
• WTO — World Trade Organisation
• CJS — Corpus Juris Secundum
• BIS — Bank of International Settlements
• HAPEX-MOBILHY — HAPEX-MOdelisation du BILan Hydrique
• PALAEOBOT — palaeobotany
• WMO — World Meteorological Organization (ICSU)
• BLM — Bureau of Land Management of United States Department of the Interior
• LST — Local Standard Time
• HFO — Heavy Fuel Oil
• PAGES-SSC — PAGES Scientific Steering Committee
• RCF — Relative Centrifugal Force
• VOC — Volatile Organic Compounds (air pollution)
• IFO — Intensive Field Observation
• HANDBK — handbook
• CTV — Compatibility Test Van
• NSIDC — National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• FEP — Front-End Processor
• ICRP — International Commission on Radiological Protection
• WPL — Wave Propagation Laboratory
• AGAGE — Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• RFD — Royal Forestry Department
• AIS — Automated Information Security
• ASAR — Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar 
• EIS — Environmental Impact Statement (US)
• PAN — Peroxyacetylnitrate
• IAEG — International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment
• DIST — District
• ASCHE — American Society of Chemical Engineers
• ASSAS — Advanced Solid State Array Sensor
• KLOFFE — Kuala Lumpur Options and Financial Futures Exchange
• HAMPSH — Hampshire
• LTOM — London Traded Options Market
• CHY — Commission for Hydrology
• DOC — United States Department of Commerce
• HHS — Health and Human Services Department
• SIMD — Single Instruction, Multiple Data (system) (processor)
• ADVOC — advocate
• EMPH — emphatic
• AM/FM — Automated Mapping/Facilities Management (Society)
• RFT — Registered Floor Trader

• PPFD — Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density
• JASON — Scientific panel (MITRE Corporation
• EIA — Environmental impact assessment (international)
• NGVD 29 — National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
• IOS — Institute of Ocean Sciences
• GARP — Global Atmospheric Research Program (WMO, ICSU, and NOAA)
• MHA — million hectare
• IFAD — International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN)
• CMM — Commission for Marine Meteorology
• WIPO — World Intellectual Property Organization
• ISY — International Space Year (1992)
• NO2 — Nitrogen Dioxide
• GCC — Global Change Category
• BACTERIOL — bacteriology
• RFC — Registered Floor Clerk
• MAGIC — Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchment
• XBT — expendable bathythermograph (oceanography)
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System (IOC, UNESCO, WMO, and ICSU)
• USC — United States Code (book of laws)
• MPC — Massively Parallel Computer
• MONEX — Monsoon Experiment
• CMD — Command
• OBSTET — obstetric
• 18O — oxygen-18 (oxygen isotope with atomic weight of 18)
• L/C — Letter of Credit
• KPA — kiloPascal (pressure above ambient (100 kPa = 1 atmosphere excess))
• DCS — Data Collection System (NOAA Polar Orbiting Satellites)
• BATS — Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
• RECOLL — recollection
• ERS — ESA Remote Sensing Satellite
• JAHRB — Jahrbuch
• HCHO — formaldehyde (also written as CH2O)
• HA — Hectare
• AAS — atomic absorption spectrometry (spectrometer, spectroscopy)
• ESR — Emergency Sun Reacquisition
• BOC — Bureau of Census
• SRR — System Requirements Review
• PWV — Precipitable Water Vapor
• DQO — Data Quality Objective
• NYBOR — New York Interbank Offered Rate
• ISDA — International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
• TGE — Tokyo Grain Exchange
• ATA — Agrarische Termijnmarkt Amsterdam
• LANCASH — Lancashire
• HVS — high-volume sampler
• DMSO — Dimethyl Sulfoxide
• CLRI — Central Leather Research Institute
• UNKN — Unknown
• CZCS — Coastal Zone Color Scanner
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System

• ARC/INFO — GIS software
• ISE — International Stock Exchange
• SDAC — Satellite Data Analysis Center
• II — Interdisciplinary Investigator
• K — Kilogram
• NAIC — Newly Agro-Industrialized Country
• FERC — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
• SCF — Scientific Computing Facility
• DMI — Direct Member Input
• CCIR — International Radio Consultative Committee (French Acronym)
• PPT — parts per trillion (1012)
• AMSU-A — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A AMTS
• BCF — Bio-Concentration Factor
• GNMA — Government National Mortgage Association
• APHET — aphetic
• BAHC-SSC — BAHC Scientific Steering Committee
• MJ — Megajoule
• BAPDE — chemically reactive diolepoxides
• KBPS — kilobits per second
• EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet Vertical
• AUX — Auxiliary
• S/W — Software
• ISEE — International Sun-Earth Explorer
• AGWAT — Agriculture and Water Project (JECOR)
• IOC — International Ozone Commission
• FE — Iron (Latin ''Ferrum'')
• ECOSOC — Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
• ECC — Electrochemical Concentration Cell
• DR — Discrepancy Report
• MSB — Most Significant Bit
• QAE — Quality Assurance Engineer
• CIE — Chinese Institute of Electronics
• PSE — Pacific Stock Exchange
• TOR — Tropospheric Ozone Research
• EVA — Extra-Vehicular Activity
• DWS — Doppler Wind Sensor
• ITCZ — Intertropical Convergence Zone (of Seawater)
• PSS — Portable Spacecraft Simulator
• GMDSS — Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (IMO)
• GISP2 — Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two
• LIS — Lightning Imaging Sensor
• KERFIX — Kerguelen fixed station (France) (JGOFS)
• FID — Flame Ionization Detector (gas Chromatography)
• OFT — Office of Fair Trading
• NRL — Naval Research Laboratory
• SPADE — Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
• CLONO2 — chlorine nitrate
• RRN SAF — RRN Southern and Eastern Africa
• RAPD — Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA
• NOAO — National Optical Astronomy Observatories (Tucson, AZ)

• DOT — Deployment Operations Team
• AAWORD — Association of African Women for Research and Development
• BBF — Bolsa Brasileira de Futuros
• ADV — Advance
• MSS — Mission Support System
• ISA — Israel Space Agency
• CZMA — US Coastal Zone Management Act
• OCN — Oceania
• FIBOR — Frankfurt Interbank Offered Rate
• AGWP — Absolute Global Warming Potential
• GCOS — Global Climate Observing System (WMO, IOC, UNEP, and ICSU)
• POLAR — Polar Plasma Laboratory
• LBLRTM — Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model
• FTA — Financiele Termijnmarket Amsterdam
• ROPME — Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment
• OA — Operations Agreement
• FCV — Flow Control Valve
• SOS — Southern Oxidants Study
• FTU — Formazin Turbidity Unit
• SO. 2D — Southern Reporter, 2nd Series
• RX — Receive
• NCAR — National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
• AGSS — Attitude Ground Support System
• UNCTAD — United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
• ERBE — Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
• N2 — Nitrogen
• DAAC — Distributed Active Archive Center
• ISTP — International Solar Terrestrial Physics
• IMS — Information Management System (LTPP)
• ATTRIB — Attribute
• ABST — Abstract
• HOSP — Hospital
• TEAM — Technology Base Enhancement for Autonomous Machines
• IAMAP-IAHS — IAMAP-International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• ARS — United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service
• DDL — Direct Downlink
• IDL — Interactive Data Language
• CT. CL. — the United States Court of Federal Claims Reporter
• IASI — Improved Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
• ARPA — Advanced Research Project Agency's
• ITB — Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia
• IRTS — Infrared Temperature Sounder
• VLSI — Very-Large-Scale Integration
• JST — Japan Standard Time
• ADDR — Address
• ETO — Exchange Traded Option
• HCFC-141B — hydrochlorofluorocarbon-141b
• COPUOS — Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN)
• DHHS — Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
• ANNIV — Anniversary

• CAEM — Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (WMO)
• RPA — Remotely Piloted Aircraft
• SDC — Swiss Development Corporation
• ECE — Economische Commissie voor Europa (United Nations) (Dutch: Economic Commission for Europe)
• LIS — Land Information System
• TEAMA — Terrestrial Ecosystems in Monsoon Asia
• SO2 — Sulfur Dioxide
• WFC — World Food Council
• GTOS — Global Terrestrial Observing System
• TAPPI — Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Inc.
• AAOE — Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
• P&S — Purchase and Sale
• NREN — National Research and Education Network
• FAO — Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• DOY — Day of Year
• ESRC — Economic and Social Research Council
• KJ — kilojoule (energy measure)
• IGFA — International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
• GCRP — Global Change Research Program
• S/C — Spacecraft
• INTRANS — intransitive
• DGVM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (GAIM)
• EEZ — Exclusive Economic Zone
• ANU — Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)
• IGBP — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• BUREC — United States Bureau of Reclamation (government)
• CDC — Control Data Corporation, Incorporated
• ASOS — Automated Surface Observing System
• GOVT — Government
• APM — Antenna Pointing Mechanism
• YR — Year
• NCSA — National Center for Supercomputing Applications
• IMO — International Maritime Organization
• ITPR — Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer
• FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
• ECD — Electron Capture Detector (gas Chromatography)
• BUBOR — Budapest Interbank Offered Rate
• ISO — International Standard Organisation
• UCAR — University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
• MB — Millibar(s)
• TM — Thematic Mapper (Landsat)
• APHA — American Pharmaceutical Association
• UNSO — United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office
• TCP/IP — Transmission Control/Internet Protocol
• HHV — Higher Heating Value (thermal efficiency basis)
• TDS — Total Dissolved Solids
• AASE — Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
• PSYCHOL — Psychological
• DL — Downlink Message
• OD — Orbit Determination

• ICSU — International Council of Scientific Unions
• ASXD — Australian Stock Exchange Derivatives
• NHC — United States National Hurricane Center
• RAOB — Radiosonde Observation
• FWPCA — Federal Water Pollution Control Act (1972)
• IRRI — International Rice Research Institute
• ERDAS — Earth Resources Data Analysis System
• CDHF — Central Data Handling Facility
• USN — United States Navy
• UAV — Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle
• OCO — One Cancels the Other Order
• INDIR — indirect
• ACABQ — Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
• ECOWARM — European Committee for Water Resources Management (IAHS)
• COARE — Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA and WCRP)
• MG — milligram; 1/1000 gram
• CLO2 — chlorine dioxide
• CU — University of Colorado at Boulder
• VTPR — Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
• UH — University of Heidelberg
• NO3 — Nitrate Radical
• IDB — Inter-American Development Bank
• LRA — Laser Retroreflector Array
• TOPEX — Ocean Topography Experiment
• NAR — Net Assimilation Rate
• CCS — Central Checkout System
• GC — gonococcus (gonnorhea germ)
• VAR — Variant
• UNFCCC — United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• JUL — July
• IWGDMGC — Interagency Working Group on Data Management for Global Change
• DOAS — Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
• COMB — Combination
• POSTH — posthumous
• MIMD — multiple instruction, multiple data (system)
• DA — discretionary account
• HALOE — Halogen Occultation Experiment
• AOGCM — Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
• ILO — International Labor Organization (UN)
• VOS — Voluntary Observing Ship
• SRS — Statistical Reporting Service
• MAFF — Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food (U.K.)
• MOC — Memorandum Of Cooperation
• ADJ.PHR — adjectival phrase
• DSDP — Deep-Sea Drilling Project
• ONR — Office of Naval Research (U.S.)
• ADCLS — Advanced Data Collection and Location System
• AFGWC — Air Force Global Weather Central (U.S.)
• KNOWL — Knowledge
• COE — Creek Corps of Engineers

• GBPS — Gigabits per second
• INC. — Incorporated
• IBEX-35 — stock index
• BAPMON — Background Air Pollution Monitoring Network
• PE — Pipeline Execution
• ANL — The Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill
• DMA — U.S. Defense Mapping Agency
• MKS — meter-kilogram-second (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKS")
• PREROG — prerogative
• MAGSAT — Magnetic Field Satellite
• USGCRP — United States Global Change Research Program
• AWWA — American Water Works Association (Denver)
• GBRS — Generic Block Recording System
• SUNY — State Universityrsity of New York
• NCEP — National Centers For Environmental Prediction (form. NMC; NWS Center)
• TDRSS — Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
• ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory's
• CIT — California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
• RCS — Radar Cross Section
• BETW — between
• OBO — Order Book Official
• SOCA — Special Operations Control Area
• HCL — Hydrogen Chloride
• DMS — Dimethyl Sulfide
• C&DH — Command & Data Handling
• WCAP — World Climate Applications Program
• AEST — Australian Eastern Standard Time
• PIBOR — Paris Interbank Offered Rate
• BQ — Becquerel
• SHAKS — Shakespeare
• GGS — Global Geospace Science
• WHOI — Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• KEV — kilo electron volts
• EVOL — Evolution
• BUFR — Binary Universal Form for the Representation (of data)
• TIGER — Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research
• GAC — Global Area Coverage
• CEES — Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
• KYR — kiloyear
• LIMS — Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
• ANN — Annual
• ECMWF — European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• YR — Years old
• MIBK — Methyl IsoButyl Ketone traditional name for methyl pentanone
• COP — Conference of the Parties
• FEB — February
• DD — degree day
• KING'S BENCH DIV — King's Bench Division
• X-SAR — X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
• BULL — Bulletin

• ACC — Account
• SPL — Split Phase Level
• EOSAT — Earth Observation Satellite Co.
• SEV — several
• ADAAC — Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Center
• CCR — Cost-Charge Ratio
• VAS — VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
• AGU — American Geophysical Union
• EMEX — Equatorial Mesoscale Experiment
• QUOT — Quotation
• ICICI — Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India
• RBV — return-beam Vidicon
• VISSR — visible and infrared spin scan radiometer (GOES)
• ADALT — Advanced Radar Altimeter
• WKLY — Weekly
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA US)
• ACC — Air Combat Command (formerly TAC)
• MITI — Ministry of International Trade and Industry
• CEOS — Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
• FTS — File Transfer System
• DEW — distant early warning (radar)
• GTE — Global Tropospheric Experiment
• HP — Hewlett-Packard Development Company
• HCN — Hydrogen Cyanide Nitrogen
• EPRI — Electric Power Research Institute (US)
• OLR — Outgoing Long-Wave Radiation
• DND — Department of National Defense (Canada)
• CMAP — Climate Modeling, Analysis & Prediction
• MTMC — Military Traffic Management Command
• JMA — Japan Meteorological Agency
• JRNL — Journalism
• 14C — carbon-14 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 14)
• APAR — Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation
• ISSC — International Social Science Council
• ARK. CODE — Arkansas Code
• ALSC — Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation
• ALA. CODE — Code of Alabama 1975
• UNIV — University
• AOML — Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (Miami, Florida) (ERL)
• DPS — Data Processing Segment
• MARECO — Marine Radioecology Working Group (IUR)
• ALADIN — Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument
• HWRP — Hydrology and Water Resources Programme
• UNITAR — United Nations Institute for Training and Research
• MCP — Meteorological Communications Package
• DIF — Data Interchange Format
• ISAMS — Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder
• CLAES — Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer
• GRID — Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)
• HSIO — High Speed Input/Output

• BCP1 — Broadcast Pulse 1
• THEORET — theoretical
• EASOE — European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
• SCULPT — sculpture
• GOME — Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• TOS — TIROS Observational System
• GTCE — Global Tropospheric Chemistry Experiment
• AASP — American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
• FAM — Family
• LSD — Least Significant Difference
• TRIG — Trigonometry
• EOS — Earth Observing System (U.S.)
• BIA — Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)
• HDC — Holder in Due Course
• NGDC — National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
• RIE — Recognised Investment Exchange
• IRREG — Irregular
• FSL — Forecast Systems Laboratory (a NOAA ERL)
• APPOS — appositive
• SASK — Saskatchewan
• EGSE — Electrical Ground Support Equipment
• SS — Stainless Steel
• UAF — University of Alaska Fairbanks
• PSK — Phase Shift Key
• XPNDR — Transponder
• AMSU — Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• AARI — Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (Russian Federation)
• FCCC — For the Framework Convention on Climate Change
• BEL-20 — stock index
• SPECMAP — Mapping Spectral Variability in Global Climate Project
• SQQ — Standard Qulaity Quotation
• ICSC — International Civil Service Commission
• RASS — radio-acoustic sounding system
• SK — Saskatchewan
• LANDSAT — Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
• HMMR — High-resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
• GPSDR — Global Positioning System Demonstration Receiver
• GCV — Gross Calorific Value
• KSE — Korea Stock Exchange
• LEOP — Launch and Early Orbit Phase
• NSN — NASA Space Network
• HDTV — High-Definition Television
• VENET — Venetian
• MITRE — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Establishment
• LITE — Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
• HUMICAP — Humidity sensor on drifters (FASINEX)
• DLR — Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (Germany)
• UVR — Ultraviolet Radiation
• GTDS — Goddard Trajectory Determination System
• FRN — Floating Rate Note

• HMCRI — Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute
• ARM — Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (DOE program)
• IMB — Investigator of Micro-Biosphere
• AO — announcement of opportunity
• EOF — Empirical Orthogonal Function
• CRREL — Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (COE)
• FSSP — Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe
• NSCAT — Nasa Scatterometer Project
• DE/DT — rate of evaporation (moisture loss from soil)
• ACSYS — Arctic Climate System Study (WCRP)
• ACARS — Aircraft Communication and Recording System
• PPR — problems with the Photopolarimeter Radiometer
• ADDNET — Acid Deposition Data Network (EPA)
• IWG — Investigators Working Group
• DED — Dedicated
• HST — Hubble Space Telescope
• ASOEN — ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment
• PHOTOG — photography
• UCLA — University of California at Los Angeles (U.S.)
• SIAM — Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• AAD — Attitude Anomaly Detector
• UCSB — University Of California Santa Barbara
• VIS — Visible
• ASHOE — Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
• GS&M — Modeling (task team)
• NOY — total active nitrogen
• CLIMAP — Climate Long-Range Investigation Mapping and Prediction (project)
• FEM — Finite Element Method
• NCDC — National Climatic Data Center
• TIBOR — Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate
• DEF — Defence
• CHAPS — Clearing House Automated Payment System
• PROVID — providence
• SCATT — SCATTerometer
• MBS — mortgage backed security
• RADARSAT — Radar Satellite
• 3-D — Three-Dimensional
• EDIS — Environmental Data and Information Service
• IRIS — Integrated Radar Imaging System
• AMIP — Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
• DEIS — Draft Environmental Impact Statement (US)
• GLRD — Great Lakes Research Division
• FEMA — Finite Element Model of Material Transport through Aquifers
• EUMETSAT — European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
• GARD — garden
• MANIP — manipulation
• PHOEN — Phoenician
• TDR — Time-Domain Reflectometry
• TOGA — Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program
• GF3 — General Format No 3

• TIROS — Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
• EVAL — evaluation
• LSB — least-significant byte
• CDDI — Copper Distributed Data Interface
• CPC — Climate Prediction Center (NWS Center)
• TT&C — Telemetry, Tracking and Command
• WEFAX — Weather Facsimile
• ACD — Aeronautical Charting Division (NOS)
• TAE — Transportable Applications Executive (a computer user interface)
• DEM — Digital Elevation Model
• IDEM — Italian Derivatives Market
• IGAC — International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project
• I/F — Interface
• SERI — Solar Energy Research Institute
• MLS — Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS)
• AID — Agency for International Development (U.S.)
• FTIR — Fourier transform infrared radiometer (spectroscopy)
• NO. — Number
• CEQ — Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)
• IPOC — International Partner Operations Center
• CRF — Cloud Radiative Forcing
• DOMSTAR — communications relay set
• SWIRLS — Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
• FWCA — Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1958)
• PARCC — precision, accuracy, representativeness, completeness, and comparability
• UNDRC — Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator
• METEOSAT — European Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
• COMMEND — commendation
• CONTR — Contract
• DOA — United States Department of Agriculture
• LANG — language
• INSA — Institut National des Sciences Appliques (France)
• NKO — Nederlandse Kalibratie Organisatie
• TRAV — Travel
• CEA — Council of Economic Advisors
• IERS — International Ellipsoid Reference System
• BODC — British Oceanographic Data Centre
• IGAP — International Global Aerosol Program
• ATMOS — Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy
• PMEL — Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)
• SAFIRE — Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far-Infrared Emission
• USWB — United States Weather Bureau
• PORC — Porcelain
• EPSRC — l'Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• ESA/IRS — European Space Agency/Information Retrieval Service
• ADVTS — advertisement
• C-C — Counterclaim
• AH — Air Heater
• FEHEM — Front-End Hardware Emulator
• MANCH — Manchester

• FRG — Federal Republic of Germany's
• AAIW — Antarctic Intermediate Water
• CMDL — Climate Monitoring And Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA Boulder
• FED. R. CRIM. P. — Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• DOC — dissolved organic carbon
• LONGLINES — Long Hydrographic Sections Programme
• GT — Gigaton (1 billion tons) (measurement)
• NAVSTAR — Navigation Satellite Timing & Ranging
• ISLN — International Standards Lawyer Number
• CUF — capacity utilization factor
• E.G. — Exempli Gratia (for example)
• JMOL — Judgment as a Matter of Law
• CSD — Commission on Sustainable Development's
• CAPPI — Constant Altitude Plan Position Indicator
• 13C — carbon-13 (carbon isotope with atomic weight of 13)
• IRB — Internal Revenue Bulletin
• MPI — Max Planck Institut (Germany)
• AABW — Antarctic Bottom Water
• DU — Dobson Unit
• ATX — Austrian Traded Index
• UNIDO — United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• OGIST — Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
• GLIS — Global Land Information System
• CGCP — Canadian Global Change Program
• SLIES — Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
• DAU — Daughter
• STAND — Standard
• MIBOR — Madrid Interbank Offered Rate
• MAESA — Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
• AFR — Africa
• ART — Another Ray Tracer
• SPARC — Stratospheric Processes and their Role In Climate Change
• NESHAP — National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• DIS — Data and Information Systems (EOS and IGBP)
• PPBV — parts per billion (109) by volume
• HIRDLS — HIgh-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (EOS)
• TIRS — Thermal Infrared Scanner
• TCDC — Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Climatology Project
• HOX — odd hydrogen (OH and H2O2)
• CDCR — Conceptual Design and Cost Review
• NSTC — National Science and Technology Council (U.S.)
• POEMS — Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
• SMIRD — SOHO Mission Implementation Requirements Document
• AES — Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada)
• IDS — Interdisciplinary Science
• HTTP — Hypertext Transport Protocol
• EEC — European Economic Commission
• GEDEX — Greenhouse Effect Detection Experiment
• USDOD — United States Department Of Defense

• COM — Commission
• CA. — circa
• TOPEX/POSEIDON — Ocean Topography Experiment
• USFS — United States Forest Service
• EOC — EOS Operations Center (NASA)
• AIBS — American Institute of Biological Sciences
• UNJSPF — United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
• EML — Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)
• ATLAS — ACTIVITIES Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science
• MFO — mixed-function oxidase (enzyme system)
• GEF — Global Environmental Facility (environment)
• VAM — Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal
• EPHIN — Electron Proton Helium Instrument
• CO-I — Co-Investigator
• (D)PR — dual precipitation radar
• CAL — Calendar
• DISCRIM — discrimination
• RVAU — Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
• RTNEPH — real-time nephanalysis
• EBM — energy-balance model
• CONSTR — Construct
• IBSRAM — International Board for Soil Research and Management
• MEA — Monoethanolamine
• GCDIS — US Global Change Data and Information System
• FS — Forest Service (USDA)
• JGOFS — Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
• LEFI — Local Electric Field Instrument
• NIGEC — National Institute for Global Environmental Change
• TSCA — Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
• PHR — Phrase
• ATLID — Atmospheric LIDAR
• SST — Sea surface temperature
• NAAQS — National Ambient Air Quality Standards (US)
• NBRF — National Biomedical Research Foundation
• LR — Laser Retroreflector
• CODMAC — Committee On Data Management, Archiving, and Computation
• CIL — Coal India Limited
• CAMS — Control and Monitoring System
• HOCL — Hypochlorous Acid
• CCT — computer-compatible tape
• CLIVAR — Climate Variability and Predictability program
• AE — Atmosphere Explorer
• ABBREV — abbreviation
• IMS — Information Management Services, Inc.
• HAE — Height Above Ellipsoid
• ALARA — As Late As Reasonably Achievable
• ICACGP — International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution
• CDOS — Customer Data and Operations System
• NDBC — National Data Buoy Center
• NISTEP — National Institute of Science and Technology Policy

• CELIAS — Charge, Element, and Isotope Analysis System
• HMW — High Molecular Weight
• AER — Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• MIDAM — Midamerica Commodity Exchange
• HGA — High Gain Antennae
• -S — Arakawa-Schubert
• RUC — Roskilde University Center
• MCIDAS — Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
• QBO — Quasi-biennial Oscillation (atm.)
• IDOL — idolatry
• REFASH — refashion
• SUSIM — Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
• HDF — Hierarchical Data Format
• AWIPS-90 — Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System for the 90's
• LED — Low Energy Detector
• ITU — Integrated Terrain Unit
• CSM — Climate System Monitoring
• 1-D — one-dimensional
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observing System
• MCF — methane conversion factor
• IUB — International Union of Biochemistry (ICSU)
• DHP — Direct High Power
• CFC — Chloroflourocarbon
• CEN — The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) a European business organization aimed at removing trade barriers for European industry and consumers.
• AAPP — Average All Pig Price
• IV&V — independent verification and validation
• AM. JUR. 2D. — American Jurisprudence, 2nd Series
• IEOS — International Earth Observing System
• BECO — Booster Engine Cutoff
• HAGE — human activity and global environment
• UARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (NASA)
• CERCLA — Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980
• TRANSUBSTANT — transubstantiation
• REBELL — rebellion
• ADVERT — Advertisement
• DSB — Direct Sounding Broadcast
• VDS — Virtual Data Set
• NZFOE — New Zealand Futures and Options Exchange
• BOL — Beginning of Life
• GME — Gyro Management Electronics
• CNEG — Contributory negligence
• ECAMP — Environmental Compliance Assessment and Management Program
• MISR — Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (EOS)
• BAU — business-as-usual
• CIESIN — Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
• EEI — Edison Electric Institute
• AMAD — Activity Median Aerodynamic Diameter
• CFRI — Central Fuel Research Institute (India)
• CTD — Chemical Technology Division (ORNL)
• MESSR — Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer

• LOBT — Local on Board Time
• GRO — Gamma Ray Observatory (NASA)
• ADB — Asian Developing Bank
• ENEA — Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Lo Sviluppo Dell' Energia Nucleare E Delle Energie Alternative
• CCM2 — community climate model two
• BPA — Bonneville Power Administration (US)
• CASSAD — Centre for African Settlement Studies and Development
• AMEDAS — Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System
• GOMOS — Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars
• AUTH — Author
• WRI — World Resources Institute (Washington, D.C.)
• MKSA — meter-kilogram-second-ampere (measurement system; replaced by SI) (preferred over "MKSA")
• SPSO — Science Processing Support Office
• USBR — United States Bureau of Reclamation (USDI)
• EPO — EOS Project Office
• CCGT — Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
• COMPAN — companion
• LITHOL — lithology
• FRTM — Functional Requirements Traceability Matrix
• CNR — Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
• CHP — Combined heat and power
• NERI — National Environmental Research Institute
• NOCC — Network Operations Control Center (GSFC)
• RRN CAR — RRN Caribbean
• ALASKA ADMIN. CODE — Alaska Administrative Code
• VNIR — Visible And Near InfraRed
• CZM — Coastal Zone Management
• CIMO — Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
• COMPL — Complete
• NPDES — National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
• TRAD — traditional
• TERI — Tata Energy Research Institute
• TERSE — Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
• CR — Carrington Rotation
• AEF — Average Emission Factor
• CIRAC — Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry
• GISS — Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
• IPEI — Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument
• PZT — Piezoelectric Transducer
• GTS — Global Telecommunications System (WMO and
• RGS — Royal Geographic Society
• STAT. — United States Statutes At Large
• ULS — Upward-Looking SONAR
• UTC — Universal Time Coordinate
• UNARS — Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
• AOIPS — Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System
• PRINC — principle
• GSIRD — Ground Data System Information Requirements Document
• EFP — Exchange For Physicals
• JOSH — Joshua

• ADJS — adjective
• 4-D — four-dimensional
• ADD — Addenda
• NEXRAD — Next-Generation Weather Radar (NWS)
• AVHRR GAC — AVHRR Global Area Coverage
• AMER — America
• TISAB — total ionic strength adjustment buffer (analytical method)
• PBU — peribacteroid unit
• APAFO — Advanced Particles And Fields Observer
• GHG — Green House Gas
• ISSMFE — International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering
• MEPED — medium energy proton and electron detector
• MB — Manitoba
• SLEJF — Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum
• ALL ER — All England Law Reports
• CEC — Commission of European Communities (see EC, EEC)
• ESRI — Environmental Systems Research Institute (developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, Redlands, California)
• HFC — HydroFluoroCarbon
• HEREFORD — Herefordshire
• NFA — National Futures Association
• CODATA — Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)
• ACCTS — Accounts
• BIE — Business in the Environment
• NODS — NASA Ocean Data System
• ERD — Ecological Research Division (DOE and OHER)
• IFRB — International Frequency Registration Board of the International Telecommunication Union
• CITE — Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation
• AAF — Association Aeronautique et Astronautique de France
• ECON — Economics
• PMIR — Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
• ORR — Oak Ridge Reservation
• GC/MS — SX)-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry
• ACCS — accounts
• ORNITH — ornithology
• BERKS — Berkshire (English County)
• CEPAL — Comision Economica para America Latina (Spain) (ECLA)
• PSEUDO-SC — pseudo-Scots
• WCP — World Climate Programme (WMO/ICSU)
• ASAP — Automated Shipboard Aerological Program
• GLL — Galileo
• IMG — Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases
• CALIF — California
• IPR — Intellectual Property Right
• INRA — Institut National de Recherche Agronomiques (France)
• AEDD — Arctic Environment Data Directory
• WPCF — Water Pollution Control Federation
• BIOL — Biology
• AMRIR — Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer
• CONF — Conference
• LOE — Late Old English

• SURG — Surgery
• CD-ROM — compact disc-read only memory
• CMS — Configuration Management System
• NEIC — National Enforcement Investigations Center
• RNMI — Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
• TIGGER — Earth sciences dimension to TIGER
• CDIAC — Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Cente
• NBIOME — Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
• AL — Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (ERL)
• JEOS — Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
• DISCIPL — discipline
• WVR — Water Vapor Radiometer
• MEFF RENTA FIJA — derivatives exchange in Barcelona, Spain
• HDR — Hardware Design Review
• 4DDA — Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation
• FDH — Fixed Dynamical Heating
• SWEDAC — Swedish Board for Technical Accreditation
• FPD — Flame Photometric Detector
• 1-D RCM — one-dimensional radiative-convective model
• ITC — International Institute for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences
• DP — Direct Playback
• MDSRS — Morphology-Dependent Stimulated Raman Scattering
• EPH — Ephesians
• LANDSAT — land satellite (photographs of the ground)
• DAS — Data Acquisition System
• SPELDA — Structure Porteuse External pour Lancements Doubles Ariane (external
• TDMA — Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer
• IUR — International Union of Radioecologists
• SUP — Soluble Unreactive Phosphorus
• SCOPE — Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)
• PNNL — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) (US)
• MASFLEX — Marginal Sea Flux Experiment (in the West Pacific) (IGOPS)
• AODC — Acridine Orange Direct Count [of Bacteria]
• DCN — Document Change Notice
• ETC. — and others especially of the same kind; and so forth
• ADMIR — admiralty
• DIU — Data Information Unit (of WOCE Data System)
• NHRI — National Hydrology Research Institute
• PJ — Petajoule
• VTIR — visible and thermal infrared radiometer
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• ANOR — Another
• SBUV — Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (experiment)
• MRT — Mission Readiness Test
• ISEB 10 — Tenth International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry
• AMBIACE — Amazon Biogeochemistry and Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment
• GAW — Global Atmosphere Watch (WMO)
• ANARE — Australian National Antarctic Research Establishment
• XIE — X-Ray Imaging Experiment
• CLAVR — Clouds from AVHRR

• ATDD — Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• MODIS — moderate-resolution imaging spectrometer (NASA/GSFC)
• PTFE — Polytetrafluoroethylene
• SOLSTICE — Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
• HIRS — High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
• PAF — Processing Archiving Facility
• DOLY — Dynamic Global Phytogeography Model (GCTE)
• SAGE — Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment
• DISTILL — distilling
• SRD — System Requirements Document
• FEIS — Final Environmental impact statement (US)
• DSM — demand-side management
• WOCE — World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• ONEB — Office of National Environmental Board
• COADS — Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
• PSC — Polar Stratospheric Clouds (in Antarctic)
• ELEM — Element
• BRU — Battery Regulation Unit
• WBC — Western Boundary Current
• AVCS — Advanced Vidicon Camera System
• DISTRIB — distribution
• BBAISR — British Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate
• VLBI — Very Long Baseline Interferometry
• GENESIS — Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems
• CIMSS — Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
• ORAU — Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• IRC — International Radiation Commission
• VIRSR — Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
• KINGD — kingdom
• GALE — Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment
• BIPM — Bureau International de Poids et Mesures
• H/W — Hardware
• AITP — Arctic Ice Thickness Project (WCRP)
• FT — Free troposphere
• CWA — Clean Water Act (1977)
• GESS — Graphics Executive Support System
• PDSI — Palmer Drought Severity Index
• SSU — Stratospheric Sounding Unit (TOVS)
• AIRS — Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (EOS)
• MW — Milliwatt
• OTEC — ocean thermal energy conversion (electricity)
• JERS-1 — Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
• INSAT — Indian satellite
• GCEP — Global Change Education Program
• ACP — Atmospheric Chemistry Program (DOE)
• CIBOR — Copenhagen Interbank Offered Rate
• CSO — Central Statistical Organization
• CSIR — Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
• A. — Atlantic Reporter
• USIA — United States Information Agency (changed To IIP)

• KR — Krypton
• DSCC — Deep Space Communications Complex
• FRCP — Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• SEB — State Electricity Board
• LWIR — long-wavelength (thermal) infrared
• PSD — Prevention of Significant Deterioration
• IMS — International Mountain Society
• IDNDR — International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• FOX — London Futures and Options Exchange
• AASSREC — Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils
• NARS — National Archives and Records Service (GSA)
• UCR — University of California at Riverside
• NILU — Norwegian Institute for Air Research
• ACTM — Atmospheric Chemical Transport Model
• NPOP — NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
• NRCP — National Research Council for the Philippines
• CAR — Caribbean Region
• GOP — Geographical Observatories Programme
• SEATO — Southeast Asian Treaty Organization
• ICP/MS — Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry
• SMOCC — SOHO Mission Operations Control Center
• FGCC — Federal Geodetic Control Committee
• CHIPS — Clearing House Interbank Payments System
• BVRJ — Bolsa de Valores do Rio de Janeiro
• SUBSEQ — Subsequent
• MERCH — Merchantable
• WGDM — Working Group on Data Management
• HIMSS — high-resolution microwave spectrometer sounder
• TMC — Thinking Machine Corporation
• AIREP — Aircraft Weather Report
• LAWS — Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder (NASA)
• EDSG — Energy Demand Steering Group
• USNMAS — United States National Map Accuracy Standard
• HBR — Hydrogen Bromide
• ABB — Association des Banques Belges
• EOTC — European Organization for Testing and Certification (EC)
• SUPPL — Supplement
• DECNET — Digital Equipment Corporation Network
• PHILAD — Philadelphia
• ERIM — Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
• HDGEC — Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• ENQ — Enquiry
• EVEN — evening
• SDSD — Satellite Data Services Division
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
• SIR-C — Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
• CNES — Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales
• TRIB — Chicago Tribune Newspaper
• GCTM — Global Chemical Transport Model
• JSC — Joint Scientific Committee (ICSU, WCRP, and WMO)

• APME — Attitude Pointing Mechanism Electronics
• ICCE — International Commission on Continental Erosion (IAHS)
• BBZ — benthic boundary zone
• GLAS — Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
• VTR — Video Tape Recording
• CRI — Climate Research Institute (Oklahoma State University)
• CMC — Canadian Meteorological Centre
• IUBMB — International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• GDSIRD — Ground Data System Information Requirements Document
• CSPAAD — Coarse Sun Pointing Attitude Anomaly Detection
• BPPT — Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (Indonesia)
• ASTRON — Astronomy
• AIV — Assembly-Integration-Verification
• EOSP — Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter
• NNSS — Navy Navigational Satellite System
• AUSTRAL — Australia
• ACL — alternate concentration level
• FBC — Fluidized Bed Combustor
• FUA — The Fuel Use Act (US)
• VIRS — Visible Infrared Scanner
• NCV — Net Calorific Value
• BTAN — Bons du Trésor а intérët Annuel Normalisés
• NORTHANTS — Northamptonshire
• SGCR — Subcommittee on Global Change Research
• TES — Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS)
• MASC — Mountain Administration Support Center (NOAA)
• SRO — Self Regulatory Organisation
• CPE — Eastern Europe (also called Centrally Planned Europe)
• ASASP — Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer Probe
• DLS — Dynamic Limb Sounder
• ITM — In the Money
• IGY — International Geophysical Year (1 July 1957 - 31 December 1958)
• IUCR — International Union of Crystallography
• LI — library
• WRC — World Radiation Center
• NTS — Nevada Test Site
• TIA — Territorial and International Affairs
• ANALYT — analytic)
• OSSE — Observing System Simulation Experiment
• OMX — Option Market Index
• VIZ — Videlicet
• FASINEX — Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment
• GVR — Grant, Vacate and Remand
• WCRP — World Climate Research Program
• WTI — West Texas Crude
• NACNEMS — North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
• NGM — Nested Grid Model
• BTP — Buoni del Tesoro Poliennali
• WILL — William
• ARIZ. ADMIN. CODE — Arizona Administrative Code

• COLL — COLLege
• COMM — Common
• MTG — Meeting
• CSU — Colorado State University (Fort Collins)
• OSU — Oregon State University
• AOCE — Attitude and Orbit Control Electronics
• AIBD — Association of International Bond Dealers
• DFCD — Data Format Control Documents
• BITNET — Because It is Time NETwork
• BOB — Bureau of the Budget
• CENELEC — European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (EC)
• AEROCE — Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment
• UNISIST — United Nations System for Scientific and Technological Information
• ICA — International Communication Agency
• IGEA — International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
• MWIR — medium-wavelength infrared
• TDLS — Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy
• HPD — Hydrometeorological Processes Division
• POCM — parallel ocean-climate model
• NRCT — National Research Council of Thailand
• TVA — Tennessee Valley Authority (US) (electricity)
• ICP-OES — inductively coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy
• SERDP — Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
• MRTT — Mission Readiness Test Team
• ICARDA — International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas
• NTOM — Network Technical and Operations Manager
• MERFOX — Mercadode Futuros y Opciones
• CX — Constitution
• ODC — Other Data Center
• LVS — Large Volume Sampling
• POGO — Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
• NIRP — National Institute for Radiation Protection
• AL2O3 — alumina
• MOPITT — Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere (EOS)
• ED — Energy Division
• NCIC — National Cartographic Information Center
• GIMMS — Global Inventory Modeling and Monitoring Study
• ODB — Orbit Determination Beacon
• MTCE — Million Tonnes of Carbon Equivalent
• FLINN — Fiducial Laboratories for an International Natural Sciences Network
• INAUG — inaugural
• AIME — American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
• OBL — OBLique
• HSWA — Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (RCRA, 1984)
• HTW — High Temperature Winkler gasifier
• QN — quinoline
• EJ — Exajoule
• ADVB — adverb
• TIC — Total Inorganic Carbon
• SPIE — The Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers

• PROV — Proverbs
• NBIS — Northern Biosphere Information System
• NASDAQ — National Assocation of Securities Dealers Automated Quote System
• CSELI — Centra Studi e Laboratori Telecommunicazioni (Italy)
• ILAS — Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
• ISEQ — Irish Stock Exchange Equity Index
• GEMS — Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP)
• TRSC — Thailand Remote Sensing Centre
• LRPT — low-resolution picture transmission
• CXL — Constitutional
• GENIE — Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange
• TOMUIS — 3-D ozone mapping with ultraviolet imaging spectrometer
• TVCF — Transportable Vehicle Checkout Facility
• HELCOM — Helsinki Commission, protection of Baltic marine environment
• FURNIT — furniture
• GLOCHANT — Global Change Research in the Antarctic
• CE — Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy (US Department of Energy)
• CORES — Computer Assisted Order Routing and Execution System
• IRIS — Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
• MDC — More Developed Country
• ICWG — International Coordination Working Group
• 2-D — a.k.a. 2D, two-dimension, two-dimensional
• PURG — purgatory
• CPP — Cloud Photopolarimeter
• LDC — less-developed country
• ADVT — advertisement
• NOB — Notes Over Bonds
• IRSS — Indian Remote Sensing Satellite
• CONGRESS — congressional
• IGFA — Inter-Governmental Funding Agencies
• IBP — International Biological Programme (ICSU)
• ETYMOL — Etymology
• CART — Cloud and Radiation Testbed (ARM)
• GLI — Global Imager
• 2-D RCAM — two-dimensional radiative-advective-convective equilibrium model
• AVHRR LAC — AVHRR Local Area Coverage
• RTD — Real-Time Data
• AD. — ad sectam (Latin)
• ORNL/ACL — ORNL/Advanced Computing Laboratory
• SMC — System Management Center
• DOI — United States Department of Interior
• INDEF — Indefinite
• QUANTUM MECH — quantum mechanics
• APID — Application Identification
• WBDCS — Wide-Band Data Collection System
• ACHEX — Aerosol Characterization Experiment
• MERIS — medium-resolution imaging spectrometer
• SHPO — State Historic Preservation Office (US)
• ACCOMPL — accomplished
• FF — Free Format

• REGIST — register
• LIBID — London Interbank Bid or Deposit Rate
• DAR — Division of Atmospheric Research (CSIRO)
• IHSS — International Humic Substances Society
• LAI — Leaf Area Index
• CCCO — Committee on Climate Changes and the Ocean (SCOR and IOC)
• NFERC — National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center
• RN — Radon
• QUOTS — quotations
• TRANSF — Transfer
• EXPLOR — Exploration
• VOCAB — Vocabulary
• INDUSTR — industrial
• NESDP — National Economic and Social Development Plan
• ERDA — U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (formerly AEC; now DOE)
• C.V. — coefficient of variation (math)
• LECT — Lecture
• WFEO — World Federation Of Engineering Organizations
• HED — High Energy Detector
• AAG — American Association of Geographers
• SCRIPPS — Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California at San
• USBCF — United States Bureau of Commercial Fisheries
• CSTC — Consolidated Satellite Test Center
• REDEMPT — redemption
• LASE — Lidar Atmospheric Sensing Experiment
• COLA — Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
• ASTROL — Astrology
• ANL/ACRF — ANL's Advanced Computing Research Facility
• WIRP — Watershed Integrated Research Program
• POLARSTERN — Research vessel
• RSD — Residual Standard Deviation
• BAAS — British Association for the Advancement of Science
• ABSTR — Abstract
• IFRTP — Institut Francais pour la Researche et la Technologie Polaire (French
• IGT — Institute of Gas Technology (Chicago)
• MPL — Micropulse Lidar
• FUND — Fundamental
• APPL — Applied
• PCU — Platinum-Cobalt Unit
• ISCCP — International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program
• SIO — Scripps Institutetution of Oceanography
• ETC — Energy Technology Center
• DDMP — domain-decomposition-message-passing
• RRN TSA — RRN Temperate South America
• IGCC — Integrated Gasification Combined Cycles (electric Power Generation Technology)
• AGRHYMET — Agronmeteorology and Operational Hydrology and Their Applications
• ALLIT — alliterative
• SEAWIFS — sea-viewing wide-field sensor
• AOSIS — Association of Small Island States
• CMRS — Coal Mines Research Station

• IMPF — imperfect
• TTO — Total Toxic Organic
• MODECS — Molecular Design of Chemical Systems
• ECWA — Economic Commission for Western Asia
• CLP — Contract Laboratory Program (EPA)
• CCOM — Control Center Operations Manager
• TOGA-COARE — Toga Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
• SCANSCAT — scanning scatterometer
• ADVS — adverbs
• MFLOPS — One megaflop equals 1 million (106) floating point operations
• SECTIONS — Oceanographic Programme of the U.S.S.R.
• XCTD — Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth (probe)
• WINDII — Wind Imaging Interferometer
• STOL — System Test and Operations Language
• ECCLES — ecclesiastical
• GONG — Global Oscillation Network Group
• CLASS — Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System
• DTD — Digital Terrain Data
• ALBIOS — Aluminum Biogeochemistry in Soils (EPRI)
• NORF — Norfolk
• MEFF RENTA VARIABLE — derivatives exchange in Madrid, Spain
• TSP — total suspended particles
• NERP — National Environmental Research Park
• OGCM — Ocean General Circulation Model
• PSFC — surface pressure
• AICRIP — All India Coordinated Programme for Rice Improvement
• NVI — normalized difference vegetation index
• TMR — TOPEX Microwave Radiometer (EOS)
• WSMC — Western Space and Missile Center
• NPS — National Park Service (US)
• ANBS — Asian Network of Biological Sciences
• OCLO — chlorine dioxide
• PAC — Polar Atmospheric Chemistry
• ABERD — Aberdeen or Aberdonensis (Latin)
• TIRIO — Table of Incompatibilities and Requirements for the Instruments Operation
• AOM — Australian Options Market
• PUB.L. — Public Law
• ABI — Association of Italian Bankers
• AMEX — Atlantic Meteorology Experiment
• TERLS — Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (India)
• RESSAC — The Consequence of a Major Nuclear Accident on the Surrounding Environment: Soil and Surface Rehabilitation
• IRSSP — Interactive Remote Sensing Software Package
• WEVS — Wetland Ecosystem Vulnerability Study
• AWRA — American Water Resources Association's
• HCFC — Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
• HANTS — Hampshire
• LPDA — Laser-Phased Doppler Anemometer
• IHB — International Hydrographic Bureau
• SSI — Spectral Statistical Interpolation
• DADS — Data Archive and Distribution System

• BVE — Barotropic Vorticity Equation
• AVIRIS — airborne visible and infrared imaging spectrometer
• POLES — Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
• ARIZ. ADMIN. REG. — Arizona Administrative Register
• GFLOPS — one gigaflop equals 1 billion (109) floating point operations
• MIBID — Madrid Interbank Bid Rate
• BNAP — Basic Hydrological Network Assessment Project
• IBWC — International Boundary and Water Commission (Independent; U.S. and Mexico)
• DORIS — Doppler Orbit And Radio Positioning Integration By Satellite
• NCRP — National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements
• LSN — long- and short-normal resistivity (geophysical logging)
• SSP — Scanning Spectral Polarimeter
• SPAN — Space Physics Analysis Network
• NAST — National Academy of Science and Technology
• ICHTH — ichthyology
• IFOX — Irish Futures and Options Exchange
• STOF — Suprathermal-Time-Of-Flight
• CEEM — Center for Energy and Environmental Management
• PERH — perhaps
• LXX — Septuagint
• GLOBEC — Global Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
• ADVANCEM — advancement
• DIBID — Dublin interbank bid rate
• XDR — External Data Representation
• MILL(S) — 0.001 U.S. dollars
• MAPS — Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
• USDOE — United States Department Of Energy
• ARCH — Archive
• ARTILL — artillery
• DBE — Deep Basin Experiment
• BSRN — Baseline Surface Radiation Network
• HMSU — high-resolution microwave sounding unit
• PVM — Parallel Virtual Machine
• CONTIN — continuation
• LERTS — Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetection Spatiale (France)
• CCL — Central CO2 Laboratory, SIO (WMO)
• EMAP — Environmental Monitoring And Assessment Program (US EPA)
• DCP-OES — direct coupled plasma--optical emission spectroscopy
• LPM — liters per minute
• ICES — International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• ASAS — Advanced Solid-State Array Sensor
• TRL — Transuranium Research Laboratory
• AMMS — Advanced Multichannel Microwave Sensor
• AIP-3 — Algorithm Intercomparison Project-3
• GLRS-R — Geoscience Laser Ranging System-Ranger
• UITA — Union of International Technical Associations
• ZPC — Zero Point of Change
• F — Fraction
• NYBID — New York Interbank Bid Rate
• CCIFP — Chambre de Compensation des Instruments Financiers de Paris

• MO&DA — Mission Operations and Data Analysis
• SM-MIMD — shared memory, multiple instruction, and multiple data (computer)
• ANNEX II — OECD countries and EU
• NDIR — non-dispersive infrared gas analyzer
• RGCT — Reflective Gross Cloud Test
• BCC — British Coal Corporation
• FIRE — First ISCCP Regional Experiment
• ALCH — ALCHEMY HOLDINGS, INC.
• ASAP — Against Sailormoon Anti Pages
• FXA — Foreign Exchange Agreement
• IDCCC — Interior Department Cartographic Coordinating Committee (DOI)
• NONCONF — nonconformist
• PFTS — perfluorocarbon tracers
• MDE — Middle East
• AGST — Against
• K — Contract
• PCAST — President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
• DEVEL — Development
• DEHYDRITE — magnesium perchlorate anhydrous granular
• AOVP — Arctic Ocean Variability Project
• BASE — Beaufort and Arctic Storms Experiment
• DOD — Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum (Germany)
• A.D. — anno domini (latin)
• CRPE — Centre de Recherches en Physique de l'Environment Terrestre et Planetaria
• CLICOM — Climate Computing
• NSFNET — National Science Foundation Network
• EVID — Evidence
• DSRT — Deep Sea Reversing Thermometer
• CCM — community climate model
• CISPR — International Special Committee on Radio Interference
• ATF — atmospheric transmission factor
• CERES — Clouds And The Earth's Radiant Energy System (EOS)
• CONG. REC. — Congressional Record
• NORDA — Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
• USDD — United States Department of Defense
• RPN — Division de la recherche en prevision numerique
• SMR — Standard Malaysian Rubber
• IDEAL — International Decade for the East African Lakes (project) (PAGES)
• I&T — Integration & Test
• MANUF — Manufacture
• PRT — precision radiation thermometer
• RAL — Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
• CONVENT — convention
• MHRS — Modified Hazard Ranking System (DOE)
• TALK — Total Alkalinity
• IPHIR — InterPlanetary Helioseismology with IRradiance observations
• CALC — Calculus
• CONTEMPT — contemptuous
• JER — Jeremiah
• UATI — Union des Associations Techniques Internationals

• GATE — Global Atmosphere Tropical Experiment
• ARTIC — articulation
• ADJ. — see "ad." above.
• CIRES — Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
• WILTS — Wiltshire
• NAUT — Nautical
• GNIS — Geographic Names Information System (USGS)
• GEOM — Geometry
• DISTEMP — distemper
• UV-VIS — UltraViolet-Visible Spectroscopy
• LBL — Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (University of California)
• ACCLAIM — ACC Levels by Altimetrics and Island Measurements
• FRE — Federal Rules of Evidence
• OHER — Office Of Health And Environmental Research (US Dept. Of Energy)
• ASCAT — Advanced Scatterometer
• CRYSYS — Cryospheric System
• SRIC — Short-Rotation Intensive Culture
• IJC — International Joint Commission (Independent; Canada and U.S.)
• GDAS — Grimco data acquisition system
• J — Justice
• B/W — Black and White
• MUNIC — Municipal
• IMU — International Mathematical Union
• AIJ — Activities Implemented Jointly
• ARAB — Arabic
• UNCHS — United Nations Commission for Human Settlement
• STDN — Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network
• DNES — Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources (India)
• EXAM — Examination
• IELV — Intermediate Expendable Launch Vehicle
• MABL — Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
• CHEMRAWN — Chemical Research Applied to World Needs
• ARO — Automatic Reconfiguration Order
• ICPP — Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
• ACC — Association of Corporate Counsel
• COSTED — Committee On Science & Technology in Developing Countries
• QTO — Quasi-Triennial Oscillation
• CAE — Control and Actuation Electronic
• AGCM — Atmospheric General Circulation Model
• HMTA — Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
• NARR — Narrative
• NAMAS — National Measurement Accreditation Service (UK)
• CHAMB — chamber
• ANTHROP — Anthropology
• CLIC — Climate Inventory and Catalog
• IMPERF — Imperfect
• SFA — Securities and Futures Authority Limited
• FWS — United States Fish and Wildlife Service
• BBSR — Bermuda Biological Station for Research
• ACGIH — American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Inc.

• EORCU — European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit
• SMOW — Standard Mean Ocean Water
• ASTR — Astronomy
• VHRR — Very High-Resolution Radiometer
• SSURGO — soil survey geographic data base (USDA and
• OBC — On Board Computer
• ZOOL — Zoology
• SDPF — Sensor Data Processing Facility
• WSC — Water Survey of Canada
• MEV — mega electron volts
• JICST — Japan Information Center of Science and Technology
• SINTEF — Norwegian Institute of Technology
• AIRS-AMSU — Atmospheric Infrared-Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
• MED — Mediterranean (the region) (START)
• DEPRED — depredation
• FTS — Fournier transform spectrometer
• ACA — Advanced Computer Applications (project)
• MELICA — Medium Energy Ion Composition Analyzer
• TERATOL — teratology
• ACID — Acidification Chemistry Information Data Base (BNL)
• STAP — Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (GEF)
• LCC — Land Cover Change
• MTR — Magnetic Tape Recorder
• BOR — Bureau of Reclamation (Billings, MT)
• DARE — data rescue
• MKT — Market
• FOK — fill or kill order
• FDSS — Flight Dynamics Support System
• CTA-21 — Compatibility Test Area
• INTERNAT — international
• CPUE — Catch Per Unit Effort
• IHO — International Hydrographic Organization
• MLI — Multilayer Insulation
• PEM WEST — Pacific Exploratory Mission - West
• FFES — Fossil Free Energy System
• DISS — Dissertation
• NHRC — National Hydrology Research Centre
• CCLB — Carbon content of living biomass
• GMP — Genetically Modified Plants
• EOSDIS — EOS Data and Information System (NASA)
• ACCEPT — acceptance
• MTOE — million tonnes of oil equivalent
• FGGE SOP — Fgge Special Observing Period
• COMM — Commission
• NERDDC — National Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Council
• CIAP — Climate Impact Assessment Program
• NOTTS — Nottinghamshire
• IRI — International Reference Ionosphere
• IUNS — International Union of Nutritional Sciences
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)

• HKFE — Hong Kong Futures Exchange
• ATLAS — Airborne Turnable Laser Absorption Spectrometer
• DKD — Deutscher Kalibrierdienst
• HRIRS — high-resolution infrared radiation sounder
• NKA — Nordic Liaison Committee for Atomic Energy
• T — tonne
• CCIW — Canadian Centre for Inland Waters
• ICSD — International Continental Scientific Drilling (program)
• CIF — Coming into Force
• COHMAP — Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project
• IUGS — International Union of Geological Sciences (ICSU)
• AGASP — Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Programme
• MIZEX — Marginal Ice Zone Experiment
• GRM — NASA Gravity Satellite (U.S.)
• CONVERSAT — conversation
• BIH — Bureau International de l'Heureasures
• UMTA — Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• MWH — Megawatt hour (one million watt hours)
• OPEC — Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• CATAL — catalogue
• RIHMI-WDC — All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information-World Data Center
• ERBES — Earth Radiation Budget Explorer Satellite
• JIN — Joint Implementation Network
• IMPERS — impersonal
• SNL/PPG — Snl/Parallel Processing Group
• FPSSE — Fine Pointing Sun Sensor Electronics
• PDA — phased-Doppler anemometer
• COWRR — Committee on Water Resources Research
• IIASA — International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Vienna)
• GDAAC — Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center
• WFP — World Food Program
• GDR — German Democratic Republic (now Germany)
• SCOSTEP — Scientific Committee On Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• COMB.FORM — combining form
• VEG — Vegetable
• LFM — limited fine-mesh model
• AERONAUT — aeronautic
• TGI — Temperature Growth Index
• IODE — International Oceanographic Data/Information Exchange (IOC)
• R2 — coefficient of determination (statistical)
• ANGLO-IND — Anglo-Indian
• ALA. ADMIN. CODE — Alabama Administrative Code
• ARTIFIC — artificial
• PSAC — President's Science Advisory Committee
• HTML — Hypertext Meta-Language
• CRE — Coal Research Establishment of BCC (U.K.)
• ACC — Audit-Comptabilité-Conseil (French: Auditing-Accounting Council)
• IFREMER — Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploration de la Mer, France
• MMS-F — Matra Marconi Space-Toulouse, France
• LMA — Laboratoire de Meteorologie

• ACCM — Atmospheric General Circulation Model
• TSFC — surface temperature
• UARP — Upper Atmosphere Research Program
• IAVCEI — International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior
• SIFE — Second ISCCP Field Experiment
• CADD — computer-aided design and drafting
• APSRS — Aerial Photo Summary Records System
• IMRO — Investment Managers' Regulatory Authority
• IOC — Intergovernmental Oceanographic Council (UNESCO)
• EGCM — Eddy-Resolving General Circulation Model
• NORPAX — North Pacific Expedition
• ESD — Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL)
• USDOC — United States Department of Commerce
• EFQ — Estimated fuel quantity consumed (Used to determine carbon stored)
• REB — Rebel
• ICARUS — Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities
• GENLEAF — generic models of leaf response
• ARINC — Aeronautical Research, Inc.
• EZEK — Ezekiel
• ESTH — Esther
• ITOS — Improved TIROS Operational System
• DYFAMED — atmospheric dynamics and fluxes in the Mediterranean Sea (France)
• OBED — obedience
• CAGM — Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (WMO)
• DISORT — discrete ordinate (model)
• GDCLS — General Dynamics Commercial Launch Services
• CAL. CODE REG. — California Code of Regulations
• CREN — Chemical Research and Environmental Needs
• CETA — Comprehensive Education and Training Administration
• ASSEMB — assembly
• GEOS-3 — Geodetic Satellite Mission (NASA)
• METAPH — Metaphysics
• LIPI — Marine Pollution Monitoring Center (including LIPI's Network of the Center
• POSTM — postmaster
• GEOG — Geography
• SDTS — Spatial Data Transfer Standard
• CAMB — Cambridge Capital Acquisition C (NASDAQ Stock Exchange [NASDAQ])
• MACC — Maccabees
• INTERL — interlude
• ICRU — International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements
• ESS — essay
• CNRS — National Scientific Research Center (Centre Nationale de la Recherche
• DDFM — Data Distribution Facility Manager
• NZOI — New Zealand Oceanographic Institute
• NGB — Nordic Gene Bank
• ACM — advanced climate model
• PIO/P — PIO for Participant Training
• OTOB — Oesterreichische Termin und OptionBorse
• MYST — Mystery Science Theater
• AM. JUR. — American Jurisprudence

• RTH — Regional Telecommunication Hub
• RT — Radiative Transfer
• NAT.HIST — natural history
• CERN — European Laboratory for Particle Physics
• LIMNOL — limnology
• AIDJEX — Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment
• CHAR — Character
• 3I — improved initialization inversion
• CLS — Collected Localization Satellites (France)
• PROBL — Problem
• ASEAMS — Association of Southeast Asian Marine Scientists
• GEOGR — Geography
• TERMINOL — terminology
• DOMEST — domestic
• BEDFORD — Bedfordshire
• MSC — Meteorological Satellite Center
• TAI — Temps Atomique International
• WECC — Western European Calibration Cooperation
• ALIAS — Aircraft Laser Infrared Absorption Spectrometer
• LIPI — The Indonesian Institute of Sciences
• COMM.LAW — commercial law
• ECLIPS — Experimental Cloud Lidar Pilot Study
• BIOG — Biography
• BMFT — Bundes Ministerium fur Forschung und Technologie (Germany)
• FIG — figurative
• ECCLUS — Ecclesiasticus
• PUSPITEK — Training Facilities in the Centre for Research, Science and Technology
• MDUL — Missing Data Units List
• REAS — reasonably expected as safe
• INFOCLIMA — World Climate Data Information and Referral System
• RFDU — Radio Frequency Distribution Unit
• IASC — International Arctic Sciences Committee
• IFIAS — International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Study
• ACCOMM — accommodation
• AMA — African Mountains Association
• MGMI — Metallgezellschaft Metals Index
• DM-MIMD — distributed memory, multiple instruction, multiple data (computer)
• BBL — Billion Barrels
• NDCDB — National Digital Cartographic Data Base
• IPE — International Petroleum Exchange
• GLAC — Glacier National Park
• ANSTO — Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Menai, New
• GYNAECOL — gynaecology
• GA — geographic analysis
• USJGOFS — United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
• IGAC — International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
• SPACE PHYSICS DIVISION — SPDS
• GLOSS — Glossary
• APPLIC — application
• ARCS — Atmospheric Radiation and Cloud Station

• CDAS — Climate Data Assimilation System
• GRDC — Global Runoff Data Centre
• IUPAB — International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (ICSU)
• CONCL — conclusion
• FTSE-100 — Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 stock index
• CIUS — Conseil International des Unions Scientifiqes (ICSU)
• GOIN — Global Observation Information Network
• ETRP — Education and Training Programme (WMO)
• ITPP — International TOVS Processing Package
• RGIS — regional geographic information system
• INZN — Institut Zairois pour la Conservation de la Nature
• TABLE — Tsukuba Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
• STRATOZ — Stratospheric Ozone (campaign)
• BM&F — Bolsade Mercadorias and Futuros Exchange
• UNCED — United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development
• CAF — Clean Air Facility
• UNGCRP — United Nations Global Change Research Program
• OE — Old English
• FAMIL — familiar
• CEPEX — Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
• BIOCHEM — Biochemistry
• GMU — Gyro Mechanical Unit
• GCP — Ground Control Point
• ANAT — Anatomy
• FOFS — futures and options funds
• TRANSL — Translation
• ECG — Ecosystem Conservation Group (UNEP, FAO, UNESCO, and IUCN)
• ASLO — American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• HITRAN — High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database
• AXCTD — autonomous expendable CTD profiler
• GW — Gigawatt (one billion watts) (measurement- elect)
• GAIM — Global Analysis, Interpretation, and Modelling
• CSA — Chinese Society of Astronautics
• PDRCA — Participatory Development Resource Centre for Africa
• CMS — Command Management System
• ORNITHOL — ornithology
• NOPE — Network Operations Engineer
• STS — Star Tracker Sensor
• JOC — Joint Organizing Committee
• DLG — Digital Line Graphic
• UMTRAP — Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Program
• LAF — Lake Acidification and Fisheries (EPRI)
• HIEROGL — Hieroglyphic
• MIRSL — Microwave Remote Sensing Laboratory
• LOCH — London Options Clearing House
• GEISA — Gestion et d'Etude des Information Spectroscopiques Atmospheriques
• MESOSOFT — Mesoscale Data Management Facility
• UNCTAD — United Nations Commission on Trade and Development
• IAC — International Activities Committee
• UCS — Secretariat to the U.S. National Commission

• MILOX — Mid-Latitude Ecosystems and Photochemical Oxidants (IGAC)
• SCARAB — Scanner for the Radiation Budget
• NALMS — North American Lake Management Society
• IUGG — International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
• ABRIDG — abridged
• CCTV — CLOSE CIRCUIT TELEVISION
• GSL — Gulf Stream Locale
• PFRA — Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration
• CERGA — Centre d'Etudes et de Rechereches Geodynamiques et Astronomiques
• PPLES — participles
• MODIS-T — Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
• FEDC — Fusion Energy Design Center
• SUBORD — Subordinate
• INTERJ — interjection
• RHODE ISL — Rhode Island
• GCO — Generation Certification Official (waste generation)
• EAF — Experimenter's Analysis Facility
• PHYSICAL CHEM — physical chemistry
• ITRC — Industrial Toxicology Research Centre
• SPD — Solar Physics Division
• IAS — Image Analysis System
• HIRIS — HIgh-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (EOS)
• CFC-113 — CCl2FCClF2, 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane
• IUHPS — International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science
• NOZE — National Ozone Expedition
• USDOI — United States Department of the Interior (also
• ABRIDGEM — abridgement
• COUNC — council
• TIN — Triangular Irregular Network
• FMI — Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
• ANSW — Answer
• RADIOL — Radiology
• GOFS — Global Ocean Flux Study
• BARM — Block Acceptance Reporting Mechanism
• IRTM — Infrared Thermal Mapper
• MO&DSD — Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate
• CIRT — cirrus test
• PICES — North Pacific Marine Science Organization
• STRIVE — Science Teachers Research Involvement for Vital Education
• ALK — alkalinity
• URAS — (a commercial CO2 analyzer)
• TIMSS — thermal infrared spectral scanner
• POOZ — Permanently Open Ocean Zone
• WSO — Wilcox Solar Observatory
• EURECA — European Retrievable Carrier
• TUT — Thermal Uniformity Test
• HGCC — Hot Gas Clean Up
• CEM — Cumulus Ensemble Model
• SONN — sonnet
• TFG — Transfer Frame Generator

• IGN — Institut Geographique National
• MECCA — Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment
• PHARM — pharmacology
• FCL — Foldback Current Limiter
• M&E — Monitoring and Enforcement
• GWH — Giga Watt hour
• ZEEI — Exclusive Economic Zone of Indonesia
• BSIP — Birban Sahani Institute of Paleobotany
• XMM — X-ray Multi Mirror
• AFFM — Austrlian Financial Futures Market
• IEM — Institute of Experimental Meteorology
• BASC — Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate, National Research Council
• CDMU — Central Data Management Unit
• INTELL — Intelligent
• ALF — Grimco A-700 processor used for data analysis
• GAME — GEWEX-related Asian Monsoon Experiment
• ROSS-SH — Ross-shire
• INVOC — invocation
• CENR — Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources
• GDPS — Global Data-Processing System (WMO and WWW)
• ATTY — Attorney
• AEEI — Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Instrument
• NRPGC — National Research Program for Global Change
• PWD — Public Works Department
• VACM — Vector Averaging Current Meter
• NAVIG — Navigational Log
• ACAST — Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology toDevelopment
• APOL — apology
• EAWEP — East Asia and Western Pacific
• CEI — Center for Environmental Information
• OPEX — Operational and Executive Personnel for Civil Service
• RRN OCE — RRN Oceania
• NGRS — National Geodetic Reference System
• SCAMA — Switching, Conferencing and Monitoring Arrangement
• ESPOCC — European Space Project Operations Control Center
• SHEPH — shepherd
• EPOP — European Polar-Orbiting Platform
• CES — Committee on Earth Sciences (now CEES)
• DRAW — Direct Read After Write Animation System
• ITRDB — International Tree-Ring Data Bank
• SAEF — Stock Exchange Automated Execution Facility
• ITSC — International TOVS Study Conference
• EQPAC — Equatorial Pacific
• BATGE — Biosphere-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange in the Tropics
• ISFA — International Scientific Film Association
• INTECOL — International Association of Ecology (ICSU
• UNM — University of New Mexico
• FAB — Finance and Budget
• PRD — Program Requirements Documents (UDS)
• AVD — acoustic variable density

• FEDMAP — Federal Geologic Mapping Project
• PTB — Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig
• PAAD — Program Assistance Approval Document
• GLOED — Global Emissions Database
• ORS — Others
• MAW — Ministry of Agriculture and Water (Saudi Arabia)
• STI — Straits Times Index
• CORP. — Corporation
• STAFFORD — Staffordshire
• GEOL — Geology
• INNOC — innocent
• PENINS — peninsula
• ANTARES — Antarctic research (France) (JGOFS)
• STAFF — Staffordshire
• LPDM — Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model
• MTCR — million tonnes of coal replacement
• ACE-1 — Southern Hemisphere Marine Aerosol Characterization Experiment (IGAC)
• SPACE PHYSICS DATA SYSTEM — Solar Physics Data System
• MYTH — mythology
• ESF/EPC — ESF/European Palaeoclimate and Man Project
• NDP — Numeric Data Package
• ICRM — International Committee on Radionuclide Meteorology
• ANIM — animal
• RRN TAM — RRN Tropical Asian Monsoon Region
• ENEA — Italian National Agency for New technology, Energy and the Environment
• UFACNC — Ultrafine Aerosol Condensation Nucleus Counter
• COMP — company
• PPL.ADJS — participial adjectives
• FORET — Forest of East Tennessee (model)
• FUTOP — Copenhagen Stock Exchange and Guaranteed Fund for Danish options and Futures
• SUBSCRIPT — subscription
• RETROSP — retrospective
• PRONUNC — pronunciation
• CNET — Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (France)
• DISORT — Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer
• VINDIC — vindication
• HASL — Health and Safety Laboratory
• BPKM — billion passenger kilo metre
• TCR — tonnes of coal replacement
• PASA — Participating Agency Service Agreement
• MIFE — Manila International Futures Exchange
• TFLOPS — One teraflop equals 1 trillion (1012) floating point operations
• MCZ — Mesoscale Compressible Community Model
• PDU — Power Distribution Unit
• ANC — acid-neutralizing capacity
• ACTS — African Centre for Technology Studies
• LODYC — Laboratoire d'Oceanographic Dynamique et de Climatologie
• KRE — Kobe Rubber Exchange
• GCIP — GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
• IFDC — International Fertilizer Development Center

• SCMS — Société de Compensation des Marchés Conditionnels
• EGE — Enhanced Greenhouse Effect
• DISSPLA — Display Integrated Software System & Plotting Language
• ECHAM — European Centre/Hamburg Model (ECMWF/MPI)
• DB — direct-beam (irradiance)
• NYU/ULTRA — New York University's Ultracomputer
• EHP — Extended High Power
• EUR — Bureau of European Affairs
• GNO — Gross Product Originating
• EX.DOC — executive document
• CORON — coronation
• VIRGO — Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations
• C. — Chapter
• BUV — Backscatter Ultraviolet Radiometer
• MARDOS — Sources of Radioactivity in the Marine Environment and Their Relative Contributors to Overall Dose Assessment from Marine Radioactivity
• ADCP — Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler
• USMAPS — United States Map Analysis Package System
• QAMS — Quality Assurance Management Staff (US EPA)
• ARW — An Advanced Research Workshop
• ENSO — El Nino/Southern Oscillation (coupled oceanic-atmospheric change)
• FIFESH — Fifeshire
• HDGCB — Human Dimensions of Global Change (programme) (UNU, ISSC, and IFIAS)
• ORTHOGR — orthography
• LORCS — League of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• INFOTERRA — International Referral System for Sources of Environmental Information
• FINEX — a division of the New York Cotton Exchange
• YORKS — Yorkshire
• PDFE — Programmable Data Formatter Engineer
• GLRS — Geoscience Laser Ranging System
• ICDB — Ice Core Data Bank
• DOC — Documentary Organisation of Canada
• GEMM — gilt-edged market maker
• SUPPLIC — supplication
• GTAS — Generic Testing and Analysis System
• IMA — Information Management and Archives (Office)
• PHILEM — Philemon
• HOROL — Horology
• RADCAL — Radiation Calibration Laboratory
• HEIFE — Heihe River Field Experiment
• ITPO — International TOGA Planning Office
• NCMC — National Critical Materials Council
• BMWT — Biofuels and Municipal Waste Technology
• SHSS — Structure and Harness Subsystem
• ANTIQ — antiquity
• MM4 — Mesoscale model 4 (Pennsylvania State University/NCAR)
• NMNH — National Museum of Natural History
• NAFCOM — Northern Africa Committee (START)
• ETF — Environmental Task Force
• ALA — American Library Association-Library
• ISWS — Illinois State Water Survey

• NEUROL — Neurology
• IVL — Swedish Environmental Research Institute
• IAPSO — International Association for Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IUGG and ICSU)
• OMWOG — Ocean-Based Measurements Working Group
• ESAM — Institute for Environmental Science and Management
• DTR — Diurnal Temperature Range
• ANTS — Antenna Subsystem
• MFRSR — multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer
• ROT — registered options trader
• NEG — WOCE Numerical Experimentation Group
• DIA — Denmark's Academy for Engineering
• WRDD — Water Resources Development Department
• AGRIC — Agriculture
• CGMW — Commission for the Geological Map of the World
• GBF/DIME — Geographic Base Files/Dual Independent Map Encoding
• CSPP — Collaborative Special Project and Programme
• BIG-TT — BAHC-IGAC-GCTE Task Team
• AIRS/MHS — Advanced Infrared Radiometer Sounder
• DSIR — Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
• COMM — Commerce
• NGSDC — National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
• MORACC — Modeling Radiation Clouds and Convection
• FRONTAL — frontal process studies (France) (JGOFS)
• CONGREG — congregation
• GDCF/PACOR — ISTP Program Generic Data Capture Facility / Packet Processor
• AFDM — Ash Free Dry Mass
• LAUTRO — Life Assurance and Unit Trust Regulatory Authority
• GESAMP — Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution
• CCSM — Control Center Systems Manager
• TIR — Tabula Imperii Romani
• LUCC-CPPC — Lucc Core Project Planning Committee
• ETSA — electron transport system activity
• CN — condensation nuclei
• DERIV — derivative
• FED. R. BANKR. P. — Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
• MRIR — Medium Resolution Infrared Radiometer
• HRDI — high-resolution Doppler imager
• NHTSA — National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (DOT)
• CLNO3 — chlorine nitrate
• MQP — Mandatory Quote Period
• ASB — Association of Southeastern Biologists
• CEDEL — Centrale de Livraison de Valeurs mobiles
• ECCL.HIST — ecclesiastical history
• OCEANOGR — Oceanography
• FORTIF — fortification
• COMPOS — composition
• ASPRS — American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
• TOD — Time-Out Detection
• AET — Actual Evapotranspiration
• GRAMM.ANALYSIS — grammatical analysis

• D — Deuterium (also abbreviated as 2D or 2H)
• GOS — Global Observing System (WMO and WWW)
• MIB 30 — Milano Indice Borsa
• LINCS — Lincolnshire
• MBT — Mechanical Bathythermograph
• MASMP — Mission Analysis and Suport Management Plan
• DGCM — Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
• NEAPACC — North East Atlantic Palaeooceanography and Climate Change
• USDA-SCS — United States Department of Agriculture-Soil Conservation Service
• ASDAR — Aircraft-to-Satellite Data Relay
• RASC — Radio Atmospheric Study Centre
• CHRIS — Chemical Hazard Response Information System
• JI — Joint Implementation [with Regard To Greenhouse Gas Emission Redn.]
• NNSF — National Natural Science Foundation
• RRTM — Rapid Radiative Transfer Model
• ARRANGEM — arrangement
• SIROS — solar and infrared radiation observation stations
• MT-CLIM — Mountain Climate Model
• FIN — Fish Information Network (data base)
• SOTA — Science Operations and Test Area
• ANG — Anglian
• H2 — Hydrogen
• LING — linguistic
• EARN — European Academic Research Network
• DAC — Data Assembly Centre (WOCE)
• EADS — Environmental Assessment Data System
• TRANSPAC — Trans-Pacific Experiment
• HALSS — high-altitude lidar sensing station
• RDAAC — Remote Data Analysis and Archive Center
• CLIN — Clinic
• IAMAP — International Association Of Meteorology And Atmospheric Physics (ICSU)
• CRP — Climate Research Program
• IASPEI — International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior
• ALACE — Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer (float)
• DASA — Deutsche Aerospace Administration
• ADEOS — Advanced Earth Observation Satellite (Japan)
• FAZ — Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
• SAFEX — South African Futures Exchange
• FOUND — foundation
• ELECTRO-PHYSIOL — electro-physiology
• DEB — debate
• IRF — instantaneous radiative transfer
• HSA — Historic Sites Act (1935)
• ECN — Environmental Change Network
• HAB — Habakkuk
• ESAER — European Space Agency's Earth Resources (Satellite)
• MAPS — Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction System
• ELECTR — Electric
• GRADO — CNES Gravity Satellite (France)
• RUDIM — rudiment

• ESMAP — Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme
• GOMI — Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument
• WCIRP — World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Program
• BATS — Bermuda Atlantic Time Series
• WITS — World Ionosphere Thermosphere Study
• BERKSH — Berkshire
• CFAGB — Carbon fraction of above ground biomass
• GTCC — Gas Turbine Combined Cycle (electricity)
• START — System for Analysis, Research, and Training
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