AWC - Acronym Glossary

AWC Acronym Glossary

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AAAS	American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAWU	Alaskan Aviation Weather Unit
ACARS	ARINC Communications Addressing and Reporting System
ADDS	Aviation Digital Data Service
AFOS	Automation of Field Operations and Services
AFSS	Automated Flight Service Station
AFTN	Air Force Television Network
AFWA	Air Force Weather Agency
AGFS	Aviation Gridded Forecast System
AGL	Above Ground Level
AIRMET	Airman's Meteorological advisory (WA)
AIV	Aviation Impact Variables
AMS	American Meteorology Society
ANBURS	Alphanumeric Backup Replacement System
AOB	Aviation Operations Branch
AOPA	Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
APST	Aviation Products and Services Team
ARAM	Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
ARINC	Aeronautical Radio, Incorporated
ARSI	Atmospheric Research System, Inc.
ARTCC	Air Route Traffic Control Center
ASB	Aviation Support Branch
ASC	Aviation Services Coordinator
ASD	Aircraft Situation Display (ARINC)
ASIST	Aviation Safety Investment Strategy Team (NASA)
ASOS	Automated Surface Observing System
ATA	Air Transport Association
ATC	Air Traffic Control
ATCSCC	Air Traffic Control System Command Center
AVARS	Aircraft Vertical Acceleration Reporting System
AVN	Aviation Model (forecast tool)
AWC	Aviation Weather Center
AWIPS	Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

BAMS	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
BLM	Bureau of Land Management
BPAA	Business Pilots Aircraft Association
BUFR	Binary Universal Format for data Records

CAeM	Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology
CAFTI	Committee on Analysis and Forecast Techniques Implementation
CANAM	Canadian/American
CAPS	Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
CASC	Central Administrative Support Center
CAT	Clear Air Turbulence
CDB	Computing Development Branch (NCEP)
CDM	Collaborative Decision Making
CFO	Chief Financial Officer
CGEN	Convective SIGMET Generation
CIP	Current Icing Potential
COMET	Cooperative program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training
CONUS	Continental United States
CSI	Conditional Symmetric Instability
CSI	Critical Success Index
CSTAR	Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research
CWA	Center Weather Advisory - CWSU
CWSU	Center Weather Service Unit

DBNET	Distributed Brokered NETworking
DDS	Domestic Data Service
DIFAX	Digital Facsimile
DOD	Department of Defense

EAA	Experimental Aircraft Association
EC	Environment Canada
EFF	Experimental Forecast Facility
EMC	Environmental Modeling Center
EPRI	Electric Power Research Institute
EPSCoR	Experimental Program for the Stimulation of Competitive Research
EPV	Equivalent Potential Vorticity
Eta	Greek letter, describes a constant height coordinate model system

FA	Area Forecast
FAA	Federal Aviation Administration
FAA/AWR	Federal Aviation Administration/Aviation Weather Research Division
FAA/ARW	Federal Aviation Administration/Aviation Requirements - Weather group
FAR	Federal Aviation Regulation
FAR	False Alarm Ratio
FAWS	Flight Advisory Weather Service
FD	Winds and Temperatures Aloft Forecasts
FIAS	Flight Information Advisory Service
FIP	Forecast Icing Potential
FIR	Flight Information Region
FOUS	Forecast Output United States
FSL	Forecast Systems Laboratory
FSS	Flight Service Station
FTE	Full Time Employee
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FVT	Forecast Verification Tool
FY	Fiscal Year

G-Airmet	Graphical Airmet
GAI	Global Atmospherics, Inc.
GAMA	General Aviation Manufacturers Association
GDS	GeoMet Data Services
GEMPAK	General Environmental Meteorological Package (programming language)
GFA	Graphical Area Forecast
GFDL	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (ERL)
GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPS	Global Positioning System
GSA	General Services Administration
GTG	Graphical Turbulence Guidance
GUI	Graphical User Interface

HUD	Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of

IATA	International Air Transport Association
ICAO	International Civil Aviation Organization
IDS	International Data Service
IFFDP	International Flight Folder Documentation Program
IFR	Instrument Flight Rules
IIDA	Integrated Icing Diagnostic Algorithm
IOS	Integrated Operational Services
IR	Infrared
ISCS	International Satellite Communications System
ITWS	Integrated Terminal Weather System
ITT	Information Technology Team

JMA	Japanese Meteorological Agency

KCFB	Kansas City Federal Building
KMARD	Kansas Modernization and Restructuring Demonstration
KU	University of Kansas

LAN	Local Area Network
LDADS	Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination System
LDM	Local Data Manager
LIFR	Low Instrument Flight Rules
LINUX	UNIX-like computer operating system
LIVV	Lifted Index Vertical Velocity
LLP	Lightning Location and Protection
LLWS	Low Level Wind Shear
LOT	Local Office Team
LPATS	Lightning Position and Tracking System

MARD	Modernization and Restructuring Demonstration
MBRFC	Missouri Basin River Forecast Center
McIDAS	Man Computer Interactive Data Acquisition System
MESO	Mesoscale Convective Unit
METAR	Meteorological Aviation Report
MIC	Meteorologist In Charge
MOA	Memorandum of Agreement
MOS	Model Output Statistics applications
MOREnet	Missouri Research and Education Network
MPC	Marine Prediction Center
MVFR	Marginal Visual Flight Rules
MWAVE	Mountain Wave algorithm
MWO	Meteorological Watch Office

NACA	National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
NADIN	National Airspace Data Interchange Network (FAA)
NAOS	North American Atmospheric Observing System
NAP	NCEP Advisory Panel
NAS	National Airspace System
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATA	National Air Transportation Assoc.
NAWAU	National Aviation Weather Advisory Unit
N-AWIPS	National Centers-AWIPS
NBAA	National Business Aviation Association
NC	National Center(s)
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCAR/RAP	National Center for Atmospheric Research/Research Applications Program
NCEP	National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCO	NCEP Central Operations
NCDB	NCEP Computer Development Branch
NCWD	National Convective Weather Diagnostic
NCWF	National Convective Weather Forecast
NESDIS	National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
NESDIS/SAB	National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service/Satellite Analysis Branch
NEXRAD	Next Generation Weather Radar
NGM	Nested Grid Model
NIDS	NEXRAD Information Distribution Service
NLDN	National Lightning Detection Network
NMC	National Meteorological Center
NMOC	National Meteorological Operations Centre (Australia)
NNICE	Neural Network for Icing
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTAM	Notice to Airmen
NPRA	National Performance Results Act
NPSU	National Public Service Unit
NSF	National Science Foundation
NSSFC	National Severe Storms Forecast Center
NSSL	National Severe Storms Laboratory
NTSB	National Transportation Safety Board
NWS	National Weather Service
NWSEO	National Weather Service Employees Organization
NWSH	National Weather Service Headquarters
NWSTC	National Weather Service Training Center
NWSTG	National Weather Service Telecommunications Gateway

OCS	Oklahoma Climatological Survey
OFCM	Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
OM	Office of Meteorology
OSD	Office of Systems Development
OSO	Office of Systems Operations
OU	University of Oklahoma

PC	Personal Computer
PDT	Product Development Team
PIREP	Pilot Report
POD	Probability Of Detection
PPI	Plane Position Indicator
PRC	Planning and Research Corporation
PUP	Principal User Processor

QTP	Quality Through Partnership

RAFC	Regional Area Forecast Center
RAM	Regional Area Meteorologist
RCM	Radar Coded Message
RF	Radio Frequency
RFC	River Forecast Center
RFI	Radio Frequency Interference
RFP	Request For Proposal
RMTN	Regional Meteorological Telecommunications Network
ROB	Radar coded Observation
RSIS	RS Information Services, Inc.
RTA	Remote To AFOS
RTVS	Real Time Verification System
RUC	Rapid Update Cycle (forecast model)

SAMEX	Storm and Mesoscale Ensemble Experiment
SELS	Severe Local Storms
SIGMET	Significant Meteorological advisory (WS)
SIGWX	Significant Weather
SLD	Supercooled Large Drops
SMG	Space flight Meteorology Group (NOAA)
SOO	Scientific Operations Officer
SPC	Storm Prediction Center
SRRS	Systems Record Retention System (AFOS)
SUNYA	State University of New York - Albany

TAF	Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
TAMU	Tropical Aviation Meteorological Unit
TAP	Transition Aviation Project
TDL	Techniques Development Laboratory
TDU	Techniques Development Unit
TDWR	Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
Telcon	Telephone Conversation
TKE	Turbulent Kinetic Energy
TPC	Tropical Prediction Center
TRMM	Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (global change)
TWEB	Transcribed Weather En route Broadcast

UCAR	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UKMETO	United Kingdom Meteorological Office
UPS	Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS	United Parcel Service
USAF	United States Air Force
USGS	United States Geological Survey - Department of Interior
USMC	United States Marine Corps
USWB	United States Weather Bureau
USWRP	United States Weather Research Program (NWS, NSF)

VAAC	Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers
VAD	Velocity Azimuth Display (NEXRAD)
VAS	VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
VDUC	VAS Data Utilization Center
VFR	Visual Flight Rules
VGF	Virtual Graphics File
VHF	Very High Frequency (Radio)
VIL	Vertically Integrated Liquid water
VISSR	Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer
VOR	VHF Omnidirectional Range (Navigational aid)
VV	Vertical Velocity
VVSTORM	model-based convection algorithm

WAFC	World Area Forecast Center
WAFS	World Area Forecast System
WB	Weather Bureau
WCM	Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WEFAX	Weather Facsimile
WFO	Weather Forecast Office
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WMSCR	Weather Message Switching Center Replacement
HPC	Weather Prediction Center
WSR-88D	Weather Surveillance Radar, 1988 Doppler

Y2K

Year 2000