ACRONYM | MEANING |
3DRTMA | |
508 Compliance | Refers to adherence to requirements in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act governing accessibility standards |
ACIO | |
AGO | |
AGU | |
AMS | |
AMSR-E | |
AOC | |
AOML | |
AQM | |
AR | Atmospheric Rivers |
ARL | |
ASCEND | Assimilation, Scientific Computing, and Evaluation Novel Division |
AT | Application Teams |
AUS | Advanced User Support |
AVID | Assimilation and Verification Innovation Division (NOAA/GSL) |
AWIPS | |
AWS | |
BEC | |
C3WE | Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes |
CAC | Common Access Card |
CAM | |
CAMS | |
CAPE | |
CCN | |
CCPA | |
CCPP | |
CCS | |
CDEPS | |
CDO | |
CDS | |
CE | Chief Engineer |
Cf | Consequences of Occurrence |
CGD | |
CI/CD | |
CICE | |
CIME | |
CIN | |
CIRA | |
CM | Code Management/Code Manager/Configuration Management |
CMAQ | |
CMB | Community Modeling Board |
CMEPS | |
CO | Contracting Officer |
COLA | |
CONUS | Continental United States |
COR | Contracting Officer Representative |
CORE | Customer Oriented Results and Excellence (A Raytheon Methodology) |
COTS | |
CPAR | |
CPF | |
CROW | Community Research and Operational Workflow |
CRTM | |
CS | Contractor Specialist |
CSD | Communications Strategy Document |
CSP | Cloud Service Provider |
CU/CIRES | University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
CY | Contract Year |
DA | |
DATM | |
DEP | Discipline Engagement Process |
DESI | |
DLR | German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt) |
DOC | |
DOCN | |
DRAS | |
DTC | |
DTO | Data, Testing, & Optimization |
ECC | |
ECE | |
ECMWF | |
ECP | |
EIB | |
EMC | |
EOS | |
EPAD | Earth Prediction Advancement Division; one of 4 research divisions at NOAA GSL |
EPIC | |
EPT | EPIC Program Team (within the NOAA Weather Program Office) |
ERA5 | |
ESA | |
ESEC | |
ESG | |
ESM | Earth System Model |
ESMF | |
ESPC | Earth System Prediction Capability |
ESRL | |
ESRM | Earth System Research & Modeling |
FAQ | Frequently Asked Question |
FFP | Firm Fixed Price |
FMS | |
FV3 | |
FVCOM | |
GCP | |
GDAS | |
GEFS | |
GFDL | |
GFS | |
GHRSST | |
GLERL | |
GMAO | |
GOCART | |
GOES | |
GRIB2 | GRIdded Binary v2 (data format) |
GSI | |
GSL | |
GW | |
GWAR | Global Workflow Atmospheric Rivers (EPIC Agile team) |
HAFS | |
HFIP | |
HPC | |
HPC | Hydrometeorological Prediction Center |
HPCC | |
HPSS | High-Performance Storage System |
HREF | |
HRRR | |
HRD | |
HSD | Hierarchical System Development |
HSUP | Hurricane Supplemental (disaster relief funding) |
HTF | Hierarchical Testing Framework |
HWRF | |
HYCOM | |
ICs | Initial Conditions |
ICAMS | |
ICMS | Integrated Contract Management System |
IDSS | |
IMS | Integrated Master Schedule |
JCSDA | |
JEDI | |
JETI | Joint Engineering and Technical Interchange |
JTTI | |
LAM | Limited Area Model |
LBCs | Lateral Boundary Conditions |
LOE | Level of Effort |
LSM | |
MDL | |
MERRA2 | Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 |
MET | |
MGBF | |
MoA | Memorandum of Agreement |
MOM | |
MOS | Mission Operations Solutions (also known as Mission Assurance) |
MPAS | Model for Prediction Across Scales; an alternative forecast model from NCAR |
MPI | |
MRMS | Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor (data) |
MRW | Medium-Range Weather |
MVP | Minimum Viable Product |
MX | Maintenance |
NAM | |
NASA | |
NCAR | |
NCEP | |
NCL | |
NCO | |
NDAS | |
NEMS | |
NEPTUNE | Navy Environmental Prediction sysTem Utilizing a Nonhydrostatic Engine): A deep atmospheric model being used to develop and validate a weather prediction system to replace the Navy’s existing tool |
NetCDF | |
NGW | Next Generation Workspace |
NG-GODAS | |
NGGPS | |
NIDISRA | National Integrated Drought Information System Reauthorization Act of 2018 |
NOAA | |
NOFO | Notice of Funding Opportunity |
NOS | |
NRL | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory |
NSF | |
NSSL | |
NUOPC | |
NWM | |
NWP | |
NWS | |
O2R | |
OAR | Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (aka NOAA Research) |
OCE | |
OCIO | |
OFCM | Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (now ICAMS) |
OISST | |
OPG | |
OSTI | Office of Science and Technology Integration |
OWAQ | Office of Weather and Air Quality (now WPO) |
PBL | |
Pf | Probability of Occurrence |
PI | |
PjM | Project Manager |
P.L. | Public Law |
PLAT | Platform Tools Team |
PM | Program Manager |
PO | Product Owner |
PoP | Period of Performance |
PR | |
PSD | Platform Service Desk |
PSL | |
PRS | Performance Requirements Statement |
PT | Agile Product Team |
PWA | Primary Work Authorization |
PWS | Performance Work Statement |
QA | Quality Assurance |
QE | Quality Engineer |
QM | Quality Manager |
QMS | Quality Management System |
QPP | Quality Program Plan |
R&O | Risk and Opportunity |
R2O | |
R2O2R | Research to Operations to Research |
RAP | |
RCAS | Raytheon Corrective Action System |
RC CCT | Release Coordination Cross-Cutting Team |
RCM | Repository Code Management Team |
RDAS | Regional Data Assimilation System |
RDHPCS | |
RFP | Request for Proposal |
RL | Readiness Level; describes the state of research in the R2O transition process |
RMB | Risk Management Board |
RO | Risk Owner |
ROM | Rough Order of Magnitude |
RPM | Raytheon Program Manager |
RRFS | |
RT | |
RTE | Release Train Engineer |
RTOFS | |
S2S | Subseasonal to seasonal forecast system |
SAFe | |
SAR | Stand-Alone Regional Model |
SBES | |
SCM | |
SCNAB | Scientific Computing for Novel Architectures Branch |
SDF | |
SDL | Scale-Dependent Localization |
SENA | Software Engineering for Novel Architecture; a funder of UW |
SEO | Search Engine Optimization |
SFS | Seasonal Forecast System |
SI | |
SIP | Strategic Implementation Plan |
SM | Scrum Master |
SME | Subject Matter Expert |
SOCA | |
SOP | Standard Operating Procedure |
SREF | |
SRW | |
SSMIS | |
SWA | Secondary Work Authorization |
SWE | |
SWH | |
T&M | Time and Materials |
TB | Brightness Temperature |
TC | |
TO | Task Order |
UFS | |
UFS C&O | UFS Communications and Outreach |
UFS-SC | Unified Forecast System Steering Committee |
UIFCW | Unifying Innovations in Forecasting Capabilities Workshop |
UM | Unified Model |
UPP | |
US | |
UW or UWF | |
WBS | Work Breakdown Structure |
WCCIS | |
WCOSS | |
WE2E | Workflow End-to-End |
WG | Working Group |
WINGS | Weather Program Office Innovation for Next Generation Scientists |
WM | |
WMO | |
WPO | |
WRF | |
WRFIA | |
WSJF | |
WW3 | |
WX | Weather |
