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Abbreviations for Scientific Programs
by Charlie Zender
Contents
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General Points
1.1 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.2 Variable Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1.3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Abbreviations
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General Points
This document describes programming abbreviations. Abbreviations are quite general: Any shortened form of a word, phrase, or concept is an abbreviation. Hence, abbreviations can be acronyms,
initialisms, or nicknames. Concise abbreviations for variable names are especially important because they help make a program become self-documenting and thus easier to maintain. Consistent
abbreviations across programs are important because then whole suites of code can be updated an
improved in a more modular fashion. An alternative method of naming variables is the Hungarian notation method originated by Charles Simonyi of Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft.
com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsgen/html/hunganotat.
asp
1.1
Abbreviations
Abbreviations are usually used for variable names in a program. Naming a variable appropriately
often speeds up programming by reducing the introduction of bugs to the program, and by making
future maintenance easier. An effective abbreviation has a number of desirable qualities.
• Concise
• Unambiguous
• Easy to remember
• Distinct from English
Here are some guidelines which help in creating abbreviations with these qualities:
1. A common acronym, if it exists, is preferable to creating a new abbreviation (e.g., SWCF).
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2. Abbreviations which do not contain common letter combinations of the English language are
much easier to program. Searching and replacing uncommon letter combinations lessens the
risk of corrupting plain text and comments in the program. For example, using flx rather
than flux saves only one letter, but makes code maintenance much easier.
3. Phonetic abbreviations are often superior mnemonics. Use, e.g.,nvr rather than env for
“environment”. Phonetic abbreviations make it easier to use consonants, which are better
than vowels in abbreviations.
4. All things being equal, three letter abbreviations, or groups of them, are best. Three letters
are easy to remember yet there are enough permutations to abbreviate almost atomic concept
into a three letter abbreviation.
5. Single letter abbreviations, e.g. “t = temperature”, are always a mistake. It is nearly impossible to perform a quick search or search-and-replace on a single letter variable.
6. Sometimes an abbreviation is an acronym but is not capitalized. Capitalize the abbreviation
when it is common (e.g., SWCF), but leave it lowercase when it is uncommon (e.g., mpc).
1.2
Variable Names
Use underscores to aggregate abbreviations into longer groups which compose a variable name.
Underscores are easier to proofread than the X-style capitalization method, e.g., flx_bb_dwn_sfc
vs. FlxBbDwnSfc or FluxBroadbandDownSurface. Variables names constructed in this
manner have the desirable property that, when they are alphabetized, related variables are grouped
together.
1.3
Definitions
Often an abbreviation is used to keep a quantity distinct from a related but distinct quantity. In
these cases the abbreviations are called antonyms. In the list, the antonym of a given definition is
indicated by “ant.”. vvvOccasionally an abbreviation has a synonym, too. In the list, the synonyms
are indicated by “syn.”.
The abbreviation is followed by the definition. In some cases the definition has multiple related
meanings—these are separated by commas, e.g., “abs = absorption, absorbed, absorbing”.
In a few cases, the definition has multiple distinct meanings—these are separated from one
another by “or”, e.g., “aer = aerosol, aerosol-laden (turbid), or aerodynamic”.
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Abbreviations
Abbreviations of business, financial, and travel terms:
AA
AC
AC70
AF
Adverse Action
Authorization Code
fxm (Access Code 70?)
Annual Fee
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AGC
AOR
AP
AW
AX
BB
BC
BF
BP
BX
CA
CB
CC
CI
CK
CL
CRA
CSR
DC
EF
FA
FR
FT
GB
GC
GCB
GCM
GGD
GP
GS
GW
HD
HP
Kate
KV
LL
MB
MC
MGC
MO
MS
MVD
NAF
NF
OD
Amazon Gift Card
App-O-Rama, Application-O-Rama
Amazon Payments
AwardWallet
American Express
Bluebird
Bancorp
BeFrugal
Bill Pay
Business Expense
Cash-Advance
Cash-Back or Category Bonus
Credit Card
Credit Issuer
Credit Karma
Credit Limit
Credit Rating Agency
Customer Service Representative
Debit Card
ExpertFlyer.com
Fraud Alert
Financial Review
FlyerTalk
GoBank
Gift Card
GE Capital Bank
Gift Card Mall
Grocery/Gas/Drugs
Google Play
Gas Station
Google Wallet
Home Depot
Hard Pull
Walmart ATM?
Kiva
Load Limits
Metabank
MoneyCenter (in Walmart) or Money Card (Walmart product) or MasterCard
Metabank Gift Card
Money Order
Manufactured Spend
MyVanilla Debit Card
No Annual Fee
No Fee
Office Depot
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OM
OSS
OV
OVGC
PFF
PP
PPMC
PPRP
RA
RB
RPC
RR
Rite Aid
SB
S4C
SM
SP
SRV
RDB
ST DL
TCB
USB
VGC
VR
VRC
VSE
VVC
WM
WP
ACH
ADR
ADS
AFR
AGI
FTR
MAGI
AMC
APR
APY
ARL
ARM
ATN
BCON
BIC
BK
OfficeMax
Office Supply Store
One Vanilla
OneVanilla Gift Card
Purchased for Friend (e.g., GCs)
PayPal
PayPal MyCash
PayPal Reload Pack
Rite-Aid
Retention Bonus
Reloadable Prepaid Card (VRC, PPRP)
fxm (like BB at WM?)
Rite Aid
Starbucks
Savingforcollege
Send Money
Soft Pull or Shopping Portal
(AmEx) Serve
REDbird = Target Prepaid REDcard
Suntrust Delta (debit card)
TopCashBack
US Bank
Vanilla Gift Card (not Visa GC by convention)
Vanilla Reload
Vanilla Reload Card
Visa Savings Edge
Vanilla Visa Card
WalMart
fxm
Automated Clearing House
American Depository Receipt
American Depository Share
Applicable Federal Rate
Adjusted Gross Income
Effective Tax Rate
Modified Adjusted Gross Income
After Market Closes
Annual Percentage Rate
Annual Percentage Yield
Airline Record Locator
Adjustable Rate Mortgage
Airline Ticket Number (13 digit number)
Beacon Power
Bank Identifier Code
Bankruptcy
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BMO
BP
C1
CAP
CB
CBP
CCP
CDW
CPH
CSC
COAF
CTC
HOH
ETC
CVN
CVV2
DAB
DBP
DCP
STL
MTL
LTL
DDG
DDM
DEQM
DFSA
DHS
DJIA
DMB
DMCSB
DOG
DUG
DXD
EAFE
EBITDA
ECN
EDC
EEM
EEV
EFA
EIN
EMA
EMI
EMV
EOB
Before Market Opens
La Banque Postale
CapitalOne
Capital Accumulation Payment
Carte Bleue
Customs & Border Protection
Compte Courant Postal (checking account, carte bleu too)
Collision Damage Waiver
Copenhagen stock exchange
Card Security Code (three digit credit card security number)
Capital One Auto Finance
Child Tax Credit
Head of Household
Electronic Travel Certificate (monetary voucher towards future purchases)
(Credit) Card Verification Number
Specific Type of CVN
Distributeurs Automatiques de Billets
Defined Benefit Plan
Defined Contribution Plan
Short-term Loan
Mid-term Loan
Long-term Loan
ProShares Short Oil & Gas (−1× DJIA oil) ETF
ProShares Ultra Dow30 (+2× DJIA) ETF
Double Elite Qualifying Miles
Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
Department of Homeland Security
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Daily Minimum Balance
Daily Minimum Combined Share Balance (sum of all accounts)
ProShares Short Dow30 (−1× DJIA) ETF
ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (−2× DJIA oil) ETF
ProShares UltraShort Dow30 (−2× DJIA) ETF
Europe, Australasia, and Far East index
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Electronic Communication Network
Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bull (+3× MSCI EMI) ETF
iShares MSCI EMI (emerging markets) ETF
ProShares UltraShort emerging market (−2× MSCI EMI) ETF
iShares MSCI EAFE (large-cap foreign G7 stock) ETF
Employer Identification Number (syn. EIN)
Exponential Moving Average
Emerging Markets Index
Europay MasterCard Visa (standard for smart card)
Explanation of Benefits
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EPS
EQM
ETA
ETF
FAA
FCU
FEIE
FICA
FMV
FRE
FRM
FRR
FSA
FSB
FTF
FTIN
GLD
GM
GOES
GS
HAPC
HFSA
HTB
HYMMBA
IOSA
ITIN
KBB
LTV
LVS
MACD
MAW
MC
MCB
MChip
ME
MIE
MSCI
MTDC
MTL
CBAF
NASDAQ
NAV
NCE
NPE
OASDI
Earnings Per Share
Elite Qualifying Miles
Electronic Travel Authority (Australian visa)
Exchange Traded Fund (tracks an index, e.g., DJIA)
Fly American Act or Federal Aviation Administration
Federal Credit Union
Foreign Earned Income Exemption
Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA = OASDI + MEDICARE?)
Fair Market Value
Freddie Mac
Fixed Rate Mortgage
Flat-Rate Reimbursement
Flexible Spending Account
Federal Savings Bank
Foreign Transaction Fee (credit card fee on currency exchanges)
Federal Tax Identity Number
Gold (bullion) tracking ETF
General Motors
Global Online Enrollment System
Goldman Sachs
Highest Average Plan Compensation
Health Flexible Spending Account
Hard-To-Borrow (fee)
High Yield Money Market Banking Account
InterestPlus Online Savings Account
Individual Tax Identity Number (syn. FTIN)
Kelley Blue Book
Loan-To-Value ratio
Las Vegas Sands
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence
Monthly Automated Withdrawl
Master Card
Medical Contributions Base
MasterCard implementation of EMV smart card standard
Moving Expenses
Meals and Incidental Expenses
Morgan Stanley Capital International
Modified Total Direct Costs (overheat rate)
Mechel OAO (ADR)
Cross-Border Assessment Fee (charged by MC and Visa for FX)
National Association of Securities Dealer Automated Quotation system
Net Asset Value (share price)
No-Cost Extension
Non-Passenger Escort
Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
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OCTFCU
OFX
OSA
OTC
OTCBB
OTM
PAI
PCOR
PINK
PNR
QDRO
QFX
QID
QOQ
QQQ
QQQQ
RAQVAM
RIB
RL
RSI
S31
SDS
SFFCU
SG
SKF
SMA
SNS
SPDR
SPY
SSO
SWIFT
TAF
TEQM
TER
TID
TIP
TRF
TTC
TTP
TVA
TZA
URP
AXD
MRP
BAA
Orange County Teacher’s Federal Credit Union
Office Financial Exchange (file format/extension)
Online Savings Account
Over-the-Counter (pseudo stock exchange)
Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (pseudo stock exchange)
Out-of-The-Money
Personal Accident Insurance
Preliminary Change of Ownership Report
Telephone-based (pseudo stock exchange)
Passenger Name Record (record locator)
Qualified Domestic Relations Order
Quiken Financial Exchange (file format/extension)
ProShares UltraShort QQQ (−2× NASDAQ)
Quarter-over-quarter (e.g., QOQ EPS)
Any NASDAQ-tracking ETF
PowerShares QQQ (+1× NASDAQ)
Risques Autres que Véhicule à Moteur (insurance policy covering risks other than motor vehicles
Relevé d’Identité Bancaire
Record Locator
Relative Strength Index
SEC Section 31 Fee (based on valued of trade)
ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (−2× S&P500)
SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union
Société Générale
ProShares UltraShort Financials (−2× DOW) ETF
Simple Moving Average
Saturday-Night-Stay
Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt (aka “spider”), tracks S&P500
S&P500-tracking ETF
ProShares Ultra S&P500 (+2× DOW) ETF
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
Trading Activity Fee (based on number of shares traded)
Triple Elite Qualifying Miles
Travel Expense Report
Travel of Indefinite Duration
Tax Savings on Insurance Premiums
Travel Reimbursement Form
Toutes Taxes Comprises (tax included)
Trusted Traveler Program
Taxe à la Valeur Ajoutée (value-added tax)
Direxion Small Cap Bear 3X Shares (−3× Russell 2000 small cap)
Ultimate Rewards Points
American Express Dollars
Membership Rewards Points (AmEx)
British Airways Avios
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HHP
UAUA
UCRP
UCRSP
VAM
VSDC
VWDRY
VWS
VWSYF
XLE
XLF
XLK
XLP
XLY
NSC
NSTP
SBS
TUCS
adm
amz
apr
bc
bp
brk
chs
cpn
crd
eqf
xpr
trn
fco
ctr
csh
dcp
ddc
df
dml
dnr
dpr
dsc
dyc
eqt
fbc
fdl
fdr
HHonors Points
United Airlines
University of California Retirement Plan (pension)
University of California Retirement Savings Plan (403b + 457b + DC)
Véhicule à Moteur (insurance policy covering motor vehicles)
VISA implementation of EMV smart card standard
Vestas Wind ADR (+3× VWDRY = VWS)
Vestas Wind Systems
Vestas Wind ADR (+1× VWSYF = VWS)
Select Sector Energy sector SPDR ETF
Financial sector SPDR ETF
Technology sector SPDR ETF
Consumer staples sector SPDR ETF
Consumer discretionary sector SPDR ETF
Negotiated Salary Component
Negotiated Salary Trial Program
Scale-Based Salary
Total UC Salary
annual decimal rate (ant. annual percentage rate)
Amazon.com
appreciation or annual percentage rate (ant. annual decimal rate)
booking class
boarding pass
breakfast
Chase
coupon
credit (card)
Equifax
Experian
TransUnion
FICO
contract
cash
defined contribution plan
deduction
duty-free
default mail address
dinner
depreciation
discount
daycare
equity
fare basis code
firstname.lastname
federal
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ff
ffdl
ffm
ffp
fnm
fnn
fx
fxr
gml
gt
gtc
gvt
hm
hse
htl
lfd
lml
lnc
lnm
lp
mdc
thk
mny
mrp
mrt
ncm
nrcr
nsr
nqr
ntr
nvc
nvs
oa
ofc
payg
phn
pmt
po
prc
prn
prp
ptn
rht
rmb
rnt
frequent flyer
fancy firstname.lastname
frequent flyer miles
frequent flyer program
first name
financial
foreign exchange
foreign exchange rate
Google mail (Gmail) address
gate
good-until-cancelled
government
home (syn. hm), (ant. ofc)
house (syn. hm), (ant. ofc)
hotel
last four digits
Lonely mail address
lunch
lastname (surname)
Lonely Planet
medical
travel hacking (thacking)
money
manufacturer’s retail price
mortgage
income
non-recurring (ant. rcr)
insurance
inquiry
interest
invoice
invest, investment
operating airline
office (ant. hse), (ant. hm)
pay-as-you-go
phone
payment
purchase order
price, purchased
principal
property
patent
rhetoric
reimburse
rental
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rsr
rtr
sgn
s/h
slr
sml
snk
sp
stt
tbf
trm
trv
uml
vs
wts
xpn
ytd
reservation
retirement
signature (i.e., Visa Signature card)
shipping & handling
salary
spam mail address
snack
store price
state
time between flights
terminal
travel
University mail address
Visa
with tax and shipping (i.e., all-inclusive price)
expense
year-to-date
Physical units and dimensions:
B byte
Health:
GAD
HSP
IBS
PF
PP
RCT
RMD
TGL
fml
frnd
gft
hlt
ku
lv
msc
nic
potm
ptr
rlt
slf
swm
sx
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Highly Sensitive Person
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Plantar Fasciitis
Placenta Previa
Relational Cultural Theory
Recurrent Major Depression
Triglycerides
family
friend
gift
health
kid unfriendly
love
music
nothing in common
pleasures of the mind
poetry
relationship
self
swimming
sex
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tgtbt too good to be true
Consumer electronics
1080i
1080i60
1080p
1080p24
1080p30
1600p
720p
720p60
A/V
A2DP
AFH
AMP
ATA
ATSC
AVI
AVOD
AVRCP
Anynet
BNC
BT
BT 1.1
BT 1.2
BT 2.0
BT 2.1
BT 3.0
Bpp
CEA
CEC
CRT
CUDA
DAB
DAB+
DFP
DL
DLNA
DM
DMS-59
DP
DP-1.0
DP-1.1
DP-1.1a
Interlaced (not progressive) scan HDTV 1920x1080 video mode (ant. 1080
1080i HDTV mode at 60/,fps (an ATSC standard, common in OTA broadcas
Progressive (not interlaced) scan HDTV 1920x1080 video mode, aka “Full H
1080p HDTV mode at 24/,fps (an ATSC and video mastering standard)
1080p HDTV mode at 30/,fps (an ATSC standard)
Progressive (not interlaced) scan HDTV 2560x1600 video mode (ant. 1080
Progressive (not interlaced) scan HDTV 1280x720 video mode (ant. 1080p
720p HDTV mode at 60/,fps (an ATSC standard, common in OTA broadcast
Audio/Video
Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (Bluetooth profile) for HQ stereo
Adaptive Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (Bluetooth technology)
Alternate MAC PHY (Bluetooth technology)
Advanced Technology Attachment (storage-to-bus adaptor) (syn. IDE)
Advanced Television Systems Committee (commences 20090217)
Audio Video Interleave
Audio/Video On Demand (syn. VOD)
Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (Bluetooth profile) for remote controls
Samsung brand-name for CEC (HDMI remote control language) (syn. CEC)
Bayonet Neill-Concelman (RF connector to terminate coaxial cable)
Bluetooth
Bluetooth Standard, c. 2002 includes RSSI
Bluetooth Standard, c. 2003 includes AFH, eSCO
Bluetooth Standard, c. 2004 includes EDR
Bluetooth Standard, c. 2007 includes EIR, EPR, SSP, NFC
Bluetooth Standard, c. 2009 includes AMP
bytes per pixel
Consumer Electronics Association
Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI remote control language)
Cathode Ray Tube
Compute Unified Device Architecture
Digital Audio Broadcasting standard (syn. Eureka 147)
Revised DAB standard
Digital Flat Panel
Dual-Link
It stands for Digital Living Network Alliance
Display Mode
59-Pin connector that supports two DVI Dual Link digital channels or two V
DisplayPort, 20-pins (ant. HDMI)
DP standard, c. 200605
DP standard, c. 200801, supports fiber optic cables, DPCP, HDCP
DP standard, c. 200802, supports eDP
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DP-1.2
DPCP
DRM
DTV
DVI
DVI-A
DVI-D
DVI-D DL
DVI-D SL
DVI-DL
DVI-I
DVI-M1-DA
ECN
EDID
EDGE
EDR
EDTV
EIR
EPHC
EPR
ExpressCard
ExpressCard/34
ExpressCard/54
ExtUSB
FF
FPD
GPGPU
GPU
GPU
GTF
HD Radio
HDCP
HDMI
HDMI Type A
HDMI Type B
HDMI Type C
HDMI 1.0
HDMI 1.1
HDMI 1.2
HDMI 1.3
HDMI 1.3a
HDMI 1.3b
HDMI 1.3b1
HDMI 1.3c
HDMI 1.4
DP standard, c. 2009, supports double bandwidth, MiniDP connector
DisplayPort Content Protection (DRM), based on 128-bit AES encryption
Digital Restrictions Management
Digital Television
Digital Visual Interface (older than HDMI, DP)
DVI Analog (analog only)
DVI Digital (digital only, can be single- or dual-link)
DVI-D Dual Link: Capable of WQXGA= 2560 × 1600 60 Hz
DVI-D Single Link: Capable of WUXGA= 1920 × 1200 60 Hz
DVI Dual-Link. Contains second data link. (NB: ambiguous! Could be DVI
DVI Integrated (digital & analog, can be single- or dual-link)
DVI Integrated (digital, analog, & USB)
Engineering Change Notice
Extended Display Identification Data
Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
Enhanced Data Rate (Bluetooth technology)
Enhanced-definition Television (DTV, progressive scan, analog resolution, 6
Extended Inquiry Response (Bluetooth technology)
Epson PowerLite Home Cinema (projector)
Encryption Pause Resume (Bluetooth technology)
Hardware standard for cards. Supports both PCIe and USB 2.0 buses. Either
34 mm ExpressCard (rectangular shape)
54 mm ExpressCard (L-shaped)
Proprietary (by HTC) USB 11-pin connector backwards compatible with Mi
Form Factor
Flat Panel Display
General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units
Graphical Processing Unit
Graphics Processing Units
Generalized Timing Formula
brand-name for iBiquity’s IBOC technology, US Standard
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (DRM)
High-definition Multimedia Interface (newer than DVI, older than DP) (ant.
Single link (19 pins) connector. Does not support 2560x1600.
Dual link (29 pins) connector. Supports 2560x1600.
Dual link (29 pins) mini-connector. Supports 2560x1600.
HDMI Standard, c. 2002, includes 1080p/UXGA
HDMI Standard, c. 2004, includes DVD audio
HDMI Standard, c. 2005, includes CEC features
HDMI Standard, c. 200606, includes Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, defined cabl
HDMI Standard, c. 200611, includes cable, CEC, Type C clarifications
HDMI Standard, c. 200703, includes compliance testing revisions
HDMI Standard, c. 200711, includes Type C testing revisions
HDMI Standard, c. 200808, includes active cable testing
HDMI Standard, c. 200905, includes HDMI ethernet, 3840x2160p and 4096
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HDTV
HDTV
HDTV DM DVI-DL
HDTV DM DVI-SL
HSDPA
HSPA
HSPA+
HSUPA
HTC
HTC Desire
HTC Dream
HTC Evo 4G
HTC G2
HTC Hero
HTC Incredible
HTC Legend
HTC Magic
HTC Passion
HXGA
IBOC
IEC
LDI
LFP
LGD
LPL
LTE
LVDS
Mini PCIe, PCI-E
Mini-TOSLINK
MiniDP
Motorola Droid
Motorola Droid X
NFC
NFC
NTSC
OTA
OTG
PAL
PATA
PBP
PC, PCMCIA Card
PCI
PCI-X
PCIe, PCI-E
PCMCIA
High Definition TV, 1920 × 1080 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio
High-definition Television (DTV, 1280x720=720p, 1920x1080=1080i, 1920x
1920 × 1080 85 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 126 MHz)
1920 × 1080 60 Hz with CVT-RB blanking (139 MHz)
High Speed Downlink Packet Access, improved W-CDMA protocol
High Speed Packet Access: Combination of HSDPA and HSUPA, capable of
Evolved High Speed Packet Access, improved HSPA capable of 42/11 Mbps
High Speed Uplink Packet Access, improved W-CDMA protocol
High Tech Computer Corporation
Android PDA, c. 201002; optical trackpad, runs HTC-Sense, 480 × 800 reso
Android PDA, c. 200809, branded T-Mobile G1; 320 × 480 resolution, inclu
Android PDA, branded Sprint Evo, c. 201006; 480 × 800 resolution, 8 Mp w
Android PDA, c. 201009, branded T-Mobile G2, 3.7” WVGA, 800 MHz CP
Android PDA, c. 200912, branded T-Mobile G2 Touch; includes 3.5 mm aud
Android PDA, branded Droid Incredible, c. 201005; 480 × 800 resolution, 8
Android PDA, branded Sprint Hero2, c. 201004; 320 × 480 resolution, 5 Mp
Android PDA, c. 200907, branded T-Mobile G2, myTouch 3G; lacks keyboa
Android PDA, c. 201001, branded Google Nexus One; noise-canceling micr
Hex[adecatuple] Extended Graphics Array, 4096 × 3072 resolution, 4:3 aspe
In-Band On-Channel (way of adding digital to analog broadcasts)
International Electrotechnical Commission
LVDS Display Interface (standard for connecting graphics card to LFP using
Local Flat Panel
LG Display (LCD panel supplier), formerly (syn. LPL))
LG Phillips (LCD panel supplier, now (syn. LGD))
Long Term Evoluation (based on GSM, successor to HSPA) capable of 300/7
Low-voltage Differential Signaling (low-power electrical signaling system) (
PCI Express Mini Card (expansion card for PCIe bus) (c. 2005)
Miniature TOSLINK (found on Apple computers)
Miniature DisplayPort (newest standard), 20-pins (ant. HDMI)
Android PDA, carrier Verizon, branded Motorola Milestone (w/GSM), c. 20
Android PDA, carrier Verizon, c. 201007; 480 × 848 resolution, 8 Mp w/LE
Near Field Communication (Bluetooth technology)
Near Field Communication
National Television System Committee, broadcasts at 640x480=480i
Over-The-Air (TV broadcasting signal)
On-The-Go (terminology for portable devices, e.g., PDAs)
Broadcasts at 768x576=576i
Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (older, slower than SATA) (ant. S
Picture-By-Picture
Hardward card type (c. 1991, superseded by ExpressCard)
Peripheral Component Interconnect (c. 1993, older, different FF than PCI-X,
PCI eXtended (c. 1998, newer than PCI, older than PCIe) (ant. PCIe)
PCI Express (c. 2004, newer than PCI and PCI-X) (ant. PCI-X)
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (refers to hardw
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PDA
PIP
QXGA
QXGA DM DVI-DL
RCA
RIHD
RSSI
S/PDIF
SATA
SCSI
SDTV
SL
SSP
SXGA
SXGA DM DVI-SL
Samsung
Samsung Epic 4G
TAA
TMDS
TOSLINK
U160
USB
USB EMU
USB Micro-A
USB Micro-AB
USB Micro-B
USB Mini-A
USB Mini-AB
USB Mini-B
USB-A
USB-B
USB 1.0
USB 1.1
USB 2.0
USB 3.0
UXGA DM DVI-SL
UXGA, UGA
VDPAU
VESA
VGA
VIERA Link
VIERA-Cast
VOD
W-CDMA
WFP
Personal Digital Assistant
Picture-In-Picture
Quad eXtended Graphics Array, 2048 × 1536 resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio
2048 × 1536 75 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 170 MHz)
Radio Corporation of America (A/V adaptor plug)
Onkyo brand-name for CEC (HDMI remote control language) (syn. CEC)
Received Signal Strength Indicator (Bluetooth technology)
Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format (digital audio signal protocol) (syn
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (storage-to-bus adaptor) (ant. PAT
Small Computer Systems Interface (communications protocol for high-perfo
Standard-definition Television (DTV, interlaced scan, analog resolution, 640
Single-Link
Secure Simple Pairing (Bluetooth technology)
Super eXtended Graphics Array, 1280 × 1024 resolution, 5:4 aspect ratio
1280 × 1024 85 Hz with GTF blanking (159 MHz)
Android PDA, c. 201012, carrier T-Mobile, branded Google Nexus S; 480 ×
Android PDA, c. 201007, branded Samsung Epic;
Trade Agreement Act (computer purchase compliance-related)
Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (used in DVI, HDMI) (ant. LVD
TOShiba-LINK (optical fiber connector used for audio signals)
SCSI variety emulated by IDE RAID farm
Universal Serial Bus
Enhanced mini-USB connector (EMU) (11-pin, 3 × 7 mm rectangle, one be
Micro USB Standard-A connector ( 1.5 × 7 mm)
Micro USB Dual Standards A & B connector (5-pin, 1.5 × 7 mm rectangle,
Micro USB Standard-B connector (5-pin, 1.5 × 7 mm, two beveled corners)
Miniature USB Standard-A connector (5-pin, 3 × 7 mm rectangle, two beve
Miniature USB Dual Standards (A & B) connector ( 3 × 7 mm)
Miniature USB Standard-B connector (5-pin, 3 × 7 mm rectangle, all square
USB Standard-A connector (4-pin, flattened rectangle)
USB Standard-B connector, carries power (4-pin, square with beveled corner
USB “Low-Speed” (187.5 kB s−1 ) Standard, c. 1996
USB “Full-Speed” (1.5 MB s−1 ) Standard, c. 1998
USB “High-Speed”, “Hi-Speed” (60 MB s−1 ) Standard (includes “micro-US
USB “SuperSpeed” (625 MB s−1 ) Standard, c. 2008
1600 × 1200 60 Hz with GTF blanking (161 MHz)
Ultra eXtended Graphics Array, 1600 × 1200 resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio
Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
Video Electronics Standards Association
Video Graphics Array (an analog-standard interface) (640 × 480 resolution)
Sony brand-name for CEC (HDMI remote control language) (syn. CEC)
Panasonic technology for streaming multimedia from Internet to HDTVs
Video On Demand (syn. AVOD)
Widband Code Division Multiple Access, 3G mobile telecommunication stan
Widescreen Flat Panel
15
WQUXGA
WQUXGA DM DVI-DL
WQUXGA DM DVI-SL
WQXGA
WQXGA DM DVI-DL
WSXGA, WXGA+
WSXGA, WXGA+ DM DVI-SL
WUXGA
WUXGA DM DVI-SL
WXGA
X: Display
X: Monitor
X: RandR
X: Screen
X: Xinerama
azw
bpp
eDP
eSATA
eSCO
fps
knd
mbp
pap
pda
phl
pmp
twn
Wide Quad Ultra Extended Graphics Array, 3840 × 2400 resolution, 16:10 a
3840 × 2400 33 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 159 MHz)
3840 × 2400 17 Hz (164 MHz)
Wide Quad eXtended Graphics Array, 2560 × 1600 resolution, 16:10 aspect
2560 × 1600 60 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 174 MHz)
non-standard term for, usually, 1440 × 900 resolution
1440 × 900 60 Hz (107 MHz)
Widescreen Ultra eXtended Graphics Array, 1920 × 1200 resolution, 16:10 r
1920 × 1200 60 Hz with CVT-RB blanking (154 MHz)
Wide eXtended Graphics Array, a non-standard: 1280 × 800 resolution, aspe
The resolution and depth of a given Screen
Physical display surface
Resize and Rotate (X-Windows extension)
Combination of Monitor with graphics Device
Filename extension for Amazon e-books
bits per pixel
Embedded DisplayPort, internal connection standard (graphics cards to noteb
external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA)
Extended Synchronous Connections (Bluetooth technology)
frames per second
Amazon Kindle
Filename extension for Amazon e-books notes/annotations
Personal Audio Player
Personal Digital Assistant
Filename extension for Amazon e-books icons?
Personal Media Player
TwinView (NVidia X-display mode)
Geographical places, stations, regions, and features: this points to sxn:abb
AAr
Arc
Brb
Brm
Izn
SMA
SMU
Svl
ULB
WaD
Antarctic
Arctic
Barbados
Bermuda
Izaña
St. Miguel de Allende
St. Martin d’Uriage
Svalbard
Uriage le Bains
WAIS Divide
Initials (often used as change markers in source code):
ag Alf Grini
bcb Byron C. Boville
2 ABBREVIATIONS
16
bee
bk
cl
csz
dap
dlw
dmw
fd
jcg
jmr
jpm
jtk
mat
mcb
mgf
mt
nmm
pjr
qh
rah
rlm
rkr
sbc
swb
xtcb
AAA
AAS
ABI
ACADIS
ACCESS
ACE
ACM
ACP
ACP
ACRM
ADT
AER
AERONET
AFGL
AGU
AISR
AIX
ALD
Brian E. Eaton
Brian Kahn
Chao Luo
Charles Sutton Zender
Diana A. Pataki
Daniel L. Wang
David M. Williamson
Florent Dominé
Jean-Charles Gallet
Jim M. Rosinski
Joseph P. McConnell
Jeffrey T. Kiehl
Mark A. Taylor
Michael C. Brown
Mark G. Flanner
Michael Tosca
Natalie M. Mahowald
Philip J. Rasch
Qin Han
Rick A. Hansell
Ron L. Miller
Russell K. Rew
Scott Blair Capps
Stephen W. Berrick
Tami C. Bond
Arctic Absorbing Aerosol
Atomic Absorption Spectrometry
Application Binary Interface
Advanced Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service
Advancing Collaborative Connections for Earth System Science (NASA ROSES Program)
Army Corps of Engineers
Association for Computing Machinery
Atmospheric Chemistry (NSF GEO AGS Program)
Atmospheric Chemistry Program (NSF GEO ATM program) or Advanced Cyberinfrastruct
(NASA) Atmospheric Composition Research and Modeling
Anomalous Diffraction Theory
Atmospheric & Environmental Research
Aerosol Robotic Network
Air Force Geophysical Laboratory
American Geophysical Union
Applied Information Systems Research (NASA ROSES program)
IBM variant of UNIX used in ESMF
Active Layer Depth (of permafrost)
17
ALW
AMAP
AMBT
AMSR-E
AMWG
ANENA
ANS
ANTLR
ANWR
AO
KNMI
CFP
AOGCM
API
GBD
AR4
AR5
ARC
ARF
ARM
ARMA
ASE
ASIRT
ASR
AST
ATM
ATSR
AVHRR
AVIRIS
BAAQMD
BATS
BAU
BEC
BECA
BET
BEV
BFI
BGC
BGCWG
BGF
BIRN
BRDF
BTS
CA
CADD
Adiabatic Liquid Water
Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program
Air Mass Back-Trajectory
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (satellite instrument)
(CCSM) Atmospheric Model Working Group
Association Nationale pour l’Etude de la Neige et des Avalanches
Arctic Natural Sciences Program
ANother Tool for Language Recognition
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR)
Announcement of Opportunity (NASA RFP) (syn. RFP), (syn. FOA), (syn. CFP)
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Call for Proposals (syn. RFP), (syn. FOA), (syn. AO)
(Coupled) Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
Application Programmer Interface
Global Burden of Disease
Fourth (IPCC Climate) Assessment Report
Fifth (IPCC Climate) Assessment Report
(NSF) Division of Arctic Sciences
Aerosol Radiative Forcing
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
Auto-Regressive Moving-Average
Advanced Science and Engineering
Aerosol Snow Ice Radiative Transfer
Atmospheric System Research (DOE ARM Program)
Abstract Symbol Table
(NSF) Division of Atmospheric Sciences
Along Track Scanning Radiometer and Microwave Sounder
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (satellite instrument)
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
Bay Area Air Quality Management District
Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
Business As Usual
Biogeochemistry-Ecosystem-Circulation (model)
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (US DoS)
Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (surface area)
Battery Electric Vehicle
Buckminster Fuller Institute
Biogeochemistry
(CCSM) Biogeochesmistry Working Group
Bare Ground Fraction
Biomedical Informatics Research Network
Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Function
Bug Tracking System
Cooperative Agreement
Centralized Analysis of Distributed Data
2 ABBREVIATIONS
18
CALYPSO
CAM
CARRE
CASTNET
CAT
CBA
CBET
CCAP
CCAR
CCCAC
CCM
CCN
CCNC
CCS
CCS
CCSM
CDC
CDHS
CDI
CDNC
CDO
CDP
CE
CEC
CENIC
CERES
CF
CFC
CFEP
CFVR
CGS
CH4
CHP
CHRS
CICE
CIES
CISE
CITI
CL
CLD
CLEAN
CLM
CLMUG
CMG
CMIP3
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
Community Atmosphere Model or Complex Angular Momentum
Central Asia Research and Remediation Exchange
Clean Air Status and Trends NETwork
Cap And Trade
Cost-Benefit analysis
Chemical, Bioenngineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (NSF ENG Division)
Center for Clean Air Policy
California Climate Action Registry
California Climate Change Advisory Committee
Community Climate Model
Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter
Carbon Capture and Storage
Coal with Carbon Capture and Storage
Community Climate System Model
Center for Disease Control
California Department of Health Services
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (NSF Cross-cutting program)
Cloud Droplet Number Concentration
Climate Data Operators
Cloud Droplet Probe
Civil Engineering or Corresponding Editor
California Energy Commission
Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (satellite instrument)
Climate & Forecast (metadata convention)
Chloro-fluorocarbon
Center for Educational Partnerships
Critical Friction Velocity Ratio
Centimeter Gram Second units
CH4
California Highway Patrol
Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing
Los Alamos sea ice model
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSF Directorate)
Center for Information Technology and Infrastructure
Client Library
Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics
addressing Climate Change through Learning, Empowerment, Action, and Networking
Common Land Model
Community Land Model User’s Guide
Climate Modeling Grid
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
19
CN
CNH
CNRS
CNS
CO2
CO2e
COSMOS
CP4SMP
CPC
CPC
CPT
CPU
CRDF
CRF
CRM
CRYSTAL-FACE
CSE
CSIM
CSP
CSRM
CST
CSTP
CSUB
CSV
CTM
CVS
CVWG
CWC
CWP
CalEPA
CalIT2
CalREN-2
CalREN-XD
CentOS
DADD
DD
DDA
DDD
DDPO
DDR
DEAD
DEBITS
DECADE
DGA
DHS
Condensation Nuclei
Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (NSF Program)
Centre Nationale de la Research Scientifique
Computer and Network Systems
CO2
Equivalent CO2
California State Summer School in Mathematics and Science
Competitive Program for Science Museums and Planetariums Plus Opportunities for NASA
Climate Protection Campaign
Condensation Particle Counter
Climate Process Team (NSF GEO AGS CLD Program)
Central Processing Unit
Civilian Research and Development Foundation
Cloud Radiative Forcing
Column Radiation Model
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers—Florida Area Cirrus Experime
Computer Science and Engineering
Community Sea Ice Model
Concentrated Solar Power
Cloud System Resolving Model
Client-Server Traffic
Client-Server Traffic Protocol
California State University at Bakersfield
Comma-Separated Value
Chemistry Transport Model
Concurrent Versions System
(CCSM) Climate Variability Working Group
Condensed Water Content
Condensed Water Path
California Environmental Protection Agency
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
California Regional Network
California Research Network, Experimental Development
Community Enterprise Operating System
Distributed Analysis of Distributed Data
Debian Developer
Discrete Dipole Approximation
Data-Driven Discovery
Debian Developer’s Packages Overview
Distributed Data Reduction
Dust Entrainment And Deposition Model
Deposition of Biogeochemically Important Trace Species
Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience
Division of Grants and Agreements
Department of Homeland Security
2 ABBREVIATIONS
20
DI
DIC
DIF
DIRTMAP
DKMS
DNMG
DOAS
DOCCD
DODS
DOI
DPG
DRUM
DTG
DUFISSS
DWP
E/PO
EA/WR
ECE
ECMWF
ECTNA
EDXRF
EECS
EES
EGG-TRAM
EHP
EID
EMA
EMEP
EMMF
EMN
ENG
ENSO
EOS
EOSDIS
EQSAM
ESA
ESC
DSIA
ESDSWG
ESE
HWG
ESG
ESI
ESIG
ESM
De-Ionized
Data-Intensive Computing
Dissolved Iron Fraction
Dust Indicators and Records of Terrestrial and MArine Paleoenvironments
Dynamic Kernel Module Support
Debian New Maintainer’s Guide
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
Database of Optical Constants for Cosmic Dust
Distributed Oceanographic Data Server
Digital Object Identifier
Distributed Power Generation
Davis Rotating Unit Monitoring
Depth to Groundwater
DUal-Frequency Integrating Sphere for Snow SSA Measurement
Department of Water and Power
Education & Public Outreach
Eastern Atlantic/Western Russia
Electrical and Computer Engineering
European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
Eastern and Central Tropical North Atlantic
Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Earth and Environmental Science or Environmental Engineering and Sustainability (Cluster
Emissions-to-Global-Grid Transfer Routine for Aerosol Microphysics
Elevated Heat Pump
Emerging Infectious Disease
Effective Medium Approximation
European Monitoring and Evaluation Program
Economical Multi-scale Modeling Framework
Effective Machine Name
Engineering (NSF Directorate)
El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Earth Observing System
Earth Observing System Data and Information System
EQuilibrium Simplified Aerosol Model
European Space Agency
Earth Simulator Center
Data Stewardship Interest Area
Earth Science Data System Working Groups
Earth Science Enterprise (NASA) or Environment, Society, and Economy (NSF GEO/SBE
(NASA ESDS Conventions for) HDF5 Working Group
Earth System Grid
Electronic Supplementary Information
Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
Earth System Model
21
ESMF
ESS
ESTO
SFA
EaSM
FAA
FAR
FC
FDTD
FIM
FIPSE
FNF
FOA
FOCUS
FOI
FRE
FRP
FSB
FSU
FTA
FTBFS
FTE
FV
GADS
GARMA
GB
GCM
GDP
GDS
GEO
GEON
GEOS-CHEM
GEWEX
GFED
GFP
GFS
GHG
GHGI
GISS
GLD
GLIDE
GLIMMER
GLX
GMI
GNOME
Earth System Modeling Facility
Earth System Science (Department)
Earth Systems Technology Office
Scientific Focus Area (DOE prgorammatic concept)
Earth System Models (NSF Panel)
Federal Aviation Administration
First Assessment Report
Forecast Cluster
Finite-Differerence-Time-Domain
Fire Injection Module
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (DOE program)
Friends aNd Family
Funding Opportunity Announcement (DOE RFP) (syn. RFP), (syn. AO)
Faculty Outreach Collaborations Uniting Scientists, Students and Schools
Field Of Interest
Fire Radiative Energy
Fire Radiative Power
Foreign Scholarship Board
Former Soviet Union
Fire Thermal Anomaly
Fails to Build from Source
Full-time Employee
Field site Visits
Global Aerosol Data Set
Generalized Auto-Regressive Moving-Average
Gigabyte
General Circulation Model
Gross Domestic Product
GrADS-DODS Server
Geosciences (NSF Directorate)
Geosciences Network
Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry Model
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
Global Fire Emissions Database
Guidebook for Proposers
Global File System
Greenhouse Gas
Greenhouse Gas Intensity
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics
General Land Ice Dynamic Elements (core of GLIMMER)
Ice Sheet Model of Payne et al.
OpenGL Extension to the X Window System
Global Modeling Initiative
GNU Object Module Environment
2 ABBREVIATIONS
22
GOA
GOES
GPFS
GPL
GPL3
GRACE
GRAVITY
GSC
GSFC
GW
GWP
Gb
GrADS
H2OH2O
H2SO4
HCFC
HDF
HDF-SDS
HDF4EOS
HDF5EOS
HFCV
HG
HIPerWall
HNLC
HPC
HPCC
HPVM
HSE
HTML
HTTP
HULIS
HUSWO
IAF
IAMAS
IBL
IBM
IC
IC
ICCID
ICS
ICTA
ICoD
IDE
IDL
IFS
Geometric Optics Approximation
Geostationary Earth Orbiting Satellite
General Parallel File System
GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License version 3
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (satellite instrument)
Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging Technology
GEOS-CHEM
Goddard Space Flight Center
Global Warming
Global Warming Potential
Gigabit
Grid Analysis and Display System
(H2 O)2
H2 SO4
Halogenated CFCs
Hierarchical Data Format
HDF Scientific Data Set format (*.hdf files)
HDF version 4 EOS data format (*.he2, *.he4, *.hdfeos files)
HDF version 5 EOS data format (*.he5 files)
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle
Henyey-Greenstein (phase function)
High-Performance Visualization System for Collaborative Earth System Sciences
High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll
High Performance Computing
High Performance Computing Center
High-Performance Virtual Machines
Hollow Sphere Equivalent
Hypertext Markup Lanuage
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Humic-like Substances
Hourly United States Weather Observations
Ice Albedo Feedback
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
Internal Boundary Layer
International Business Machines
International Conferences
Ion Chromatography
Integrated Circuit Card Identifier
Information and Computer Sciences
Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (Institute of Environmental Science and Techno
Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Insular Coast Dynamics (ICoD)
Integrated Drive Electronics (commodity PC hard disks) or Integrated Development Environ
International Date Line
Integrated Forecast System
23
IGPP
II
IIE
III
IIPS
IIS
IMSI
IN
IOM
IOP
IPA
IPCC
IPO
IPY
IRES
ISC
ISDAC
ISG
ISHMS
ISHO
ISSDS
ISTC
ITA
ITD
ITT
IWC
IWP
JAMSTEC
JC
JISAO
JIT
JPL
KDE
LAC
LAISSE
LAN
LANL
LAPACK
LBAOP
LBF
LBL
LEP
LES
LFS
LGGE
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Information Integration
Institue of International Education
Information Integration and Informatics (NSF CISE IIS Program)
Interactive Information Processing Systems
Information and Intelligent Systems (NSF CISE Division)
Integrated Mobile Subscriber Identity
Ice Nuclei
Institute of Mathematics (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
Intensive Observing Period
Independent Pixel Approximation or International Phonetic Alphabet
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Interprocedural Optimization
International Polar Year
International Research Experience for Students (NSF Program)
International Symposium on Coccidioidomycosis
Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign
Integrated Sinusoidal Grid
Integrated Surface Hourly Meteorological Station
Integrated Surface Hourly Observations
International Symposium on Sand and Dust Storms
International Science and Technology Center
Intent to Adopt
Ice Thickness Distribution
Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (satellite instrument)
Ice Water Content
Ice Water Path
Japan Institute of Marine Science and Technology
Journal Club
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Just-in-time
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
K Desktop Environment
Light Absorbing Carbon
LGGE Albedo Integrating Sphere for Snow Experiments
Local Area Network
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Linear Algebra PACKage
Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific
Large Blocksize Filesystem
Line-by-line
Laboratory for Environmental Planning
Large Eddy Simulation
Large File Support
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (Grenoble, France)
2 ABBREVIATIONS
24
LHS
LIDAR
LKM
LLJ
LLNL
LMWG
LOSU
LSLZ
LSM
LTP
LW
LWC
LWCF
LWP
MABL
MAC
MAE
MAR
MARSWIT
MASAIS
MATRIX
MBD
MBWA
MCD
MCT
MD
MERRA
MFC
MFO
MINATROC
MISR
MKS
MLE
MM5
MMD
MMF
MMWR
MNP
MODI
MODIS
MOP
MOPITT
MOSAIC
MOUDI
MOZART
Left Hand Side
LIght Detection And Ranging
Linux Kernel Module
Low-level Jet
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(CCSM) Land Model Working Group
Level of Scientific Understanding
Lower Sonoran Life Zone
Land Surface Model
Long-Term Probability
Longwave (radiation)
Liquid Water Content
Longwave Cloud Forcing
Liquid Water Path
Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Media Access Control
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mass Accumulation Rate
Mars Surface Wind Tunnel
Measurement of Albedo and specific Surface Area using an Integrating Sphere
Multiconfiguration Aerosol TRacker of mIXing state
Metrics Baseline Document (for NASA ACCESS)
Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (e.g., IEEE 802.20)
MODIS Combined Dataset
Metrics Collection Tool (for NASA ACCESS)
Mineral Dust
Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications
Missing From Collection
Multi-File Operator
Mineral Dust and Tropospheric Chemistry
Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer (satellite instrument)
Meter-Kilogram-Second units
Maximum Likelihood Estimation
PennState/NCAR Mesoscale Model version 5
Mass Median Diameter
Multi-scale Modeling Framework
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Mojave National Preserve
Multi-Orifice Deposit Impactor (MODI)
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (satellite instrument)
Microphysical Optical Properties
Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (satellite instrument)
MOdel for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry
Multi-Orifice Uniform Deposit Impactors (MOUDI)
Model for Ozone and Related Tracers
25
MOZIR
MPC
MPI
MPMD
MRMVF
FRCG
LRCG
LDRF
MRO
MSG
MSP
MSc
NAA
NACS
NASA
NBC
NC
NCAR
NCCS
NCCS
NCDC
NCEP
NCEP
NCO
NCVweb
NDVI
NEMS
NERSC
NGS
NH
NH4
NHS
NIC
NIR
NMI
NMU
NO2
NOAA
NOMADS
NOPP
NPACI
NPOESS
NPS
NRA
NRDC
Infrared (radiation) or Infection Rate
Medium Performance Computing
Message Passing Interface
Multiple Program Multiple Data
Multi-Record Multi-Variable File
First Record of Current Group
Last Record of Current Group
Last Desired Record in File
Multi-Record Output
Meteosat Second Generation
Math Science Partnership
Marine Stratocumulus
Neutron Activation Analysis
Network and Computing Services
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical weapons
National Conferences
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NASA Center for Computational Sciences
National Center for Computational Sciences (DOE)
National Climatic Data Center
National Center for Environmental Prediction
National Commission on Energy Policy
netCDF Operators
NetCDF Viewer Web
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
DOE National Energy Modeling System
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
National Geographic Society
Northern Hemisphere
NH4
National and Homeland Security
National Ice Center
Near Infrared
NSF Middleware Initiative
Non-Naintainer Upload
NO2
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System
National Oceanographic Partnership Program
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastracture
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
National Park Service
NASA Research Announcement
National Resources Defense Council
2 ABBREVIATIONS
26
NSA
NSF
NSIDC
NSS
NSSC
NUG
NVODS
NWS
O2
O2000
O2N2
O2O2
O2X
O3
OAR
OBGC
OCHO
OCI
OEM
OISE
OLLI
OLR
ONI
OPAC
OPC
OPP
OPeNDAP
ORB
ORNL
OLCF
OSL
OpenMP
OpenACC
OptIPuter
DAG
PAPI
PAR
PAS
PCG
PCMDI
PCWG
PEBCAK
PGE
PI
PIO
North Slope of Alaska
National Science Foundation
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Non-Sea Salt Sulphate
NASA Shared Services Center
NCO User’s Guide
National Virtual Ocean Data System
National Weather Service
O2
Model of SGI shared memory supercomputer at UCI (krein)
O2 ·N2
O2 ·O2
O2 ·X
O3
Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Ocean Biogeochemistry
OCHO
Office of Cyberinfrastructure (NSF Office)
Ocean Ecosystem Model
Office of International Science and Engineering (NSF Division-Level Organization)
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Outgoing Longwave Radiation
Optical Networking Initiative
Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds
Optical Particle Counter
Office of Polar Programs (NSF Office)
Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
Object Ring Buffer
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
Optically Stimulated Luminescence (dating technique)
Standard API for SMPP
Open ACCelerators for SMPP
Optical networking Internet Protocol computer
Directed Acyclic Graph (history type used by GitHub)
Performance Application Programming Interface
Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Personal Access System
Petascale Collaboratory for the Geosciences
Program for Climate Model Development and Intercomparison
Polar Climate Working Group
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Principle Investigator
Parallel I/O
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PIR
PM10
PM2.5
POC
POLARCAT
POP
POP+OEM
PPA
PPA
PRIDE
PSC
PSCTF
PTS
PVFS
PVM
R2D2
RAID
RAM
RC
RCAST
RCS
RDB
RDG
REE
RFP
RFS
RGB
RH
RHS
RLL
ROI
RPM
RPS
RR
RRDR
RRT
RSP
RT
RTM
SACC
SAF
SAL
SAMSON
SAN
SAO
Personal Interview Report
Particles finer than 10 µm in diameter
Particles finer than 2.5 µm in diameter
Point of Contact
POLar study using Aircraft, Remote sensing, surface measurements and modeling of Clima
Parallel Ocean Program
POP with Ocean Ecosystem Model embedded
Personal Package Archive
Plane Parallel Approximation
Puerto Rico Dust Experiment
Pathscale
Physical Sciences Communications Task Force
Package Tracking System (Debian)
Parallel Virtual File System
Parallel Virtual Machine
Remote Reduction of Distributed Data
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
Random Access Memory
Release Critical
fxm
Research Computing Services
Relational databases
Rayleigh-Debye-Gans
Rare Earth Element
Request for Package or Request for Proposals (syn. FOA), (syn. AO)
Request for Sponsor
Red Green Blue
Relative Humidity
Right Hand Side
Regular Latitude Longitude
Region Of Interest
RedHat Package Manager
Renewable Portfolio Standards
Reaction Rates
Remote Reduction of Distributed Data
Rapid Response Team
(NASA) Radiation Sciences Program
Radiative Transfer
River Transport Model
Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce
Snow Albedo Feedback
Saharan Air Layer
Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network
Storage Area Network
Semi-Annual Oscillation
2 ABBREVIATIONS
28
SAR
SAS
SBE
SC4 = SC4
SCAQMD
SCCOOS
SCD
SCF
SCI
SDCI
SDO
SDS
SDSC
SDSU
SDSWS
SEI
SEIII
SEM
SEVIRI
SFO
SGD
SGER
SGI
SH
SHADE
SI
SIM
SL
SLD
SLR
SMD
SMP
SMPP
SMUD
SNICAR
SNSF
SO4
SOFeX
SOI
SOIREE
SOM
SP
SPEW
SPMD
SPS
Second Assessment Report
surface-atmosphere system
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (NSF Directorate)
Southern California Climate Change Consortium
South Coast Air Quality Management District
Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
Study Center Directorship
Snow Cover Factor
Shared Cyberinfrastructure
Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (NSF OCI program)
Scientific Data Operators
Scientific Data Set Format
San Diego Supercomputer Center
San Diego State University
(WMO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning System
Science and Engineering Informatics or Stockholm Environment Institute
Science and Engineering Information Integration and Informatics
Scanning Electron Microscope
Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager
Single-File Operator
Smart Grid Demonstrations
Small Grant for Exploratory Research
Silicon Graphics Incorporated
Southern Hemisphere
Saharan Dust Experiment
System Internationale
Subscriber Identity Module
Southern Levant
Semi-Lagrangian Dynamics
Sea Level Rise
Science Mission Directorate
Symmetric Multi-Processing, Shared Memory Parallelism
Shared Memory Parallel Programming
Sacramento Municipal Utilities District
SNow, ICe, and Aerosol Radiative model
Swiss National Science Foundation
SO4
Southern Ocean Iron Experiment
Southern Oscillation Index
Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment
Supporting Online Material
Senior Personnel or Super-Parameterization
Speciated Pollutant Emission Wizard
Single Program Multiple Data
South Pole Station
29
SPS
SPV
SRB
SRES
SRM
SS
SSA
SSDRA
SSI
SSP
SSS
SST
STP
SUCCESS
SW
SWAMP
SWCF
SWE
SciDAC
TAR
TB
TC
TEOM
TG
TH
TIPA
TL
TNA
TNEF
TOA
TOMS
TRL
UAB
UARP
UB
UCAR
UCEAP
UCI
UDF
UNCCD
UNIX
UOEAP
UPC
UPMC
URI
UCI School of Physical Sciences
Solar PhotoVoltaics
Storage Resource Broker
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
Solar Radiation Management
Saltation-Sandblasting
Specific Surface Area
Server-Side Data Reduction & Analysis
UCI Summer Science Institute
Summer Science Program
Sea Salt Sulphate
Sea Surface Temperature
Standard Temperature and Pressure
Subsonic Aircraft: Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study
Shortwave (radiation) or Southwest or Summer Workshops
Script Workflow Analysis for MultiProcessing
Shortwave Cloud Forcing
Snow Water Equivalent
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
Third Assessment Report
Terabyte
Tropical Cyclone
Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance
Temperature Gradient
Thermostat Hypothesis
The International Phonetic Alphabet
Thermoluminescence (dating technique)
Tropical North Atlantic
Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Format (winmail.dat)
Top of Atmosphere
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (satellite instrument)
Technology Readiness Level
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
(NASA) Upper Atmosphere Research Program
Universitat Barcelona (University of Barcelona)
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
University of California Education Abroad Program
University of California, Irvine
Universal Disk Format
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
Generic name for operating system
Universitywide Office of the University of California Education Abroad Program
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Polytechnical University of Barcelona)
Université P. et M. Curie
University of Rhode Island
2 ABBREVIATIONS
30
UV
VC
VCR
VR
WAIS
WCGGWI
WCRP
WG
WG1
WKB
WLAN
WMAN
WMD
WNPP
WPAN
WPWP
WRF
WSTNA
WWAN
WiMAX
XML
YD
YKW
ZKB
netCDF
p655
p690
ALMOD
ALT
CEWI
HG
IT
IT
ITOD
LMOD
LMT
LT
LTOD
RUVICFFU
Ray
SS
aa
aapt
User Visits to LEP
Visualization Cluster
Vice Chancellor for Research
Virtual Reality
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
West Coast Governors’ Global Warming Initiative
World Climate Research Programme
Working Group
(IPCC) Working Group One (Scientific Basis of Climate Change)
Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (theory)
Wireless Local Area Network (e.g., IEEE 802.11, WiFi)
Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (e.g., IEEE 802.16, WiMAX)
Weapons of Mass Destructiona
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Wireless Personal Area Network (e.g., IEEE 802.15, Bluetooth)
Western Pacific Warm Pool
Weather Research and Forecasting (model)
Western and Subtropical North Atlantic
Wireless Wide Area Network (e.g., IEEE 802.16, WiMAX)
Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (IEEE 802.16)
Extensible Markup Language
Younger-Dryas
You Know Who
Zero known bugs
network Common Data Format
8-CPU IBM computer node in ESMF
32-CPU IBM computer node in ESMF
average layer monochromatic optical depth
average layer transmission
Compiler Error Warning Initializer
Henyey-Greenstein
Interface Transmission
Interface transmission
Interface Transmission Optical Depth
Layer Monochromatic Optical Depth
Layer Monochromatic Transmission
Layer Transmission
Layer Transmission Optical Depth
Retain Unused Variables In Comments For Future Use
Rayleigh
Sensitivity Study
azimuthal average
Android Asset Packaging Tool
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abb
abs
aca
acc
acm
act
acu
adb
adp
aer
afr
agr
alb
all
alp
alw
amp
amt
anl
anm
apk
apm
apn
apr
apt
arf
ash
asm
asp
atm
att
avg
axz
azi
bb
bbc
bbd
bbl
bch
bck
bcl
bdy
bfr
bgf
bio
abbreviation
absorption, absorbed, absorbing
anomalous cloud absorption
annual cycle
accomodation or accomplishment
activity
altocumulus
adding-doubling (radiative transfer method) or Android Debugging Bridge
adaptation (ant. mtg)
aerosol, aerosol-laden (turbid) (ant. cln), or aerodynamic
afforestation
agricultural
albedo
all, every, entire
associated Legendre polynomial
adiabatic liquid water or allow
ampersand
amount
analyzed or analytic (ant. rsl)
animation or anomaly or anonymous
Android application
applied math
append (ant. ppn) or appendix
annual progress report or approve, approved or aperture
appointment
aerosol radiative forcing
apparent sink heat
asymmetry (as in asymmetry parameter) or asymptote
aspherical (ant. sph)
atmosphere or atmospheric
attribute
average, mean
axis, axes
azimuth, azimuthal
broadband
broad branch crystal (ant. hxg)
black body
bubble
batch or beach
backscatter (ant. fwd) or backup
baroclinic (ant. brt)
birthday
buffer
bigfile
biological
2 ABBREVIATIONS
32
bkf
blk
bll
bln
blr
bm
bmb
bnd
bnr
bool
bp
bppv
brd
brn
brt
bsc
bsl
btm
bvr
bw
bwn
bxm
cbc
ccd
cch
ccn
cdnc
cff
cfg
chk
chm
chn
chn
cht
ck
ck
ckn
clb
clc
cld
cll
clm
cln
clq
clr
backfill
block or black
bell
boolean
bluer (shorter wavelength) (ant. rdr)
beam or benchmark
biomass burning
band or bounded, boundary
binary
Boolean
pointer to byte
bits per packed value
broadened, broadening
Brownian or barn
brightness (temperature) or barotropic (ant. bcl)
backscatter
Bessel
bottom, lowermost (ant. top)
bi-variate (ant. uvr)
black and white
Bowen (ratio)
box model
cubic
coccidioidomycosis
cache
cloud condensation nuclei
cloud droplet number concentration
coefficient
configure
check or checksum
chemistry
channel
chapter
cheatsheet
cook, cooking
correlated-k
cooking
Coulomb
collection
cloud, cloudy or all sky (ant. clr)
collision or cell or collimated
column or climate
clean (aerosol-free) (ant. aer) or clean (memory) (ant. drt) or calendar
colloquium
color or clear (cloud-free) (ant. cld)
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cls
cly
cmd
cml
cmm
cmn
cmp
cn
cnc
cnd
cnf
cnk
cnm
cnn
cnp
cns
cnsc
cnt
cnv
cor
cos
cp
cpc
cpl
cpt
cpv
cpx
crc
crd
crl
crp
crr
crs
crs
crt
csn
cst
csza
ctg
ctl
ctr
cv
cvr
cw
cyl
Celsius (ant. klv) or class or close (ant. opn) or classical (ant. qnt)
clay
command
cumulative
communicator
common
compare or compress, compressed, compression
condensation nuclei
concentration or conclusion
condensate, condensed or conductivity, conductance
conform
chunk
continuum (ant. ln) or economic, economical
canonical
canopy
consulate
consecutive
count or continuum or controversy
convergence or convert or convention
core (ant. mnt)
cosine
copy or pointer to char
capacity
capillary
caption
computational precision variable
complex
correction or circumference or circle
coordinate
curl (ant. dvr) or coral
creep (surface) or cryptography
current
Cirrus or course (ant. hrz) or cross (ant. dot)
crust, crustal
Cartesian (ant. sph) or critical (syn. thr) or create
seasonal
cast or constant or constituent or coast, coastal
cosine solar zenith angle
category or contiguous
control (ant. xpt)
center, central or counter
curriculum vitae
centennial variability
carbon and water
cylinder (ant. sph)
2 ABBREVIATIONS
34
dat
day
dbg
dbl
dbn
dcc
dcr
dcx
dd
ddd
ddm
ddp
dep
dex
dff
dfl
dfn
dfr
dfr
dfs
dgn
dgr
dgs
dgt
dle
dlq
dlr
dlt
dmd
dmg
dmm
dmn
dmr
dmt
dmy
dnd
dne
dnl
dnm
dns
dom
dot
doy
dp
dpl
data
night (ant. ngh)
debug
double (ant. flt)
debian
diurnal cycle
decreasing or decrement
double complex
day of month (two digit format) (syn. dom)
day of year (three digit format) (syn. doy)
direct-diffuse mean
dry deposition
depth, as in optical depth
Dalvik executable
diffuse (radiation) (ant. drc) or diffusion, diffusivity (deprecated)
default or deflate, deflated (ant. nfl)
definite or define, definition
deforestation
differential or defer, deferred
diffuse (radiation) or diffusion, diffusivity (preferred)
diagnostic or diagonal
degrees (ant. rdn)
digest
digit
delta-Eddington (radiative transfer method)
deliquesence
dollar
delta, difference
diamond dust
Disk Image (MacIntosh filetype)
deci-millimeter (m−4 ) or dim, dimming
dimension
dimer
diameter (ant. rds)
dummy
do not delete or dendrite, dendritic
does not exist
delete whitespace up to new line (M4 comment)
denominator (ant. nmr)
density
day of month (syn. dd)
dot product (ant. crs)
day of year (syn. ddd)
pointer to double
dipole or duplicate
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dpp
dps
dpt
drc
drg
drk
drn
drs
drt
drv
drw
dsc
dsd
dsh
dsk
dsr
dsr
dss
dst
dtc
dvc
dvd
dvn
dvr
dwn
dwp
dwt
dyn
edc
eid
emu
enm
epd
eps
eqm
eqn
eqx
err
est
evl
evn
ext
fch
fct
fcx
Doppler
deposition
depth
direct (ant. dff) or direction
drag
dark (ant. lgt)
duration
address
dirty (memory) (ant. cln)
driver or derived, derivation or derivative
Darwin
description or discussion or discriminant or discretization
drop size distribution (ant. psd)
dash
disk
desert
discrete-ordinates (radiative transfer method)
disease
distribution or distance or dust
detector
device
divide (ant. mlt)
deviation
decadal variability or divergence (ant. crl)
down, downwelling (ant. up)
dew point
dry weight
dynamic
education
emerging infectious diseases
emulate
enumerated
epidemiology
epsilon or Encapsulated PostScript
equilibrium
equation
equinox (ant. sls)
error
East (ant. wst)
evaluate
even (symmetric) (ant. odd)
extinction
fetch
factor
float complex
2 ABBREVIATIONS
36
ffc
fgr
fk
fl
flc
fld
flg
flk
fll
fls
flt
flw
flx
fml
fn
fnc
fnl
fnt
fp
frc
frd
frl
frm
frn
frnd
frq
frr
frs
frs
fsh
fsn
fst
ftr
fwd
fxm
fzz
gaa
gam
gcc
gdp
gds
gdwt
gft
glb
glc
effective
figure
fake
file or firstnamelastname (no space)
fluctuating, fluctuation
field or fluid
flag
flake
fill or full or Fall
false (ant. tru)
filter or float (ant. dbl) (ant. int)
flow or follow or fellowship or follow-up
flux (syn. rrd)
family
first name (ant. ln)
function
final
font
pointer to float
fraction or forcing or friction
Froude or Faraday
fractal
formula
foreign (broadened) (ant. slf)
friend
frequency (ant. wvn) (ant. wvl) (ant. prd)
Fourier
Fresnel or first (ant. lst)
forest
efficiency or offshore (ant. nsh)
fusion
offset
future
forward (ant. rvr) or forward scatter (ant. bck)
fix me (debugging)
fuzzy (band averaged)
global annual average
global annual mean
global climate change
gravitational deposition
geodesic
gram dry weight
gift
global or greatest lower bound
glacier, glacial, glaciogenic
37
gml
gmm
gmr
gmt
gnd
gng
gnm
gnr
goa
gpd
grd
grp
grv
grw
gry
gsd
gss
gw
gwc
hch
hdl
hdr
heat
heg
hgh
hgt
hh
hi
hlc
hmr
hmd
hmg
hms
hnd
hnr
hr
hrd
hrs
hrv
hrz
hst
htrn
hxd
hxg
hyd
Gmail address
gamma
geomorphology, geomorphic
Greenwich Mean Time or geometric
ground or agenda
geo-engineering
genome, genomic
generic or generator
geometric optics approximation
gas phase diffusion
grid or gradient (ant. crl)
group
gravity, gravitation
grow, growth
grey
geometric standard deviation
Gauss, Gaussian
Gaussian weight
gravimetric water content
heterogeneous chemistry
headline
header
heating
HDF EOS Grid
high (ant. low)
height (ant. wdt)
hour of day (two digit format) (syn. hr)
high, uppermost (ant. lo)
holocene
humor
humidity
homogeneous (ant. nhm)
hemisphere
handle
Henry or honor, honors
hour
surface hoar
depth hoar
Harvard
horizontal (ant. vrt) or high-resolution
history
HITRAN
hexadecimal
hexagon, hexagonal (ant. bbc)
hydrology
2 ABBREVIATIONS
38
i18n
iaf
icc
icr
id
idx
iff
ilg
img
in
ini
inq
int
ipc
ipm
ips
ipt
iso
ist
itp
itr
ivr
jc
jrn
kdz
klv
kml
kmz
knd
knm
knt
kyt
l10n
lac
lai
lak
lat
lbl
lbr
lcl
lcn
ldr
lev
lfc
lft
internationalization
ice albedo feedback
interannual cycle or ice core
ice core
identifier
index or indices
if and only if
illegal (ant. lgl)
imaginary or image
input (ant. out)
initial, initialize
inquire
integer (ant. flt)
interparticle cohesion
isopotomer
idiom and practice of science
isopotomer
isotope or isothermal
interstitial
isotope
iterator or iteration
interannual variability
journal club
journal
kids
Kelvin (ant. cls)
Keyhole Markup Language (syn. kmz)
zipped (compressed) Keyhole Markup Language file (syn. kml)
Knudson
kinematic
kinetic
kite
localization
light absorbing carbon
leaf area index (ant. vai,sai)
lake
latitude (ant. lon)
label or line-by-line
library
local
location
lidar
level
lifecycle
lift or left (ant. rgt) or lifetime
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lgf
lgl
lgn
lgt
liq
lkt
llm
lmn
ln
lnd
lng
lnr
lnt
lo
loi
lon
los
low
lp
lpl
lqd
lrb
lrb
lrn
lrv
lsc
lsf
lss
lst
ltn
ltr
lub
lut
lvl
m17n
max
mbl
mca
mcr
md
mdl
mdm
mdn
mdp
mds
logfile
legal (ant. ilg)
lognormal or legend
light (ant. drk) or lightning
liquid
look-up table
illumination
element or laminar
line or natural logarithm or last name (surname) (ant. fn)
land (ant. ocn)
long or length or language
linear (ant. nlr)
lenticular
low, lowermost (ant. hi)
letter of intent
longitude (ant. lat)
letter of support
low (ant. hgh)
pointer to long
Laplace, Laplacian
liquid (ant. sld)
larboard (syn. prt) (ant. srb)
larboard (syn. prt) (ant. srb)
Lorentz, Lorentzian
least rapidly varying
last significant character
line shape factor
loess
list or last (ant. frs)
latent (heat) (ant. sns) or latency
letter or liter
least upper bound
lookup table
level
multilingualization
maximum (ant. min)
mobilization
multi-component aerosol
micron
mode
modal (ant. sxn) or model (ant. obs), (ant. msr)
medium (ant. prt), (ant. core), (ant. ncl)
median
midpoint (ant. ntf)
modulus
2 ABBREVIATIONS
40
mfp
mgn
mie
min
mjr
mk
mlc
mlg
mlk
mll
mlmic
mlr
mlr
mls
mlt
mlw
mm
mmn
mmr
mmt
mmw
mnz
mnc
mng
mnm
mno
mnr
mnt
mod
mom
mono
moy
mpc
mpl
mpr
mrd
mrk
mrm
mrr
mrv
mrz
msc
msg
msk
msl
mean free path
magnetism, magnetic
Mie
minimum (ant. max)
major
make, create
molecule, molecular
mileage
Malkmus or Milankovitch
molality (mol kg−1 )
mean linear mass increase coefficient
molarity (mol L−1 )
molarity (mol L−1 )
mid-latitude summer or mean line spacing
multiply (ant. dvd) or multiple (ant. sgl)
mid-latitude winter
month of year or minute of hour (two digit format) (syn. moy, mth)
moment or momentum
mass mixing ratio or memory
mammatus
mean molecular weight
immunization
Monte Carlo
monograph
minimum (ant. mxm)
Monin-Obukhov
minor or mineral, mineralogy
monotonic or minute or mantissa or mantle (ant. cor)
modulus
moment (e.g., in Legendre expansion)
monochromatic
month of year (syn. moy)
mass path column or impaction
implementation or mass path layer
empirical
(mass) mixing ratio in dry air (ant. mrm)
Markov or mark
(mass) mixing ratio in moist air (ant. mrd)
mirror
most rapidly varying
Mars, Martian
miscellaneous or music
message
mask
mean sea level
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msn
msr
mss
mst
msv
mtd
mtg
mth
mtm
mtr
mtx
mvs
mvsc
mwb
mxg
mxm
naa
nar
nb
nbr
nc
ncl
ncr
ncv
ncw
ndc
ndf
ndn
ndf
ndm
ndr
nfc
nfl
nfn
nfr
ngh
ngs
nhm
nlr
nm
nma
nmn
nmr
nms
npc
emission
measured, measurement (ant. mdl), (syn. obs)
mass or missing (value)
moisture, moist (air) (ant. dry)
emissivity
metadata or method
meeting or mitigation (ant. adp)
month (syn. moy, mm) or math
metamorphism
meter or metric
matrix (ant. ncl)
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler
Maxwell-Boltzmann
Maxwell Garnett (ant. brg)
maximum (ant. mnm)
number average analytic
number average resolved
narrow band
number
netCDF
nucleation or nucleus, nuclei, nuclear or inclusion (syn. core), (syn. prt), (ant. mtx) or include
increasing or increment or encrypted (ant. ucr) or anchor
natural climate variability
nuclear winter
normalized device coordinates
indefinite
indent, indentation or endianness
indefinite
non-dimensional or endemic
indirect effect or nadir, downward looking (ant. zen)
infection
inflate (ant. dfl)
infinite
info., information
night (ant. day) or neighbor
Ångström
inhomogeneous (ant. hmg)
non-linear (ant. lnr)
name
number median analytic
nominal or non-monotonic
number median resolved or numeric or numerator (ant. dnm)
namespace
number path column
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npl
nrg
nrs
nrs
nrt
nsh
nsl
nsm
nsr
nst
nsz
ntc
ntf
ntg
nth
ntl
tmc
ntm
ntn
ntp
ntr
nts
ntt
ntv
ntw
ntz
nvr
nvt
nwa
nwr
nwt
nxt
obl
obs
ocn
oda[c,l]
odd
ods[c,l]
odx
odx[c,l]
off
omp
op
opn
opt
2 ABBREVIATIONS
number path level
energy or inorganic (ant. rgn)
inertia
nurse, nursing
North (ant. sth)
onshore (ant. fsh)
insolation
ensemble
answer
instrument or instantiate, instantiation or instructor, instruction
Nussenzweig
interception or notice
interface (ant. mdp)
integral or integer
enthalpy
initial or initials
atomic (ant. ntm)
intermediate or non-atomic (ant. tmc)
intensity or radiance
interpolate, interpolant or entropy
introduction (ant. cnc) or internal (ant. xtr) or nutrient or entertainment
note to self
annotate, annotated, notation
interval, interview
network
units
environment (ant. prc) or inversion or never
invitation
number weighted average analytic
number weighted average resolved
Newton (syn. rph), Newtonian
next (ant. prv) or (ant. crr)
oblate (ant. prl)
observed, observation (ant. mdl), (syn. msr)
ocean (ant. lnd)
optical depth absorption [column,layer]
odd (anti-symmetric) (ant. evn)
optical depth scattering [column,layer]
extinction optical depth
optical depth extinction [column,layer]
offsest
OpenMP
operation
open (ant. cls)
optical or option or optimal
43
osm
osw
out
ovl
ovr
pbl
pcc
pch
pck
pcl
pcp
pct
pd
pdd
pfl
pfo
pforc
pfx
pht
phy
phz
plc
plg
plk
pll
pln
plp
plr
plt
plt
pmr
pmp
pnl
pnr
pnt
ppl
ppn
ppp
ppr
prc
prd
prg
prj
prl
prm
osmotic
offshore wind
output (ant. in)
overlay
overlap
public (ant. prv) or planetary boundary layer
polar climate change
photochemistry (ant. hch) or pch
pack, packed (ant. upk)
Peclet or parcel (ant. nvr)
precipitation
percent
present day
photodiode
profile
pseudo-first order
pseudo-first order rate coefficient
prefix
photon
phytolith
phase
place or policy or paleoclimate
polygon
Planck
palette or pollution
plant or plain (syn. ucr) or planar (ant. sld)
plane parallel
polar, as in polar angle (ant. azi)
plot
politics, political
partial molar refraction (optical approximation)
pre-empt, pre-emption
panel
panorama
point
population or popular (ant. prv)
prepend (ant. apn)
pre-proposal
partial pressure or paper
process or photodissociation rate coefficient or precision
period (ant. frq) or product
program
projection
parallel (ant. prp) or prolate (ant. obl) or parliamentarian
parameter or prime or permafrost
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prn
prp
prs
prt
prv
prv
prx
psd
psd
psn
pss
pst
pth
ptn
ptr
pwr
pyr
qck
qdr
qnt
qrk
qst
rat
rbn
rbt
rbt
rcd
rch
rcm
rcp
rcr
rct
rdb
rdc
rdd
rdl
rdn
rdr
rds
rec
rf
rfl
rfr
rgd
rgh
print, printer or parentheses, parenthetical, or period or parent
property or perpindicular (ant. prl) or proposal or propre (clean) (ant. sal)
pressure or parse or person or press
partial or partition or port (syn. lbr) (ant. sbr)
peer-reviewed (ant. ppl) or preserve, preserving
private (ant. pbl) or previous or provisional
approximation
particle size distribution (ant. dsd) (syn. szdst) or pseudonym
postdoc
position
Poisson or parent snow sample
positive or poster or pesticide
path
potential
pointer or poetry
power
pyrocumulus
QuikSCAT
quadratic or quadruple
quantum (ant. cls)
quark
saturated mixing ratio
rate
rebin
rebase
rebuttal
return code
research
recompute
reciprocal
recurrence (ant. nrcr) or recursive
rectangle, rectangular (ant. rrg)
erodible, erodibility
reduced or radioactivity
retain degenerate dimensions
radial
radian (ant. dgr) or radiation
order (ant. rrd) or redder (longer wavelength) (ant. blr)
radius (ant. dmt)
record
reef
reflectance
refraction or reference or refresh
rigid
roughness
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rgl
rgn
rgr
rgt
rhd
rjc
rl
rlh
rlm
rlt
rlv
rma
rmn
rmt
rnb
rnd
rng
rnk
rnr
rnt
rph
rpk
rpl
rpr
rpt
rqr
rqs
rrd
rrg
rsd
rsl
rsn
rsr
rss
rst
rtc
rte
rth
rtl
rtp
rtr
rts
rtt
rvr
rvw
regular
region or original, origin or organic (ant. nrg)
regression or regrid
right (ant. lft)
relative humidity at deliquescence
reject, rejected
real
roughness length heat
roughness length momentum
relative
roughness length water vapor
resonance of maximum amplitude
remaining or Riemann
remote
rainbow
raindrop
range
rank
renormalize
orientation
Raphson (syn. nwt)
repack
replicate, replicant
reprint or repair
report
require
request
irradiation, irradiance (syn. flx), (ant. ntn) or re-order (ant. rdr)
irregular (ant. rct)
residue or residual
resolved (ant. anl) or result
resolution
resource
resistance
reset
article
route
arithmetic or orthogonal, orthonormal
run-time linking
ready-to-post
retrieval or router
ready-to-send
rotated, rotation, rotational, rotator
reverse (ant. fwd) or river, riverine
review
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rx
rxn
rxr
rxrc
ryl
ryn
ryt
rzh
saa
sai
sal
sar
sas
saw
sbf
sbl
sbr
sbs
sbt
sca
scc
scd
scf
sch
scl
scn
scr
sct
scv
sd
sdm
sdn
sdv
seb
sec
sfc
sft
sfx
sgl
ebk
sgn
nsg
sgs
shf
shm
regular expression
reaction
reaction rate
reaction rate coefficient
Rayleigh
Reynolds
ray-tracing
erosion
surface area average analytic
stem area index (ant. vai,lai)
sal (dirty) (ant. prp)
surface area average resolved
sub-Arctic summer or surface-atmosphere system
sub-Arctic winter
Spherical bessel function
sublimation
subroutine
subscript (ant. sps)
subtract (ant. add)
scattering (ant. abs)
seasonal cycle
schedule
snow cover fraction
search
scale or school
second or scan
security or secret
scatter, scattering, scatterometer, or structure
scalar value or scavenge, scavenging
side
sediment
student
standard deviation
surface energy budget
second
surface
software
suffix
single (ant. mlt)
e-book
sign or assignment or significand
unsigned
sub-gridscale
shuffle
Schmidt
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shp
shr
sht
sin
skp
sl
slb
slc
sld
slf
sln
slp
slr
sls
slt
slv
sma
sml
smm
smp
smr
snd
sng
snp
sns
snw
sov
sp
spc
spf
sph
spl
spm
spn
spr
sps
sqr
srb
src
srd
srf
srg
srl
srm
srs
shape or ship
Sherwood
short
sine
skip (ant. usd)
soil
slab or solubility
slice
solid (ant. pln) (ant. lqd)
self (broadened) (ant. frn)
solution
slip
solar
solstice (ant. eqx) or slash
solute (ant. slv) or silt or saltation, saltator
solvent (ant. slt) or solve, solver
surface area median analytic
similarity
summation
soil matric potential or sample or simple or symmetric multi-processing
Summer or surface area median resolved or summary
sonde or sand
string
snap or snowpack
sensitivity or sensible (heat) or sunset
snow
separation of variables
pointer to short
special or spectral (ant. bb) or specific or spectroscopy or space
superfluous or spitfire
sphere, spherical (ant. cyl) (ant. asp)
supplement
summary for policymakers (ant. tsm)
span
Spring or sparse or super
superscript (ant. sbs)
square, squared
starboard (ant. prt) (ant. lrb)
source or structure
stride
surface reflectance feedback
storage
spiral
stream
series
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srt
srv
ss
ssh
ssl
stb
stc
std
stg
sth
stk
stl
stm
stmt
stp
str
stt
stx
sty
sv
svd
svm
svn
svp
svr
svy
sw
swa
swg
swr
sxn
sys
sz
sza
szdst
tbl
tca
tch
tck
tdl
tdp
thk
thr
thw
tlk
start or sort
service or server
single scattering or sensitivity study or second of minute (two digit format)
secret
sea-salt
stable or stability
sticking (coalescence)
standard
stagger
South (ant. nrt)
Stokes or stack
satellite
stimulated
statement
step
star or strength or stress
status, state or statement or students’ t-test
stratosphere-troposphere exchange
style
save
saturation vapor density
saturation vapor mixing ratio
subversion
saturation vapor pressure
seasonal variability
survey
software
surface area weighted average analytic
software engineering
surface area weighted average resolved
section or sectional (ant. modal)
system
size
solar zenith angle
size distribution
table
tropical cirrus anvil
teacher
tick
tidal
turbulent deposition
thick, thickness
threshold or therapy
thaw
talk
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tln
tm
tmp
tmr
tms
tmw
tnd
tnr
tns
tnt
top
tpg
tpt
smf
tps
trb
trc
trg
trm
trn
trp
tru
trv
tsm
tst
ttl
txt
typ
ucr
um
unk
nsx
unn
up
upk
upt
upw
usd
usg
usr
uvr
vaa
vai
val
var
outline
time
temporary
timer
TOMS or timeseries
teamwork
tendency
tenure
tensor
tentative
top, uppermost (ant. btm)
topography, topographic
temperature
ESMF
Tempest (remapping suite)
turbulent, turbulence
tracer
trace gas or target or trigger
thermal or term or termination
transmittance, transmission or transformation or trend or translation, translational (energy)
tropics, tropical or triplet
true (ant. fls)
traverse
technical summary (ant. spm)
test
total or title
text or texture (soil)
type
un-encrypted (plain text) (ant. ncr)
micron, micrometer
unknown
intersection (ant. unn)
union (ant. nsx)
upward, upwelling (ant. dwn)
unpack, unpacked (ant. pck)
uptake
upward, upwelling (ant. dwn)
used (ant. skp)
usage
user
uni-variate (ant. bvr)
volume average analytic
vegetation area index (leaf + stem) (ant. lai,sai)
value
variability or variable or volume average resolved
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vbr
vct
vec
vf
vgt
vlc
vld
vlm
vlw
vma
vmr
vnt
vp
vpr
vrb
ncs
vrn
vrs
vrt
vs
vsb
vsc
vsh
vta
vwa
vwc
vwr
vzn
wbl
wbn
wdp
wdt
wdw
wgt
wht
winoc
wk
wnd
wnt
wrd
wrk
wrp
wsoc
wst
wt
vibration
vector
vector
Valley Fever
vegetation or Voigt
volcano, volcanic
valid, model validation dataset
volume
volume-weighted
volume median analytic
volume median resolved
event or ventilation
pointer to void
vapor
verbose
ancestor
variance
version or various
vertical (ant. hrz) or vortex, vortice or vertice
Visual Studio
visible
viscous, viscosity
vector spherical harmonic
volume-to-area
volume weighted average analytic
volumetric water content
volume weighted average resolved
visualization
Weibull
wind bin
wet deposition
width (ant. hgt)
window
weight, weighted
white
water insoluble organic carbon (ant. wsoc)
weak or week
wind or Windows
Winter
award
work
wrap
water soluble organic carbon (ant. winoc)
West (ant. est)
wait
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wth
wtl
wtm
wtn
wtr
wts
wtv
wtx
wv
wvl
wvn
xaa
xab
xar
xbt
xcf
xcl
xcs
xct
xct
xem
xma
xmp
xmr
xnt
xpc
xpn
xpr
xpt
xrf
xsa
xst
xsx
xtn
xtr
xwa
xwr
yld
yr
yyyy
zen
zpd
zro
zta
weather
wetland
mass-weighted
number-weighted
water
surface area-weighted or spectrally weighted
volume-weighted
cross sectional area-weighted
wave
wavelength (ant. wvn)
wavenumber (ant. wvl)
cross-sectional area average analytic
extended abstract
cross-sectional area average resolved
exhibit
eXperimental Computing Facility (gimp file format)
exclude (ant. ncl)
excess
Executable
excited (state)
extended effective medium
cross-sectional area median analytic
example
cross-sectional area median resolved
eccentricity (orbital)
expected
exponent, exponential or expand, expanded (ant. pck)
expression or expire
experiment (ant. ctl)
cross reference
cross-sectional area
exist, exists
cross-section, cross-sectional (area)
extend, extended
extrapolate (ant. ntp) or extract or external (ant. ntr)
cross-sectional area-weighted average analytic
cross-sectional area-weighted average resolved
yield
year (syn. yyyy)
year (four digit format) (syn. yr)
zenith, upward-looking (ant. ndr)
zero plane displacement
zero
zeta