USERS MANUAL
FLOPPY DISK SUPPLEMENT
FEDERAL DIRECTORY OF MOBILE
METEOROLOGICAL EQUIPMENT AND CAPABILITIES
APPENDIX C
ABBREVIATIONS
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AFB Air Force Base
AHG/MME Ad Hoc Group for Mobile Meteorological Equipment
ALDS Automated Lightning Detection System
AMOS Automatic Meteorological Observation Station (USN)
AMSS Automated Meteorological Sensor System
AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA)
APT Automatic Picture Transmission
ARGOS ARGOS Inc., a French data collection system
ARL Army Research Laboratory
ARPA Advanced Research Project Agency (DOD)
ASCII American Standard Code For Information Exchange
ATLAS Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System
ATMU Air Transportable Mobile Unit
AUTO DATA SYS automated data system
AWS Air Weather Service (USAF)
AWS automatic weather stations
-B-
BBS electronic bulletin board
BIA Bureau of Indian Affairs
BLM Bureau of Land Management
bps bits per second
BWK Belt Weather Kit
BuRec Bureau of Reclamation
-C-
COEA cost and operational effectiveness analysis
C-MAN Coastal-Marine Automated Network
COMM communications
COMM INTERFACE communications interface
CONTR contractor
CONUS Continental United States
COTS commercial-off-the-shelf
CRREL U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories
CSIS Centralized Storm Information System (at NSSFC)
-D-
dBASE Ashton-Tate/Borland data base software program
DCP Data Collection Platform
DCS Data Collection System
DEV AGCY developing agency
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DIGIPI Mobile Upper Air Unit
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOC U.S. Department of Commerce
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DOI Department of the Interior
DOS Department of State
DOS Disk Operating System
DOT Department of Transportation
DRGS Direct Readout Ground Station
-E-
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERL Environmental Research Laboratories
ETAC Environmental Technical Applications Center
-F-
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FCST/ANALY forecast and analysis routines
FS Forest Service
FTS Forest Technology Systems
FY Fiscal Year
-G-
GCCS Global Command and Control System
GFMPL Geophysics Fleet Mission Program Library
GLERL Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA)
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOLDWING U.S. Army weather radio relay system
GOTS government-off-the-shelf
GROUND ground transportation
GS Geological Survey
GSA General Services Administration
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSIDS Geostationary Satellite Imaging Display System
GTS Global Telecommunications System
-H-
hr hour/hours
HRPT High Resolution Picture Transmission
-I-
IAMS Initial Attack Management System
IBM International Business Machines
ICMSSR Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services
and Supporting Research
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IMET Improved Meteorological Measurements From Ships and Buoys
Ships and Buoys
IMETS Integrated Meteorological System
IMITS Interim Meteorological Satellite Imagery Terminal
INTEGRATED part of portable or transportable system
INTER interactive
Internet worldwide system linking thousands of computer networks
INV Inventory
IOC Initial Operational Capability
IR Infrared
-K-
kbps kilo bits per second
kt knot/knots
-M-
m meter/meters
MAGTF Marine Air Ground Task Force (USMC)
MDS Meteorological Data System
MEMS microelectromechanical systems
MET Mobile Environmental Teams (USN)
METMF Meteorological Mobile Facility
METOC Meteorology/Oceanographic (USN)
Met Teams Meteorological Teams (USA)
MicroSWIS Micro Satellite Weather Information System
MIDDS Meteorological Integrated Data Display System (USN)
MMS Meteorological Measuring System
MMS Minerals Management Service
Mobile Met Directory of Mobile Meteorological
Equipment and Capabilities
MOSS Mobile Oceanographic Support System
MOSS-I Interim MOSS
mph mile/miles per hour
MRS Mini-rawindsonde System
MS DOS MicroSoft Disk Operating System
MULTI-PURP multi-purpose system
-N-
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAVICECEN Naval Ice Center
NAVOCEANO Naval Oceanographic Office
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NDBC National Data Buoy Center
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Service
NIFC National Interagency Fire Center
NITES Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental Subsystem
NLMOC Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Command
NLMOD Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Detachment
NLMOF Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Facility
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NMOC Meteorology and Oceanography Center
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODDS Naval Oceanographic Data Distribution System
NOS National Ocean Service
NPS National Park Service
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
NSF National Science Foundation
NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory
NTIS National Technical Information Service
NWS National Weather Service
-O-
OAML Oceanographic and Atmospheric Master Library (USA)
OAR Office of Atmospheric Research (NOAA)
OBS-FCST complete observation to forecast system
OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological
Services and Supporting Research
ONR Office of Naval Research
OPARS Optimum Path Aircraft Routing System
ORD Operational Requirement Document
-P-
PC personal computer
PCGRAPFAX PC based facsimile system
PICS PC Imaging Communications System
PL/GP Phillips Lab/Geophysics
PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA)
PROC/DSPLY process and display
PROFS Program for Regional Observing and Forecasting Services
POC point of contact
-R-
R&D Research and Development
RAWIN Radio Wind Sounding (Rawinsonde)
RAWS Remote Automatic Weather Station
RDT&E Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
REMS Remote Environmental Monitoring System
-S-
SAMS Surface Atmospheric Meteorological System
SATSYTEM satellite processing, display, dissemination
SEMIAUTO semiautomatic
SFC surface
SFC OBS surface observation
SFC/UA surface and upper air observation
SHRP Strategic Highway Research Program
SMOOS Shipboard Meteorological and Oceanographic
Observing System
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SNOTEL Snow Telemetry
SST sea surface temperature
STT Small Tactical Terminal (USAF)
SUBROUTINE/MOD subroutine/module
-T-
TAO TOGA Tropical Atmospheric Ocean
TECOM Test and Evaluation Command (USA)
TESS Tactical Environmental Support System
TFS Tactical Forecast System (USAF)
TIROS Television Infrared Observation Satellite
TMOS Tactical Meteorological Observing System (AN/TMQ 34)
TOGA Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere
TRANSFERABLE can be taken to system
TRANSITION transition R&D to operational
-U-
UA upper air
UA OBS upper air observation
UAWS U.S. Army Europe Automated Weather System
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UNIX computer operating system
USA United States Army
USACE USA Corps of Engineers
USAF United States Air Force
USAFETAC USAF Environmental Technical Applications Center
USCG United States Coast Guard
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
USIABP U.S. Interagency Arctic Buoy Program
USMC United States Marine Corps
USN United States Navy
-W-
WEFAX weather facsimile
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WSMR White Sands Missile Range
WST Weather Support Teams (USMC)
www World Wide Web (Internet)
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