| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| AA |
access authorization |
| AA |
accountable/activity area |
| AA |
activity area |
| AA |
adverse action |
| AA |
affirmative action |
| AA |
assistant administrator |
| (A3) |
armor/anti-armor |
| (AA3) |
Accident Analysis Computer Program |
| AAA |
American Arbitration Association |
| AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| AACR |
Angle-American cataloging rules |
| AACS |
airborne activity confinement system |
| AADT |
average annual weekday traffic |
| AAEE |
American Academy of Environmental Engineers |
| AA/EEO |
affirmative action/equal employment opportunity |
| AAG |
Association of American Geographers |
| AAH |
advanced attack helicopter |
| AALC |
amphibious assault landing craft |
| AAM |
airborne activity monitor |
| AAM |
air-to-air missile |
| AAOE |
Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| AAP |
Aviation Applications Program |
|
| AAP |
Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division |
new science division at NCAR 4/73 |
| AAP |
affirmative action program |
| AAP |
asbestos action program |
| AAR |
affirmative action representative |
| AARADCOM |
US Army Armanents R&D Command |
| AARC |
Alliance for Acid Rain Control |
| AARP |
American Association of Retired People |
| AAS |
American Astronomical Society |
| AAS |
acid addition system |
| AAS |
atomic absorption spectroscopy |
| AASE |
Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition |
NASA/NOAA/NSF/CMA |
| AASM |
Advanced Air to Surface Missile |
| AASO |
Army Aeronautical Service Office |
| AAW |
antiair warfare |
| AB |
Architect Building
| northern Virginia |
| ABA |
American Bar Association |
| ABAQUS |
finite-element computer code |
| ABB |
Asea Brown Boveri |
| ABC |
Aerobiochemical |
| ABC |
accelerator-based conversion |
| ABC |
advanced ball concept |
| ABE |
Army Background Experiment |
| ABES |
Alliance for Balanced Environmental Solutions |
| ABFEL |
air-based free-electron laser |
| ABHX |
air blast heat exchanger |
| ABILENE |
| A high-speed network for advanced Internet development
within the university community. It is a project of the University Corporation
for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), a non-profit consortium of universities
and corporate and affiliate members |
| Abilene |
| An advanced backbone network that supports the
development and deployment of the new applications being developed within
the Internet2 community |
| ABL |
airborne laser |
| ABL |
atmospheric boundary layer |
| ABLE |
activity balance line evaluation |
| ABLE |
Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment
| NASA |
| ABLE-2B |
Arctic/Atlantic/Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment |
| ABM |
antiballistic missile |
| ABRES |
advanced ballistic re-entry system |
| ABRV |
advanced ballistic re-entry vehicle |
| ABS |
automatic backup shutdown
| system |
| ABS-SC |
automatic backup shutdown of safety computer |
| absolute vorticity |
| The vorticity of a fluid particle determined with
respect to an adsolute coordinate system. |
| ABTRES |
abatement & residual forecasting model |
| ABV |
auxiliary building ventilation |
| ABWA |
American Business Women's Association |
| ac |
alternating current |
| A/C |
Aircraft |
| AC |
Adirondac Conference |
| AC |
actual commitment |
| AC |
advisory circular/committee |
| AC |
alternating current |
| AC |
Ancho Canyon |
| AC |
area coordinator |
| A/C |
air conditioning |
| A&C |
abatement & control |
| ACA |
Atmospheric Chemistry of Aerosols |
| ACA |
American Conservation Association, Inc. |
| ACA |
applied combinatorial analysis |
| ACACIA |
A Consortium for the Application of Climate Impact
Assessments |
| ACAP (ACAPs) |
Advanced computer for array processing |
| ACARS |
ARINC Communications and Relay System |
| ACARS |
ARINC Communication, Addressing, and Reporting
System |
| ACAS |
Advisory Committee for Atmospheric Sciences |
| ACATS |
Airborne Chromatograph for Atmospheric Trace Species |
| ACB |
air-operated circuit breaker |
| ACBM |
asbestos-containing building material |
| ACC |
abnormal condition control |
| ACC |
Abrupt Climate Change |
| ACC |
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
| NASA |
| ACC |
accumulator
| injection |
| ACCD |
aircraft compatibility control drawing |
| ACCENT |
Atmospheric Chemistry of Combustion Emissions Near
the Tropopause |
| AccessGrid |
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| ACD |
Atmospheric Chemistry Division
| NCAR |
| ACD |
advanced conceptual design |
| ACDA |
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency |
| acdar |
acoustic radar |
| ACDF |
Advanced Chemical Diagnostics Facility |
| ACDWG |
Atmospheric Center of Data Working Group |
| ACE |
Alliance for Clean Energy |
| ACE |
American Council on Education
|
| ACE |
Antarctic Current Experiment |
| ACE |
Aerosol Characteristics Experiment |
| ACE |
Accelerated Computing Environment |
| ACE-1 |
Aerosol Characterization Experiment |
1995 |
| ACE-Asia |
Asian Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization
Experiment |
| ACEC |
American Consulting Engineers Council |
| ACEP |
DOC Advisory Committee, Export Policy |
| ACF |
acid concentrator feed |
| ACF |
automatic control feature |
| ACFM |
actual cubic feet per minute |
| acfm |
alternating current frequency modulation |
| ACG |
Advanced Computing Group
| NOAA, FSL |
| ACGIH |
American Conference of Governmental Industrial
Hygienists |
| ACH |
air changes per hour |
| ACHEM |
Atmospheric Chemistry Model |
| ACI |
Advanced Computing Initiative |
| ACI |
automatic closure and interlock |
| ACIS |
automated chemical inventory system |
| ACIS |
Academic Information Systems |
A division of IBM in the 1980s |
| ACL |
Advanced Computing Laboratory |
| ACL |
alternative concentration level/limit |
| ACL |
auxiliary cooling loop |
| ACM |
Association for Computing Machinery |
| ACM |
advanced conventional munitions |
| ACM |
advanced cruise missile |
| ACM |
asbestos-containing material |
| ACME |
Airborne Carbone in the Mountains Experiment |
|
| ACN AWIPS |
communication network |
A data and communications network with satellite
and land-based components, created by the NWS |
| ACNFS |
Advisory Committee on Nuclear Facility Safety
| DOE |
| ACO |
administrative consent order |
| ACO |
advance change order |
| ACO |
Atomic Coordinating Office |
| ACOS |
Advanced Coronal Observing System |
| ACO/UK |
ACO/United Kingdom |
| ACP |
Acoustic Doppler profilers |
| ACR |
Active Cavity Radiometer |
| ACR |
air conditioner, cooling only |
| ACRIM |
active cavity radiometer irradiance monitor |
NASA/UARS 1996 |
| ACRIM II |
Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
| NASA/UARS |
| ACRS |
Advisory Committee, Reactor Safeguards |
| ACRT |
Aircraft report |
| ACS |
American Chemical Society |
| ACS |
Administrative Computing and Systems |
| ACS |
automated cartridge system |
| ACS |
account control system |
| ACS |
Aldus color file |
| ACS |
auxiliary cooling system |
| ACSE |
association control service element |
| ACSH |
American Council on Science & Health |
| ACSYS |
Arctic Climate System Study |
| ACT |
atmospheric chemical transformations |
| ACTS |
Atmospheric Chemistry of Transient Species
| NCAR, ACD |
| ACTS |
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite |
| ACV |
air-cushion vehicle |
| ACV |
at-completion variance |
| ACVC |
arms control verification committee |
| ACWA |
American Clean Water Association |
| ACWP |
actual cost of work performed |
| A/D |
analog-to-digital |
| ADA |
Americans with Disabilities Act |
| ADA |
applied decision analysis |
| ADAAC |
EOS program |
| ADAACS |
Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Centers
| NASA |
| ADARS |
Aircraft Data Acquisition and Recoding System |
NCAR |
| ADATS |
Automated Data Acquisition and Transfer System |
| ADB |
Apple desktop bus |
| ADC |
analog-to-digital converter
|
| ADC |
affiliated data center |
| ADC |
authorized derivative classifier |
| ADCLS |
Advanced Data Collection and Location System |
| AD&D |
accidental death and dismemberment |
| ADDE |
Abstract Distributed Data Environment |
| ADDS |
Aviation Digital Data Service |
| ADEOS |
Advanced Earth Observing Satelite
| Japan |
| ADEPT |
Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype |
| ADF |
automatic direction finding |
| ADF |
Advanced Development Facility
| NOAA, FSL |
| ADI |
acceptable daily intake |
| ADI |
Alternating Direction Implicit |
| ADI |
air defense initiative |
| ADISS |
analytical data interchange and storage standards |
| ADL |
above detection limit |
| ADL |
Alexandria Digital Library |
| ADM |
action description memorandum |
| ADM |
arrow diagram method |
| ADM |
atomic demolition munition |
| ADM |
Administrative Services Section |
NCAR |
| ADMP |
Acid Deposition Modeling Project |
| ADO |
Associate Director for Operations |
| ADP |
administrative data processing |
| ADP |
Automatic data processing |
| ADP |
Anderson, DeBartolo and Pan
| architects |
| ADPE |
automatic data processing equipment or ADP equipment |
| ADR |
alternative dispute resolution |
| ADR |
audit discrepancy report |
| ADS |
activity data sheet |
| ADS |
Airborne Data System |
| ADS |
Aircraft Data Systems |
| ADS |
ancillary data service |
| ADSB |
Advanced Display Systems Branch
| NOAA, FSL |
| ADSCEPTS |
advanced self-contained chemical energy propulsion |
| ADT |
aerated drain tank |
| ADTF |
At Depth Test Facility |
| ADV |
atmospheric dump valve |
| ADVISAR |
All Digital Video Imaging System for Atmospheric
Research |
| AE |
Atmospheric Explorer |
| AE |
architect/engineer |
| AEA |
Atomic Energy Authority |
| AEA |
Atomic Energy Act of 1954 |
| AEB |
auxiliary equipment building |
| AEC |
Associate Enforcement Counsel
| EPA |
| AEC |
Atomic Energy Commision |
United States; ERDA, now DOE |
| AECA |
Arms Export Control Act |
| AED |
Atomic Emission Detector |
| AED |
Air Enforcement Division
| EPA, OECM |
| AEDS |
atomic energy detection system |
| AEE |
Alliance for Environmental Education |
| AEEN |
Agence Europeenne pour l'Energie Nucleaire |
| AEERL |
Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory
| EPA, ORD |
| AEGIS |
Atmosphere Ecosystem Gas Interchange Study |
| AEM |
application evaluation matrix |
| AEN |
administrative exception note |
| AEO |
Atomic Energy Organization
| Iran |
| AEOS |
analytic equation-of-state |
| AEP |
alkaline earth precipitate |
| AER |
advanced electric reactor |
| AER |
average evoked response |
| AER |
AWIPS Forecast Preparation System |
| AERE |
Atomic Energy Research Establishment |
Harwell England |
| AERE |
Association of Environmental & Resources Economists |
| AEROCE |
Air Ocean Exchange Experiment |
| aerosol |
| A colloidal system in which the dispersed phase
is composed of either solid or liquid particles, and in which the dispersion
medium is some gas, usually air. |
| AEROCE |
Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment |
| AES |
Atmospheric Environment Service |
Canada |
| AES |
atomic emission spectroscopy |
| AES |
Auger electron spectroscopy |
| AESA |
Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
| NASA |
| AESD |
Advanced Energy System Division
| Westinghouse |
| AEW |
airborne early warning |
| AF |
United States Air Force affiliate |
| AF |
auxiliary feed |
| AF |
audio frequency |
| AFA |
American Forestry Association |
| AFAP |
artillery-fired atomic projectile |
| AFASE |
Association for Applied Solar Energy |
| AFATL |
Air Force Armament and Testing Laboratory |
| AFB |
air force base |
| AFB |
atmospheric fluidized bed |
| AFC |
automatic flow control |
| AFCCN |
Air Force Chief Scientist |
| AFCRL |
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories |
| AFCSA/CC |
Commander, Air Force Center for Studies and Analysis |
| AFD |
axial flux difference |
| AFD |
acid fractionator distillate |
| AFEAS |
Alternate Fluorocarbon Environmental Acceptability
Study |
| AFEL |
advanced free-electron laser |
| AFESC |
Air Force Engineering & Sciences Center |
| AF&F |
arming, fuzing, and firing
| component |
| AFGL |
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory |
| AFGWC |
Air Force Global Weather Central |
| AFI |
Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. |
| AF/INX |
Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff, Director of
Policy, Plans, & Programs |
| AFIS |
automated fingerprint identification system |
| AFM |
atomic force microscopy |
| AFNB |
US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board |
| AFNE |
American for Nuclear Energy |
| AFO |
available for obligations |
| AFOE |
advanced fiber optic echelle |
| AFOS |
Automation of Field Operations and Services |
NOAA, a NWS program during the 1980s and early
1990s |
| AFOSR |
Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
| AFP |
Apple File Protocol |
| AFP |
advanced flexible processor |
| AFP |
approved financial/funding plan |
| AFP |
approved funding program |
| AFPEO/ST |
Air Force Programs Executive Officer, Director
of Strategic Programs |
| AFPRO |
Air Force Plan Representative Office |
| AFPS |
AWIPS Forecast Preparation System |
| AFR |
audit finding report |
| AFS |
auxiliary feedwater system |
| AFSAS |
Air Force Director for Strategic Force Analysis |
| AFSC |
Air Force Systems Command |
| AFSSO |
Air Force Special Security Office |
| AFT |
Antifreeze protein |
| AFTAC |
Air Force Technical applications Center |
| AFV |
alternative fuel vehicle |
| AFV |
armored fighting vehicle |
| AFW |
auxiliary feedwater |
| AFWA |
Air Force Weather Agency, 4/98 |
| AFWL |
Air Force Weapons Laboratory |
| AG |
alternating gradient |
| AG |
Australia Group
| nonproliferation |
| AGA |
automatic gas analyzer |
| AGARD |
Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development |
NATO |
| AGASP |
Arctic Gas and Aerosol Sampling Program |
| AGC |
Automatic gain control |
| AGCM |
atmospheric general circulation models |
| AGDATS |
Air-Ground Data Telemetry System |
| AGFA |
advanced gust front algorithm |
| AGFS |
Aviation Gridded Forecast Systems |
| AGGG |
Advisory Group on Greenhouse Gases |
| AGI |
American Geological Institute |
Washington, D.C. |
| AGL |
above ground level |
| AGM |
Atmospheric Gas Measurements Section |
| AGO |
Automatic Geophysical Observatory |
| AGR |
advanced gas-cooled reactor |
| AGRICLIMSS |
Agicultural Climate Service System |
ISWS |
| AGS |
alternating-gradient synchrotron |
| AGS |
annulus gas system |
| AGT |
above-ground test |
| AGT |
advanced ground transport |
| AGU |
American Geophysical Union |
| A/H |
air handling |
| AHERA |
Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act |
| AHF |
Advanced Hadron Facility |
| AHP |
analytical hierarchy process |
| AHS |
automated highway system |
| AHW |
Advanced Hurricane-research WRF (formerly Advanced Hurricane WRF) |
| AI |
Artificial Intelligence |
| AI |
action item |
| AI |
authorized inspector |
| A/I |
accident/incident |
| AIAA |
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauts |
| AIAIT |
Army Intelligence and Threat Analysis Center |
| AIAS |
automatic incident actuation system |
| AIC |
acceptable intake for chronic exposure |
| AICC |
adiabatic isochoric complete combustion |
| AICE |
American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| AICHE |
American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| AID |
Agency for International Development |
USA |
| AID |
air inlet damper |
| AIDA |
Arecibo Initiative with Dynamics of the Atmosphere |
| AIDA |
Archive 1 Data Analyzer |
| AIDJEX |
Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment |
| AIDS |
Activity Information Data Systems |
| AIDS |
autoimmune deficiency syndrome |
| AIF |
Atomic Industrial Health Forum, Inc. |
| AIM |
adaptive injection molding |
| AIM |
advanced industrial materials |
| AIM |
artificial ionization mirror |
| AIMR |
airborne imaging microwave radiometer |
| AIMS |
advanced information management systems |
| AI&O |
annual inspection and overhaul |
| AIP |
American Institute of Physics |
| AIP |
additions in progress |
| AIP |
agreement in principle |
| AIRAPT |
International Association for Research on High
Pressure Science & Technology |
| AIRES |
Artificial Intelligence Research in Environmental
Science |
| AIRFA |
American Indian Religious Freedom Act |
| AIRMET |
AIRmen METeorological information |
| air pressure |
| see atmospheric pressure |
| AIRS |
Advanced Infared Studies
| Program with GAARS |
| AIRS |
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| AIRS |
advanced inertial reference sphere |
| AIS |
Airborne Imaging Spectrometer |
| AIS |
acceptable intake for subchronic exposure |
| AIS |
accumulator injection system |
| AIS |
administrative information systems |
| AIS |
affiliate information system |
| AIS |
advanced isotope separation
| AVLIS |
| AIS |
Affiliate and Immigration Services |
| AISC |
Assessment and Information Services Center |
| AISC |
Industry, Science, & Technology Canada |
| AISEC |
Army Information Engineering Command |
| AIST |
Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
| Japan |
| AIT |
audit inventory team |
| AIV |
aviation-impact variable |
| AIX |
Advanced Interactive Executive
| An IBM version of the UNIX operating system |
| AKP |
Atmospheric Kinetics Project |
| AL |
Aeronomy Laboratory
| NOAA |
| AL |
Ames Laboratory |
| AL |
analytical laboratory |
| AL |
authorized leave with pay |
| AL |
Albuquerque Field Office |
| ALADIN |
atmospheric laser Doppler instrument
| ESA |
| ALA-O |
delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydrates |
| ALAP |
as low as possible |
| ALAP |
as low as practical |
| ALAPCO |
Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials |
| AL/APD |
ALO Advance Planning Division |
| ALARA |
as low as reasonably achievable |
| ALBM |
air-launched ballistic missile |
| ALBURT |
Albuquerque budget reform task |
| ALC |
airlift circulator |
| ALC |
allocations |
| ALCLAD |
clad aluminum alloy |
| ALCM |
air-launched cruise missile |
| ALDEN |
Alden Electronics
| A company that provides meteorological services |
| ALDF |
Animal Legal Defense Fund |
| ALE |
Atmospheric Lifetimes Experiment |
| ALE |
arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian
| code |
| ALEC |
American Legislative Exchange Council |
| ALE/GAGE |
Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric
Gases Experiment |
| AL/EPD |
AL Environmental Protection Division |
| ALERT |
Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time |
| Alert |
| a Canadian military base 500 miles from North Pole |
| ALEXIS |
array of low-energy x-ray imaging sensors |
| AL/FPMD |
AL Facilities Planning & Maintenance Division |
| AL/HPD |
AL Health Protection Division |
| ALJ |
Administrative Law Judge |
| ALI |
Alpha/LAMP Integration |
| ALI |
annual limit on intake |
| AL/KAO |
AL Kirtland Area Office |
| AL/MRD |
AL Management Review Division |
| ALMS |
atomic line molecular spectroscopy |
| ALOO |
Albuquerque Operations Office |
| AL/OESH |
AL Office of Environment, Safety, and Health |
| ALOHA |
Airborne Lidar Observations and Hawaiian Airglow |
| AL/OIEA |
AL Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs |
| AL/OQD |
AL Operation Safety Division |
| ALP |
assemble language preprocessor |
| ALPA |
Airline Pilots Association |
| ALPAL |
parallel program developed at LLNL |
| ALPEX |
Alpine Experiment |
| AL/PIRD |
AL Personnel, Industrial Relations Division |
| ALPR |
Argonne Low Power Reactor |
| ALPS |
accidental launch protection system |
| ALPS |
alternate launch point system |
| ALPTRAC |
Part of EUROTRAC |
| ALS |
advanced launch system |
| ALS |
advanced light source |
| ALSAS |
AT Line Solution Assay |
| ALSI |
aluminum silicon alloy |
| AL/SPD |
AL Special Programs Division |
| ALT |
Altimeter |
| ALT/RA |
Altimeter/Radar Altimeter |
| ALU |
arithmetic logic unit |
| ALWAS |
Advanced Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System |
| AL-WDD |
Albuquerque Operations, Weapons Development Division |
| AL/WMOSD |
AL Waste Management & Operational Surety Division |
| AM |
Ampex, Inc. |
| AM |
Audio modulation |
| AM |
Amplitude modulation |
| AMAD |
activity-median aerodynamic diameter |
| AMAX |
American Metals Climax
| potash mine |
| AMBIENS |
atmospheric mass balance of industrially emitted
& natural sulfur |
| AMC |
American Mining congress |
| AMC |
Army Materiel Command |
| AMC |
appraisal management center |
| AMD |
alpha activity median diameter |
| AMESS |
autonomous machine environmental surveillance system |
| AMEX |
Australian Monsoon EXperiment |
| AMFS |
advanced manufacturing feasibility studies |
| AMI |
Active Microwave Instrument |
| AMI-2 |
Active Microwave Instrument 2 |
| AMIE |
Assimilative Mapping of the Ionospheric Electrodynamics |
| AMIP |
Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project |
| AMIR |
Advanced Microwave Imaging Radiometer |
| AML |
acronym master list |
| AML |
Advanced Materials Laboratory
| Albuquerque |
| AMMORA |
Adaptation of Meso-beta-scale Models for Operational
and Research Applications |
| AMMS |
Advanced Microwave Moisture Sounder |
| AMO |
Advanced Munitions Office |
| AMOL |
Atlantic Marine Oceanographic Laboratory |
| AMOS |
Automatic Meteorological Observation System |
NWS |
| AMOS |
Automatic Meteorological Observation System
| NWS |
| AMP |
advanced machining program |
| AMP |
Ampere |
| AMP |
asynchronous multiprocessing |
| AMPE |
automated message processing exchange |
| AMPS |
Antarctica Mesoscale Prediction System |
| AMPS |
Atmospheric, Magnetospheric, and Plasma Studies |
NASA |
| AMR |
Advanced Microwave Radiometer |
| AMR |
adaptive mesh refinement |
| AMRIR |
Advanced Medium Resolution Imaging Radiometer |
| AMRR |
Army Material Research Reactor |
| AMRV |
advanced maneuvering re-entry vehicle |
| AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
| AMS |
American Mathematical Society |
| AMS |
Accelerator Mass Spectrometer |
| AMS |
automated meteorological station
|
| AMS |
aerial monitoring/measurement system |
| AMS |
aerial measurement station |
| AMS |
analysis mass spectrometer |
| AMS |
applied mathematical science |
| AMS |
appraisal management system |
| AMS |
Army Map Service |
| AMS |
atomic mass spectrometry |
| AMSG |
appropriate military systems guide |
| AMSOC |
American Miscellaneous Society |
| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer |
| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| AMSU |
advanced microwave sounding unit
| NASA |
| AMTEL |
Advanced Materials Testing & Evaluation Laboratory |
| AMTEX |
Air Mass Transformation Experiment |
Japan/GARP, 1975 |
| AMTL |
Army Material Test Laboratory |
| AMTS |
Arctic Mesopause Temperture Study |
| AMTS |
Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder |
| AMU |
aqueous makeup |
| amu |
atomic mass unit |
| AMVP |
Aviation Model Verification Program |
| AMWG |
Atmosphere Model Working Group |
| ANACONDA |
intense electron beam accelerator |
| ANARChE |
(The Atlanta) Aerosol Nucleation and Real-time Characterization
Experiment |
|
| ANATEX |
Across North America Tracer Experiment |
NOAA |
| ANDAS |
Advanced Neutron Detection Analysis System |
| ANEC |
American Nuclear Energy Council |
| AN/FPQ-6 |
AN/GSN, AN/FPQ-16, AN/MPS-19, AN/ASR-7 |
Abbreviations never spelled out |
| ANG |
Air National Guard |
| ANI |
authorized nuclear inspector |
| ANL |
Argonne National Laboratory |
| ANL-E |
Argonne National Laboratory-East |
| ANL-W |
Argonne National Laboratory-West |
| ANM |
alternate nuclear materials, secondary |
| anonymous FTP |
| See FTP |
| ANPR |
advance notice of proposed rulemaking |
| ANRHRD |
Air, Noise, & Radiation Health Research Division
| EPA, ORD |
| ANS |
advanced neutron source |
| ANS |
American National Standard |
| ANS |
American Nuclear Society |
| ANS |
autonomic nervous system |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute
| An independent organization whose purpose is establishing
voluntary computing industry standards |
| ANSS |
American Nature Study Society |
| ANSTO |
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization |
| ANTA |
5-amino-3-nitro-1H-1,2,4-triazole |
| ANTARES |
Advanced Nuclear Thermal Rocket Engine Simulator |
| ANTHEM |
plasma simulation code |
| AO |
Arctic Oscillation |
| AO |
announcement of oppurtunity |
| AO |
abnormal occurrence |
| AO |
administrative order |
| AO |
air overseas |
| AO |
annotated outline |
| AOC |
area of concern |
| AOC |
award of contract |
| AOC |
area of contamination |
| AOD |
argon-oxygen decarbonization |
| AOG |
acid offgas |
| AOG |
augmented offgas |
| AOIPS |
Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing
System
| NOAA |
| AOL |
Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR |
| AOM |
annual operating & maintenance
| cost |
| AOML |
Atlantic Ocean Meteorological Laboratory |
NOAA |
| AON |
Atmospheric Odd Nitrogen Species Project |
NCAR |
| AOO |
anticipated operational occurrence |
| AOP |
abnormal operating procedure |
| AOP |
annual operating plan |
| AOPR |
associated offices of primary responsibility |
| AORD |
Astronaut Operations Requirements Document |
| AOS |
Advanced Orbiting System |
| AOS |
Archive and Operations System |
| AOSO |
Advance orbiting solar observatory |
| AOSP |
advanced onboard signal processor |
| AOS/VS |
advanced operating system/virtual storage |
| AOV |
air-operated valve |
| AP |
Anomalous Propagation |
| AP |
attached payload |
| AP |
access permit |
| AP |
action plan |
| AP |
administrative procedure |
| AP |
Amparo |
| AP |
assigned personnel |
| APA |
Allied Pilot's Association |
| APA |
Administrative Procedures Act |
| APA |
American Planning Association |
| APACM |
Atmospheric Physical and Chemical Monitor
| EOS |
| APARE |
Asian/Pacific Regional Experiment |
| APAS |
Astrophysical, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences |
| APC |
argon purge cart |
| APC |
ammonium perchlorate |
| APCA |
Air Pollution Control Association |
| APD |
Advanced Planning Division
| DOE |
| APD |
advance planning document |
| APD |
areal power density |
| APD |
avalanche photodiode |
| APDCS |
axial power distribution monitoring system |
| APDF |
accelerator performance demonstration facility |
| APE |
action plan element |
| APEN |
air pollution emissions notice |
| APET |
accident progression event tree |
| APEX |
Acid Precipitation Experiment |
| APEX |
advance purchase excursion |
| APEX |
APLE Prototype Experiment |
| APG |
Aberdeen Proving Ground |
| APHA |
American Public Health Association |
| API |
American Petroleum Institute |
| API |
application program interface |
| API |
axial power indicator |
| API |
absolute position indication |
| APIP |
Aircraft Produced Ice Particles |
| ApJ |
The Astrophysical Journal |
| APL |
Applied Physics Laboratory |
| APL |
average power laser |
| APLE |
average power laser experiment |
| APLJHU |
Applied Physics Laboratory John Hopkins University |
| APM |
axial power monitor |
| APO |
Administrative Policy Office |
| APOL |
Analytical Photonics and Opto-Electronics Laboratory |
| APOLLO2 |
RTD SRL code for operating limits |
| APPA |
American Public Power Association |
| Apple |
Apple Computer Inc. |
| AppleTalk |
| A local area network system manufactured by Apple |
| Application |
an end-user computer program designed to perform
specific tasks
| e.g., graphical display application, word-processing
application, payroll application, etc. |
| APPLY |
parallel program generation
| CMU |
| APR |
automatic pressure relief |
| APR |
Aberdeen Pulsed Reactor Facility |
| APRM |
average power range monitor |
| APS |
American Physical Society |
| APS |
Advanced Power Source |
| APS |
array processing system |
| APS |
atomic power station |
| APS |
auxiliary power system |
| APS |
autocorrelated photon spectroscopy |
| APS |
axial power shape |
| APT |
automatic picture transmission |
| APT |
Alliance for Photonic Technology |
| APT |
accelerator production of tritium |
| APU |
auxiliary power unit |
| AQCA |
Air Quality Control Act |
| AQCR |
Air Quality Control Region
| California |
| AQCR |
Air Quality Control Regulation
| New Mexico |
| AQD |
Atmospheric Quality Division |
New name for AQM, July 1977 |
| AQD |
Air Quality Digest |
| AQM |
Atmospheric Quality and Modification |
new science division at NCAR, April 1973 |
| AQMA |
air quality maintenance area |
| AQSM |
air quality simulation model |
| AR |
administrative requirement |
| A&R |
air and radiation |
| ARA |
Appletalk Remote Access |
| ARAC |
atmospheric release advisory capability |
| ARAR |
applicable or relevant and appropriate |
| ARBI |
adjusted running book inventory |
| ARC |
Ames Research Center |
NASA |
| ARC |
Antarctic Research Center |
Scripps |
| ARC |
Applied Research Corporation |
| ARC |
accelerating rate calorimetry |
| ARCAS |
all-purpose Rocket for the Collection of Atmospheric
Soundings |
| ARCC |
American Rivers Conservation Council |
| Archie |
Internet archive listing service
| A system to automatically gather, index, and serve
information on the Internet |
| ARCnet |
Attached Resource Computer Network |
| ARCSS |
Arctic Systems Science
| NSF |
| ARCsym |
Arctic Regional Climate simulation |
| ARD |
Air & Radiation Division
| EPA, OGC |
| ARDEC |
Army Armament Research and Development Engineering
Center |
| AREA |
File format used for graphic images by the McIDAS
application |
| AREAL |
Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Lab
| EPA |
| ARES |
advanced reentry system |
| ARF |
Aviation Route Forecast |
| ARG |
Appointments Review Group |
| ARG |
American Resources Group |
| ARG |
Accident Response Group |
| ARGOS |
data collection and location system |
France |
| ARGOS |
French satellite-borne data relay and platform
location system
| Global Weather Experiment in 1979, NOAA |
| ARGUS |
ARGonne Unified Safeguards |
| ARI |
alternate rod insertion |
| ARIES |
automated retirement and integrated extraction
system |
| ARIMP |
Atmospheric Radiation Investigation and Measurements
Project
| NCAR, ACD |
| ARIN |
Aerospace Resource Information Network |
| ARINC |
Aeronautical Radio, Inc. |
| ARIS |
Airborne Research Instrumentation System |
| ARISTOTELES |
Applications and Research Involving Space Technologies
Observing the Earth's Field from Low Earth Orbiting Satellite |
| ARL |
Air Resources Laboratory |
NOAA |
| ARL |
Army Research Laboratory |
| ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program
| DOE |
| ARMAR |
Airborne Rain Mapping Radar |
NASA/JPL |
| ARM-CART |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement-Clouds and Radiation
Testband |
| ARO |
Army Research Office |
| ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DOD |
| ARPA |
Archaeological Resources Protection Act
| 1979 |
| ARPANET |
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
U.S. Department of Defense, created in the late
1960s and replaced in the mid-1980s by NSFNET |
| ARPS |
Advanced Regional Prediction System |
| ARR |
Association for Radiation Research
| UK |
| ARRL |
Amateur Radio Relay League |
| ARS |
American Rocket Society |
| ARSR |
Air Route Surveillance Radar |
| ART |
Aqueous Recycle Technologies |
| ARTCC |
Air Route Traffic Control Center |
| ARW |
Advanced Research Workshop |
| ARWG |
Atmospheric Radiation Working Group |
NCAR |
| ASALM |
Advanced Strategic Air Launched Missile |
| ASAP |
Automated Shipboard Aerological Program |
GAMP |
| ASAP |
as soon as possible |
| ASAP |
Ariane structure for auxiliary payloads |
| ASAP |
Aerospace Safety Automation Program |
| ASAP |
Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel |
| ASAP |
Accelerated Situational Awareness Prototype |
| ASAS |
Advanced Solid-State Array Sensor |
| ASASP |
Active Scattering Aerosol Spectrometer |
| ASASP |
Advanced Solid-State Array Sensor |
| ASC |
Advanced Science Computer |
Texas Instruments |
| ASC |
ASTER Steering Committee |
| A scale |
Planetary scale 2,000 to 10,000 km |
| ASCE |
American Society of Civil Engineers |
| ASCENT |
Atmospheric Sounding, Central Evaluation, and Test
Support |
U.S. Air Force |
| Ascent |
Control Data 6600 assembly language |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
A standard code for electronically exchanging character-based
(nonbinary) information |
| ASCOT |
Atmospheric Studies in Complex Terrain |
| ASD |
Aircraft Situation Display |
| ASDAR |
Aircraft-to-Satellite Data Relay |
| ASE |
Air Sea Experiment
| EUROTRAC |
| ASE |
Amplified Spontaneous Emission |
| AS&E |
American Science and Engineering, Inc. |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| ASEP |
Accident Sequence Evaluation Program |
| ASER |
Annual Site Environmental Report |
| ASF |
Alaska SAR Facility |
| Ash Can |
Project Ash Can
| ERDA, NASA |
| ASHAA |
Asbestos in Schools Hazard Abatement Act |
| ASHOE |
Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment
| NASA, NOAA, NSF, NASU, October 1994 |
| ASHRAE |
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and
Air-Conditioning Engineers |
| ASI |
Advanced Simulation Initiative |
| ASI |
Agenzia Spaxiale Italiano |
| ASIC |
Application Specific Integrated Circuit |
| ASIS |
American Society for Industrial Security |
| ASIWPCA |
Association of State & Interstate Water Pollution
Control Administrators |
| ASL |
Atmospheric Science Laboratory |
U.S. Army |
| ASL |
above sea level |
| ASL |
American Sign Language |
| ASLB |
Atomic Safety Licensing Board |
| ASM |
American Society for Metals |
| ASME |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| ASNT |
American Society for Nondestructive Testing |
| ASOS |
Automated Surface Observing System |
NWS, NOAA/FAA, February 1989 |
| ASP |
Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
| ASP |
Advanced Study Program
| NCAR |
| ASP |
Advanced Stokes polarimeter
| NCAR, HAO |
| ASP |
alarms and shutdown process |
| ASPA |
American Society of Public Administration |
| ASPEA |
Association Suisse pour l'Energie Atomique |
| ASPR |
Armed Services Procurement Regulation |
| ASQC |
American Society for Quality Control |
| ASR |
Airport Surveillance Radar |
| ASR |
Annual Scientific Report |
| ASRC |
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center |
State University of New York at Albany |
| ASRF |
Advanced Size Reduction Facility |
| ASRL |
Atmospheric Science Research Laboratory |
| ASROC |
antisubmarine rocket |
| ASSET |
Aerothermodynamicelastic Structure Systems Environmental
Tests |
U.S. Air Force |
| ASSIST |
ADPE system sizing tool |
| AST |
algorithm support team |
| AST |
AVCO Systems Textron |
| ASTER |
Atmosphere-Surface Turbulent Exchange Research
Facility |
| ASTER |
advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection
radiometer
| EOS, Japan,1996 |
| ASTERIX |
French acronym for ELDORA |
| ASTEX |
Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment
| FIRE, 1992 |
| ASTEX/MAGE |
Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment/Marine
Aerosol and Gas Exchange |
| ASTHO |
Association of State & Territorial Health Officials |
| ASTIA |
Armed Services Technical Information Agency |
See DDC |
| ASTM |
American Society for Testing Materials |
See also NDT |
| ASTSWMO |
Association of State & Territorial Solid Waste
Management Officials |
| ASW |
antisubmarine warfare |
| AT |
IBM Advanced Technology personal computer
| known simply as an AT or an IBM PC AT |
| AT |
abnormal transient |
| AT |
Accelerator Technology |
| AT |
Antarctic Treaty |
| ATA |
Air Transport Association |
| ATAC |
Advanced Technology Advisory Committee
| The committee that advises Unidata on technical
issues |
| ATACMS |
Army Tactical Missile System |
| ATAMC |
Air Transport Association Meteorological Committee |
| ATC |
Air Traffic Control |
| ATC |
Adiabatic Toroidal Compressor |
| ATCSC |
Air Traffic Control Systems Command Center |
| ATD |
Atmospheric Technology Division |
NCAR |
| ATDRSS |
Advanced TDRSS |
| ATEN |
Association Technique de l'Energie Nucleaire
| France |
| ATEX |
Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| ATEX |
Atlantic Tradewind Experiment |
| ATHENA |
Advanced Thermal-Hydraulic Energy Network Analyzer |
| Atlanta-ANARChE |
Atlanta Aerosol Nucleation and Real-time Characterization
Experiment |
| ATIS |
Airport Terminal Information System |
| ATLAS |
Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science |
| ATLAS |
Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer
| NASA |
| ATLAS |
Advanced Testing Line for Actinide Separations |
| ATLID |
Atmospheric LIDAR |
| ATM |
Apollo Telescope Mount |
| ATM |
Division of Atmospheric Sciences
|
| ATM |
Adobe Type Manager |
| ATM |
Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
| ATMOS |
Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy |
| atmospheric pressure |
| The pressure exerted by the atmosphere as a consequence
of gravitational attraction exerted upon the "column" of air lying directly
above the point in question. |
| ATMS |
Advanced Traffic Management System |
| ATOG |
Abnormal Test Procedure Operator Guidelines |
| ATR |
attenuated total reflection |
| ATR |
Alliance for Transportation Research |
| ATRAD |
detailed atmospheric radiation model |
W.J. Wescombe's |
| ATRAP |
Alliance for Transportation Research |
| ATRMD |
Air, Toxics, & Radiation Monitoring Research Division
| EPA, ORD |
| ATS |
Advanced Technology Satellite |
| ATS |
Application Technology Satellite
| GARP |
| ATS |
Accelerator Test Stand |
| ATSD |
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense |
| ATSDR |
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
| Centers for Disease Control |
| ATSR |
Argonne Thermal Source Reactor |
| ATSR |
along track scanning radiometer |
| ATST |
Advanced Technology Solar Telescope |
| ATSU |
Accelerator Test Stand Upgrade |
| ATV |
Ariane transfer vehicle |
| AU |
astronomical unit |
| AURA |
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy |
| AUSPEX |
Atmospheric Utility Signatures-Predictions and
Experiments |
| AVARs |
Aircraft Vertical Accelerometer Reports |
| AVC |
advanced vector computer |
| AVC |
automatic volume control |
| AVCS |
advanced vidicon camera service |
NASA |
| AVE |
Atmospheric Variability Experiment |
SSAPP |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
| A satellite-borne instrument |
| AVIRIS |
Airborne Visible and Infared Imaging Spectrometer |
| AVMA |
Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers Association |
| AVN |
Aviation model at NCEP |
| AVS |
Application Visualization System |
| AVS Express |
upgraded version of the Application Visualization
System |
| AW |
Annual Worth |
| AWACS |
Airborne Warning and Control System |
| AWC |
Aviation Weather Center
| NWS |
| AWC |
Association of Women in Computing |
| AWDAAS |
Automatic Weather Data Acquisition and Archiving
System |
| AWDL |
Aviation Weather Development Laboratory |
| AWDP |
Aviation Weather Development Program |
| AWDS |
Automated Weather Distribution System |
| AWE |
Atomic Weapons Establishment
| United Kingdom |
| AWEA |
American Wind Energy Association |
| AWES |
American Wind Energy Systems |
| AWF |
Aging Waste Facility |
| AWFTF |
Aviation Weather Forecasting Task Force |
| AWG |
American wire gage |
| AWGWC |
Air Force Global Weather Center |
| AWIPS |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
| An NWS program initiated in the 1990s; also known
as the "modernization program" |
| AWIPS-90 |
Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
for the 90's |
| AWISE |
Association of Women in Science and Engineering |
| AWN |
Aviation Weather Network |
| AWOS |
Automated Weather Observing System |
| AWP |
Aviation Weather Program |
| AWPG |
Aviation Weather Products Generator |
| AWQC |
Ambient Water Quality Criteria |
| AWRDF |
Advanced Weapons Radiochemical Diagnostics Facility |
| AWRE |
Atomic Weapon Research Establishment |
| AWS |
Aviation Weather Service |
U.S. Air Force |
| AWS |
Air Weather Service
| now the Air Force Weather Agency, 4/98 |
| AWSE |
Australian Winter Storm Experiment |
| AWSMSC |
Air Weather Service Master Station Catalog |
| AWU |
Associated Western Universities
| Salt Lake City, Utah |
| AWU |
atomic weight unit
| amu |
| AWWA |
American Waterworks Association |
| AX |
auxiliary systems |
| AXAF |
Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility |
| AXBT |
Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |
| AXBT |
Expendable Bathythermographs Air dropped temperature
device |
| AXCP |
Airborne Expendable Current Profiler |
| AY |
Sandia National Laboratory |
