| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| B |
Byte |
| b |
bit |
| bit |
binary digit |
| B scale |
Synoptic scale ranging from 100 to 1,000 km |
| BAA |
Buy American Act |
| BAC |
Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry |
| BAC |
Budgeted Cost at Completion |
| BAC |
Boeing Airplane Company |
| BACER |
Biological & Climatological Effects Research |
| BACH |
biosphere-atmosphere-chemistry |
| BAe |
British Aerospace |
| BAFO |
Best and Final Offer |
| BAG |
Boulder Aeronomy Group |
| BAHC |
Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle
| IGBP |
| BAI |
Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions Project |
| BAM |
Berkeley Abstract Machine |
| BAM |
Brooklyn Arts Museum |
| BAMEX |
Bow Echo and Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment |
| BAMS |
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
|
| Bandwidth |
| The amount of data that can be sent through a given
communications circuit per second |
| BANSHEE |
Beam Accelerator for Novel Super High Energy Electron
|
| BAO |
Boulder Atmospheric Observatory |
NOAA |
| BAPMon |
Baseline Air Pollution Monitoring Network |
WMO |
| BARC |
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
| India |
| baroclinic |
| The variation with depth of motions associated
with variation of density with depth. |
| barometer |
| An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
|
| BARRNet |
Bay Area Regional Research Network
| An informal consortium established in 1986 |
| BART |
Biosphere Atmosphere Research and TRaining
| NSF/IGERT Program |
| BART |
Bay Area Rapid Transit |
| BASC |
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium |
|
| BASC |
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate |
NAS |
| base line |
| The reference line in a measurement by triangulation.
|
| baseline check |
| Calibration or quality assurance of radiosonde
sensors before flight by comparison of radiosonde measurements wtih those
from other instruments. |
| baseline monitoring |
| The establishment and operation of a designed surveillance
system for continuous or periodic measurements and recording of existing
and changing conditions that will be compared with future observations.
|
| BASIC |
beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code
| A programming language |
| BASIS |
Battelle Automated Search Information System |
| BATCH McIDAS |
routine that runs sequences of McIDAS commands
from a script |
| BATGE |
Biosphere-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchange in the
Tropics |
| BATS |
biosphere-atmosphere transfer scheme |
ATD, NCAR |
| baud Literally |
the number of times per second a signal can change
on a transmission line
| therefore, generally equals the number of bits
per second that can be transferred over a line |
| BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBRR |
Brookhaven Beam Research Reactor |
| BBS |
Bulletin Board System |
| BBSO |
Big Bear Solar Observatory |
| BCAPS |
Biological Component of the Air Pollution Studies
|
| BCCB |
Baseline Change Control Board |
| BCD |
binary-coded decimal |
| BCD |
barcode decal |
| BCL |
Battelle Columbus Laboratory |
| BCS |
Boeing Computer Services |
| BCS |
Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer |
| BCWP |
Budgeted Cost for Work Performed |
| BCWS |
Budgeted Cost for Work Scheduled |
| BD |
blowdown |
| BDL |
Boundary Layer |
| BDN |
Bacteria-derived nuclei |
| BDSP |
Basic Data Set Project |
GARP |
| BDU |
Bus Data Unit |
| BE |
best estimate |
| BEJ |
best expert judgment |
| BEMC |
Boulder Emergency Management Center |
| BEP |
balloon electronics package |
GARP |
| BER |
bit error rate |
| BER |
Biological and Environmental Research |
| BEST |
Black Educational Science Trust |
| BEST |
Bilan d'energie du systeme tropical |
| BFPQ |
Block Floating Point Quantizer |
| BFS |
Business and Financial Services |
| BGCWG |
Biogeochemistry Working Group |
| BGE |
Block Gaussian Elimination |
| BGP4 |
Border Gateway Protocol Version 4 |
| BGS |
Biogeosciences Initiative |
| bhp |
brake horsepower |
| BI |
The Brookings Institution |
| BIATEX |
part of EUROTRAC |
| BIBEX |
Biomass Burning Experiment |
| Bigit |
A binary digit |
| BINET |
bistatic Doppler radar receiver network |
| BioFlux |
Bioaerosol flux |
| BIOMASS |
Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems
and Stocks |
| BIOME |
Biological Imaging and Observational Mission to
Earth |
| BIORESP |
Bio Response |
| BIP |
balloon-borne (instrument) platform |
| BIORESP |
Bio Response |
| bit |
Binary digit (either 0 or 1)
| basic unit of information used in computer and
information technologies (see also baud) |
| BIT |
built-in test |
| BITNET |
Because It's Time Network
| A low-cost, low-speed network started at City University
of New York |
| BITS |
Biologically Important Trace Species |
| BL |
beta lambda |
| BLIP |
Boundary Layer Instrument Package |
| BLM |
Bureau of Land Management
| A Federal agency |
| BLP |
Boundary Layer Profiler |
| BLPS |
Boundary Layer Profiler System |
| BLS |
Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| BLSG |
Boundary Layer Sensing Group |
| BMDO |
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization |
| BMFT |
Bundesminsterium fur Forschung und Technologie
| Germany |
| BMI |
Battelle Memorial Institute |
| BMO |
Ballistic Missile Office |
| BMRC |
Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre |
Australia |
| BMRR |
Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor |
| BNFL |
British Nuclear Fuels Limited |
| BNI |
Bechtel National, Inc. |
| BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| BNM |
Bandelier National Monument |
| BNSC |
British National Space Centre |
| BNW |
Battelle Northwest |
| BNWL |
Battelle Northwest Laboratory |
| BOD |
board of directors |
| BOD |
Beneficial Occupancy Date |
| BOF |
Birds of a Feather |
| BOM |
Bureau of Mines |
| BOMAP |
Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Analysis
Program |
| BOMAP |
BOMEX Analysis Program |
| BOMEX |
Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment
|
| BOR |
burnout risk |
| BOREAS |
Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study
| US and Canada, 1994 |
| BOSS |
Badge Office Security Sytem |
| BP |
boundary profile |
| BP |
Budget and Planning Office |
| B&P |
Budget and Planning Office
| UCAR |
| BPA |
Bonneville Power Administration |
| BPA |
Blanket Purchase Award |
| bpi |
bits per inch |
| BPI |
Budget, Plans, and Information |
| bps |
bits per second |
| bps |
baud-per-second |
| BPSG |
Budget Planning and Systems Group |
| BRAN |
Boulder Research and Administrative Network |
| BRASS |
Basic Rapid Alarm Security System |
| BRAVE |
Boeing Robotic Air Vehicle |
| BRI |
Basic Rate Interface |
| BRITE |
Basic Research in Industrial Technologies Europe
|
| BRL |
Ballistics Research Laboratory |
APG |
| BRMS |
Basin Rainfall Monitoring System |
| broadcast |
A special type of multicast packet that all nodes
on the network are always willing to receive
| Also in the Unidata LDM context, refers to the
satellite broadcast of FOS and McIDAS data by Alden |
| browser |
| A software tool for accessing Internet services
such as the WWW, Gopher, and FTP |
| BRS |
Bibliographic Retrieval Service |
| BSAC |
Biotechnology Science Advisory Committee |
| BSD |
Berkeley Software Distribution
| UNIX |
| BSDI |
Berkeley Software Design,Inc. |
| BSD UNIX |
Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX
| a version of the UNIX computer operating system
|
| BSI |
British Standards Institute |
| BSR |
Budget Surplus Report |
| BSR |
Bus Select Relay |
| BSRN |
Boulder Science Resource Network |
| BSRN |
Baseline Surface Radiation Network
| ISCCP |
| BSTS |
Boost Surveillance and Tracking System |
| BSU |
Beam Steering Unit |
| BTAG |
Biological Technical Assistance Group |
| BTU |
British thermal unit |
| BU |
bargaining unit |
| BUFR |
Binary Universal Form for the Representation of
meteorological data
| A WMO standard for a binary code for the exchange
and storage of data |
| bulletin |
| A sequence of consecutive bytes within a data stream
that comprises a single unit that can be converted into a data product by
supplying the necessary identifying information |
| BUREC |
Bureau of Reclamation |
DOI |
| BUS |
Business Operations |
| BUV |
backscatter ultraviolet |
Spectrometer |
| BV |
building ventilation |
| BWC |
Biological Weapons Convention |
| BWI |
Baltimore-Washington International Airport |
| BWIP |
Basalt Waste Isolation Project |
| BX |
base exchange |
| BXA |
Bureau of Export Administration
| DOC |
| byte |
Eight bits
| the combination of bits used to represent a particular
number, letter, or special character |
