| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| 3CPO |
Cloud Chemistry and Cloud Physics Organization
|
| C |
A programming language used extensively in systems
software, and scientific program applications
| UNIX is written in C |
| C++ |
An object-oriented programming language based on
C |
| C Scale |
Mesoscale, =10 to 100 km; Meso-convective elements
|
| C shell |
A UNIX command interpreter
| A shell interprets commands and executes programs
|
| C2F3Cl3 |
CFC-113 |
| C2FBr2 |
Halon 2402 |
| (C3) |
Command, Control, & Communication |
| (C4) |
Center for Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate
| University of Chicago |
| CA |
Citizen Act |
| CAA |
Clean Air Act |
| CAA |
Concepts Analysis Agency
| US Army |
| CAAA |
Clean Air Act Amendments |
| CAAC |
Civil Aviation Administration of China |
| CAALS |
Consortium on Automated Standards |
| CAAP |
Composition and Acidity of SE Asian Precipitation
|
| CAB |
CCSM Advisory Board |
| CABALS |
Carrier Balloon System |
| cable |
| A nautical unit of horizontal distance defined
as 0.1 nautical mile = 185.2 m. |
| CAC |
Central Analysis Center (NMC) |
| CAC
| Climate Analysis Center
| NMC |
| CAC
| California Administrative Code |
| CACGP |
Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global
Pollution |
IAMAP |
| CACM |
Communications of the ACM |
| CACR |
Commission on Air Chemistry and Radioactivity |
| CAD |
Computer-Aided Design |
| CAD |
Computer-Aided Dispatch |
| CAD |
Control Alternate Delete (PC keyboard reset sequence)
|
| CAD |
Coronary Artery Disease |
| CAD/CAM |
computer-design/computer-aided manufacturing |
| CADD |
Computer-Aided Design and Drafting |
| CADRE |
Center for Analysis of Dynamics of Atmospheric
Regions
| CSU |
| CADRE |
Center for Analysis of the Dynamics of Regional
Ecosystems |
| CAE |
cooler, air evaporative |
| CAE |
Computer Aided Engineering |
| CAENEX |
Complex atmospheric energetics experiment
| Russia (Kondratiev) for GARP (WMO reference) |
| CAFE |
corporate average fuel economy |
| CAG |
carcinogen assessment group
| EPA, ORD |
| CAG |
Convective Airspace Guidance |
| CAG |
Computing Advisory Group |
| CAGE |
Continental Africa GATE Experiment
| replacing the original CAP in GARP, 1/73 |
| CAGEX |
CERES/ARM/GEWEX Experiment
| radiation activity and database |
| CAI |
computer-aided instruction |
| CAI |
Controlled Air Incinerator |
| CAL |
computer-aided learning |
| CAL |
Cray Assembly Language |
| CAL |
Continental Air Lines |
| CALCOMP |
California Computer Products, Inc.
| GARP acronym |
| CALCRUST |
Consortium for Study of the California Crust |
| call |
| The action of bringing a computer program/function/subroutine
into effect |
| CallK |
calcium |
| CALLS |
California Academia Libraries List of Serials |
| CALS |
computer-aided acquisition and logistics support
|
| Caltech |
California Institute of Technology |
| CALUTRON |
California University Cyclotron |
| CAL/VAL |
Calibration/Validation |
| CAM |
Computer Aided Machining |
| CAM |
Cost Account Manager |
| CAM |
computer-aided manufacturing |
| CAM |
constant air monitor |
| CAM
| Cost Account Manager |
| CAMAC |
computer-automated measurement and control |
| CAMEX |
Coastal AMOS (Experiment) |
AMOS-Automatic Meteorological Observing Station,
NWS |
| CAMP |
Committee on Aeronautical Meteorological Problems
|
| Candis |
C-language for the analysis and display of gridded
numerical data
| A software package developed by David Raymond,
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| CAO |
Central Aerological Observatory
| Russia |
| CAOS |
Center for Atmosphere/Ocean Studies
| New York University |
| CAP |
Civil Air Patrol |
| CAP |
Corporate Affiliates Program
| UCAR |
| CAP |
Cost Account Plan |
| CAP |
CGD Advisory Panel |
| CaPE |
Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment
|
| CAPE |
Convective Available Potential Energy |
| CAPOS |
Chemistry and Production of Smoke |
| CAPP |
Center for Applied Parallel Processing |
| CAPPPI |
Citizen Ambassador Program of People to People
International |
| CAPS |
Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms
| University of Oklahoma |
| CAPS |
Cassini plasma spectrometer |
| CAPTEX |
Cross-Appalachian Tracer Experiment |
| caption |
| The explanatory comment accompanying a pictorial
illustration. |
| CAR |
Central African Republic |
| CARA |
Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
|
| CARB |
California Air Resources Board |
| CARD |
Citizens Against Radioactive Dumping |
| CARL |
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries |
| CARP |
Carpenter Research Project |
Carpenter, Wyoming |
| CARP |
Colorado-Amudarya Rivers Project |
| CARS |
coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy |
| CARSS |
Center for Atmospheric and Remote Sounding Studies
| University of Utah |
| CART |
Cloud and Radiation Testbed
| a heavily instrumented site in Oklahoma |
| CAS |
Cooperative Application Satellite
| SAMS April 73 |
| CAS |
Committee on Atmospheric Sciences
| GARP |
| CAS |
Commission for Atmospheric Science
| WMO |
| CAS |
Climate Analysis Section |
| CAS |
Center for Automotive Safety |
| CAS |
Chemical Abstract Service |
| CASAC |
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee |
| CASC |
Coalition for Academic Supercomputer Centers |
| CASE |
computer aided software engineering |
| CASES |
Cooperative Atmosphere Surface Exchange Study |
| CASH |
Commercial Aviation Sensing Humidity program |
| CASH |
Commercial Aviation Sensing of Humidity |
| CASI |
Canadian Aerospace Institute |
| CASP |
Canadian Atlantic Storms Project (or Program) |
| CASS |
Computer-Assisted Surveillance System |
| CAST |
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology
|
| CAST |
Chinese Academy of Space Technology |
| CASW |
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
|
| CAT |
clear air turbulence |
| CAT |
coordinated analysis of the thermosphere |
| CATI |
Colorado Advanced Technology Institute |
| Cb |
cumulonimbus |
| Cb |
Meteorological symbol |
| CBASSE |
Commission on Behavioral & Social Sciences and
Education |
| CBB |
Contract Budget Baseline |
| CBERS |
China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite |
| CBL |
convective boundary Layer |
| CBL |
Computer-based Learning
| UCAR |
| CBLCBNM |
Central Bureau of Nuclear Measurements |
| CBO |
Carrier Balloon/Omegasonde |
GARP |
| CBO |
Congressional Budget Office |
| CBRS |
Coastal Barrier Resources System |
| CBSS |
change board support system |
| CBT |
Computer Based Training |
| C&C |
Consultation and Cooperation Agreement |
| CCAA |
Canadian Clean Air Act |
| CCAB |
CGD Computing Advisory Board
| NCAR |
| CCAR |
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research |
| CCARS |
Computer Controlled Automatic Rain Sampler |
| CCAWG |
Climate Change and Assessment Working Group |
| CCB |
Center for Capacity Building |
| CCB |
change control board |
| CCB |
Configuration Control Board |
| CCC |
Cray Computer Corporation |
| CCC |
Canadian Climate Centre |
| CCCC |
Center for Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate
| University of Chicago |
| CCCMA |
Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis
|
| CCCO |
Committee for Climatic Change and the Ocean |
| CCCS |
change and configuration control system |
| CCCWG |
Chemistry and Climate Change Working Group |
| CCD |
Charge-Couple Device |
a light sensing element in electronic cameras |
| CCD |
Conference of the Committee on Disarmament |
| CCEA |
Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment
|
NOAA |
| CCF |
Central Computing Facility |
| CCHW |
Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes |
| CCID |
Confidential Chemicals Identification System |
| CCIG |
Cloud Climate Interactions Group |
NCAR |
| CCIT |
Comite Consultatife International de Telephonique
et Telegraphique |
| CCL |
Convection Condensation Level |
| CCL |
convective condensation level |
| CCL |
Commerce Control List |
| CCM |
Community Climate Model |
NCAR, CGD |
| CCMs |
CCM0B, CCM0A, CCM1, CCM2, etc. are generation versions
|
| CCM1 |
community climate model 1 |
| CCM2 |
Community Climate Model Version 2 |
| CCM3 |
Community Climate Model Version 3 |
| CCM4 |
community climate model 4 |
| CCM5 |
community climate model 5 |
| CCN |
computer-to-computer network |
| CCN |
Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
| CCNS |
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety |
| CCNY |
City College of New York |
| CCOL |
Coordinating Committee on the Ozone Layer
| UNEP |
| CCOPE |
Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment
|
CSD joint field season in Montana, beginning 1981
|
| CCP |
Clouds in Climate Program |
| CCPP |
Climate Change Prediction Program |
| CCPR |
Coherent Cloud Physics Radar |
| CCPR |
Clouds and Climate Program |
| CCR |
configuration change request |
| CCR |
Climate Change Research |
| CCR |
commitment, concurrency, and recovery protocol
|
| CCR |
California Code of Regulations |
| CCR/IDA |
Center for Communications Research/Institute for
Defense Analyses |
| CCRI |
Climate Change Research Initiative |
| CCRS |
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing |
| CCSDS |
Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems |
| CCSF |
Colorado Computational Science Fair |
| CCSM |
Community Climate System Model |
| CCSM-2 |
Community Climate System Model Ü 2nd generation
|
| CCSP |
Coupled Climate Systems Program |
| CCSP |
U.S. Climate Change Science Program |
| CCT |
computer-compatible tape |
| CCTF |
Cylindrical Core Test Facility
| Japan |
| CCTM |
Community Chemistry Transport Model |
| CCTP |
Clean Coal Technology Program |
| CCU |
CRAY charging unit |
| CCU
| Cooler Control Unit |
| CD
| compact disk |
optical disk |
| C/D
| integrated Phase C and Phase D contract |
| CDA |
command and data acquisition |
Satellite ground station |
| CDC |
Climate Data Center |
| CDC |
Control Data Corporation |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control
| Public Health Service |
| CDCL |
Contract Document Control List |
| CDCR |
Concept Design and Cost Review |
| CDDF |
Central Data Distribution Facility |
| CDDIS |
Crustal Dynamics Data Information System |
| CDE |
Common Desktop Environment |
| CDED |
Core Dynamics and the Earth's Dynamo |
| CDF |
Common Data Format
| Software package for storing data sets; developed
by NASA's Space Science Data Center; used in GEMPAK |
| CDFS II |
Cloud Depiction and Forecast System |
| CDH |
Colorado Department of Health |
| C&DH |
command and data handling |
| CDHF |
Central Data Handling Facility |
| CDIAC |
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
| Oak Ridge, Tennessee |
| CDIS |
command and data interface simulator unit |
| C&DM |
configuration and data management |
| CDMS |
Cryospheric Data Management System |
| CDOS |
Customer Data and Operations System |
| CDP |
Community Data Portal |
| CDR |
circular depolarization ratio |
| CDR |
critical design review |
| CDRL |
contract data requirements list |
| CD-ROM |
Compact disk-read only memory |
| CDS |
Computing, Data and Software Services |
| CDS |
Coronal Doppler Spectrometer |
| CDSF |
Customer Data Service Facility |
| CDT |
Conventional Defense Technology |
| CDW |
critical design walk-through |
| CE |
Combustion Engineering |
| CEA |
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique |
The French way is AEC |
| CEAM |
Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling |
| CEARC |
Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council
|
| CEARP |
Comprehensive Environmental Assessment/Response
Program |
| CEASE |
Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation
|
| CEB |
chemical element balance |
| CEBAF |
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
| Newport News, VA |
| CEC |
California Energy Commission |
| CEC |
Commission for Environmental Cooperation |
| CED |
Criminal Enforcement Division
| EPA |
| CEDAR |
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric
Regions |
ATM |
| CEDDA |
Center for Experiment Design and Data Analysis
|
NOAA, Rockville, Maryland |
| CEDR |
Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource |
| CEDRIC |
Custom Editing and Display of Reduced Information
in Cartesian Space
| A software package containing a set of analysis
tools for manipulating Doppler radar and surface- and aircraft-instrument
network measurements that have been remapped to a Cartesian coordinate system
|
| CEE |
Center for Environmental Education, Inc. |
| CEES |
Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences |
U.S. |
| CEHIC |
Center for Environmental Health & Injury Control
| Centers for Disease Control |
| CEI |
compliance evaluation inspection
| CAA |
| CELRF |
Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation
|
| CELTIC |
Chemical Emission, Loss, Transformation and Interactions
within Canopies |
| CEM |
Center for Electromagnetics |
| CEMSDS |
Central Environmental Satellite Data System
| NOAA |
| CEN |
Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires |
| CENEX |
Complex energetics experiment |
Russian experiment for GARP See CAENEX-the acronym
used by WMO |
| CENTAR |
Code for Extended Nonlinear Transient Analysis
of Extraterrestrial Reactors |
| CEO |
chief executive officer |
| CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observations Satellites |
| CEP |
circular error probability |
Also: cylindrical electrostatic probe (TWERLE)
creeping environmental problems |
| CEP |
cylindrical electrostatic probe
| TWERLE |
| CEP |
creeping environmental problems |
| CEP |
Council on Economic Priorities |
| CEPEX |
Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment |
| CEPHAG |
Centre d' Etudes de Phenomenes Aleatoire et Geophysiques
| Domaine University |
| CEPP |
Chemical Emergency Preparedness Program |
| CEPRAG |
Center for the Study of Random Geophysical Phenomena
|
| CEQ |
Council on Environmental Quality |
President's council |
| CERC |
Coastal Engineering Research Center |
Computing Facility collaborating on long-wave studies,
1973 |
| CERCLA |
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act |
| CERES |
Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System
| Satellite experiment on NASA's Earth Observing
System |
| CERFACS |
Centre Europeen de Recherche et de Formation Avancee
en Calcul Scientifique
| European Center for Research and Advanced Training
in Scientific Computation. Toulouse, France.
|
| CERI |
Center for Environmental Research Information |
| CERN |
Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire
| the European Center for Nuclear Research, Geneva,
Switzerland |
| CES |
Committee on Earth Science
| NAS |
| CESDIS |
Center for Excellence for Space Data and Information
Sciences |
NASA |
| CESM |
Community Earth System Model |
| CETEC |
Center for Extraterrestrial Engineering & Construction
|
| cf |
compare |
| CF |
Conservation Foundation |
| CF2Cl2 |
F-12 |
| CF2ClBr |
Halon 1211 |
| CF3Br |
Halon 1301 |
| CfA |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
| CFC13 |
F-11 |
| CFC |
chlorofluorocarbon |
| CFCF |
Central Flow Control Facility |
| CFCs |
chlorofluorocarbons |
| CFD |
Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| CFE |
Conventional Forces in Europe |
| CFECFL |
Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy criterion |
| CFM |
Chlorofluoromethanes |
| CFM |
Community Forecast Model
| NCAR |
| CFO Act |
Chief Financial Officers Act |
| CFPAS |
Ceramic Filled Polymer Armor System |
| CFR |
Cray Fortran compiler |
| CFR |
Colorado Front Range |
| CFR |
Centre de Faibles Radioactivites
| France |
| CFR |
Code of Federal Regulations |
| CFS |
Common File System |
| CFT |
Cray Fortran Compiler |
| CFT77 |
Cray FORTRAN 77 compiler |
| C&GS |
Coast and Geodatic Survey |
replaced by NOS |
| CGA Color Graphics Adapter |
An old IBM product for graphics capability |
| CGA |
Compressed Gas Association |
| CGC |
Committee on Global Change |
U.S. |
| CGC |
National Research Council Committee on Global Change
|
| CGD |
Climate and Global Dynamics Division
| NCAR |
| CGI |
Computer Graphics Interface |
| CGI |
Common Gateway Interface |
| CGIAR |
Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research |
| CGM |
computer graphics metafile |
| CGRO |
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory |
| CGS |
Canadian Geologic Survey |
| C&GS |
Coast and Geodatic Survey |
Replaced by NOS |
| CGWIC |
China Great Wall Industry Corporation |
| CH |
Center for Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate |
| CHAMP |
Germany's Challenging Minisatellite Payload for
Geophysical Research
| |
| CHAMP |
Community Health Air Monitoring Program
| |
| CHAMMP |
Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics, and Model
Physics program
| DOE |
| CHAMMPions |
CHAMMP Interagency Organization for Numerical Simulations
|
| CHAP |
Compton high-altitude pulse |
| CHEMRAWN |
Chemical Research Applied to World Needs
| IUPAC |
| CHEMTRIC |
Chemical Transportation Emergency Center |
| CHESS |
Community Health & Environmental Surveillance System
|
| CHF |
critical heat flux |
| CHGS |
Center for Human Genome Studies |
| CHI |
computer human interface |
| CHILL |
University of Chicago/ Illinois State Water Survey
Radar |
Dual Doppler radar currently known as CSU-CHILL
|
| CHIP |
Chromospheric Helium I Imaging Photometer |
| CHOX |
Carbon Hydrogen Oxidant experiment
| Heides, 1987 |
| CHP |
Continental Hydrologic Processes |
| CHRP |
configurable high rate processor |
| CHRPS |
configurable high rate processor system |
| CI |
catalog interoperability |
| Ci |
Curies |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIAM |
Central Institute of Aviation Motors |
| CIAP |
Climatic Impact Assessment Program
| LAS, see SMIC |
| CIAQ |
Council on Indoor Air Quality |
| CIC |
Computing Information Center |
| CIC |
Committee on International Cooperation |
| CICA |
Competition in Contracting Act |
| CICE |
sea-ice model developed at Los Alamos National
Laboratory |
| CICIS |
Chemicals in Commerce Information System |
| CICS |
Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies |
| CIE |
Committee on Institutional Equity |
| CIESIN |
Consortium for International Earth Science Information
Network
| 1992 |
| CIF |
Consolidated Incineration Facility
| SRL |
| CIG |
International Geophysics Committee |
ICSU |
| CIGMA |
Cooperative Institute for Geodata Management and
Applications |
Colorado School of Mines/NOAA |
| CIL |
common interface language |
| CIM |
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing |
| CIMATS |
Correlation Interferometry Measurement of Atmospheric
Trace Species |
NCAR and NASA |
| CIMMS |
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological
Studies |
Research Applications Program, UCAR and a NOAA
group colocated at University of Oklahoma |
| CIMO |
Commission for Instrumentation and Methods of Observation
|
WMO |
| CIMS |
Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer |
| CIMS |
Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems
|
| CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite
Studies |
UWI |
| CIMTAR |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Training
and Applied Research |
| CINC |
Commander in Chief |
| CINDE |
Convective Initiation and Downburst Experiment
|
| CIP |
Committee on Intellectual Property
| UCAR |
| CIP |
Consolidated Instrument Package |
| CIP |
Coronal and Interplanetary Section
| HAO, NCAR |
| CIP |
cold isostatic pressing |
| CIP |
current icing potential |
| CIPA |
California Information Practices Act |
| CIPASH |
Committee on International Programs in the Atmospheric
Sciences and Hydrology |
| CIPP |
contexts, input, processes, and products |
| CIR |
Color Infrared Camera |
| CIRA |
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
| CSU |
| CIRAC |
Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric
Chemistry |
North York, Ontario |
| CIRES |
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental
Science |
University of Colorado and NOAA |
| CIS |
Cryogenic Interferometer Spectrometer |
| CIS |
Commenwealth of Independent States
| former USSR |
| CIS |
chemical injection system |
| CIS |
Computational and Information Sciences |
| CISC |
Complex Instruction Set Computer |
| CiSE |
Computing in Science and Engineering |
| CISE |
Computer Information Science and Engineering
| NSF |
| CISK |
conditional instability of the second kind |
| CISK |
convection instability of the second kind |
| CISL |
Computational & Information Systems Laboratory |
NCAR |
| CISM |
Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling |
|
| CISR |
Committee on Intergovernmental Science Relations
|
FCST |
| CISR |
Center for Iron and Steel Research |
| CIT |
California Institute of Technology
| Caltech |
| CIT |
Convection-Induced Turbulence |
| CITE |
Chemical Instrumentation Test and Evaluation Experiment
| NASA |
| CITF |
CDOS Integration and Test Facility |
| CITHK |
Conditional Instability of the Third Kind |
| CKVA |
complex Kohn Variation principle |
| CLAES |
Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer |
NASA/UARES |
| CLAMS |
Common Los Alamos Mathematical Software |
| CLARET II |
Cloud Lidar and Radar Exploratory Test |
| CLASS |
Cross-Chain Loran Atmospheric Sounding System |
| CLASS |
Climate Assistance Service
| ISWS |
| CLAWS |
Classify, Locate, and Avoid Wind Shear |
| CLCW |
command link control word |
| CLEO |
Classified Energy On-line
| database |
| CLF |
Conservation Law Foundation |
| client |
| A computer system or process that requests a service
of another computer system or process |
| client/server |
The model of interaction in a distributed system
in which a program at one site sends a request to a program at another site
and awaits a response
| The requesting program is called the client, and
the program satisfying the request is called the server |
| CLIMAP |
Climatic Long-Range Investigation, Mapping, and
Prediction Project |
| CLIP |
Compressed Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability program
|
| CLM |
Common Land Model |
| CLS |
Cloud Lidar System |
| CLS |
Chemistry and Laser Sciences |
| CLSP |
Center for Law & Social Policy |
| CLTU |
command link transmission unit |
| CLV |
constant linear velocity |
| CM |
Chemical Modeling Project |
| CM |
Connection Machine |
| CM |
Configuration Management |
| CM |
crisis management |
| CM-2 |
Connection Machine 2
| Thinking Machines Corporation |
| CM-5 |
Connection Machine 5 |
| CMA |
Chemical Manufacturers Association |
| CMA |
China Meteorological Administration |
| C-MAN |
Coastal-Marine Automated Network |
| CMAP |
Climate Modeling, Analysis and Prediction program
| NSF |
| CMAPR |
Committee on Meteorological Analysis, Prediction,
and Research
| NRC |
| CMB |
Core-mantle boundary |
| CMB |
chemical mass balance |
| CMB |
Configuration Management Branch |
| CMCA |
cruise missile carrier aircraft |
| CMDL |
Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Laboratory
| NOAA |
| CM |
Chemical Modeling Project |
| CM |
Connection Machine configuration management |
| CM-2 |
Connection Machine 2 |
| CMA |
Chemical Manufacturers Association |
| C-MAN |
Coastal-Marine Automated Network |
| CMAP |
Climate Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction program
| NSF |
| CMAP |
Climate Modeling and Analysis Program |
| CMAPR |
Committee on Meteorological Analysis, Prediction,
and Research |
NRC |
| CMB |
Core-mantle boundary |
| CME |
Community Modeling Effort |
| CME |
Climate Modeling Experiment |
| CME |
coronal mass ejection |
| CMEP |
critical mass energy project |
| CMF |
Common Mesonet Format |
| CMF |
compressed-magnetic field |
| CMIP |
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
| CMIP |
common management information protocol |
| CMIST |
Configuration Management Integrated Support Tool
|
| CMM |
Commission for Marine Meteorology |
WMO |
| C-MOS |
complementary (symmetry) metal oxide semiconductors
|
trade name |
| CMP |
central Meridian passage |
| CMR |
Chemistry and Metallurgy Research |
| CMS |
Climate Modeling Section
| NCAR |
| CMS |
Convective Meteorology Section
| MMM, NCAR |
| CMS |
Conversational Monitor System
| A component of IBM VM operating system |
| CMS |
Command Management System
| UARS |
| CMS |
Center for Materials Science |
| CMS |
corrective measures study
| RCRA |
| CMSC |
California Mine and Safety Code |
| CMSEML |
Center for Materials Science Electron Microscope
Laboratory |
| CMSSL |
Connection Machine Scientific Software Library
|
| CMU |
Carnegie Mellon University
| Pittsburgh, PA |
| CMWF |
See ECMWF |
| CMWO |
chemical and mixed waste operations |
| CMYK |
cyan-magneta-yellow-black
| color model |
| CN |
construction notice |
| CN |
consultant |
| CNA |
Canadian Nuclear Association |
| CNC |
computerized numerical control |
| CNC |
condensation nucleus counter |
| CNEN |
Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear |
| CNES |
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
Center for National Space Studies. France.
|
| CNET |
Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications
| National Center for Telecommunication Studies. France. |
| CNIE |
Comision Nacional Investigatienes Espaciale
| Argentina |
| CNLS |
Center for Nonlinear Studies |
| CNN |
Cable News Network |
| CNNR |
conventional nonnuclear weapons |
| CNO |
Chief of Naval Operations |
| CNPS |
compact nuclear power source |
| CNR |
Chief of Naval Research |
| CNR |
conventional nuclear weapons |
| CNRI |
Corporation for National Research Initiatives |
| CNRM |
Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques |
| CNRR |
containment radioactivity removal |
| CNRS |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
National Center for Scientific Research, Paris,
France |
| CNSF |
Coalition for National Science Funding |
| CNSI |
confidential national security information |
| CNSS |
Center for National Security Studies |
| CNWDI |
critical nuclear weapon design information |
| CO |
Contracting Officer |
| CO |
carbon monoxide |
| CO |
chief operator |
| C/O |
carryover
| funds |
| (CO2) |
carbon dioxide |
| COADS |
Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
NOAA and NCAR |
| COAM |
Center for Ocean Atmospheric Modeling
| Stennis Space Flight Center |
| COAMPS |
U.S. Navy's regional weather model |
| COARE |
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
TOGA, 1993 |
| COB |
close of business |
| COB PANART |
Committee of Bomex Participants
| Advising NOAA on aerosols and radiation in TROPEX
|
| COBAE |
Brazilian Commission of Space Activities |
| cobol |
common business oriented language |
| COBRA |
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
| 1985 |
| COBRA |
continuous beam research apparatus |
| CoBRA-TF |
Coolant Boiling in Rod Arrays code
| two-fluid |
| COC |
Computer Output Committee |
NCAR |
| COCA |
consent order and compliance agreement |
| COCOM |
Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export
Controls |
| COCORD |
Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling
|
| COD |
chemical oxygen demand |
| CODATA |
Committee on Data for Science and Technology |
ICSU |
| CODE |
Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment |
| CODIAC |
Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric
Catalogue
| A Web-based data management system which offers
scientists access to research and operational atmospheric data |
| CODMAC |
Committee on Data Management and Computation |
| CODMAP |
Committee on Data Management and Computing
| NAS |
| COE |
Corps of Engineers |
| COEDS |
common event database system |
| COESA |
Committee on Extension to the Standard Atmosphere
|
NCAR, AFCR, EPA, GSFC, ADG, NASA |
| COFMEX |
Cooperative Florida Meteorological Experiment |
Includes FAME, FLOWS, KSC, STAMP, TRMM |
| COGS |
cost of goods sold |
| COHMAP |
Cooperative Holocane Mapping Project |
| COHMEX |
Cooperative Huntsville Meteorological Experiment
|
| COI |
conflict of interest |
| COINS |
Computer and Information Science |
| COLAI |
Center for Ocean, Land, and Atmospheric Interactions
| University of Maryland |
| Cold Car |
Measurement of chemicals in the lower stratosphere
| stratospheric sampling studies |
| COMAP |
COMET Mesoscale Analysis and Prediction |
| COMET |
Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology
Education and Training |
| COMFORT |
Committee on Forecaster Training |
| COMM |
Communications software
| A component of the McIDAS graphics software package
|
| COMMAS |
Collaborative Model for Multiscale Atmospheric
Simulation |
| COMPARE |
Comparison of Mesoscale Prediction and Research
Experiment |
| Compaq |
A corporation manufacturing IBM PC clones |
| COMPASS |
Cooperative Observational and Modeling Project
for the Analysis of Severe Storms |
| COMPASS |
Community Partnerships for the Advancement of Science
in the Schools |
| compiler |
| A program that converts another program from its
source code into machine code (object code) |
| COMS |
CDOS Operations Management Service |
| COMSAT |
Communications Satellites Corporation |
Clarksburg, Maryland |
| COMSAT |
communications satellite |
| CONDUIT |
Cooperative Opportunity for NCEP Data Using IDD
Technology
| A project that makes high resolution model data
sets available to the U.S. Weather Research Program (USWRP) and to universities
using Unidata's IDD technology |
| CONICYT |
National Scientific and Technological Research
Council
| Argentina |
| connection-oriented |
| The data communication method in which communication
proceeds through three well-defined phases: connection establishment, data
transfer, connection release. TCP is a connection-oriented protocol |
| connectionless |
| The data communication method in which communication
occurs between hosts with no previous setup. Packets between two hosts may
take different routes, as each is independent of the other. UDP is a connectionless
protocol |
| CONS |
connection oriented network service |
| CONTRIBE |
convective transport by implicit bouyant elements
|
GATE |
| CONUS |
contiguous United States |
| CoOP |
Coastal Ocean Processes |
| CO-OP |
class of property |
| COP |
command operation procedure |
| COPE |
Cooperative Observations of Polar Electrodynamics
|
Greenland |
| COPEP |
Committee on Public Engineering Policy |
| Coplane |
common plane |
| CoPs |
Coaching Peers |
| COPS |
Cooperative Oklahoma P3 Studies |
| COPT81 |
Convection Profonde Tropicale 1981 |
French field program |
| COR-1 |
| It is an internally occulted coronograph that will
be launched by NASA in 2004 onboard the STEREO spacecraft. COR-1 is a fleet
of instruments designed to study the solar origins, development and propagation
of coronal mass ejections, as well as the acceleration of solar energetic
particles and the structure and dynamics of the solar corona and heliosphere.
|
| CORBA |
Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| CORE |
Coastal Ocean Reponse Experiment |
| CORE |
Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education
|
| CORM |
Council for Optical Radiation Measurements |
| COS |
Cray Operating System |
| COSE |
Color Orographic Seeding Experiment |
| COSEPUP |
Committee on Sciences, Engineering, and Public
Policy |
NAS |
| COSL |
Chemistry Operations Support Laboratory |
Rocky Flats |
| COSMIC |
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology,
Ionosphere, and Climate
| Director, Bill Kuo, UCAR |
| COSMO |
unnamed graded person |
| COSPAR |
Committee on Space Research |
ICSU |
| COSPAS |
Cosmicheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avariynich Sudov
|
Russian equivalent of SARSAT |
| COSPEC |
correlation spectrometer |
| COSTEM |
Convection Storms: evolution and modification |
| COSTIND |
commission of Science, Technology, and Industry
for National Defense |
| COTR |
Contracting Officer's Technical Representative
|
| COTS |
Commercial off-the-shelf
| hardware or software |
| COVE |
code verification |
| CoVis Collaboratory |
On-Line Resources, Visualization Tools, Instructional
Materials, and Student and Teacher Forum
| A collaborative education effort involving the
University of Illinois, Northwestern University, The Exploratorium in San
Francisco, Bellcore, and a range of K-12 schools around the country |
| cp |
chemically pure |
| cp |
candle power |
| cp |
cloud physics |
| CP |
Control Program |
| CP |
cost plus contract |
| CP-2 |
Cloud Physics Radar |
| CPACE |
Central Pacific Air Chemistry Experiment |
| CPAF |
Cost Plus Award Fee contract |
| CPCWQCA |
California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control
Act |
| CPEE |
Comparative Planetology and the Early Earth |
| CPFF |
Cost Plus Fixed Fee |
| CPG |
Core Planning Group |
| CPI |
Cost Performance Index |
| CPI |
consumer price index |
| CPM |
Critical Path Method |
| Cpm |
Cycles per minute |
| CPO |
central post office |
| CPO |
Central Policy Office |
| CPP |
Compliance Policy & Planning
| EPA |
| CPR |
cloud physics radar |
| CPR |
Cost Performance Report |
| CPR |
Center for Public Resources |
| CPRA |
California Public Records Act |
| CPRF |
Confinement Physics Research Facility |
| cps |
cycles per second |
Converts to hertz |
| CPSA |
Consumer Product Safety Act
| 1972 |
| CPSC |
Consumer Product Safety Commission |
| CPSI |
Cloud Physics Studies in Israel |
| CPSMR |
Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and
Resources |
| CPU |
central processing unit |
| CR |
Correlative Radiometer |
| CR |
change request |
| CR |
condition recognition |
| CR |
correlation recognition |
| CR |
Cray Research |
| CRAFT |
Collaborative Radar Acquisition Field Test
| A joint effort of the Center for Analysis and Prediction
of Storms (CAPS) at the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Higher Education
State Regents, the University of Washington, and Unidata to access and distribute
NEXRAD Level II data in near real time |
| CRAY |
| A supercomputer manufactured by Cray Research,
Inc. |
| CRAY, C1 |
NCAR's SCD CRAY-1A computer |
| CRAY, CX |
NCAR's SCD CRAY X-MP/48 computer |
| CRBR |
Clinch River Breeder Reactor |
| CRC |
Coordinating Research Council |
| CRC |
Climate Research Committee
| NRC |
| CRC |
cyclic redundancy code |
| CRCP |
cloud-resolving convection parameterization |
| CREEDP |
Changing Relief and Evolving Ecosystem Project |
| CREF |
College Retirement Equities Fund |
| CREN |
Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
|
| CREN |
Merging of CSNET and BITNET |
| CRI |
Cray Research, Inc. |
founder, Seymour Cray |
| CRIEPI |
Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
| Japan |
| CRISTA |
Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes
for the Atmosphere |
| CRL |
Communications Research Laboratory
| Japan |
| CRLB |
Cramer-Rao Lower Bound |
| CRM |
Cloud-Resolving Model |
| CRNL |
Chalk River Nuclear Laboratory |
| CROP |
consolidated rules of practice |
| CRPE |
Centre de Recherches en Physique de L'Environnement
Terrestre et Planetaire |
CNET, Paris, France |
| CRPL |
Central Radio Propagation Laboratory |
NOAA, part of CRPL, became ERL's Space Environmental
Laboratory |
| CRPO |
Crystalline Rock Project Office
| Chicago |
| CRR |
Churchill Research Range
| Manitoba, Canada |
| CRR |
capabilities and requirements review |
| CRR |
Center for Renewable Resources |
| CRR |
change request reply |
| CRREL |
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
| U.S. Army |
| CRRES |
combined release and radiation effects satellite
|
| CRRS |
Comprehensive Records Retention Schedule |
| CRS |
Congressional Research Service |
| CRT |
cathode ray tube |
| CRU |
computer resource unit |
NCAR's computer facility terminal |
| CRYSTAL-FACE |
Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus
Layers-Florida Area Cirrus Experiment |
| CRZ |
contamination reduction zone |
| CS |
Courant-Snyder |
| CSA |
Canada Space Agency |
| CSA |
Canadian Standards Association |
| CSAC |
Council on Superconductivity for American Competitiveness
|
| CSAGI |
Committee Speciale, Anni Geophysique Ect
| France |
| CSAT |
Center for Space and Advanced Technology |
| CSC |
Communications Satellite Corporation |
| CSC |
Computer Sciences Corporation
| Greenbelt, MD |
| CSC |
computer software component |
| C Scale |
Mesoscale, =10 to 100 km "Meso-convective" elements
GARP usage. |
| CSCC |
Central Scientific Computing Center |
| CSCI |
computer software configuration item |
| CSCORG |
Climate Sensitivity and CO2 Research Group |
| CSCPRC |
Committee on Scholarly Communications with the
People's Republic of China
| NRC |
| CSCPRC |
Committee on Scholarly Comminications with the
People's Republic of China |
NRC |
| CSCS |
Cost/Schedule Control System |
| C/SCSC |
Cost/Scheduling Control Systems Criteria |
| CSD |
Cloud Systems Division |
NCAR, MMM |
| CSDP |
Continental Scientific Drilling Project |
| CSEA |
California State Employees Association |
| CSENT |
climate of the 17th-18th-19th-20th centuries |
| CSG |
Council of State Governments |
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