| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| F |
forad |
| F |
Fahrenheit |
| F |
femto |
Prefix for 10 to the negative 15th power |
| F |
frequency |
| f77 |
FORTRAN77
| compiler/language |
| F&A |
Finance and Administration
| UCAR, F&A |
| FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
| FAA 604 |
| A weather data service provided by the FAA |
| FAC |
Facilities Advisory Council |
| FAC |
Friday Afternoon Club |
| FACA |
Federal Advisory Committee Act |
| FACE |
Florida Area Cirrus Experiment |
| FACE |
Also known as FACE '75 |
| FAGS |
Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Services
|
ICSU |
| FAL |
Frontier Airline |
| FAME |
Florida Area Mesoscale Experiment |
| FAME
| formatting and multiplexing equipment |
| FAN
| File Array Notation |
an array-oriented language for identifying data
items in netCDF files for the purpose of extraction or modification |
| FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization |
United Nations |
| FAPS |
Fate of Atmospheric Pollutants Study |
NCAR |
| FAPS |
freedom attached payloads |
| FAQ |
Frequently asked questions |
| FAS |
Federation of American Scientists |
| FASB |
Financial Accounting Standards Board |
| FASCODE |
Fast Atmosphere Signature Code |
| FASE |
Foundation for Advancement in Science and Education
|
| FASINEX |
Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment |
| FASTEX |
Fronts Atlantic Storm Track Experiment |
| FAT |
factory acceptance test |
| FATS |
Factory Acceptance Test Specification |
| FATS |
Firearms Training Simulator |
| FATS |
FORTRAN Automatic Timing System |
| FATS |
Forward Area Target Surveillance System |
| FATS |
South African Air Force Tactical Support Command
|
| Fb |
blanketing frequency |
| FB |
funds Budgeted |
| FB |
Fleischmann Building
| UCAR |
| FBA |
forecasting by analogy |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FCA |
functional configuration audit |
| FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| FCCLA |
*****
|
| FCCSET |
Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering
and Technology |
| FCM |
Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services
and Supporting Research |
| FCOM |
Federal Coordinators Office of Meteorology |
| FCST |
Federal Council for Science and Technology |
| FD |
Facility Division
| NOAA, FSL |
| FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
| FDC |
Fluid Dynamics Conference |
| FDCA |
Federal Drug and Cosmetics Act
| 1938 |
| 4DDD |
Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation
| part of LAPS |
| FDDA |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FDDI |
fiber-distributed data interface |
| FDF |
Flight Dynamics Facility |
| FDM |
full-depth model |
| FDMA |
frequency division multiple access |
| FDT |
Fully Developed Turbulence |
| FE |
Front-end |
| feed type |
| In the context of the Unidata LDM, a category of
data products sharing a name space of product IDs and injected from a single
data source |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency
| USA |
| FEOSH |
Federal Employee Occupational Safety and Health
|
| FEP |
front end processor |
| FEPCA |
Federal Environmental Pesticides Control Act |
| FEPCA |
Federal Environmental Pollution Control Act |
| FERC |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| FERMILAB |
FERMI National Acceleration Laboratory |
| FEST |
Fronts Experiment Systems Test |
| FET |
field-effect transistor |
for switches |
| FEWS |
Follow-on Early Warning System |
| FFDCA |
Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act |
| FFP |
Firm Fixed Price
| contract |
| FFRDCs |
Federally Funded Research and Development Centers
|
| FFS |
Flight Facilities Survey |
| FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
| FFTF |
Fast Flux Test Facility
| Hanford, WA |
| FFTs |
Fast-Fourier transforms |
| FGCMS |
Fast GC / MS = Fast Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry |
|
| FGGE |
First GARP Global Experiment |
1977 |
| FHSA |
Federal Hazardous Substances Act
| 1966
|
| FHWA |
Federal Highway Administration
|
| FIAR |
European aviation partnership
|
| FICA |
Federal Insurance Contributions Act |
| FICS |
Facility Information and Control System |
| field capacity |
| The amount of water left in the soil after it has
saturated and allowed to drain by gravity for 24 hours. |
| FIFE |
First ISLSCP Field Experiment
| International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
Project, 1987-89 |
| FIFE II |
First ISLSCP Field Experiment II
| International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
Project |
| FIFOLIB |
| The library software used to support a staging
file between the ingesters and digesters in a version of the Unidata LDM
|
| FIFRA |
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act |
| file server |
| Generally, a node on a local area network that
provides file storage and file access facilities to other network nodes.
Technically, the process on a computer that provides access to files on
that computer to programs running on remote machines |
| FILOS |
Far Infrared Limb Observing Spectrometer
| JPL |
| finger |
| A program that allows you to look up information
about a particular user or about all users currently logged into a particular
server |
| FIPS |
Federal Information Processing Standard |
| FIRE |
First ISLSCP Regional Experiment |
ISCCP (International Satellite Cloud Climatology
Project) Phase I in 1989, Phase II through 1994, WCRP |
| FIRE |
First ISCCP Radiation Experiment |
| FIRE |
Fast Imaging Ranicon Experiment |
| FIRE-ACE |
First ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology
Program
| Regional ExperimentÐArctic Cloud Experiment |
| FIRS |
Fourier Transform Infrared Sounder |
| FIS |
Financial Information System
| DOE |
| FIVRS |
Financial Information Variance Reporting System
|
| FL |
Foothills Laboratory
|
| NCAR
|
| FL1 |
first flight model |
| FL2 |
second flight model |
| FLAGE |
Flexible Lightweight Agile Guided Experiment |
| FLAT |
Full Look at Turbulent Kinetic Energy |
| FLD |
first level destination |
| FLETC |
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center |
| FLIP |
Floating Instrument Platform |
| FLMPA |
Federal Land Management Policy Act |
| FLOP |
Floating Point Operations |
| Flops |
Floating point operations per second |
| FLOWS |
FAA/Lincoln Laboratory Operational Weather Studies
|
| FLP |
relocating floating point interpreter |
Data General Corporation |
| FLSA |
Fair Labor Standards Act
| 1938 |
| FLTOP |
Federal Lease to Ownership Program |
| FLUIDS |
MELPROG subcode |
| FM |
frequency modulation |
| FMECA |
Failure Modes Effects and Critical Analysis |
| FMFIA |
Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act |
| FMIT |
Fusion Materials Irradiation Test Facility |
| FMLA |
Family and Medical Leave Act
| 1993 |
| FMS |
French Meteorological Society |
| FNAL |
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| FNC |
Federal Networking Council |
| FNOC |
Fleet Numerical Operations Center |
| Fo |
orbital frequency |
| FO |
Field Office |
| FOB |
Free On Board |
| FOB |
Facilities Operations Branch
| LAAO |
| FOC |
full operational capability |
| FOCAL |
Programme Francais Ocean et Climat dans d'Atlantique
Equatorial |
| FODDAS |
Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation Study |
GARP, NCAR |
| FOF |
Field Observing Faciltilty |
UCAR, NCAR, ATD |
| FOIA |
Freedom of Information Act |
| FOLD |
federally owned LANDSAT data |
| Footprint |
Measuring and modeling the surface Footprint of
scalar fluxes |
| FORD |
Flight Operations Requirements Document |
| FORGE |
Funds for Overseas Research Grants for Education
|
| FORTELL |
not an acronym
| A collaborative project to provide experimental
high-resolution road information products from models run at local NWS offices
|
| FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation |
A scientific programming language developed by
IBM in the 50's, used to create many graphics and analysis programs common
to Unidata |
| FORTRAN 77 |
| A specific version of FORTRAN |
| FOS |
Family of Services
| A collection of data streams from NWS, injected
into the IDD by the Alden Corporation under a contract with Unidata. This
currently includes DDS, PPS, IDS and HDS data streams |
| FOS |
flight operations segment |
| FOV |
field of view |
| fp |
plasma frequency |
| FP |
Fixed Price contract |
| F/P-INT |
Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
| FPA |
Focal Plane Assembly |
| FPA |
Federal Pesticide Act |
| FPD |
Facilities Planning and Design |
| FPD |
Flight Projects Directorate |
| FPI |
Fabry-Perot Interferometer |
| FPMD |
Facilities and Property Management Division
| DOE |
| F/P-INT |
Fabry Perot Interferometer |
| FPPS |
Flight Plan Processing System |
| FPS
| Field Project Services |
NCAR, EOL |
| FPS-#
| Radar Designation |
never spelled out |
| fps |
feet per second |
| fps |
fast packet switch |
| fps |
foot-pound second system of measurements |
| FR |
full resolution |
| FR |
Federal Register |
| FRC |
Front Range Consortium |
| FRC |
Federal Radiation Council |
| FRC |
Federal Records Center |
| FRD |
Forecast Research Division
| NOAA, FSL |
| Freon
| DuPont trade name |
do not use in discussing UAP or other research
on chlorofluoromethanes |
| frequency
| |
The rate of recurrence of any periodic phenomenon,
often associated with waves of all kinds. |
| ELF |
extremely low frequency |
30-300 Hz |
| VLF |
very low frequency
| 3-30 KHz |
| MF |
medium frequency
| 300-3,000 KHz |
| HF |
high frequency
| 3-30 MHz |
| VHF |
very high frequency
| 30-3,000 MHz |
| VF |
voice frequency |
300-3,000 Hz |
| UHF |
ultra-high frequency |
300-3,000 MHz |
| SHF |
super high frequency |
3-30 GHz (Gigahertz) |
| EHF |
extremely high frequency |
30-300 GHz |
| End of Frequencies
|
| FRG |
Federal Republic of Germany |
| FRMAC |
Federal Radiological Monitoring and Assessment
Center |
| FRONT |
| McIDAS program that plots fronts |
| FRS |
First Repository States |
| FS |
flight segment |
| FSDR |
final system design review |
| FSEC |
Florida Solar Energy Center |
| FSK |
frequency shift key(ing) |
| FSL |
Forecast Systems Laboratory
| NOAA |
| FSS |
Facilities Support Services
| UCAR |
| FSSP |
Forward Scattering Spectometer Probe |
| FST |
field support terminal |
| FSTC |
Foreign Science & Technology Center |
| FT |
Fourier Tachometer |
| FT |
Identification for an aviation terminal forecast
| valid at an airport |
| FT |
forward-in-time |
| FTACH |
Fourier Tachometer |
| FTAM |
file transfer access management |
| FTE |
full-time equivalent |
| FTE |
full-time employees |
| FTFC |
Fourier transform flow cytometer |
| FTIR |
Fourier transformed infrared
| spectroscopy |
| FTOS |
FGGE Tropical Observing System |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
A method of transferring files electronically that
can be implemented on a variety of computers. It is an applications-level
protocol based on TCP/IP. Anonymous FTP indicates that any user may obtain
files from a remote system by logging in as anonymous with an arbitrary
password (traditionally, "guest" or your e-mail address) |
| FTS |
Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| FTS |
Federal Telecommunications System |
| FTSC |
FSL Technical Steering Committee |
| FUA |
Fuel Use Act |
| FUN |
FL-4 Uniform Network Project
| UCAR, NCAR |
| fuzzball gateway |
| A specially configured DEC computer running software
that connects computers to telephone lines. Used as a networking device
|
| F-V |
Fussell-Vesely |
| FWHM |
full width, half maximum |
a spectroscopic term, meaning that a certain specified
width occurs halfway up an intensity curve |
| FWPCA |
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
| CWA |
| FWS |
filter wedge spectrometer |
| FWQC |
Federal Water Quality Criteria |
| FWS |
Fish and Wildlife Service
| DOI |
| FX |
FSL's X-window workstation
| the demonstration workstation for the WFO-Advanced
workstation |
| FX-ALPHA |
FSL X-window AWIPS-Like Prototype for Hydrometeorological
Applications
| renamed WFO-Advanced |
| FY |
fiscal year |
