| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| G- IV |
Gulfstream IV |
| G&A |
General and Administrative |
| GA
| Billion years unit |
| GAARS |
Global Atmospheric Aerosol and Radiation Study
|
NCAR, NOAA, University of Arizona, University of
Washington, University of Wisconsin |
| GaAs
| gallium arsenide |
| GAC
| global atmospheric chemistry |
| GAC
| global area coverage |
| GADMAP |
GATE Aircraft Data Management Program |
| GAGE |
Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
| GAGE |
Gulf-Stream Atmospheric Gradient Exchange |
| GAIM |
Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modeling
| Ocean Carbon Model Intercomparison Project, IGBP
|
| GAINS |
Global Air-ocean IN-situ System
| shear-directed balloon project at NOAA, FSL |
| gal |
galileo |
Equal to an acceleration of 0.01 meter per second
squared |
| GALA |
Geoscience Airborne Laser Altimeter |
| GALE |
Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment |
| GAMETAG |
Global Atmospheric Measurements Experiment on Tropospheric
Aerosols and Gases |
| GAMIT |
not an acronym
| A geodetic software package developed by MIT and
SIO |
| GAMP |
Global Atmospheric Measurements Program |
ATD |
| GAP |
GATE Advisory Panel |
GARP |
| GARP |
Global Atmospheric Research Program
| NCAR, ATD |
| GARP |
GEMPAK Analysis and Rendering Program
| created at COMET as a GUI to GEMPAK |
| GAO |
General Accounting Office |
| GAP |
GATE Advisory Panel
| GARP |
| GAPEX |
Ground-based Atmospheric Profiling Experiment |
| GAPS |
billions (109) of actions per second |
| GARDIAN |
GBL Point Defense System |
| GARP |
Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| GAT |
General aviation transponder |
| GATE |
Global Atmospheric Research Programme Atlantic
Tropical Experiment |
1974 |
| gateway |
| A special purpose, dedicated computer that attaches
two or more networks and passes information traffic (packets) between them
|
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GAU |
general accounting unit
| UCAR |
| GAW |
Global Atmospheric Watch
| WMO |
| GB |
gigabyte |
| Gb |
Gigabits |
| GBDS |
GARP Basic Data Set |
| Gbps |
gigabity (109) per second |
| Gbyte |
gigabyte (109) |
| GC |
gas chromatograph |
| GCA |
Geophysics Corporation of America |
| GC-AED |
Gas Chromatography-Atomic Emission Detection
|
| GCCDF |
Generic Control Center Development Facility
|
| GCCM |
Global Carbone Cycle Modeling
|
| GCDIS |
Global Change Data and Information System
|
| GCE |
part of EUROTRAC
|
| GCEC |
Global Change and Ecological Complexity
| IGBP
|
| GCI |
Global Change Institute |
| GCIP |
GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project |
| GCM |
general circulation model |
| GCM |
Global Change Model
| GARP |
| GCMG |
Global Climate Modeling Group |
NCAR |
| GCM |
General Circulation Model |
| GCMC |
Global Climate Modeling Group
| NCAR |
| GCMG |
Global Climate Modeling Group
| NCAR |
| GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System
| WMO |
| GCP |
Global Chemistry Program |
| GCP |
Global Change Program |
| GCP |
GEWEX Continental-Scale Project
| 1990 |
| GCRP |
Global Change Research Program |
(use USGCRP) US Government Interagency program
|
| GCSS |
GWEX Cloud Systems Studies |
| GCTE |
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
| IGBP |
| GCTE |
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
| IGBP |
| GCTM |
global chemical transport model |
| GDAS |
Global Data Assimilation System |
| GDC |
GARP Data Center |
| GDP |
GARP Data Processing |
| GDP |
Ground Data Processor |
| GDP |
gross domestic product |
| GDP |
Government Development Platforms |
| GDPS |
Global Data Processing System |
GARP |
| GDR |
geophysical data record |
| GDS |
Global Dynamics Section |
NCAR |
| GDS |
GeoMet Data Services, Inc.
| Formerly, a provider of lightning data |
| GED |
Global Ecosystem Dynamics |
| GEF |
Global Environmental Facility
| World Bank, UNDP, UNEP |
| GEIA |
Global Emissions Inventory Activity |
| GEISA |
Management and Study of Atmospheric Spectroscopic
Information
| French |
| GEM |
Global Environmental Multiscale Model |
| GEM |
Geospace Environment Modeling program |
| GEMINI |
general mesonetwork interpolation interface |
| GEMPAK |
General Meteorological Package
| An analysis and display package developed for meteorological
data developed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is now distributed
and supported by UCAR, Unidata |
| GEMS |
Global Environment Monitoring System |
UNEP |
| GENESIS |
Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation
of Interactive Systems |
| GENPRO |
General Processor
| a general data-processing package developed by
NCAR; no longer in use or supported |
| GEO |
Geosciences Directorate
| NSF |
| GEO 2000 |
National Science Foundation's Geosciences Beyond
2000 |
| geopotential |
| The potential energy of a unit mass relative to
sea level, numerically equal to the work that would be done in lifting the
unit mass from sea level to the height at which the mass is located. |
| geopotential height |
| The height of a given point in the atmosphere in
units proportional to the potential energy of unit mass at this height relative
to sea level. |
| GEOS |
Geostationary Earth-Orbiting Satellite |
| GEOSAT |
Geodesy Satellite |
USA |
| GEOSECS |
Geochemical Ocean Sections |
| Geosif |
Geoscientific Information Framework |
| GEU |
Gyro Electronics Unit |
| GEWEX |
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
| WCRP |
| GEWEX |
Continental-Scale Project
| 1990 |
| GF |
gigaflops |
| GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
A component of NOAA at Princeton University in
Princeton, New Jersey |
| GFE |
government furnished equipment
| see GFP |
| GFLOPS |
Gigaflops
| billions of floating-point operations (109)
per second |
| GFP |
Government furnished Property |
| GFS |
Global Forecast System |
| GFY |
Government Fiscal Year |
| GGEM |
Gravity Gradiometer Explore Mission |
USA |
| GGNS |
Grand Gulf Nuclear Station |
| GGI |
GPS Geoscience Instrument |
| GGS |
Global Geospace Science Program |
| GGS |
Global Geospace Study |
| GHB |
Goddard Handbook |
| GHOST |
Global Horizontal Sounding Technique |
| GHRS |
Goddard high resolution spectograph |
| GHz |
Giga Hertz
| Kilomega cycles per second |
| GIF |
Graphics interchange format
| A graphics-compression and -storage standard developed
and copyrighted by CompuServe Information Service and H&R Block Company
|
| GIIS |
General Instrument Interface Specification |
| GIMMS |
Global Inventory and Monitoring and Modeling Study
|
| GIMPAP |
GOES Product Assurance Plan |
| GINI |
GOES Ingest & NOAAPORT Interface
| required to produce multiple remapped sectors of
multispectral earth imagery in real time and transmit them in accordance
with AWIPS product standards |
| GIPS |
billions of instructions per second |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems
| standards are set for these systems by OpenGIS
|
| GISMOS |
Global Incoherent Scatter Measurements of Substorms
|
| GISP |
Greeland Ice Sheet Program |
| GISS |
Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
NASA, located at Columbia University |
| GISST |
Global Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature |
| GKS |
graphic kernal system
| a computer graphics standard |
| GLA |
Goddard Laboratory of the Atmospheres |
| GLAS |
Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheric Science |
NASA |
| GLERL |
Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab |
| GLGS |
GOES Local Groundstation System |
| GLIS |
Global Land Information System |
| GLOBE |
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the
Environment |
| GLOBEC |
Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics |
| GLOCHEM |
Global Atmospheric Chemistry (or Chemical) Survey
|
| GLOMAC |
part of EUROTRAC |
| GLONET |
Global Ozone Observing System |
| GLRS |
Geodynamics (or Geoscience) Laser Ranging System
|
| GLS |
GOMR Limb Sounder |
| GLWQA |
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement |
| GM |
General Motors |
| G-M |
Gent-McWilliams parameterization scheme |
| GMCC |
Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change |
NOAA |
| GMD |
geometric mean diameter |
| GMD-1 |
|
Weather radar that is never written out |
| GMP |
Ground Water Monitoring Plan |
| GMS |
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
GMS-4 was launched from a Japanese installation
in 1989 and GMS-5 from the same facility in 1995. Monitoring weather conditions,
they are one link in World Weather Watch sponsored by the WMO |
| GMSA |
global multivariate statistical analysis |
| GMT |
Greenwich mean time |
| GMU |
Gyro Mechanical Unit |
| GN |
ground network |
| GN and C |
guidance, navigation, and control |
| GNSS |
ground network scheduling system |
| GNU |
GNU's not UNIX (a recursive acronym)
| A UNIX-compatible software system that includes
a variety of tools (such as compilers and a text editor) originally developed
by Richard Stallman at MIT. While GNU software is free of cost, and programmers
are free to alter and build on GNU programs, proprietary modifications to
the software by others are not allowed |
| GOALS |
Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System |
| GOASEX |
Gulf of Alaska Experiment |
Comparison with Seasat Scatterometer Observations
|
| GOCC |
GARP Operations Control Center |
| goco |
government owned, contractor operated |
ORNL, LASL, BNL,ANL,JPL |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
|
NOAA weather satellite |
| GOESTAP |
| An analog data circuit with GOES images |
| GOEZS |
Global Ocean Euphotic Zone Study
| IGBP |
| GOFS |
Global Ocean Flux Study |
| GOM |
Global Observations and Modeling Project |
| GoMOOS |
Gulf of Main Ocean Observing System, Inc. |
| GOMOT |
Global Observations, Modeling and Optical Techniques
Section |
| GOMR |
Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer |
| GONG |
Global Oscillations Network Group |
| GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System
| WMO |
| Gopher |
| Software developed by the University of Minnesota
for easily providing and accessing public information on computers linked
by a TCP/IP network. Superceded by the Web. |
| GOS |
Global Observing System
| WMO |
| GOS |
Geomagnetic Observing System |
| GOSIP |
Government Open Systems Interconnect Protocol
| OSI |
| GOST |
Goals Objectives Strategies Tactics |
| GOTS |
GALE Oceanographic Temperature Studies |
| GPC |
Global Processing Center |
| GPCP |
Global Precipitation Chemistry Project |
| GPIB |
General Purpose Interface Board |
| gpm |
geopotential meter |
| GPO |
Government Printing Office |
| GPP |
Gross Primary Productivity |
| GPRA |
Government Performance and Results Act |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System
| A series of satellites used for navigation |
| GPS |
Geophysical Processor System |
| GPS |
Grants Program Section
| NSF |
| GPS CORS |
Global Positioning System Continuously Operating
Reference Stations |
| GPS-IPW |
Global Positioning System-Integrated Precipitable
Water |
| GPS/MET |
GPS Meteorological Satellite |
| GPX |
A suffix which designates graphics capabilities
on the DEC MicroVax system (typically seen as "DEC VAXstation/GPX.") |
| GRA |
graduate research assistant |
| GRACE |
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| GRAF |
Gridded Representation of Analyses and Forecasts
|
| GRASP |
Graphic Animation System for Professionals
| A commercial software package for DOS computers
that allows images to be captured from other applications or created using
a built-in paint program. Copyright held by John Bridges. |
| GRD |
Geophysics Research Directorate
| AFCRL |
| GREM |
Geopotential Research Explorer Mission |
USA |
| GRGC |
Geologic Record of Global Change |
| GRI |
Gas Research Institute |
| GRIB |
Grid in Binary, or GRIdded Binary
| A bit-oriented format approved by the WMO that
has compaction features for efficiently transmitting and storing large volumes
of gridded data |
| GRID |
Global Resource Information Database
| UNEP |
| GRID |
graphical interactive display, a computing facility
|
| GRIP |
Greenland Ice Project |
| GRM |
Geopotential Research Mission
| 1992 |
| GRO |
Global and Remote Observations Section |
NCAR |
| GRP |
Geophysical Research program |
| GSA |
General Services Administration |
| GSD |
Geographical Situation Display |
| GSD |
geometric standard deviation |
| GSE |
Ground Support Equipment |
| GSF |
gross square feet |
|
| GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center
| NASA |
| GSN |
Global Seismic Network |
| GSOP |
ground systems operations |
| GSOS |
GPS Surface Observing System |
| GSP |
Geophysical Statistics Project |
| GST |
GPS Science and Technology program
| formerly UNAVCO |
| GSTS |
Ground Surveillance and Tracking System |
| GSWM |
Global Scale Wave Model |
| G/T |
activity per ton |
| GtC |
gigatons of carbon |
| GTCP |
Global Tropospheric Chemistry Program |
| GTCSM |
Global Tropospheric Chemistry Systems Model |
| GTE |
Global Tropospheric Experiment
|
| GTE/TRACE |
Global Tropospheric Experiment/Transport and Atmospheric
Chemistry near the Equator |
| GTF |
Ground Test Facility |
| GTG |
GARP Task Group |
NCAR |
| GTMS |
Global Thermospheric Mapping Study |
| GTN |
Germantown
| DOE |
| GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System
| WMO |
| GTP |
Geophysical Turbulence Program |
| GTS |
Global Telecommunication System |
WMO |
| G-TUF |
G-Tunnel Underground Facility |
| GUI |
graphical user interface
| pronouced gooey |
| GUISE |
Group for Unidata Interface Software Exploration
| Formerly, a working committee of volunteers to
help design a uniform applications interface for the SDM |
| GVAR |
GOES Variable
| The format of the data stream from the GOES1-M
satellite series |
| GVHRR |
Geosynchonous very high resolution radiometer |
GARP |
| GVHRR |
Geostationary VHRR
| ATS |
| GWC |
Global Weather Center |
AFGWC |
| GWE |
Global Weather Experiment |
GARP, new name for FGGE, spring 1977 |
| GWEN |
Ground Wave Emergency Network |
| GWP |
global warming potential |
| GWPA |
Ground Water Protection Act |
| GWP |
global warming potential |
| GWS |
gateway service |
| GZ |
ground zero |
