| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
|
H
|
henry
|
|---|
|
h
|
hecto
|
Prefix that = 10 to the 2nd power
|
|---|
|
HAC
|
Heads and Chairs
|
of departments of atmospheric and relatated sciences
|
|---|
|
HADS
|
Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
|
|---|
|
hail
|
|
Precipitation inthe form of balls or irregular lumps of ice, always produced by convective clouds, nearly always cumulonimbus.
|
|---|
|
HAILSWATH
|
South Dakota Hail Studies
|
|---|
|
HALIFF
|
|
part of EUROTRAC
|
|---|
|
HALOE
|
Halogen Occultation Experiment
|
NASA, UARS
|
|---|
|
HANK
|
|
(Not an acronym but refers to ACD's Regional-scale Chemistry Transport Model)
|
|---|
|
HAO
|
High Altitude Observatory
|
NCAR
|
|---|
|
HAPEX
|
Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment
|
France, 1986
|
|---|
|
HaRP
|
Hawaiian Rainband Project
|
|---|
|
HARS
|
High-Altitude Route Structure workstation
|
FAA
|
|---|
|
Harvard
|
Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
|
Contains Harvard College Observatory, Smithsonian Observatory
|
|---|
|
hav
|
haversine
|
Half of a versedsine
|
|---|
|
HB
|
hard black
|
|---|
|
HBCUs
|
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
|
|---|
|
HCN
|
Historical Climatology Network
|
|---|
|
HCSN
|
High-Capacity Satellite Network
|
|---|
|
HDF
|
Hierarchical Data Format
|
A data storage form developed by the NCSA
|
|---|
|
HDGCP
|
Human Dimensions of Global Change Program
|
IFIAS/ISSC/UNU
|
|---|
|
HDGEC
|
Human Dimension of global Environment Change
|
NSF
|
|---|
|
HDLC
|
high level data link control
|
|---|
|
HDS
|
High-resolution Data Service
|
HDS includes model output data from models run at the NMC and ECMWF
|
|---|
|
HEAO
|
High Energy Astronomy Observatory
|
|---|
|
heat index
|
a function of temperature designed to have low magnitude under cold conditions, increasing exponentially with increasing temperature
|
used by C. W. Thornthwaite in his 1948 climatic classification
|
|---|
|
HEIFE
|
Heihe Basin Field Experiment
|
|---|
|
HELLO
|
|
A common routing protocol used on the Internet by DEC machines
|
|---|
|
HEOS
|
highly eccentric orbit satellite
|
|---|
|
HEOS-A2
|
highly eccentric orbit satellite
|
launched 1/31/72
|
|---|
|
HERS
|
Human Ecology Research Service
|
Boulder, Colorado
|
|---|
|
HESP
|
High-Energy Solar Physics
|
|---|
|
HESS
|
Health, Environment, Safety, and Security
|
UCAR
|
|---|
|
HEW
|
Health, Education, & Welfare
|
Usually DHEW/USPHS
|
|---|
|
HF
|
high frequency
|
3-30 MHz
|
|---|
|
HI
|
human interface
|
|---|
|
HIAPER
|
High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research
|
NCAR, test flights proposed in 2003 and 2004
|
|---|
|
High-Slip, or High Slip
|
Balloon Group of a special lubricated polyethylene
|
|---|
|
HIMSS
|
High Resolution Microwave Spectrometer Sounder
|
|---|
|
HIPLEX
|
High Plains Experiment
|
|---|
|
HIPPI
|
High Performance Parallel Interface
|
|---|
|
HIRDLS
|
High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
|
combined HIRRLS and DLS
|
|---|
|
HIRIS
|
High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
|
|---|
|
HIRRLS
|
High Resolution Research Limb Sounder
|
|---|
|
HIRS
|
High Infrared Radiometer (or Radiation) Sounder
|
|---|
|
HIRS
|
High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
|
|---|
|
HIS
|
high-resolution interferometer sounder
|
|---|
|
HIS
|
High-resolution Infrared Sounder
|
|---|
|
HKUST
|
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
|
|---|
|
HL
|
half life
|
|---|
|
HMEs
|
Hough mode extensions
|
|---|
|
HMMR
|
High Resolution Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer
|
|---|
|
HMS
|
High-altitude Multispectral Sounder
|
|---|
|
HMS
|
Hungarian Meteorological Service
|
|---|
|
HOL
|
higher order language
|
|---|
|
HOS
|
Hydrocarbon Oxidation Studies
|
|---|
|
HP
|
Hewlett-Packard
|
A well-known computer manufacturer
|
|---|
|
hp
|
horse power
|
|---|
|
HPA
|
High Power Amplifier
|
|---|
|
HPCC
|
High-performance computing and communications
|
|---|
|
HPCS
|
High-performance Computing Section
|
Aviation Division
|
|---|
|
HPD
|
Hourly Precipitation Data
|
|---|
|
HPO
|
High Performance Option
|
IBM operating system
|
|---|
|
HPPI
|
high performance parallel interface
|
|---|
|
HPS
|
High Performance Systems
|
|---|
|
HR
|
Human Resources
|
UCAR
|
|---|
|
HRD
|
Hurricane Research Division
|
NOAA
|
|---|
|
HRDI
|
High Resolution Doppler Imager
|
|---|
|
HRDI
|
High Resolution Doppler Interferometer
|
NASA/UARS
|
|---|
|
HRDL
|
High-resolution Doppler Lidar
|
|---|
|
HRIR
|
high-resolution infrared radiometer
|
|---|
|
HRIS
|
High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
|
Nimbus F
|
|---|
|
HRM
|
high rate multiplexer
|
|---|
|
HRPT
|
High Resolution Picture Transmission
|
AVHRR
|
|---|
|
HRS
|
High-resolution Data Service
|
an NWS data stream, formerly called the Numerical Product Service
|
|---|
|
HRS
|
hardwae requirements specification
|
|---|
|
HRSO
|
High Resolution Solar Observatory
|
|---|
|
HRSR
|
High Resolution Scanning Radiometer
|
NOAA
|
|---|
|
HRT
|
High Rate Tape
|
NCAR aircraft data
|
|---|
|
HRTS
|
high-resolution telescope spectrograph
|
|---|
|
HRV
|
high-resolution visible
|
|---|
|
HS
|
high speed
|
|---|
|
HSC
|
high speed channel
|
|---|
|
HSCT
|
High Speed Civil Transport
|
SST
|
|---|
|
HSI
|
high-speed interferometer
|
JPL developed for NASA
|
|---|
|
HSM
|
Hierarchical Storage Management
|
|---|
|
HSMT
|
helical scan magnetic tape
|
videotape
|
|---|
|
HSRP
|
High Speed Research Program
|
NASA
|
|---|
|
HST
|
Hubble Space Telescope
|
|---|
|
HTML
|
Hypertext mark-up language
|
The formatting language used to create World Wide Web documents
|
|---|
|
HTO
|
tritiated water
|
|---|
|
http
|
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
|
The protocol used to transfer hypertext documents via the World Wide Web
|
|---|
|
hub
|
|
The central part of a propeller or motor-driven fan to which the blades are attached.
|
|---|
|
humidity
|
|
The measure of the water vapor content of air.
|
|---|
|
HVPS
|
high-volume precipitation spectrometer
|
|---|
|
H/W
|
hardware
|
|---|
|
HWCI
|
hardware configuration item
|
|---|
|
HYPERchannnel
|
High-speed communications link
|
used by MASnet to connect various SCD and NCAR divisional computers
|
|---|
|
hypermedia
|
|
Information provided via a variety of formats (for example: text, graphics, video, and sound) in a web of linked files (see hypertext)
|
|---|
