| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| JAFNA |
Joint Air Force NASA Facility |
Now called the Radar Atmospheric Research Facility
|
| JAROS |
Japan Resources Observation System Organization
|
| JAS |
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |
| JASIN |
Joint Air-Sea Interaction experiment |
Part of GARP, proposed by U.K. Meteorological Office
|
| JASON |
|
Group of physicists at Stanford that study various
projects and are funded by government defense money |
| Java |
|
An object-oriented, platform-independent language
from Sun, now widely used to create applets and applications for the Internet
|
| JAWOP |
Joint Automated Weather Observing Program |
NWS/FAA |
| JAWS |
Joint Airport Weather Studies |
UCAR, NCAR, RAP |
| JCAE |
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
| JCL |
job control language |
| JCP/ PO |
Joint Climate Program/Projects Office |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
DOD |
| JEC |
Joint-Evaluation Committee |
NCAR, UCAR, NSF |
| JEFNIC |
Jeffco Network Infrastructure Completion Project
| NCAR, Jefferson County Airport |
| JEM |
Joint environmental monitoring |
| JERS |
Japan Earth Remote Sensing Satellite |
| JERS-1 |
Japanese Earth Resources Sensing Satellite 1 |
| JES |
Job Entry System |
| JFSP |
Joint Forecast System Project |
| JETDLAG |
| part of EUROTRAC |
| JGOFS |
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
| IGBP |
| JGR |
Journal of Geophysical Research |
| JHU |
Johns Hopkins University |
| JHWRP |
Joint Hawaii Warm Rain Project |
| JIC |
Joint Implementation Committee
| NCAR |
| JICA |
Japan International Development Agency |
| JICC |
Japanese ICC |
| JICP/PO |
now JOSS, Joint International Climate Projects/Planning
Office
| UCAR, 9/96 changed to Joint Office for Science
Support |
| JILA |
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics |
University of Colorado and NBS |
| JMA |
Japan Meteorological Agency |
See MRI |
| JMG |
Joint Meteorological Group
| of the JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JMOF |
Joint Meteorological Observing Facility |
Now called BAO, instrumental tower NCAR/NOAA/CIRES
|
| JMRNSC |
Joint Meteorological Rocket Network Steering Committee
|
Includes people from DOD, NASA, ISWIS, and USAF
|
| JMSC |
Joint Meteorological Satellite Communication
| NASA |
| JOC |
Joint Organizing Committee |
NCAR |
| JODC |
Japan Ocean Data Center |
| JOI |
Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. |
| JONSWAP |
Joint North Sea Wave Project |
GARP |
| JOSS |
Joint Office for Science Support
| a UCAR program, JOSS was originally formed by the
merger of two separate UCAR programs: the Joint International Climate Projects
Planning Office (JICP/PO) and the Office for Field Project Support (OFPS)
|
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
NASA, Pasadena, CA |
| JPOP |
Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform |
| JPS |
Joint Planning Staff |
JOC |
| JSC |
Johnson Space Center
| NASA |
| JSC |
Joint Scientific Committee
| WCRP, supersedes GAPP/JOC |
| JSPO |
Joint Systems Program Office |
NEXRAD |
| JTA |
Job Table Area |
| JvNC |
John von Neumann National Supercomputing Center
| Princeton, New Jersey, established in 1985 by the
Consortium for Scientific Computing, Inc., which was a consortium of 13
academic institutions |
| JVNTSC |
John Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
|
| JWG |
Joint working group |
