| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| t.p. |
tropical platform |
| T1 |
| a term for a digital carrier facility used to transmit
a DS-1 formatted digital signal at 1.544 megabits per second. |
| T3 |
| a term for a digital carrier facility used to transmit
a DS-3 formatted digital signal at 44.746 megabits per second. |
| T42 |
triangular 42 |
| TA |
technology applications |
| Ta# |
Taylor number |
| TACAN |
tactical air navigation system |
| TAGS |
text and animation graphics server |
| TAMEX |
Taiwan Mesoscale Experiment |
| TAO |
Tropical Atmosphere Ocean |
| TAO |
Thermal Array in the Ocean |
| TAP |
Transportation Alternatives Program
| UCAR, NCAR |
| TAP |
diffusion transport models |
| TAP IR |
reactive gases |
| TAP BL |
non-reactive gases |
| TAP LS |
liquid and solid particles |
| TAR |
Third Assessment Report |
| TAS |
true air speed |
| TASI |
Time-assingment speech interpolation |
| TASU |
time-alternating space-uncentered |
| TB |
Terabytes |
| Tb |
Terabits |
| TBD |
to be determined |
| TBM |
Terabit Memory System |
the former storage system at NCAR |
| TBO |
tropospheric biennial oscillation |
| TCAS-II |
Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System |
| TCCR |
Technical Committee for Computing Resources
| ERL |
| TCI |
Tropical Cyclone Initiation |
| TCIPO |
TOGA/COARE International Project Office |
| TCMRS |
Tropical Climate Monitoring and Research Station
|
Australia |
| TCP |
Technology Commercialization Program |
| TCP |
transport control protocol |
| TCP/IP |
Transmission Control Program/Internet Protocol
| A file transfer standard for networks developed
by DOD; IP defines the format of the packets passing through the Internet;
TCP defines how computers cooperate to ensure that data are passed correctly
and reliably |
| TCS |
thermal control system |
| TCSM |
Tropospheric Chemistry Systems Models |
| TCZ |
Tropical Cloud Zone |
| TCZ |
Tropical Convergence Zone |
| TD |
Thermal Dissociation |
|
| TDCIMS |
Thermal Desorption Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer |
|
| TDF |
Technology Development Facility |
NCAR, EOL |
| TDL |
Techniques Development Lab |
NWS |
| TDL |
tunable diode laser |
| TDLAS |
tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy |
| TDM |
three-dimensional time-varying mesoscale model
|
| TDM |
time division multiplex |
| TDMC |
TAMEX Data Management Center
| TAMEX is Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment |
| TDR |
tracking and data relay |
TWERLE |
| TDWR |
terminal Doppler weather radar |
| TEA |
transversely excited atmospheric (pressure) |
high-power, short-pulse laser |
| TEB |
Tropical Experiment Board |
WMO/ICSU |
| TEC |
Tropical Experiment Council |
WMO/ICSU |
| TECAMS |
Technical Conference on Automated Meteorological
Systems |
| TECC |
Tropospheric Effects of Cloud Chemistry program
|
| TECOM |
Test and Evaluation Command |
| Telemail |
| a self-contained commercial network, supplying
e-mail and bulletin board services to its subscribers |
| Telenet |
| a public packet-switching network operated by US
Sprint |
| TELNET |
TCP/IP Network
| a TCP/IP protocol that allows interactive access
to computers on a TCP/IP network |
| temperate climate |
| the climate zone of the middle latitudes |
| temperature |
| The quantity measured by a thermometer. |
| TeraFLOPS |
trillions of arithmetic operations per second |
| Term?etro |
| thermometer |
| TES |
transequatorial scatter |
| TES |
Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| TEXEX |
Texas Frontal Experiment |
| TEXMEX |
Tropical Experiment over Mexico |
summer of 1991 |
| TGB |
Trace Gas Biogeochemistry section |
| TGCM |
thermospheric general circulation model |
| TGS |
Text and Graphics System |
| THC |
total hydrocarbons |
| THEMIS |
|
DOD project |
| thermal belt |
|
Any one of several possible horizontal belts of
vegetation type found in mountainous terrain. |
| THERMEX |
Thermal Wave Experiment
| experiment to study Colorado thermals using a Stemme
S-10VT motorglider |
| theta |
the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet |
| thickness |
| In synoptic meteorology, the vertical depth, measured
in geometric or geopotential units, of a layer in the atmosphere bounded
by surfaces of two different values of the same physical quantity, usually
constant-pressure surfaces. |
| THIR |
temperature and humidity infrared radiometer
| GARP, Nimbus F |
| THORPEX |
The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment
| |
| THREDDS |
Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data
Services |
| TIAA |
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association |
| TIBEX |
Tidewater Bermuda Experiment |
| TID |
traveling ionospheric disturbance |
| TIDI |
TIMED Doppler Interferometer |
| TIE |
The Institute of Ecology |
St. Louis, Missouri |
| TIE-GCM |
Thermosphere/Ionosphere/Electrodynamics General
Circulation Model |
| TIFF |
tag image file format |
| TIGCM |
thermosphere-ionosphere general circulation model
|
| TllMES |
The Institute for Integrative and Multidisciplinary Earth Studies |
NCAR , ESSL |
| TIME |
thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere-electrodynamics
|
| TIME-GCM |
thermosphere-ionosphere-mesosphere-electrodynamic
general circulation model |
| TIMED |
Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics &
Dynamics |
| TIME-GCM |
Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere-Electrodynamic
General Circulation Model |
| TIMS |
Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| TING |
Thermosphere-Ionosphere Nested Grid Model |
| TIP |
Terminal Interface Processor |
CF, ARPANET-point |
| TIP |
TIROS Information Processor |
| TIPIC |
Transformation d'Idees en Produits Industrialisables
et Commercialisables |
| TIPMEX |
Tibetan Plateau Meteorological Experiment |
| TIROS |
Television and Infrared Operational Satellite |
NOAA, first one launched 1960 |
| TIROS |
Thermal Infrared Observational Satellite |
| TIROS I |
Television Infrared Observation Satellite |
| TIPMEX |
Tibetan Plateau Meteorological Experiment |
| TIWEX |
Tropical Institute (or Instability) Wave Experiment
|
| TKE |
Turbulent Kinetic Energy |
| TKW |
Turbulence Kinematic Energy |
| T-LAPS |
Terminal LAPS |
| TLS |
Tunable Laser Spectroscopy |
| TM |
Thermatic Mapper |
LANDSAT |
| TM |
team member |
| TMD |
Thailand Meteorological Department |
| TMS |
Thermatic Mapper Simulator |
| TOA |
Top of the atmosphere |
| TOGA |
Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program(me)
|
| TOGA COARE |
The Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program's
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| tokamak |
| method of heating fusion fuel |
| TOM |
Trunk Operations Monitor |
| TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
| NASA |
| TOPCAT |
a clear air turbulence measurement program |
CSIRO, Australia, and Royal Aircraft & Weapons
Research Establishments, UK |
| TOPEX |
Topographic Ocean Experiment
| using precision radar altimeter, proposed in mid-1980's
to study ocean dynamics |
| TOPEX/Poseidon |
Ocean Topography Experiment |
U.S., France |
| TOPS |
Transcendental Operating System
| a network file system for Apple Macintosh, IBM
PC, and UNIX-based machines |
| TOPSE |
Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring
Equinox |
| tornado |
| A violently rotating column of air, in contact
with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a
cumuliform cloud, and often visible as a funnel cloud. |
| TOS |
Tiros operational satellite |
| TOSS |
Tiros operational satellite system |
| TOTO |
Totable Tornado Observatory |
| TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
TIROS is Television Infrared Operation Satellite
|
| t.p. |
tropical platform |
| TPF&C |
Towers, Perrin, Forster and Crosby |
UCAR benefits consultants, 3/89 |
| TRACE |
Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator
|
| TRACE |
Trace Remote Atmospheric Chemical Evaluation
| system for global monitoring designed at NCAR,
our program ended in 7/75 but NOAA continued TRACE |
| TRACE |
Transition Region and Coronal Explorer |
| TRACE-P |
Transport and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator
|
| TRACON |
terminal radar control |
| TRACS |
Trends in Atmospheric Constituents Study |
| TRANET |
Tracking Network |
| TREC |
tracking radar echoes by correlation |
CSD, 3/80 |
| TREM |
Tropical Rainfall Explorer Mission |
U.S. |
| TRIP |
Thunderstorm Research International Program |
NASA |
| TRMM |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
NASA |
| TROMEX |
Tropical Meteorology Experiment |
| TROPAL |
Tropical Alert Group |
| TROPEX |
tropical experiment |
| TROPOZ |
Tropospheric Ozone experiment |
| TRW |
Thundershowers |
"meteorological symbol" |
| TRW Systems, Inc. |
Thompson-Ramo-Woolridge |
| TSAO |
tropical semiannual oscillation |
| TSC |
Technical Steering Committee
| FSL |
| TSM |
theoretical studies and modeling |
| tsunami |
| Sea waves generated by seismic activity. |
| TTO |
transient tracers in the ocean |
| TTO/NAS |
transient tracers in the ocean (TTO)/North Atlantic
Study |
| TUC |
Traingle Universities Consortium |
Duke University, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Division of Meteorology, and
National Environmental Research Center of EPA |
| TUTT |
tropical upper-tropospheric trough |
| TUV |
Tropospheric Ultraviolet and Visible radiation
model |
| TVU |
Television unit |
one TVU = 6 MHz band width |
| TWC |
The Weather Channel |
|
| TWERLE |
Tropical Wind, Energy conversion, and Reference
Level Experiment |
GARP, NASA, Nimbus F |
| twister |
| in the United States, a colloquial term for tornado
|
| Tymnet |
| a public packet-switching network operated by McDonnell
Douglas Network Systems Company |
