| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| VAD |
velocity-azimuth display |
| VAFB |
Vandenberg Air Force Base
| California |
| VAI |
high positive vorticity |
| VAP |
Voluntary Assistance Program |
GARP |
| vapor pressure |
| The pressure exerted by the molecules of a given
vapor. |
| VAS |
VISSR Atmospheric Sounder
| VISSR is Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer,
VAS is able to concentrate on region of interest and build up a coherent
time-series of observations during fast-breaking mesoscale meteorological
events |
| vBNS |
very high performance Backbone Network Service
|
| VCO |
voltage-controlled oscillation |
| VELORT |
very long range tracking |
Radar system |
| VEMAP |
Vegetation and Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis
Project |
| ventilation |
| In the equation for the time constant of a thermometer,
a quantity equal to the product of wind speed and air density. |
| VENTS |
| NOAA research program on hydrothermal activity
in the oceans |
| VF |
voice frequency |
300-3,000 Hz |
| VG |
Visualization Group
| NCAR, SCD |
| VHF |
very high frequency
| 30-3,000 MHz |
| VHRR |
very high resolution radiometer |
ITOS |
| VHS |
Video-Home System |
| VIL |
vertical integrated liquid |
NWS |
| VIMHEX |
Venezuela International Meteorological and Hydrological
Experiments |
I in 1970, II in 1972 |
| VIP |
Versatile information processing |
TWERLE |
| VIRGS |
VISSR Image Registration and Gridding System |
VISSR is Visible-Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer
|
| VISSR |
Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer |
GOES |
| VIS-UV |
Visible/ultraviolet spectrometer |
| VISSR |
Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer
| GOES, GARP |
| VISTA |
visual terrain analyzer |
| VLA |
Very Large Array |
antennas for radio astronomy |
| VLBI |
very long baseline interferometry |
| VLF |
very low frequency
| 3-30 KHz |
| VLSI |
Very Large Scale Interface |
| VM/CMS |
Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System |
| VM/SP |
Virtual Machine/System Product |
| VMS |
virtual memory systems
| Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) operating system
|
| VNIRO |
Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries
and Oceanography |
| VNTSC |
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
| FAA |
| VOCs |
Volatile organic compounds |
| VOR |
VHF omnidirectional range |
| VOR |
Visual Omnirange |
| VORTAC |
very high frequency (omnirange) TACAN (tactical
air navigation system) |
| VORTEX |
Verification of Tornadoes Experiment |
| VRMS or Vrms |
Volt root mean square |
| VRR |
visual radio range |
| VSM |
Vertical slab model |
see TDM, MLM, and DCM |
| VSP |
Visiting Scientist Programs
| UCAR |
| VSWR |
voltage standing-wave ratio |
| VTAM |
Virtual Telecommunications Access Method |
| VTD |
Velocity Track Display |
| VTPR |
Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
| GARP |
| VTR |
video tape recorder
|
| VTVM |
vacuum tube voltmeter |
| VRR |
visual radio range |
| VTR |
video tape recorder |
| VTPR |
Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer |
GARP |
| VTVM |
vacuum tube voltmeter |
| VU |
Voice unit |
one VU = 4 KHz bandwidth assigned |
| VUG |
Visualization Users Group |
| VWS |
Vertical Wind Shear |
