| Acronym |
Full name |
Comments |
| W-Z relationship |
W = precipitation content, Z = radar reflectivity
|
| WACCM |
Whole-Atmosphere Community Climate Model |
| WAMFLEX |
Wave Momentum Flux Experiment |
| WAMPP |
Wave Momentum Parameterization Program |
GARP |
| WAN |
wide area network |
| WARN |
Weather-Auto Relay Network |
Associated Press |
| WAS |
whole air sampler |
| WATOX |
Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment |
| WATS |
Wide Area Telecommunications Service |
| WBGT |
wet bulb globe temperature |
| WBRT |
Weather Bureau radio thoedolite |
as in WBRT-57 |
| WBSI |
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute |
La Jolla (Walter Orr Roberts on faculty 8 years,
until death) |
| WCIRP |
World Climate Impacts and Response Strategies Program
|
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Program |
established in 1980 by WMO and ICSU |
| WDC |
World Data Center(s) |
WDC-A United States WDC-B USSR WDC-C 21 archive
subcenters in Western Europe, Australia, and Japan |
| WEAP |
Weather Education and Awareness Project |
| weather |
| The state of the atmosphere, mainly with respect
to its effects upon life and human activities. |
| WEFAX |
Weather facsimile |
| WEPOCS |
Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies
|
| WERC |
World Environment and Resources Council |
| WESTNET |
University of Colorado Network |
also a regional network on the NSFNET backbone,
for the southwestern United States |
| Wet-MAP |
Mesoscale Alpine Project
| heavy rains across northern Italy |
| WFF |
Wallops Flight Facility
| NASA |
| WFO |
weather forecast office |
| WFO-Advnced |
the key element of the WFO-Advanced program is
the forecaster workstation used to demonstrate many AWIPS functions in support
of the modernized NWS Weather Forecast Office operations
| the WFO-Advanced workstation replaces FX-ALPHA
|
| WG/MDM |
Working Group for Meteorological Data Management
|
under ICMSSR |
| WGNE |
Working Group on Numerical Experimentation |
on prediction and simulation, JOC workgroup, GARP,
WMO |
| WG/NGWR |
Working Group for Next-Generation Weather Radar
|
| WGS84 |
World Geodetic Survey 1984
| current standard model of earth's spheroid |
| WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute |
Woods Hole, Massachusetts |
| WI |
Workstation Interface |
| WICHE |
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
|
| WiFE |
Wildfire Experiment |
| WIMPS |
Weakly Interacting Massive Particles |
| WIND II |
Wind Imaging Interferometer |
NASA, UARS |
| wind chill |
| The portion of the cooling of a human body caused
by air motion. |
| WINDEX |
Winter Doppler Experiment |
| windowing |
| the ability to display simultaneously a collection
of materials on a computer screen |
| WISP |
Winter Icing and Storms Project
| NOAA, FAA, RAP |
| WISPIT |
Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP) Instrumentation
Test |
| WITI |
Weather Information Technologie, Inc. |
UCAR, WITI Corporation |
| WKD |
Wallace-Kratohvil Distribution |
| WLCE |
white light coronagraph experiments |
See TN-66+IA, Astronaut Operations Requirements
Document for the White Light Coronagraph Experiment S-052 for the Apollo
Telescope Mount, C.L. Ross, HAO, 1973, (NTIS # N74-32881) |
| WMC |
World Meteorological Center(s) |
GARP |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| WMP |
Weather Modification Program |
NSF |
| WMS |
World Magnetic Survey |
| WOCE |
World Ocean Circulation (or Climate) Experiment
|
to study response of world ocean to atmospheric
forcing |
| WORD |
Web Outreach Redesign and Development |
| WORM |
Write Once, Read Many |
| WORMTOMS |
WORM to Mass Storage System |
| WOS |
Weather Observing Systems Committee |
NRC |
| WOTAN |
Wind Observations Through Ambient Noise |
| WPDN |
Wind Profiler Demonstration Network
| now called the National Profiler Network |
| WPL |
Wave Propagation Laboratory
| NOAA |
| WPM |
Well-Posed Model |
| WRF |
Weather Research and Forecast |
| WRL |
Willow Run Laboratories |
University of Michigan, contract lab, converted
to Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, 8/72 |
| WRP |
Weather Research Program |
| WSDDM |
Weather Support to Deicing Decision Making |
| WSFO |
Weather Service Forecast Office |
| WSI |
WSI Corporation
| a vendor of weather data |
| WSMR |
White Sands Missile Range |
New Mexico |
| WSO |
Weather Service Office |
| WSP |
Winter Storm Program |
| WSR-88D |
Weather Surveillance Radar Ð 1988, Doppler |
NWS, WSR-88D, formerly known as NEXRAD |
| WTWS |
Windshear and Turbulence Warning System |
| WVF |
water vapor flux |
| WVIOP |
water vapor intensive observing period |
| WVR |
Water Vapor radiometers |
| WWG |
Workstation Working Group of COMET |
| WWRP |
World Weather Research Programme |
| WWV |
Call letters for the NBS shortwave radio station
that broadcasts time signals only |
| WWW |
World Wide Web
| the Web, an on-line, networked information-serving
software system |
| WWW |
World Weather Watch
| WMO |
| Wx |
Weather |
| WXP |
| Purdue University's Weather Processor software
for analyzing and displaying meteorological data |
| WYSIWYG |
What you see is what you get |
| W-Z relationship |
W = precipitation content, Z = radar reflectivity
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