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AMS:  American Meteorological Society

AMSU:  Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

AOML:  Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

ARAD:  Atmospheric Research and Applications Division

AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AWIPS: Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

CIMSS: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

CIRA: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

COMET: Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training

CONUS: Continental U.S.

CSU:  Colorado State University

EMWIN:  Emergency Manager's Weather Information Network

FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency

FSL: Forecast Systems Laboratory

FTP: File Transfer Protocol

GHCC:  Global Hydrology and Climate Center

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format

GINI: GOES Ingest NOAA-port Interface

GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GRID:  Gridded Data (McIDAS file type)

HRD:  Hurricane Research Division

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language

IR: Infrared

ISTPDS:  Integrated Sensor Training Professional Development Series

LDAD: Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination

LTO: Low Level Thunderstorm Outflow

LUT: Look Up Table

McIDAS: Man Computer Interactive Data Access System

NASA:  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCEP: National Center for Environmental Prediction

NESDIS: National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service

NHC: National Hurricane Center

NOAA:  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPOESS: National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

NWS: National Weather Service

NWSFO: National Weather Service Forecast Office

OM:  Office of Meteorology

OPTORA:  Operating Plans and Tasks for the Office of Research and Applications

ORA:  Office of Research and Applications

PCGRIDDS: Personal Computer Based Gridded Interactive Display and Diagnostic System

PCI:  Principal Component Imagery

POES: Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite

POP: Product Oversight Panel

PRC:  Peoples Republic of China

RAMMT: Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Team

RAMS:  Regional Atmospheric Modeling System

RAMSDIS: Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Team Advanced Meteorological Satellite Demonstration and Interpretation System

RMTC: Regional Meteorological Training Center

ROLEX: RAMSDIS Online Experimental

SHIPS:  Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme

SMC: Satellite Meteorology Center (Beijing, PRC)

SAB: Satellite Applications Branch

SOCC: Satellite Operations Control Center

SRSO/RSO: Super Rapid Scan Operation/Rapid Scan Operation

SSEC: Space Science and Engineering Center (University of Wisconsin)

TAC: Technical Advisory Committee

TOVS: TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

USWRP: United States Weather Research Program

UTC:  Coordinated Universal Time

VISIT: Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training

WMO: World Meteorological Organization

WV:  Water Vapor

Y2K: Year 2000