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APPENDIX A—GLOSSARY
3DNEPH
3-Dimensional Nephanalysis
A1C
A2C
A3C
A2P2
AAC
AACS
AAF
AB
ABNCP
ACC
ACFP
ACMES
ACN
ADFS
ADM
ADVCLD
ADWS
AEF
AF
AFB
AFCAC
AFCENT
AFCRL
AFCS
AFCC
AFCCC
AFCWC
AFDD
AFOTEC
AFDIGS
AFFOR
AFGWA
AFGWC
AFGL
AFI
AFLC
AFMC
AFMEA
AFMPC
AFN
AFNWC
AFOAT-1
AFOTEC
Airman First Class
Airman Second Class
Airman Third Class
Air Weather Service Annual Programming Plan
Army Air Corps
Army Airways Communications System
Army Air Forces
Air Base
Airborne Command Post
Air Combat Command
Advanced Computer Flight Plan
Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulations
Air Force Weather Agency Consolidated Network
Automated Digital Facsimile System
Acquisition Decision Memorandum
Advect Cloud Model
Automated Digital Weather Switch
American Expeditionary Forces or Aerospace Expeditionary Force
Air Force
Air Force Base
Air Force Communications Acquisition Center
Air Forces Central Command or Allied Forces Central Europe
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory
Air Force Communications Service
Air Force Communications Command
Air Force Combat Climatology Center
Air Force Combat Weather Center
Air Force Doctrine Document
Air Force Test and Evaluation Center
Air Force Digital Graphics System
Air Force Forces
Air Force Global Weather Agency
Air Force Global Weather Central (Center)
Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
Air Force Instruction
Air Force Logistics Command
Air Force Material Command
Air Force Management Engineering Agency
Air Force Military Personnel Center
American Forces Network
American Forces Network Weather Center
AF Office of Atomic Engery-1
Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
A-1
AFPEO
AFRES
AFRL
AFROC
AFSC
AFSOC
AFSPC
AFTAC
AFN
AFW
AFWA
AFWIN
AFWSEP
AFW-WEBS
AFWWS
AGRMET
AGU
AIN
ALC
AMC
AMS
AME
AMN
AMS
ANG
ANMCC
AOC
AOR
AOWG
AOY
APT
ARCENT
ARL
ARPA
ARQ
ARRS
ARWO
ASAT
ASOS
ATC
AUTODIN
AWAPS
AWC
AWDS
AWE
AWN
Air Force Procurement Executive Officer
Air Force Reserves
Air Force Research Laboratory
Air Force Requirements Oversight Council
Air Force Systems Command or Air Force Specialty Code
Air Force Special Operations Command
Air Force Space Command
Air Force Technical Applications Center
Armed Forces Network
Air Force Weather
Air Force Weather Agency
Air Force Weather Information Network
Air Force Weather Standardization and Evaluation Program
Air Force Weather-Web Services
Air Force Weather Weapon System
Agricultural Meteorology
Airborne Guidance Unit
Army Installation
Air Logistics Center
Air Mobility Command
American Meteorological Society or Automatic Meteorological Station
Atmospherics Measuring Equipment
Afghan Mission Network or Airman
American Meteorological Society
Air National Guard
Alternate National Military Command Center
Air and Space Operations Center
Area of Operations
Air Ground Operations Wing
Airman of the Year
Automatic Picture Transmission
Central Command, Army
Army Research laboratory
Advanced Research Project Agency
Automatic Response to Query
Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service
Aerial Reconnaissance Weather Officer
Air-launched, Antisatellite
Automated Surface Observation System
Air Transport Command or Air Training Command
Automatic Digital Information Network
Advanced Weather Analysis and Prediction system
Aviation Weather Center
Automated Weather Distribution System
Advanced Warfighting Experiment
Automated Weather Network
A-2
AWOS
AWS
Air War Over Serbia
Air Weather Service
BCT
BMT
BWOFS
BRAC
Brig
Brigade Combat Team
Basic Military Training
Battlefield Weather Observation and Forecast System
Base Realignment and Closure
Brigadier
C3
C3P2
C4I
C4ISR
Command, Control, and Communications
Command, Control, and Communications Programming Plan
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers
Command, Control, Communications, and Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
Civil Affairs
Combined Arms Combat Development Activity
Captain
Commander, Army Mission
Computed Aerial Release Point
Crisis Action Team
Crisis Action Weather Support System
Commander
Configuration Control Board
Combat Communications Group
Capability Development Document
Cloud Depiction and Forecast System
Compact Disc-Read Only Memory
Container Delivery System
Central Daylight Time
Civil Engineering Squadron
Central Command Air Forces
Central Command
Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange system
Computer Flight Plan
Communications Front-end Processor
An Air Force Studies Group
Commander in Chief
Commonwealth of Independent States
Commercial/Joint Mapping Toolkit
Change Management; Configuration Management; or Capability Module
Combat Mission Execution Forecast
Chief Master Sergeant
Chief of Naval Operations
Course of Action
Colonel
CONUS Meteorological Data System
CA
CACDA
Capt
CARMISH
CARP
CAT
CAWSS
CC
CCB
CCG
CDD
CDFS
CD-ROM
CDS
CDT
CES
CENTAF
CENTCOM
CENTRIXS
CFP
CFEP
CHECKMATE
CINC
CIS
C/JTMK
CM
CMEF
CMSgt
CNO
COA
Col
COMEDS
A-3
COMET
COMIREX
CONOPS
CONUS
COOP
COTS
CRC
CRRA
CRRES
CSAF
CTECS
CWSS
CWF
CWT
CONUS Meteorological Teletype
Committee on Imagery Requirements and Exploitation
Concept of Operations
Continental United States
Cooperation
Commercial-off-the-shelf
Contingency Response Capability
Capabilities Review and Risk Assessment
Combined Release and Radiation Effects
Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Compact Total Electron Content Sensor
Combat Weather System Squadron
Combat Weather Facility
Combat Weather Team
DAR
DECCO
Det
DEPFOR
DIFAX
DISS
DIST
DMR
DMRD
DMSP
DOC
DoD
DOW
DSAP
DTA
DUAT
DWSS
Data Automation Requirement
Defense Commercial Communications Office
Detachment
Deputy for
Digital Facsimile
Digital Ionospheric Sounding System
Defense Integration Support Tools
Defense Management Review
Defense Management Review Decision
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
Department of Commerce
Department of Defense
Directorate of Weather
Defense System Applications Program
Dust Transport Algorithm
Direct User Access Terminal
Defense Weather Satellite System
E&I
ECMWF
EEC
EF
ECM
EAM
E-O
EOP
EOTDA
ESSA
ESC
ESD
ESG
Engineering and Installation
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Enterprise Electronics Corporation
Ensemble Forecasting
Electronic Counter Measures
Emergency Action Messages
Electro-Optical
Executive Office of the President
Electro-Optical Tactical Decision Aid
Environmental Science Services Administration
Electronic Systems Center
Electronic Systems Division
Environmental Scenario Generator
A-4
ETAC
Eurfax
EURDIGS
Environmental Technical Applications Center
European Facsimile
European Digital Graphics System
FA
FAA
FASCAP
FITL
FMH
FNMOC
FOA
FOC
FORSCOM
FY
Forecaster apprentice
Federal Aviation Administration
Fast Payback Capital Investment Program
Forecaster-in-the-loop
Federal Meteorological Handbook
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
Field Operating Agency
Full Operational Capability
Forces Command
Fiscal Year
GAO
GCCS
Gen
GFS
GHQ
GIS
GLCM
GMGO
GMS
GOC
GOES
GOR
GOSG
GPS
GSA
GSM
GTWAPS
GWC
GWIP
Government Accounting Office or Government Accountability Office
Global Command and Control System
General
Global Forecast System
General Headquarters
Geospatial Information System
Ground Launched Cruise Missile
German Military Geophysical Office
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
Ground Observer Corps
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
General Operational Requirement
General Officer Steering Group
Global Positioning System
Government Services Administration
Global Spectral Model
Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction system
Global Weather Central
Global Weather Intercept Program
HAF
HF
HFRB
HIRAS
HPC
HQ
HWD
Headquarters Air Force (Air Staff)
High Frequency
High Frequency Regional Broadcast
High Resolution Analysis System
High Performance Computing
Headquarters
Horizontal Weather Depiction
IBM
ICAMR
ICAO
International Business Machines
Interdepartmental Committee for Applied Meteorological Research
International Civil Aviation Organization
A-5
ICBM
ICD
ICMS
ICMSSR
IDPS
IFOR
IG
IMA
IMETS
IOC
IOP
IOT&E
IP
IPADS
IPOMS
IRTSS
ISC
ISOON
IWEDA
ITWR
IWR
IWSM
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
Initial Capabilities Document
Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services
Interdepartmental Committee for Meteorological Services and Supporting
Research
Interface Data Processing Segment
Implementation Force (NATO)
Inspector General
Individual Mobilization Augmentee
Integrated Meteorological System
Initial Operational Capability
Input/output Processor
Initial Operational Test and Evaluation
Interservice Publication or Internet Protocol
Interactive Product and Display System
International Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite
Infrared Target Scene Simulation
Initial Skills Course
Improved Solar-Optical Observing Network
Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid
Interim Tactical Weather Radar
Improved Weather Reconnaissance
Integrated Weapon System Management
JAAWIN
JADOCS
JCB
JCF
JCS
JCSDA
JEFS
JET
JFACC
JFLCC
JFSOCC
JMCC
JMCCB
JMCO
JMIB
JMIST
JMTC
JNWPU
JPADS
JPSS
JROC
JSTARS
Joint Air Force and Army Weather Information Network
Joint Automated Deep Operations Coordination System
Joint Capabilities Board
Joint Contingency Force
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Joint Ensemble Forecast System
Joint Environmental Toolkit
Joint Force Air Component Commander
Joint Force Land Component Commander
Joint Force Special Operations Component Commander
Joint METOC Coordination Cell
Joint METOC Configuration Control Board
Joint METOC Coordination Organization
Joint METOC Interoperability Board
Joint METSAT Ingest, Software, and Terminals
Joint Multinational Training Command
Joint Numerical Weather Prediction Unit
Joint Precision Airdrop System
Joint Polar Satellite System
Joint Requirements Oversight Council
Joint Surveillance Target attack Radar System
A-6
JTFEX
JTF-SWA
JTWC
JUON
Joint Task Force Exercise
Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia
Joint Typhoon Warning Center
Joint Urgency Operational Need
KBG
KIA
KFOR
LAR
LDAS
LEADS®
LIS
LLC
Lt
Kiewit Building Group
Killed in Action
Kosovo Force
Launch Acceptability Region
Land Data Assimilation System
Leading Environmental Analysis & Display System
Land Information System
Limited Liability Corporation
Lieutenant
MAC
Maj
MAIS
MAJCOM
MARCENT
MATS
MDS
MEDS
Military Airlift Command
Major
Military Aircrew Information System
Major Air Command
Marine Forces Central Command
Military Air Transport Service
Meteorological Data System as used with AN/GMD-5
Meteorological Data System as used in COMEDS and other weather
communication dedicated circuits
Meteorological Enhancement Seminars
Management Engineering Team
Meteorological Aerodrome Report [ICAO] [Aviation Routine Weather
Report (AFM 15-111)]
Meteorological and Oceanographic
Meteorological Satellite
Meteorological Technical Information Publication System
Military Flight Service Center
Missing in Action
Military Construction
Meteorological Information Standard Terminal
Mesoscale Model 5
Mission Need Statement
Memorandum of Agreement
Meteorological Operations Capability
Model Output Statistics or Manual Observing System
Memorandum of Understanding
Mission Planning
Air and Space Natural Environment Modeling & Simulations Executive
Agent
Master Sergeant
Mission Success Indicators
MES
MET
METAR
METOC
METSAT
METTIPS
MFSC
MIA
MILCON
MIST
MM5
MNS
MOA
MOC
MOS
MOU
MP
MSEA
MSgt
MSI
A-7
MSP
MTA
MWWC
Mission Support Plan
MAC Training Advisory
Military Weather Warning Center
NACA
NASA
NATO
NAVAF
NCAR
NCEP
NCO
NECC
NEO
NESS
NITES
N-TFS
NATO
NextGen
NEXRAD
NGA
NGB
NIPRNET
NMCC
NOAA
NOGAPS
NORAD
NOTAM
NOWS
NPOESS
NPP
NRO
NVG
NWP
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
National Aeronautics Space Administration
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Navy and Air Force (as used in coordination efforts)
National Center for Atmospheric Research
National Center for Environmental Prediction
Non-Commissioned Officer
Network Enabled Command and Control
Noncombatant Evacuation Order
NMCC Environmental Support System
Naval Integrated Tactical Environmental System
New-Tactical Forecast System
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Next Generation
Next Generation Weather Radar
National Geospatial-intelligence Agency
National Guard Bureau
Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network
National Military Command Center
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Navy’s Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
North American Air Defense Command
Notice to Airmen
Night Vision Goggle Operations Weather Software
National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System
NPOESS Preparatory Project
National Reconnaissance Office
Night Vision Goggle
Numerical Weather Prediction
OA
OID
OIF
OEF
OFCM
Operational Assessment
Operator Interface Display
Operation IRAQI FREEDOM
Operation ENDURING FREEDOM
Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and
Supporting Research
Operating Location
Operation and Maintenance
Office of Management and Budget
Operation NEW DAWN
Operational Production System
Open Principal User Processor
OL
O&M
OMB
OND
OPS
OPUP
A-8
OpVer
ORD
ORDA
OS21
OSD
OSR
OSS
OTH-B
OUE
OWS
Operational Verification
Operational Requirements Document
Open Radar Data Acquisition
Observing System 21st Century
Office of Secretary Defense
Occupational Survey Report
Operational Support Squadron
Over the Horizon Backscatter (radar)
Operational Utility Evaluation
Operational Weather Squadron
PA
PACAF
PAD
PADS
PAR
PBD
PCS
PDP
PDR
PGSS
PGS/S
PIBAL
PI
PIP
PIREPS
PKI
PMD
POG
POM
PRESSURS
PSS
PSU
PTDS
PUP
Public Affairs
Pacific Air Forces
Program Action Directive
Precision Airdrop System
Point Analysis Reengineering
Program Budget Decision
Permanent Change of Station
Program Development Plan
Portable Doppler Radar
Persistent Ground Surveillance System
Program Generation Scheduler/Server
Pilot Balloon
Point of Impact
PADS Interface Processor
Pilot Reports
Public Key Infrastructure
Program Management Directive
Psychological Operations Groups
Program Objective Memorandum
Pre-Strike Surveillance/Recon System
Persistent Surveillance System
Pennsylvania State University
Persistent Threat Detection System
Principal User Processor
QOR
QOT&E
Qualitative Operational Requirement
Qualification Operational Test and Evaluation
RCA
RDJTF
RDT&E
REIP
RGR
ROC
ROS
Radio Corporation of America
Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force
Research Development Testing and Engineering
Reengineered Enterprise Infrastructure Program
Ranger Regiments
Required Operational Capability
Representative Observation Site
A-9
RSTN
RTNEPH
RVN
RVR
RWM
Radio Solar Telescope Network
Real-Time Nephanalysis
Republic of Vietnam
Runway Visual Range
Relocatable Window Model
SAC
SAES
SAGE
SAF
SAFSP
SAF/US
SAIC
SAMSO
SAR
SATCOM
SCA
SCOMP
SDC
SDDS
SDHS
SEA
SELS
SEON
SESS
SFG
SFMR
Sgt
SIDAS
SIPRNET
SLAM
SLFCS
SMC
SMSgt
SOAR
SOF
SOFNET
SOFWOC
SOS
SOWT
SPACEWOC
SPO
SrA
SRS
SSgt
SSM/I
Strategic Air Command
Special Assistant for Environmental Services
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
Secretary of the Air Force
Secretary of the Air Force for special Projects
Under Secretary of the Secretary of the Air Force
Science Applications International Corporation
Space and Missile Systems Organization
Synthetic Aperture Radar
Satellite Communications
Satellite Control Authority
Strategic Communications Program
System Development Corporation
Satellite Data Support System
Satellite Data Handling System
Senior Enlisted Advisor or Southeast Asia
Severe Local Storm
Solar Electro-optical Observing Network
Space Environmental Support System
Special Forces Groups
Stepped-Frequency Microwave Radiometer
Sergeant
Satellite Imagery Display and Analysis
Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
Swedish Limited Area Model
Survivable Low Frequency Communications System
Space and Missile System Center
Senior Master Sergeant
Special Operations Aviation Regiments
Special Operations Forces
Solar Observing and Forecasting Network
Special Operations Weather Operations Center
System Operations Squadron
Special Operations Weather Team
Space Weather Operations Center
System Program Office
Senior Airman
Space Radio Spectrograph
Staff Sergeant
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
A-10
SSM/IS
START
STRATCOM
STS
STT
SWA
SWAFS
SWO
SWTG
SWWC
SYNCoC
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Sounder
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Strategic Command
Space Transport System
Small Tactical Terminal
Southwest Asia
Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System
Staff Weather Officer
Special Warfare Training Groups
Severe Weather Warning Center
Synchronization Council of Colonels
TAC
TACC
TACAMO
TAF
TAFVER
TAWS
TAMDAR
TCTCO
TDA
TDAS
TDL
TECAM
TFS
TFU
TIROS
TMOS
TPMS
TRADOC
TSgt
TTP
TWESO
TWA
TWR
Tactical Air Command
Tanker Airlift Control Center
Take Charge and Move Out
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast Verification
Target Acquisition Weather System
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting
Time Compliance Technical Change Order
Tactical Decision Aids
Tactical Decision Aid Support
Techniques Development Laboratory
Technical Conference on Aviation Meteorology
Tactical Forecast System
Tactical Forecast Unit
Television Infrared Observation Satellite
Tactical Meteorological Observing System
Transition Power Maintenance Shelter
Training and Doctrine Command
Technical Sergeant
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
TRADOC Weather and Environmental Support Office
Trailing Wire Antenna
Tactical Weather Radar
UAS
UAV
UAWS
UKMO
UM
URL
U.S.
USA
USACE
USDA
Unmanned Aerial System
Unmanned Air Vehicle
U.S. Army Europe Automated Weather System
United Kingdom Meteorological Office
Unified Model
Uniform Resource Locator
United States
United States Army
United States Army Corps of Engineers
United States Department of Agriculture
A-11
USAF
USAFA
USAFE
USAFETAC
USAREUR
USSPACECOM
USTRANSCOM
USMC
USS
USSOCOM
Headquarters, United States Air Force
United States Air Force Academy
United States Air Forces in Europe
USAF Environmental Technical Applications Center
United States Army Europe
United States Space Command
United States Transportation Command
United States Marine Corps
United States Ship
United States Special Operations Command
VCSAF
VHF
VLR
VoIP
VSAT
Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Very High Frequency
Very Long Range
Voice over Internet Protocol
Very Small Aperture Terminal
WAC
WAF
WAG
WASP
WBAN
WBAWS
WDA
WDCADS
WF
WEBS
WEM
WG
WGP
WICU
WIN
WIPS
WIPS-R
WMO
WRF
WRS
WS
WSSC
WSR
WSU
WWMCCS
WWW
Women’s Army Corps
Women in the Air Forces
World Aeronautical Grid
Women Airforce Service Pilots
Weather Bureau-Air Force-Navy
Weather Briefing Advisory and Warning System
Weather Data Analysis
Weather Data Collection and Dissemination System
Weather Flight
Web Services
Weather Effects Matrix
Wing or Weather Group
Weather Group (Provisional)
Weather Intercept Concentrator Unit
WWMCCS Intercomputer Network
Weather Information Processing System
Weather Information Processing System-Replacement
World Meteorological Organization
Weather Research and Forecasting (model)
Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
Weather Squadron
Weather Systems Support Cadre
Weather Search Radar
Weather Support Unit
World-Wide Military Command and Control System
World-Wide Web
Y2K
Year 2000
A-12