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Abbreviations for Scientific Programs
by Charlie Zender

Contents
1 General Points 1.1 Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Variable Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abbreviations 1 1 2 2 2

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General Points

This document describes programming abbreviations. Abbreviations are quite general: Any shortened form of a word, phrase, or concept is an abbreviation. Hence, abbreviations can be acronyms, initialisms, or nicknames. Concise abbreviations for variable names are especially important because they help make a program become self-documenting and thus easier to maintain. Consistent abbreviations across programs are important because then whole suites of code can be updated an improved in a more modular fashion. An alternative method of naming variables is the Hungarian notation method originated by Charles Simonyi of Microsoft http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvsgen/html/hunganotat. asp

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Abbreviations

Abbreviations are usually used for variable names in a program. Naming a variable appropriately often speeds up programming by reducing the introduction of bugs to the program, and by making future maintenance easier. An effective abbreviation has a number of desirable qualities. • Concise • Unambiguous • Easy to remember • Distinct from English Here are some guidelines which help in creating abbreviations with these qualities: 1. A common acronym, if it exists, is preferable to creating a new abbreviation (e.g., SWCF).

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2. Abbreviations which do not contain common letter combinations of the English language are much easier to program. Searching and replacing uncommon letter combinations lessens the risk of corrupting plain text and comments in the program. For example, using flx rather than flux saves only one letter, but makes code maintenance much easier. 3. Phonetic abbreviations are often superior mnemonics. Use, e.g.,nvr rather than env for “environment”. Phonetic abbreviations make it easier to use consonants, which are better than vowels in abbreviations. 4. All things being equal, three letter abbreviations, or groups of them, are best. Three letters are easy to remember yet there are enough permutations to abbreviate almost atomic concept into a three letter abbreviation. 5. Single letter abbreviations, e.g. “t = temperature”, are always a mistake. It is nearly impossible to perform a quick search or search-and-replace on a single letter variable. 6. Sometimes an abbreviation is an acronym but is not capitalized. Capitalize the abbreviation when it is common (e.g., SWCF), but leave it lowercase when it is uncommon (e.g., mpc).

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Variable Names

Use underscores to aggregate abbreviations into longer groups which compose a variable name. Underscores are easier to proofread than the X-style capitalization method, e.g., flx_bb_dwn_sfc vs. FlxBbDwnSfc or FluxBroadbandDownSurface. Variables names constructed in this manner have the desirable property that, when they are alphabetized, related variables are grouped together.

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Definitions

Often an abbreviation is used to keep a quantity distinct from a related but distinct quantity. In these cases the abbreviations are called antonyms. In the list, the antonym of a given definition is indicated by “ant.”. Occasionally an abbreviation has a synonym, too. In the list, the synonyms are indicated by “syn.”. The abbreviation is followed by the definition. In some cases the definition has multiple related meanings—these are separated by commas, e.g., “abs = absorption, absorbed, absorbing”. In a few cases, the definition has multiple distinct meanings—these are separated from one another by “or”, e.g., “aer = aerosol, aerosol-laden (turbid), or aerodynamic”.

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Abbreviations
ACH ADR ADS AMC Automated Clearing House American Depository Receipt American Depository Share After Market Closes

Abbreviations of financial terms:

3 APR APY ARL ARM BCON BIC BK BMO BP C1 CB CCP CPH DAB DDG DDM DEQM DFSA DJIA DMB DMCSB DOG DUG DXD EAFE EBITDA ECN EDC EEM EEV EFA EMA EMI EQM ETF FCU FEIE FMV FRE FRM FSA FSB GLD GM GS Annual Percentage Rate Annual Percentage Yield Airline Record Locator Adjustable Rate Mortgage Beacon Power Bank Identifier Code Bankruptcy Before Market Opens La Banque Postale CapitalOne Carte Bleue Compte Courant Postal (checking account, carte bleu too) Copenhagen stock exchange Distributeurs Automatiques de Billets ProShares Short Oil & Gas (−1× DJIA oil) ETF ProShares Ultra Dow30 (+2× DJIA) ETF Double Elite Qualifying Miles Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account Dow Jones Industrial Average Daily Minimum Balance Daily Minimum Combined Share Balance (sum of all accounts) ProShares Short Dow30 (−1× DJIA) ETF ProShares UltraShort Oil & Gas (−2× DJIA oil) ETF ProShares UltraShort Dow30 (−2× DJIA) ETF Europe, Australasia, and Far East index Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization Electronic Communication Network Direxion Daily Emerging Markets Bull (+3× MSCI EMI) ETF iShares MSCI EMI (emerging markets) ETF ProShares UltraShort emerging market (−2× MSCI EMI) ETF iShares MSCI EAFE (large-cap foreign G7 stock) ETF Exponential Moving Average Emerging Markets Index Elite Qualifying Miles Exchange Traded Fund (tracks an index, e.g., DJIA) Federal Credit Union Foreign Earned Income Exemption Fair Market Value Freddie Mac Fixed Rate Mortgage Flexible Spending Account Federal Savings Bank Gold (bullion) tracking ETF General Motors Goldman Sachs

4 HAPC HFSA KBB LTV LVS MACD MC MCB ME MIE MSCI MTL NASDAQ NAV OCTFCU OFX OTC OTCBB PINK PNR QFX QID QQQ QQQQ RAQVAM RIB RL RSI SDS SFFCU SG SKF SMA SNS SPDR SPY SSO SWIFT TEQM TID TIP TTC TVA TZA UAUA

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ABBREVIATIONS

Highest average plan compensation Health Flexible Spending Account Kelley Blue Book Loan-To-Value ratio Las Vegas Sands Moving Average Convergence/Divergence Master Card Medical Contributions Base Moving Expenses Meals and Incidental Expenses Morgan Stanley Capital International Mechel OAO (ADR) National Association of Securities Dealer Automated Quotation system Net Asset Value (share price) Orange County Teacher’s Federal Credit Union Office Financial Exchange (file format/extension) Over-the-Counter (pseudo stock exchange) Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (pseudo stock exchange) Telephone-based (pseudo stock exchange) Passenger Name Record Quiken Financial Exchange (file format/extension) ProShares UltraShort QQQ (−2× NASDAQ) Any NASDAQ-tracking ETF PowerShares QQQ (+1× NASDAQ) ` Risques Autres que V´ hicule a Moteur (insurance policy covering risks other than motor vehicles) e Relev´ d’Identit´ Bancaire e e Record Locator Relative Strength Index ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (−2× S&P500) SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union Soci´ t´ G´ n´ rale ee e e ProShares UltraShort Financials (−2× DOW) ETF Simple Moving Average Saturday-Night-Stay Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipt (aka “spider”), tracks S&P500 S&P500-tracking ETF ProShares Ultra S&P500 (+2× DOW) ETF Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication Triple Elite Qualifying Miles Travel of Indefinite Duration Tax Savings on Insurance Premiums Toutes Taxes Comprises (tax included) ` Taxe a la Valeur Ajout´ e (value-added tax) e Direxion Small Cap Bear 3X Shares (−3× Russell 2000 small cap) United Airlines

5 VAM VWDRY VWS VWSYF XLE XLF XLK XLP XLY adm apr chs crd csh dcp ddc dpr dyc eqt fdr fnn fx fxr hm hse mdc mny mrt ncm nrcr nsr ntr nvs ofc phn pmt prn prp rmb rnt rtr slr stt xpn ytd ` V´ hicule a Moteur (insurance policy covering motor vehicles) e Vestas Wind ADR (+3× VWDRY = VWS) Vestas Wind Systems Vestas Wind ADR (+1× VWSYF = VWS) Select Sector Energy sector SPDR ETF Financial sector SPDR ETF Technology sector SPDR ETF Consumer staples sector SPDR ETF Consumer discretionary sector SPDR ETF annual decimal rate (ant. annual percentage rate) appreciation or annual percentage rate (ant. annual decimal rate) Chase credit (card) cash defined contribution plan deduction depreciation daycare equity federal financial foreign exchange foreign exchange rate home (syn. hm), (ant. ofc) house (syn. hm), (ant. ofc) medical money mortgage income non-recurring (ant. rcr) insurance interest invest, investment office (ant. hse), (ant. hm) phone payment principal property reimburse rental retirement salary state expense year-to-date

6 Physical units and dimensions: B byte Consumer electronics 1080i 1080i60 1080p 1080p24 1080p30 1600p 720p 720p60 A/V A2DP AFH AMP ATA ATSC AVI AVRCP Anynet BNC BT BT 1.1 BT 1.2 BT 2.0 BT 2.1 BT 3.0 Bpp CEA CEC CRT CUDA DAB DAB+ DFP DL DLNA DM DMS-59 DP DP-1.0 DP-1.1 DP-1.1a

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Interlaced (not progressive) scan HDTV 1920x1080 video mode (ant. 1080 1080i HDTV mode at 60/,fps (an ATSC standard, common in OTA broadcas Progressive (not interlaced) scan HDTV 1920x1080 video mode, aka “Full H 1080p HDTV mode at 24/,fps (an ATSC and video mastering standard) 1080p HDTV mode at 30/,fps (an ATSC standard) Progressive (not interlaced) scan HDTV 2560x1600 video mode (ant. 1080 Progressive (not interlaced) scan HDTV 1280x720 video mode (ant. 1080p 720p HDTV mode at 60/,fps (an ATSC standard, common in OTA broadcast Audio/Video Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (Bluetooth profile) for HQ stereo Adaptive Frequency-hopping spread spectrum (Bluetooth technology) Alternate MAC PHY (Bluetooth technology) Advanced Technology Attachment (storage-to-bus adaptor) (syn. IDE) Advanced Television Systems Committee (commences 20090217) Audio Video Interleave Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (Bluetooth profile) for remote controls Samsung brand-name for CEC (HDMI remote control language) (syn. CEC) Bayonet Neill-Concelman (RF connector to terminate coaxial cable) Bluetooth Bluetooth Standard, c. 2002 includes RSSI Bluetooth Standard, c. 2003 includes AFH, eSCO Bluetooth Standard, c. 2004 includes EDR Bluetooth Standard, c. 2007 includes EIR, EPR, SSP, NFC Bluetooth Standard, c. 2009 includes AMP bytes per pixel Consumer Electronics Association Consumer Electronics Control (HDMI remote control language) Cathode Ray Tube Compute Unified Device Architecture Digital Audio Broadcasting standard (syn. Eureka 147) Revised DAB standard Digital Flat Panel Dual-Link It stands for Digital Living Network Alliance Display Mode 59-Pin connector that supports two DVI Dual Link digital channels or two V DisplayPort, 20-pins (ant. HDMI) DP standard, c. 200605 DP standard, c. 200801, supports fiber optic cables, DPCP, HDCP DP standard, c. 200802, supports eDP

7 DP-1.2 DPCP DRM DTV DVI DVI-A DVI-D DVI-D DL DVI-D SL DVI-DL DVI-I DVI-M1-DA ECN EDID EDR EDTV EIR EPHC EPR ExpressCard ExpressCard/34 ExpressCard/54 ExtUSB FF FPD GPGPU GPU GPU GTF HD Radio HDCP HDMI HDMI Type A HDMI Type B HDMI Type C HDMI 1.0 HDMI 1.1 HDMI 1.2 HDMI 1.3 HDMI 1.3a HDMI 1.3b HDMI 1.3b1 HDMI 1.3c HDMI 1.4 HDTV

DP standard, c. 2009, supports double bandwidth, MiniDP connector DisplayPort Content Protection (DRM), based on 128-bit AES encryption Digital Restrictions Management Digital Television Digital Visual Interface (older than HDMI, DP) DVI Analog (analog only) DVI Digital (digital only, can be single- or dual-link) DVI-D Dual Link: Capable of WQXGA= 2560 × 1600 60 Hz DVI-D Single Link: Capable of WUXGA= 1920 × 1200 60 Hz DVI Dual-Link. Contains second data link. (NB: ambiguous! Could be DVI DVI Integrated (digital & analog, can be single- or dual-link) DVI Integrated (digital, analog, & USB) Engineering Change Notice Extended Display Identification Data Enhanced Data Rate (Bluetooth technology) Enhanced-definition Television (DTV, progressive scan, analog resolution, 6 Extended Inquiry Response (Bluetooth technology) Epson PowerLite Home Cinema (projector) Encryption Pause Resume (Bluetooth technology) Hardware standard for cards. Supports both PCIe and USB 2.0 buses. Either 34 mm ExpressCard (rectangular shape) 54 mm ExpressCard (L-shaped) Proprietary (by HTC) USB 11-pin connector. Includes audio/video I/O and i Form Factor Flat Panel Display General-Purpose computation on Graphics Processing Units Graphical Processing Unit Graphics Processing Units Generalized Timing Formula brand-name for iBiquity’s IBOC technology, US Standard High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (DRM) High-definition Multimedia Interface (newer than DVI, older than DP) (ant. Single link (19 pins) connector. Does not support 2560x1600. Dual link (29 pins) connector. Supports 2560x1600. Dual link (29 pins) mini-connector. Supports 2560x1600. HDMI Standard, c. 2002, includes 1080p/UXGA HDMI Standard, c. 2004, includes DVD audio HDMI Standard, c. 2005, includes CEC features HDMI Standard, c. 200606, includes Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD, defined cabl HDMI Standard, c. 200611, includes cable, CEC, Type C clarifications HDMI Standard, c. 200703, includes compliance testing revisions HDMI Standard, c. 200711, includes Type C testing revisions HDMI Standard, c. 200808, includes active cable testing HDMI Standard, c. 200905, includes HDMI ethernet, 3840x2160p and 4096 High Definition TV, 1920 × 1080 resolution, 16:9 aspect ratio

8 HDTV HDTV DM DVI-DL HDTV DM DVI-SL HTC HTC HTC Dream HTC Hero HTC Magic HXGA IBOC IEC LDI LFP LGD LPL LVDS Mini PCIe, PCI-E Mini-TOSLINK MiniDP NFC NTSC OTA OTG PAL PATA PBP PC, PCMCIA Card PCI PCI-X PCIe, PCI-E PCMCIA PDA PIP QXGA QXGA DM DVI-DL RCA RIHD RSSI S/PDIF SATA SCSI SDTV SL SSP SXGA

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High-definition Television (DTV, 1280x720=720p, 1920x1080=1080i, 1920x 1920 × 1080 85 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 126 MHz) 1920 × 1080 60 Hz with CVT-RB blanking (139 MHz) High Tech Computer Corporation High Tech Computer Corporation Android PDA, c. 200809, branded T-Mobile G1; includes slide-keyboard Android PDA, c. 200907, includes 3.5 mm audio jack Android PDA, c. 200907, branded T-Mobile G2, myTouch 3G; lacks keyboa Hex[adecatuple] Extended Graphics Array, 4096 × 3072 resolution, 4:3 aspe In-Band On-Channel (way of adding digital to analog broadcasts) International Electrotechnical Commission LVDS Display Interface (standard for connecting graphics card to LFP using Local Flat Panel LG Display (LCD panel supplier), formerly (syn. LPL)) LG Phillips (LCD panel supplier, now (syn. LGD)) Low-voltage Differential Signaling (low-power electrical signaling system) ( PCI Express Mini Card (expansion card for PCIe bus) (c. 2005) Miniature TOSLINK (found on Apple computers) Miniature DisplayPort (newest standard), 20-pins (ant. HDMI) Near Field Communication (Bluetooth technology) National Television System Committee, broadcasts at 640x480=480i Over-The-Air (TV broadcasting signal) On-The-Go (terminology for portable devices, e.g., PDAs) Broadcasts at 768x576=576i Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment (older, slower than SATA) (ant. S Picture-By-Picture Hardward card type (c. 1991, superseded by ExpressCard) Peripheral Component Interconnect (c. 1993, older, different FF than PCI-X, PCI eXtended (c. 1998, newer than PCI, older than PCIe) (ant. PCIe) PCI Express (c. 2004, newer than PCI and PCI-X) (ant. PCI-X) Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (refers to hardw Personal Digital Assistant Picture-In-Picture Quad eXtended Graphics Array, 2048 × 1536 resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio 2048 × 1536 75 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 170 MHz) Radio Corporation of America (A/V adaptor plug) Onkyo brand-name for CEC (HDMI remote control language) (syn. CEC) Received Signal Strength Indicator (Bluetooth technology) Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format (digital audio signal protocol) (syn Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (storage-to-bus adaptor) (ant. PAT Small Computer Systems Interface (communications protocol for high-perfo Standard-definition Television (DTV, interlaced scan, analog resolution, 640 Single-Link Secure Simple Pairing (Bluetooth technology) Super eXtended Graphics Array, 1280 × 1024 resolution, 5:4 aspect ratio

9 SXGA DM DVI-SL TMDS TOSLINK U160 USB USB Micro-A USB Micro-AB USB Micro-B USB Mini-A USB Mini-AB USB Mini-B USB-A USB-B USB 1.0 USB 1.1 USB 2.0 USB 3.0 UXGA DM DVI-SL UXGA, UGA VDPAU VESA VGA VIERA Link VIERA-Cast VOD WFP WQUXGA WQUXGA DM DVI-DL WQUXGA DM DVI-SL WQXGA WQXGA DM DVI-DL WSXGA, WXGA+ WSXGA, WXGA+ DM DVI-SL WUXGA WUXGA DM DVI-SL WXGA X: Display X: Monitor X: RandR X: Screen X: Xinerama bpp eDP eSATA eSCO

1280 × 1024 85 Hz with GTF blanking (159 MHz) Transition Minimized Differential Signaling (used in DVI, HDMI) (ant. LVD TOShiba-LINK (optical fiber connector used for audio signals) SCSI variety emulated by IDE RAID farm Universal Serial Bus Micro USB Standard-A connector ( 1.5 × 7 mm) Micro USB Dual Standards A & B connector (5-pin, 1.5 × 7 mm rectangle, Micro USB Standard-B connector (5-pin, 1.5 × 7 mm, two beveled corners) Miniature USB Standard-A connector (5-pin, 3 × 7 mm rectangle, two beve Miniature USB Dual Standards (A & B) connector ( 3 × 7 mm) Miniature USB Standard-B connector (5-pin, 3 × 7 mm rectangle, all square USB Standard-A connector (4-pin, flattened rectangle) USB Standard-B connector, carries power (4-pin, square with beveled corner USB “Low-Speed” (187.5 kB s−1 ) Standard, c. 1996 USB “Full-Speed” (1.5 MB s−1 ) Standard, c. 1998 USB “High-Speed”, “Hi-Speed” (60 MB s−1 ) Standard (includes “micro-US USB “SuperSpeed” (625 MB s−1 ) Standard, c. 2008 1600 × 1200 60 Hz with GTF blanking (161 MHz) Ultra eXtended Graphics Array, 1600 × 1200 resolution, 4:3 aspect ratio Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix Video Electronics Standards Association Video Graphics Array (an analog-standard interface) (640 × 480 resolution) Sony brand-name for CEC (HDMI remote control language) (syn. CEC) Panasonic technology for streaming multimedia from Internet to HDTVs Video On Demand Widescreen Flat Panel Wide Quad Ultra Extended Graphics Array, 3840 × 2400 resolution, 16:10 a 3840 × 2400 33 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 159 MHz) 3840 × 2400 17 Hz (164 MHz) Wide Quad eXtended Graphics Array, 2560 × 1600 resolution, 16:10 aspect 2560 × 1600 60 Hz with GTF blanking (2 × 174 MHz) non-standard term for, usually, 1440 × 900 resolution 1440 × 900 60 Hz (107 MHz) Widescreen Ultra eXtended Graphics Array, 1920 × 1200 resolution, 16:10 r 1920 × 1200 60 Hz with CVT-RB blanking (154 MHz) Wide eXtended Graphics Array, a non-standard: 1280 × 800 resolution, aspe The resolution and depth of a given Screen Physical display surface Resize and Rotate (X-Windows extension) Combination of Monitor with graphics Device

bits per pixel Embedded DisplayPort, internal connection standard (graphics cards to noteb external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) Extended Synchronous Connections (Bluetooth technology)

10 fps frames per second

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Geographical places, stations, regions, and features: this points to sxn:abb Brm Izn Brb Svl SMU SMA ULB Bermuda Iza˜ a n Barbados Svalbard St. Martin d’Uriage St. Miguel de Allende Uriage le Bains

Initials (often used as change markers in source code): ag bcb bee bk cl csz dlw dmw fd jcg jtk mat mcb mgf mt nmm pjr qh rah sbc Alf Grini Byron C. Boville Brian E. Eaton Brian Kahn Chao Luo Charles S. Zender Daniel L. Wang David M. Williamson Florent Domin´ e Jean-Charles Gallet Jeffrey T. Kiehl Mark A. Taylor Michael C. Brown Mark G. Flanner Michael Tosca Natalie M. Mahowald Philip J. Rasch Qin Han Rick A. Hansell Scott Capps AAA AAS ABI ACCESS ACE ACM ACRM ADT AER AERONET

Arctic Absorbing Aerosol Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Application Binary Interface Advancing Collaborative Connections Army Corps of Engineers Association for Computing Machinery (NASA) Atmospheric Composition Re Anomalous Diffraction Theory Atmospheric & Environmental Researc Aerosol Robotic Network

11 AFGL AGU AISR AIX ALD ALW AMAP AMBT AMSR-E AMWG ANENA ANS ANTLR ANWR AOGCM API AR4 ARC ARF ARM ARMA ASE ASIRT AST ATM ATSR AVHRR AVIRIS BAAQMD BATS BAU BEC BEV BFI BGC BGCWG BGF BIRN BRDF BTS CADD CALYPSO CAM CARRE CASTNET

Air Force Geophysical Laboratory American Geophysical Union Applied Information Systems Research IBM variant of UNIX used in ESMF Active Layer Depth (of permafrost) Adiabatic Liquid Water Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Pro Air Mass Back-Trajectory Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiom (CCSM) Atmospheric Model Working Association Nationale pour l’Etude de Arctic Natural Sciences Program ANother Tool for Language Recognitio Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANW (Coupled) Atmosphere-Ocean General Application Programmer Interface Fourth Assessment Report (NSF) Division of Arctic Sciences Aerosol Radiative Forcing Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Auto-Regressive Moving-Average Advanced Science and Engineering Aerosol Snow Ice Radiative Transfer Abstract Symbol Table (NSF) Division of Atmospheric Scienc Along Track Scanning Radiometer and Advanced Very High Resolution Radio Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spe Bay Area Air Quality Management Dis Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Schem Business As Usual Biogeochemistry-Ecosystem-Circulatio Battery Electric Vehicle Buckminster Fuller Institute Biogeochemistry (CCSM) Biogeochesmistry Working G Bare Ground Fraction Biomedical Informatics Research Netw Bi-directional Reflectance Distribution Bug Tracking System Centralized Analysis of Distributed Da Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Path Community Atmosphere Model or Com Central Asia Research and Remediatio Clean Air Status and Trends NETwork

12 CAT CBA CCAP CCAR CCCAC CCM CCN CCNC CCS CCS CCSM CDC CDHS CDI CDNC CDO CDP CE CEC CENIC CERES CF CFC CFEP CFVR CGS CH4 CHP CHRS CICE CBET CISE SBE CITI CL CLD GLD CLM CLMUG CMG CMIP3 CN SGD CNH CNRS

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Cap And Trade Cost-Benefit analysis Center for Clean Air Policy California Climate Action Registry California Climate Change Advisory C Community Climate Model Cloud Condensation Nuclei Cloud Condensation Nuclei Counter Carbon Capture and Storage Coal with Carbon Capture and Storage Community Climate System Model Center for Disease Control California Department of Health Servic Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovati Cloud Droplet Number Concentration Climate Data Operators Cloud Droplet Probe Civil Engineering or Corresponding Ed California Energy Commission Corporation for Education Network Ini Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy Sys Climate & Forecast (metadata conventi Chloro-fluorocarbon Center for Educational Partnerships Critical Friction Velocity Ratio Centimeter Gram Second units CH4 California Highway Patrol Center for Hydrometeorology and Rem Los Alamos sea ice model Chemical, Bioenngineering, Environme Computer and Information Science and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Scie Center for Information Technology and Client Library Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynam Common Land Model Community Land Model User’s Guide Climate Modeling Grid Coupled Model Intercomparison Projec Condensation Nuclei Smart Grid Demonstrations Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Hum Centre Nationale de la Research Scient

13 CNS CO2 CO2e COSMOS CPC CPC CPU CRDF CRF CRM CRYSTAL-FACE CSE CSIM CSP CSRM CST CSTP CSUB CSV CTM CVS CVWG CWC CWP CalEPA CalIT2 CalREN-2 CalREN-XD CentOS DADD DD DD DDA DDPO DDR DEAD DEBITS DGA DHS DI DIC DIF DIRTMAP DKMS DNMG

Computer and Network Systems CO2 Equivalent CO2 California State Summer School in Ma Climate Protection Campaign Condensation Particle Counter Central Processing Unit Civilian Research and Development Fo Cloud Radiative Forcing Column Radiation Model Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anv Computer Science and Engineering Community Sea Ice Model Concentrated Solar Power Cloud System Resolving Model Client-Server Traffic Client-Server Traffic Protocol California State University at Bakersfie Comma-Separated Value Chemistry Transport Model Concurrent Versions System (CCSM) Climate Variability Working G Condensed Water Content Condensed Water Path California Environmental Protection A California Institute for Telecommunica California Regional Network California Research Network, Experim Community Enterprise Operating Syste Distributed Analysis of Distributed Dat Debian Developer Debian Developer Discrete Dipole Approximation Debian Developer’s Packages Overview Distributed Data Reduction Dust Entrainment And Deposition Mod Deposition of Biogeochemically Impor Division of Grants and Agreements Department of Homeland Security De-Ionized Data-Intensive Computing Dissolved Iron Fraction Dust Indicators and Records of Terrestr Dynamic Kernel Module Support Debian New Maintainer’s Guide

14 DOAS DOCCD DODS DOI DPG DRUM DTG DUFISSS DWP EA/WR ECE ECMWF ECTNA EDXRF EECS EES EGG-TRAM EID EMA EMEP EMMF EMN ENSO EQSAM ESA ESC ESE ESG ESI ESIG ESM ESMF ESS ESTO FAA FAR FC FDTD FIM FNF FOCUS FOI FRE FRP FSU

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Differential Optical Absorption Spectro Database of Optical Constants for Cosm Distributed Oceanographic Data Server Digital Object Identifier Distributed Power Generation Davis Rotating Unit Monitoring Depth to Groundwater DUal-Frequency Integrating Sphere for Department of Water and Power Eastern Atlantic/Western Russia Electrical and Computer Engineering European Center for Medium-range W Eastern and Central Tropical North Atl Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Electrical Engineering and Computer S Earth and Environmental Science or En Emissions-to-Global-Grid Transfer Rou Emerging Infectious Disease Effective Medium Approximation European Monitoring and Evaluation P Economical Multi-scale Modeling Fram Effective Machine Name El Ni˜ o-Southern Oscillation n EQuilibrium Simplified Aerosol Mode European Space Agency Earth Simulator Center Earth Science Enterprise (NASA) or En Earth System Grid Electronic Supplementary Information Environmental and Societal Impacts Gr Earth System Model Earth System Modeling Facility Earth System Science (Department) Earth Systems Technology Office Federal Aviation Administration First Assessment Report Forecast Cluster Finite-Differerence-Time-Domain Fire Injection Module Friends aNd Family Faculty Outreach Collaborations Unitin Field Of Interest Fire Radiative Energy Fire Radiative Power Former Soviet Union

15 FTA FTBFS FTE FV GADS GARMA GB GCM GDP GDS GEO GEON GEOS-CHEM GEWEX GFED GFP GFS GHG GHGI GISS GLIDE GLIMMER GLX GMI GNOME GOA GOES GPFS GRACE GRAVITY GSC GSFC GW GWP Gb GrADS H2OH2O H2SO4 HCFC HDF HFCV HG HIPerWall HNLC HPC

Fire Thermal Anomaly Fails to Build from Source Full-time Employee Field site Visits Global Aerosol Data Set Generalized Auto-Regressive MovingGigabyte General Circulation Model Gross Domestic Product GrADS-DODS Server Geosciences (NSF Directorate) Geosciences Network Goddard Earth Observing System Chem Global Energy and Water Cycle Experi Global Fire Emissions Database Guidebook for Proposers Global File System Greenhouse Gas Greenhouse Gas Intensity Goddard Institute for Space Studies General Land Ice Dynamic Elements (c Ice Sheet Model of Payne et al. OpenGL Extension to the X Window S Global Modeling Initiative GNU Object Module Environment Geometric Optics Approximation Geostationary Earth Orbiting Satellite General Parallel File System Gravity Recovery and Climate Experim Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging T GEOS-CHEM Goddard Space Flight Center Global Warming Global Warming Potential Gigabit Grid Analysis and Display System (H2 O)2 H2 SO4 Halogenated CFCs Hierarchical Data Format Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Henyey-Greenstein (phase function) High-Performance Visualization System High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll High Performance Computing

16 HPCC HPVM HSE HTML HTTP HULIS HUSWO IAF IAMAS IBL IBM IC IC ICS ICTA ICoD IDE IDL IFS IGPP II III IIPS IIS IIS IN IOM IOP IPA IPCC IPY ISC ISDAC ISG ISHMS ISHO ISSDS ISTC ITA ITD ITIN ITT IWC IWP JAMSTEC

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High Performance Computing Center High-Performance Virtual Machines Hollow Sphere Equivalent Hypertext Markup Lanuage Hypertext Transfer Protocol Humic-like Substances Hourly United States Weather Observa Ice Albedo Feedback International Association of Meteorolo Internal Boundary Layer International Business Machines International Conferences Ion Chromatography Information and Computer Sciences Institut de Ci` ncia i Tecnologia Ambie e Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Insular Integrated Drive Electronics (commodi International Date Line Integrated Forecast System Institute of Geophysics and Planetary P Information Integration Information Integration and Informatic Interactive Information Processing Sys Information and Intelligent Systems (D Information and Intelligent Systems (N Ice Nuclei Institute of Mathematics (Almaty, Kaza Intensive Observing Period Independent Pixel Approximation or In Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch International Polar Year International Symposium on Coccidioi Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Cam Integrated Sinusoidal Grid Integrated Surface Hourly Meteorologi Integrated Surface Hourly Observation International Symposium on Sand and International Science and Technology C Intent to Adopt Ice Thickness Distribution Individual Tax Identity Number Measurement of Pollution in the Tropo Ice Water Content Ice Water Path Japan Institute of Marine Science and T

17 JC JISAO JIT JPL KDE LAC LAISSE LAN LANL LAPACK LBL LEP LES LFS LGGE LHS LIDAR LKM LLJ LLNL LMWG LOSU LSLZ LSM LTP LW LWC LWCF LWP MABL MAC MAE MAR MARSWIT MASAIS MATRIX MBWA MCD MD MERRA MFC MFO MINATROC MISR MKS

Journal Club Joint Institute for the Study of the Atm Just-in-time Jet Propulsion Laboratory K Desktop Environment Light Absorbing Carbon LGGE Albedo Integrating Sphere for S Local Area Network Los Alamos National Laboratory Linear Algebra PACKage Line-by-line Laboratory for Environmental Planning Large Eddy Simulation Large File Support Laboratoire de Glaciologie et G´ ophys e Left Hand Side LIght Detection And Ranging Linux Kernel Module Low-level Jet Lawrence Livermore National Laborato (CCSM) Land Model Working Group Level of Scientific Understanding Lower Sonoran Life Zone Land Surface Model Long-Term Probability Longwave (radiation) Liquid Water Content Longwave Cloud Forcing Liquid Water Path Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer Media Access Control Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Mass Accumulation Rate Mars Surface Wind Tunnel Measurement of Albedo and specific S Multiconfiguration Aerosol TRacker of Mobile Broadband Wireless Access (e. MODIS Combined Dataset Mineral Dust Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Missing From Collection Multi-File Operator Mineral Dust and Tropospheric Chemis Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiome Meter-Kilogram-Second units

18 MLE MM5 MMD MMF MMWR MNP MODI MODIS MOP MOPITT MOSAIC MOUDI MOZART MOZIR MPC MPI MPMD MSG MSP MSc NAA NACS NASA NBC NC NCAR NCCS NCDC NCEP NCEP NCO NCVweb NDVI NEMS NERSC NGS NH NH4 NHS NIC NIR NMI NMU NO2 NOAA

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation PennState/NCAR Mesoscale Model ve Mass Median Diameter Multi-scale Modeling Framework Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Repor Mojave National Preserve Multi-Orifice Deposit Impactor (MOD Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectror Microphysical Optical Properties Measurement of Pollution in the Tropo MOdel for Simulating Aerosol Interact Multi-Orifice Uniform Deposit Impacto Model for Ozone and Related Tracers Infrared (radiation) or Infection Rate Medium Performance Computing Message Passing Interface Multiple Program Multiple Data Meteosat Second Generation Math Science Partnership Marine Stratocumulus Neutron Activation Analysis Network and Computing Services National Aeronautic and Space Admin Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical wea National Conferences National Center for Atmospheric Resea NASA Center for Computational Scien National Climatic Data Center National Center for Environmental Pre National Commission on Energy Policy netCDF Operators NetCDF Viewer Web Normalized Difference Vegetation Inde DOE National Energy Modeling System National Energy Research Scientific Co National Geographic Society Northern Hemisphere NH4 National and Homeland Security National Ice Center Near Infrared NSF Middleware Initiative Non-Naintainer Upload NO2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad

19 NOMADS NOPP NPACI NPOESS NPS NRA NRDC NSA NSF NSIDC NSS NSSC NUG NVODS NWS O2 O2000 O2N2 O2O2 O2X O3 OAR OBGC OCHO OCI OEM OLLI OLR ONI OPAC OPC OPP OPeNDAP ORB ORNL OSL OpenMP OptIPuter PAPI PAR PCG PCWG PEBCAK PGE PI

NOAA Operational Model Archive and National Oceanographic Partnership Pr National Partnership for Advanced Com National Polar-orbiting Operational En National Park Service NASA Research Announcement National Resources Defense Council North Slope of Alaska National Science Foundation National Snow and Ice Data Center Non-Sea Salt Sulphate NASA Shared Services Center NCO User’s Guide National Virtual Ocean Data System National Weather Service O2 Model of SGI shared memory supercom O2 ·N2 O2 ·O2 O2 ·X O3 Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Ocean Biogeochemistry OCHO Office of Cyberinfrastructure (NSF Offi Ocean Ecosystem Model Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Outgoing Longwave Radiation Optical Networking Initiative Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clo Optical Particle Counter Office of Polar Programs (NSF Office) Open-source Project for a Network Dat Object Ring Buffer Oak Ridge National Laboratory Optically Stimulated Luminescence (da Standard API for SMPP Optical networking Internet Protocol co Performance Application Programming Photosynthetically Active Radiation Petascale Collaboratory for the Geoscie Polar Climate Working Group Problem Exists Between Chair And Ke Pacific Gas & Electric Company Principle Investigator

20 PM10 PM2.5 POC POLARCAT POP POP+OEM PPA PPA PRIDE PSC PSCTF PTS PVFS PVM R2D2 RAID RAM RC RCS RDB RDG REE RFP RFP RFS RGB RH RHS ROI RPS RR RRDR RRT RSP RT RTM SAF SAL SAMSON SAN SAO SAR SAS SC4 = SC4 SCAQMD

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ABBREVIATIONS

Particles finer than 10 µm in diameter Particles finer than 2.5 µm in diameter Point of Contact POLar study using Aircraft, Remote se Parallel Ocean Program POP with Ocean Ecosystem Model em Personal Package Archive Plane Parallel Approximation Puerto Rico Dust Experiment Pathscale Physical Sciences Communications Tas Package Tracking System Parallel Virtual File System Parallel Virtual Machine Remote Reduction of Distributed Data Redundant Array of Independent Disks Random Access Memory Release Critical Research Computing Services Relational databases Rayleigh-Debye-Gans Rare Earth Element Request for Package Request for Proposals Request for Sponsor Red Green Blue Relative Humidity Right Hand Side Region Of Interest Renewable Portfolio Standards Reaction Rates Remote Reduction of Distributed Data Rapid Response Team (NASA) Radiation Sciences Program Radiative Transfer River Transport Model Snow Albedo Feedback Saharan Air Layer Solar and Meteorological Surface Obse Storage Area Network Semi-Annual Oscillation Second Assessment Report surface-atmosphere system Southern California Climate Change C South Coast Air Quality Management D

21 SCCOOS SCD SCF SCI SDCI SDCI SDO SDSC SDSU SDSWS ACP SEI SEIII SEM SEVIRI SFO SGER SGI SH SHADE SI SL SLD SLR SMP SMPP SMUD SNICAR SO4 SOFeX SOI SOIREE SOM SP SPEW SPMD SPS SPS SPV SRB SRES SS SSA SSDRA SSI

Southern California Coastal Ocean Obs Study Center Directorship Snow Cover Factor Shared Cyberinfrastructure Software Development for Cyberinfras Software Development for Cyberinfras Scientific Data Operators San Diego Supercomputer Center San Diego State University (WMO) Sand and Dust Storm Warning Atmospheric Chemistry Program (NSF Science and Engineering Informatics o Science and Engineering Information I Scanning Electron Microscope Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRe Single-File Operator Small Grant for Exploratory Research Silicon Graphics Incorporated Southern Hemisphere Saharan Dust Experiment System Internationale Southern Levant Semi-Lagrangian Dynamics Sea Level Rise Symmetric Multi-Processing, Shared M Shared Memory Parallel Programming Sacramento Municipal Utilities Distric SNow, ICe, and Aerosol Radiative mod SO4 Southern Ocean Iron Experiment Southern Oscillation Index Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Expe Supporting Online Material Senior Personnel or Super-Parameteriz Speciated Pollutant Emission Wizard Single Program Multiple Data South Pole Station UCI School of Physical Sciences Solar PhotoVoltaics Storage Resource Broker Special Report on Emissions Scenarios Saltation-Sandblasting Specific Surface Area Server-Side Data Reduction & Analysi UCI Summer Science Institute

22 SSP SSS SST STP SUCCESS SW SWAMP SWCF SWE SciDAC TAR TB TC TEOM TG TH TIPA TL TNA TNEF TOA TOMS UAB UARP UB UCAR UCEAP UCI UDF UNCCD UNIX UOEAP UPC UPMC URI UV VC VCR VR WAIS WCGGWI WCRP WG WG1 WKB

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ABBREVIATIONS

Summer Science Program Sea Salt Sulphate Sea Surface Temperature Standard Temperature and Pressure Subsonic Aircraft: Contrail and Cloud Shortwave (radiation) or Southwest or Script Workflow Analysis for MultiPro Shortwave Cloud Forcing Snow Water Equivalent Scientific Discovery through Advanced Third Assessment Report Terabyte Tropical Cyclone Tapered Element Oscillating Microbala Temperature Gradient Thermostat Hypothesis The International Phonetic Alphabet Thermoluminescence (dating technique Tropical North Atlantic Transport-Neutral Encapsulation Form Top of Atmosphere Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (sa Universitat Aut` noma de Barcelona (A o (NASA) Upper Atmosphere Research P Universitat Barcelona (University of B University Corporation for Atmospheri University of California Education Abr University of California, Irvine Universal Disk Format United Nations Convention to Combat Generic name for operating system Universitywide Office of the University Universitat Polit` cnica de Catalunya (P e Universit´ P. et M. Curie e University of Rhode Island User Visits to LEP Visualization Cluster Vice Chancellor for Research Virtual Reality West Antarctic Ice Sheet West Coast Governors’ Global Warmin World Climate Research Programme Working Group (IPCC) Working Group One (Scientific Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (theory)

23 WLAN WMAN WMD WNPP Work-Needing and Prospective Packages WPAN WPWP WRF WSTNA WWAN WiMAX XML YD YKW ZKB netCDF p655 p690 ALMOD ALT CEWI HG IT IT ITOD LMOD LMT LT LTOD RUVICFFU Ray SS aa aapt abb abs aca acc acm act acu adb adp aer agr

Wireless Local Area Network (e.g., IEE Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (e Weapons of Mass Destructiona Wireless Personal Area Network (e.g., Western Pacific Warm Pool Weather Research and Forecasting (mo Western and Subtropical North Atlantic Wireless Wide Area Network (e.g., IEE Worldwide Inter-operability for Microw Extensible Markup Language Younger-Dryas You Know Who Zero known bugs network Common Data Format 8-CPU IBM computer node in ESMF 32-CPU IBM computer node in ESMF

average layer monochromatic optical depth average layer transmission Compiler Error Warning Initializer Henyey-Greenstein Interface Transmission Interface transmission Interface Transmission Optical Depth Layer Monochromatic Optical Depth Layer Monochromatic Transmission Layer Transmission Layer Transmission Optical Depth Retain Unused Variables In Comments For Future Use Rayleigh Sensitivity Study azimuthal average Android Asset Packaging Tool abbreviation absorption, absorbed, absorbing anomalous cloud absorption annual cycle accomodation activity altocumulus adding-doubling (radiative transfer method) or Android Debugging Bridge adaptation (ant. mtg) aerosol, aerosol-laden (turbid) (ant. cln), or aerodynamic agricultural

24 alb all alp alw amp amt anl anm apk apm apn apr apt arf ash asm asp atm att avg axz azi bb bbc bbd bbl bch bck bcl bdy bfr bgf bio bkf blk bln blr bm bmb bnd bnr bool bp bppv brd albedo all, every, entire associated Legendre polynomial adiabatic liquid water or allow ampersand amount analyzed or analytic (ant. rsl) animation or anomaly Android application applied math append or appendix annual progress report or approve, approved or aperture appointment aerosol radiative forcing apparent sink heat asymmetry (as in asymmetry parameter) or asymptote aspherical (ant. sph) atmosphere or atmospheric attribute average, mean axis, axes azimuth, azimuthal broadband broad branch crystal (ant. hxg) black body bubble batch or beach backscatter (ant. fwd) or backup baroclinic (ant. brt) birthday buffer bigfile biological backfill block or black boolean bluer (shorter wavelength) (ant. rdr) beam or benchmark biomass burning band or bounded, boundary binary Boolean pointer to byte bits per packed value broadened, broadening

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25 brn brt bsc bsl btm bvr bw bwn bxm cbc ccd cch ccn cdnc cff cfg chk chm chn cht ck clb clc cld cll clm cln clr cls cly cmd cml cmm cmn cmp cn cnc cnd cnf cnk cnm cnp cns cnsc cnt Brownian or barn brightness (temperature) or barotropic (ant. bcl) backscatter Bessel bottom, lowermost (ant. top) bi-variate (ant. uvr) black and white Bowen (ratio) box model cubic coccidioidomycosis cache cloud condensation nuclei cloud droplet number concentration coefficient configure check chemistry channel cheatsheet correlated-k Coulomb collection cloud, cloudy or all sky (ant. clr) collision or cell or collimated column or climate clean (aerosol-free) (ant. aer) color or clear (cloud-free) (ant. cld) Celsius (ant. klv) or class or close (ant. opn) or classical (ant. qnt) clay command cumulative communicator common compare condensation nuclei concentration or conclusion condensate, condensed or conductivity, conductance conform chunk continuum canopy consulate consecutive count or continuum

26 cnv cor cos cp cpc cpl cpt cpv cpx crc crd crl crp crr crs crs crt csn cst csza ctg ctl ctr cv cvr cw cyl dat day dbg dbl dbn dcc dcr dcx dd ddd ddm ddp dep dex dff dfl dfn dfr

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convergence or convert or convention core (ant. mnt) cosine copy or pointer to char capacity capillary caption computational precision variable complex correction or circumference or circle coordinate curl (ant. dvr) or coral creep (surface) or cryptography current Cirrus or course (ant. hrz) or cross (ant. dot) crust, crustal Cartesian (ant. sph) or critical (syn. thr) or create seasonal cast or constant or constituent or coast, coastal cosine solar zenith angle category or contiguous control (ant. xpt) center, central or counter curriculum vitae centennial variability carbon and water cylinder (ant. sph) data night (ant. ngh) debug double (ant. flt) debian diurnal cycle decreasing or decrement double complex day of month (two digit format) (syn. dom) day of year (three digit format) (syn. doy) direct-diffuse mean dry deposition depth, as in optical depth Dalvik executable diffuse (radiation) (ant. drc) or diffusion, diffusivity (deprecated) default or deflate (ant. nfl) definite or define, definition differential or defer, deferred

27 dfs dgn dgr dgt dle dlq dlr dlt dmd dml dmm dmn dmr dmt dnd dne dnl dnm dns dom dot doy dp dpl dpp dps dpt drc drg drk drn drs drv drw dsc dsd dsh dsk dsr dsr dss dst dtc dvc dvd diffuse (radiation) or diffusion, diffusivity (preferred) diagnostic or diagonal degrees (ant. rdn) digit delta-Eddington (radiative transfer method) deliquesence dollar delta, difference diamond dust default mail address deci-millimeter (m−4 ) or dim, dimming dimension dimer diameter (ant. rds) do not delete or dendrite, dendritic does not exist delete whitespace up to new line (M4 comment) denominator (ant. nmr) density day of month (syn. dd) dot product (ant. crs) day of year (syn. ddd) pointer to double dipole or duplicate Doppler deposition depth direct (ant. dff) or direction drag dark (ant. lgt) duration address driver or derived, derivation or derivative Darwin description or discussion or discriminant or discretization drop size distribution (ant. psd) dash disk desert discrete-ordinates (radiative transfer method) disease distribution or distance or dust detector device divide (ant. mlt)

28 dvn dvr dwn dwp dyn edc eid emu enm epd eps eqm eqn eqx err est evl evn ext fch fct fcx fdl ffc fgr fk fl flc fld flg flk fll fls flt flw flx fml fn fnc fnl fnt fp frc frd frl deviation decadal variability or divergence (ant. crl) down, downwelling (ant. up) dew point dynamic education emerging infectious diseases emulate enumerated epidemiology epsilon or Encapsulated PostScript equilibrium equation equinox error East (ant. wst) evaluate even (symmetric) (ant. odd) extinction fetch factor float complex firstname.lastname effective figure fake file or firstnamelastname (no space) fluctuating, fluctuation field or fluid flag flake fill or full or Fall false (ant. tru) filter or float (ant. dbl) flow or follow or fellowship or follow-up flux (syn. rrd) family first name (ant. ln) function final font pointer to float fraction or forcing or friction Froude or Faraday fractal

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29 frm frn frq frr frs fsh fsn fst ftr fwd fxm fzz gaa gam gcc gdp gds gft glb glc gml gmm gmr gmt gnd gng gnm gnr goa gpd grd grp grv grw gry gsd gss gw gwc hch hdl hdr heat heg hgh formula foreign (broadened) (ant. slf) frequency (ant. wvn) (ant. wvl) (ant. prd) Fourier Fresnel or first (ant. lst) efficiency or offshore (ant. nsh) fusion offset future forward (ant. rvr) or forward scatter (ant. bck) fix me (debugging) fuzzy (band averaged) global annual average global annual mean global climate change gravitational deposition geodesic gift global or greatest lower bound glacier, glacial, glaciogenic Gmail address gamma geomorphology, geomorphic Greenwich Mean Time or geometric ground or agenda geo-engineering genome, genomic generic or generator geometric optics approximation gas phase diffusion grid or gradient (ant. crl) group gravity, gravitation grow, growth grey geometric standard deviation Gauss, Gaussian Gaussian weight gravimetric water content heterogeneous chemistry headline header heating HDF EOS Grid high (ant. low)

30 hgt hh hi hlc hlt hmd hmg hms hnr hr hrd hrs hrz hst htrn hxg hyd i18n iaf icc icr id idx ilg img in ini inq int ipc ipm ips ipt iso ist itp itr ivr jc jrn klv kml kmz knd knm

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ABBREVIATIONS

height (ant. wdt) hour of day (two digit format) (syn. hr) high, uppermost (ant. lo) holocene health humidity homogeneous (ant. nhm) hemisphere Henry or honor, honors hour surface hoar depth hoar horizontal (ant. vrt) or high-resolution history HITRAN hexagon, hexagonal (ant. bbc) hydrology internationalization ice albedo feedback interannual cycle or ice core ice core identifier index or indices illegal (ant. lgl) imaginary or image input initial, initialize inquire integer interparticle cohesion isopotomer idiom and practice of science isopotomer isotope or isothermal interstitial isotope iterator or iteration interannual variability journal club journal Kelvin (ant. cls) Keyhole Markup Language (syn. kmz) zipped (compressed) Keyhole Markup Language file (syn. kml) Knudson kinematic

31 knt kyt l10n lac lai lak lat lbl lbr lbr lcl lcn ldr lev lfc lft lgf lgl lgn lgt liq lkt llm lmn ln ln lnd lng lnr lnt lo loi lon los low lp lpl lqd lrn lrv lsc lsf lss lst ltn kinetic kite localization light absorbing carbon leaf area index (ant. vai,sai) lake latitude (ant. lon) label or line-by-line larboard (syn. prt) (ant. sbr) library local location lidar level lifecycle lift or left (ant. rgt) or lifetime logfile legal (ant. ilg) lognormal or legend light (ant. drk) or lightning liquid look-up table illumination element or laminar last name (surname) (ant. fn) line or natural logarithm land long or length or language linear (ant. nlr) lenticular low, lowermost (ant. hi) letter of intent longitude (ant. lat) letter of support low (ant. hgh) pointer to long Laplace, Laplacian liquid Lorentz, Lorentzian least rapidly varying last significant character line shape factor loess list or last (ant. frs) latent (heat) (ant. sns) or latency

32 ltr lub lut lvl m17n max mbl mca mcr mdl mdm mdn mdp mds mfp mgn mie min mjr mk mlc mlk mll mlmic mlr mlr mls mlt mlw mm mmn mmr mmt mmw mnc mng mnm mno mnr mnt mod mom mono moy mpc

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letter or liter least upper bound lookup table level multilingualization maximum (ant. min) mobilization multi-component aerosol micron modal (ant. sxn) or model (ant. obs), (ant. msr) medium (ant. prt), (ant. core), (ant. ncl) median midpoint (ant. ntf) modulus mean free path magnetism, magnetic Mie minimum (ant. max) major make, create molecule, molecular Malkmus or Milankovitch molality (mol kg−1 ) mean linear mass increase coefficient molarity (mol L−1 ) molarity (mol L−1 ) mid-latitude summer or mean line spacing multiply (ant. dvd) or multiple (ant. sgl) mid-latitude winter month of year or minute of hour (two digit format) (syn. moy, mth) moment or momentum mass mixing ratio or memory mammatus mean molecular weight Monte Carlo monograph minimum (ant. mxm) Monin-Obukhov minor or mineral, mineralogy monotonic or minute or mantissa or mantle (ant. cor) modulus moment (e.g., in Legendre expansion) monochromatic month of year (syn. moy) mass path column or impaction

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mpl implementation or mass path layer mpr empirical mrd (mass) mixing ratio in dry air (ant. mrm) mrk Markov mrm (mass) mixing ratio in moist air (ant. mrd) mrr mirror mrv most rapidly varying mrz Mars, Martian msc miscellaneous or music msg message msk mask msl mean sea level msn emission msr measured, measurement (ant. mdl), (syn. obs) mss mass or missing (value) mst moisture, moist (air) (ant. dry) msv emissivity mtd metadata or method mtg meeting or mitigation (ant. adp) mth month (syn. moy, mm) or math mtm metamorphism mtr meter or metric mtx matrix (ant. ncl) mwb Maxwell-Boltzmann mxg Maxwell Garnett (ant. brg) mxm maximum (ant. mnm) naa number average analytic nar number average resolved nb narrow band nbr number nc netCDF ncl nucleation or nucleus, nuclei, nuclear or inclusion (syn. core), (syn. prt), (ant. mtx) or include ncr increasing or increment or encrypted (ant. ucr) ncv natural climate variability ncw nuclear winter ndc normalized device coordinates ndf indefinite ndm non-dimensional or endemic ndr indirect effect or nadir, downward looking (ant. zen) nfc infection nfl inflate (ant. dfl) nfn infinite nfo info., information ngh night (ant. day) or neighbor ˚ ngs Angstr¨ m o

34 nhm nlr nm nma nmn nmr nms npc npl nrg nrs nrs nrt nsh nsl nsm nsr nst nsz ntc ntf ntg nth ntl ntm ntn ntp ntr nts ntt ntv ntw nvr nvt nwa nwr nwt nxt obl obs ocn oda[c,l] odd ods[c,l] odx

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inhomogeneous (ant. hmg) non-linear (ant. lnr) name number median analytic nominal or non-monotonic number median resolved or numeric or numerator (ant. dnm) namespace number path column number path level energy or inorganic (ant. rgn) inertia nurse, nursing North (ant. sth) onshore (ant. fsh) insolation ensemble answer instrument or instantiate, instantiation or instructor, instruction Nussenzweig interception or notice interface (ant. mdp) integral or integer enthalpy initial or initials intermediate intensity or radiance interpolate, interpolant or entropy introduction (ant. cnc) or internal (ant. xtr) or nutrient or entertainment note to self annotate, annotated, notation interval network environment (ant. prc) or inversion or never invitation number weighted average analytic number weighted average resolved Newton (syn. rph), Newtonian next (ant. prv) or (ant. crr) oblate (ant. prl) observed, observation (ant. mdl), (syn. msr) ocean optical depth absorption [column,layer] odd (anti-symmetric) (ant. evn) optical depth scattering [column,layer] extinction optical depth

35 odx[c,l] off omp op opn opt osm out ovl ovr pbl pcc pch pck pcl pcp pct pd pdd pfl pfo pforc pfx pht phy phz plc plk pll pln plp plr plt plt pmr pnl pnt ppl ppp ppr prc prd prf prg prj optical depth extinction [column,layer] offsest OpenMP operation open (ant. cls) optical or option or optimal osmotic output overlay overlap public (ant. prv) or planetary boundary layer polar climate change photochemistry (ant. hch) or pch pack, packed (ant. upk) Peclet or parcel (ant. nvr) precipitation percent present day photodiode profile pseudo-first order pseudo-first order rate coefficient prefix photon phytolith phase place or policy or paleoclimate Planck palette or pollution plant or plain (syn. ucr) or planar (ant. sld) plane parallel polar, as in polar angle (ant. azi) plot politics, political partial molar refraction (optical approximation) panel point population or popular (ant. prv) pre-proposal partial pressure or paper process or photodissociation rate coefficient or precision period (ant. frq) or product profile program projection

36 prl prm prn prp prs prt prv prv prx psd psd psn pss pst pth ptn ptr pwr pyr qck qdr qnt qst rat rbn rbt rcd rch rcm rcp rcr rct rdb rdc rdd rdl rdn rdr rds rec rf rfl rfr rgd rgh

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parallel (ant. prp) or prolate (ant. obl) or parliamentarian parameter or prime or permafrost print, printer or parentheses, parenthetical, or period property or perpindicular (ant. prl) or proposal or propre (clean) (ant. sal) pressure or parse or person or press partial or partition or port (syn. lbr) (ant. sbr) peer-reviewed (ant. ppl) private (ant. pbl) or previous or provisional approximation particle size distribution (ant. dsd) (syn. szdst) or pseudonym postdoc position Poisson or parent snow sample positive or poster or pesticide path potential pointer or poetry power pyrocumulus QuikSCAT quadratic or quadruple quantum (ant. cls) saturated mixing ratio rate rebin rebuttal return code research recompute reciprocal recurrence (ant. nrcr) rectangle, rectangular (ant. rrg) erodible, erodibility reduced retain degenerate dimensions radial radian (ant. dgr) or radiation order (ant. rrd) or redder (longer wavelength) (ant. blr) radius (ant. dmt) record reef reflectance refraction or reference or refresh rigid roughness

37 rgl rgn rgr rgt rhd rjc rl rlh rlm rlt rlv rma rmn rmt rnb rnd rng rnk rph rpk rpl rpr rpt rqr rqs rrd rrg rsd rsl rsn rsr rss rst rtc rth rtl rtp rtr rts rtt rvr rvw rx rxn rxr regular region or original or organic (ant. nrg) regression or regrid right (ant. lft) relative humidity at deliquescence reject, rejected real roughness length heat roughness length momentum relative roughness length water vapor resonance of maximum amplitude remaining or Riemann remote rainbow raindrop range rank Raphson (syn. nwt) repack replicate, replicant reprint report require request irradiation, irradiance (syn. flx), (ant. ntn) or re-order (ant. rdr) irregular (ant. rct) residue or residual resolved (ant. anl) or result resolution resource resistance reset article arithmetic or orthogonal, orthonormal run-time linking ready-to-post retrieval or router ready-to-send rotated, rotation, rotational, rotator reverse (ant. fwd) or river, riverine review regular expression reaction reaction rate

38 rxrc ryl ryn ryt rzh saa sai sal sar sas saw sbf sbl sbr sbs sbt sca scc scd scf scl scn scr sct scv sd sdm sdn sdv seb sec sfc sft sfx sgl sgn sgs shf shm shp shr sht sin skp sl reaction rate coefficient Rayleigh Reynolds ray-tracing erosion surface area average analytic stem area index (ant. vai,lai) sal (dirty) (ant. prp) surface area average resolved sub-Arctic summer or surface-atmosphere system sub-Arctic winter Spherical bessel function sublimation subroutine or starboard (ant. prt) (ant. lrb) subscript (ant. sps) subtract (ant. add) scattering (ant. abs) seasonal cycle schedule snow cover fraction scale second or scan security or secret scatter, scattering, scatterometer, or structure scalar value or scavenge, scavenging side sediment student standard deviation surface energy budget second surface software suffix single (ant. mlt) sign sub-gridscale shuffle Schmidt shape or ship Sherwood short sine skip soil

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39 slb slb slc sld slf sln slp slr sls slt slv sma sml smm smp smr snd sng snp sns snw sov sp spc spf sph spn spr sps sqr src srd srf srg srm srs srt srv ss ssh ssl stb stc std sth slab solubility slice solid (ant. pln) self (broadened) (ant. frn) solution slip solar solstice solute (ant. slv) or silt or saltation, saltator solvent (ant. slt) or solve, solver surface area median analytic similarity summation soil matric potential or sample or simple or symmetric multi-processing Summer or surface area median resolved or summary sonde or sand string snap or snowpack sensitivity or sensible (heat) or sunset snow separation of variables pointer to short special or spectral (ant. bb) or specific or spectroscopy or space superfluous or spitfire sphere, spherical (ant. cyl) (ant. asp) span Spring or sparse or super superscript (ant. sbs) square, squared source or structure stride surface reflectance feedback storage stream series start or sort service or server single scattering or sensitivity study or second of minute (two digit format) secret sea-salt stable or stability sticking (coalescence) standard South (ant. nrt)

40 stk stl stm stmt stp str stt stx sty sv svd svm svn svp svr svy sw swa swg swr sxn sys sz sza szdst tbf tbl tca tck tdp thk thr thw tlk tm tmp tms tnd tnr tns tnt top tpg tpt trb Stokes or stack satellite stimulated statement step star or strength or stress status, state or statement or students’ t-test stratosphere-troposphere exchange style save saturation vapor density saturation vapor mixing ratio subversion saturation vapor pressure seasonal variability survey software surface area weighted average analytic software engineering surface area weighted average resolved section or sectional (ant. modal) system size solar zenith angle size distribution time between flights table tropical cirrus anvil tick turbulent deposition thick, thickness threshold thaw talk time temporary TOMS or timeseries tendency tenure tensor tentative top, uppermost (ant. btm) topography, topographic temperature turbulent, turbulence

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41 trc tracer trg trace gas or target or trigger trm thermal or term or termination trn transmittance, transmission or transformation or trend or translation, translational (energy) trp tropics, tropical or triplet tru true (ant. fls) tst test ttl total or title txt text or texture (soil) typ type ucr un-encrypted (plain text) (ant. ncr) um micron, micrometer unk unknown unn union up upward, upwelling (ant. dwn) upk unpack, unpacked (ant. pck) upt uptake upw upward, upwelling (ant. dwn) usg usage usr user uvr uni-variate (ant. bvr) vaa volume average analytic vai vegetation area index (leaf + stem) (ant. lai,sai) val value var variability or variable or volume average resolved vbr vibration vct vector vec vector vf Valley Fever vgt vegetation or Voigt vlc volcano, volcanic vld valid, model validation dataset vlm volume vlw volume-weighted vma volume median analytic vmr volume median resolved vnt event or ventilation vp pointer to void vpr vapor vrb verbose vrn variance vrs version vrt vertical (ant. hrz) or vortex, vortice vsb visible vsc viscous, viscosity

42 vsh vta vwa vwc vwr vzn wbl wbn wdp wdt wdw wgt wht winoc wk osw wnd wnt wrd wrk wrp wsoc wst wt wth wtl wtm wtn wtr wts wtv wtx wv wvl wvn xaa xab xar xbt xcf xcl xcs xct xem xma vector spherical harmonic volume-to-area volume weighted average analytic volumetric water content volume weighted average resolved visualization Weibull wind bin wet deposition width (ant. hgt) window weight, weighted white water insoluble organic carbon (ant. wsoc) weak or week offshore wind wind or Windows Winter award work wrap water soluble organic carbon (ant. winoc) West (ant. est) wait weather wetland mass-weighted number-weighted water surface area-weighted or spectrally weighted volume-weighted cross sectional area-weighted wave wavelength (ant. wvn) wavenumber (ant. wvl) cross-sectional area average analytic extended abstract cross-sectional area average resolved exhibit eXperimental Computing Facility (gimp file format) exclude (ant. ncl) excess excited (state) extended effective medium cross-sectional area median analytic

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43 xmp xmr xnt xpc xpn xpr xpt xrf xsa xst xsx xtr xwa xwr yld yr yyyy zen zpd zro zta example cross-sectional area median resolved eccentricity (orbital) expected exponent, exponential or expand, expanded (ant. pck) expression or expire experiment (ant. ctl) cross reference cross-sectional area exist, exists cross-section, cross-sectional (area) extrapolate (ant. ntp) or extract or external (ant. ntr) cross-sectional area-weighted average analytic cross-sectional area-weighted average resolved yield year (syn. yyyy) year (four digit format) (syn. yr) zenith, upward-looking (ant. ndr) zero plane displacement zero zeta