acronym.id,acronym.ts,acronym.initial,acronym.meaning 116,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PCA,"principal component analysis" 117,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PDE,"partial differential equation" 118,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PDF/pdf,"probability density/distribution function" 119,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PDO,"Pacific decadal oscillation" 120,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PDSI,"Palmer drought severity index" 121,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",POD,"probability of detection" 122,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PoP,"probability of precipitation" 123,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ppb,"parts per billion" 124,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PPI,"plan position indicator" 125,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ppm,"parts per million" 126,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ppmv,"parts per million by volume" 127,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PRF,"pulse repetition frequency" 128,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",psu,"practical salinity unit" 129,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PV,"potential vorticity" 131,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",QPE,"quantitative precipitation estimation" 133,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",R/V,"research vessel" 134,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",RAFOS,"not an acronym; no expansion" 135,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",Re,"real part" 136,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",RH,"relative humidity" 137,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",RHI,"range–height indicator" 138,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",rhs,"right-hand side" 139,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",rms/RMS,root-mean-square 140,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",rmse/RMSE,"root-mean-square error" 141,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",RT,"radiative transfer" 143,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SACZ,"South Atlantic convergence zone" 144,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SH,"Southern Hemisphere" 145,"2017-07-06 23:37:51","SI units","International System of Units" 146,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SLP,"sea level pressure" 147,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SNR,"signal-to-noise ratio" 148,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SOFAR,"sound fixing and ranging" 149,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SOI,"Southern Oscillation index" 150,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SON,September–November 151,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SPCZ,"South Pacific convergence zone" 152,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SSA,"sea surface anomaly" 153,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SSH,"sea surface height" 154,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SST,"sea surface temperature" 155,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SSTA,"sea surface temperature anomaly" 156,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",STP,"standard temperature and pressure" 157,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SVAT,"soil–vegetation–atmosphere transfer" 158,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SVD,"singular value decomposition" 159,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",SWE,"snow water equivalent" 161,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",THC,"thermohaline circulation" 162,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",TKE,"turbulent/turbulence kinetic energy" 163,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",TOA,"top of the atmosphere" 164,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",TPW,"total precipitable water" 166,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",UHF,ultrahigh-frequency 167,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",UHI,"urban heat island" 168,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",UTC,"coordinated universal time" 169,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",UTM,"universal transverse Mercator" 170,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",UV,ultraviolet 172,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",VAD,"velocity–azimuth display" 173,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",VHF,"very high frequency" 175,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",w.r.t.,"with respect to" 176,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",WES,"wind–evaporation–SST [often with “feedback”]" 177,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",WISHE,"wind-induced surface heat exchange" 178,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",WKBJ,"Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin–Jeffreys (sometimes just WKB)" 180,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",XCTD,"expendable CTD" 182,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",yr,year 186,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ASCII,"American Standard Code for Information Exchange" 187,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",BUFR,"Binary Universal Form for Representation of Meteorological Data" 188,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CD-ROM,"compact disc read-only memory" 189,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CPU,"central processing unit" 190,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CSV,"comma-separated values" 191,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",DOS,"Disk Operating System" 192,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",Fortran,"Formula Translating System" 193,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",FTP,"file transfer protocol" 194,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",HTML,"Hypertext Markup Language" 195,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",IDL,"Interactive Data Language" 196,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",IP,"Internet protocol" 197,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",LAN,"local area network" 198,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",MATLAB,"matrix laboratory" 199,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",MySQL,"My Structured Query Language" 200,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",netCDF,"Network Common Data Form" 201,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",OS/2,"Operating System/2" 202,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PC,"personal computer" 203,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",PDF,"Portable Document Format" 204,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",RAM,"random-access memory" 205,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ROM,"read-only memory" 206,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",TCP/IP,"Transmission Control Protocol/Internet protocol suite" 207,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",UNIX/Unix,"a computer operating system" 208,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",URL,"uniform resource locator" 209,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",USB,"universal serial bus" 210,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",Wi-Fi,"local area wireless network" 211,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",XML,"Extensible Markup Language" 216,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",AFGL,"Air Force Geophysics Laboratory" 217,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",AOML,"Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory" 218,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",APDRC,"Asia–Pacific Data-Research Center" 219,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ARL,"Air Resources Laboratory" 220,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",ASCE,"American Society of Civil Engineers" 222,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",BCC,"Beijing Climate Center" 223,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",BMRC,"Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre" 224,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",BOEM,"Bureau of Ocean Energy Management" 225,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",BoM,"Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)" 227,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CAWCR,"Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research" 228,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CCCma,"Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis" 229,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CCSR,"Center for Climate System Research" 230,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CDAAC,"COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center" 231,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CERFACS,"Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique" 232,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CIMSS,"Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies" 233,"2017-07-06 23:37:51",CIRA,"Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere"