{"id":73,"date":"2010-07-26T20:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-11-29T20:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T01:02:20","slug":"tropical-weather-acronyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Weather Acronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please note: All the Tropical Weather Acronyms have been placed above in the Navigation Bar.<\/span><\/p>\n

While there is a lull in the tropics with no Invests or anything that looks suspicious tropic wise, I have posted a list of acronyms relating to tropical weather.<\/p>\n

ACE: Accumulated Cyclone Energy
\nAMO: Atlantic Multidecadal Osillation
\nATCF: Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting system
\nAVN: AViatioN run of the NCEP Medium Range Forecast(MRF) model
\nBAM: Beta and Advection model
\nBAMD: BAM Deep (for deep\/vertically tall systems)
\nBAMM: BAM Medium (for medium-depth systems)
\nBAMS: BAM Shallow (for weak systems\/systems steered by shallow aspects of the atmoshpere)
\nBOC: Bay Of Campeche
\nCAA: Cold Air Advection
\nCATL: Central Atlantic
\nCARCAH: Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Coordination, All Hurricanes
\nCDO: Central Dense Overcast
\nCFS: Coupled Forecast System & Climate Forecast System
\nCIMSS: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
\nCLIPER: CLImatology and PERsistence statistical track forecast model
\nCMC: Canadian Meteorological Center model
\nCONUS: CONtinental United States
\nCV: Cape Verde
\nDmax: is Diurnal Maximum is an intense flare up at convection just before sunrise and DMIN is the opposite. Dmax occurs just before sunrise when the differences in temperatures between the ocean and the air are the greatest; helps to create instability and convection
\nDmin-is for Diurnal Minimum; this occurs just before sunset when the differences in temperatures between the ocean and the air are the least; generally a weakening in convection occurs at this time.
\nEATL: East Atlantic
\nECMWF: European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting
\nENSO: El Nino\/Southern Oscillation
\nEPAC: Eastern PACific
\nEWRC: EyeWall Replacement Cycle
\nFROPA: FROntal PAssage
\nFSU MM5: Florida State University model
\nGEFS: Global Ensemble Forecast System model
\nGFDL: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory model
\nGFS: Global Forecast System model
\nGFDL: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
\nGFS: Global Forecast System
\nGOMEX: Gulf Of MEXico
\nHDOB: High Density OBservations
\nHWRF: Hurricane and Weather Research Forecasting model
\nITCZ: InterTropical Convergence Zone
\nLBAR: Limited area sine transform BARotropic model
\nLLLC: Low Level Circulation
\nLLJ: Low Level Jet
\nMCC: Mesoscale Covective Complex
\nMDR: Main Development Region
\nMJO: Madden Julian Oscillation
\nMM5: FSU Mesoscale Model
\nMRF: Medium Range Forcast model
\nMSLP: Mean Sea Level Pressure
\nMEI: Multivariate ENSO Index
\nNAM: North American Mesoscale Model
\nNAO: North Atlantic Oscillation
\nNCATL: North Central Atlantic
\nNESDIS – National Enviromental Sattelite Data Information Service
\nNEWD: Northeastward
\nNHC90\/NHC91: statistical track forecast models
\nNHC: National Hurricane Center
\nNOGAPS: Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
\nNWD: Northward
\nONI: Oceanic Nino Index
\nQBO: Quasi Biennial Oscillation
\nPDO: Pacific Decadal Oscillation
\nPOD: Plan of the Day (Recon flights)
\nRUC: Rapid Update Cycle
\nSAL: Saharan Air Layer
\nSEUS: SouthEast U.S.
\nSFMR: Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (measures wave frequencies from the surface for wind direction\/speed of systems)
\nSLOSH: Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge due to Hurricanes
\nSOI: Southern Oscillation Index
\nSPC: Storm Prediction Center
\nSSD: Satellite Services Division
\nSST: Sea Surface Temperature
\nSTD: SubTropical Depression
\nSTJ: SubTropical Jet
\nSWEAT: Severe WEAther Threat
\nSWWD: Southwestward
\nT-number: Dvorak current intensity (1.0-8.0)
\nTPC: Tropical Prediction Center
\nTCPOD: Tropical Cyclone Plan Of the Day
\nTHCP: Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential
\nTUTT: Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough
\nTPW: Total Precipitable Water
\nUKMET: United Kingdom METeorological office (global forecast model run by the UK)
\nULL: Upper Level Low
\nVV: Vertical Velocity
\nWW3: Wave Watch 3 model
\nWPAC: Western PACific
\nUTC: Universal Time Coordinated (same as Zulu time)
\nXTRP: Not a model. Short for Extrapolation. Dead reckoning plot of a storm if it kept in a straight line, with no other forces acting upon it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please note: All the Tropical Weather Acronyms have been placed above in the Navigation Bar. While there is a lull in the tropics with no Invests or anything that looks suspicious tropic wise, I have posted a list of acronyms relating to tropical weather. ACE: Accumulated Cyclone Energy AMO: Atlantic Multidecadal Osillation ATCF: Automated Tropical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tropical-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.corioliseffect.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}