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\chapter{Acronyms}

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AFWA & Air Force Weather Agency \\
API & Application Program Interface \\
ARPS & Advanced Regional Prediction System \\
ARW & Advanced Research WRF \\
BUFR & Binary Universal Form for the Representation of Meteorological Data \\
CAM & Community Atmosphere Model \\
CAPE & Convectively Available Potential Energy \\
CAPS & Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms \\
CG & Coarse grid (also referred to as the parent domain) \\
CGM & Conjugate Gradient Method \\
COAMPS & Coupled Ocean / Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System \\
COMET & Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training \\
DFI & Digital Filtering Initialization \\
DTC & Developmental Testbed Center \\
ECMWF & The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts \\
EOF & Empirical Orthogonal Function \\
ESMF & Earth System Modeling Framework \\
FAA & Federal Aviation Administration \\
FG & Fine grid (also referred to as the child domain) \\
FGAT & First Guess at Appropriate Time \\
FSL & Forecast System Laboratory \\
GFDL & Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory \\
GFS & Global Forecast System \\
GRIB & Gridded Binary \\
GRIMs & The Global and Regional Integrated Model System \\
IFS & The Integrated Forecast System \\
KIAPS & Korean Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems \\
KMA & Korean Meteorological Administration \\
LSM & Land Surface Model \\
MKS & Meter Kilogram Second \\
MM5 & Pennsylvania State / NCAR Mesoscale Model Version 5 \\
MMM & Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division \\
MRF & Medium Range Forecast Model \\
NAM & North American Mesoscale Model \\
NCAR & National Center for Atmospheric Research \\
NCEP & National Centers for Environmental Prediction \\
NFS & Non-hydrostatic Forecast System (Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan) \\
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NMM & Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model \\
NOAA & National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration \\
NRL & Navy Research Laboratory \\
NWP & Numerical Weather Prediction \\
OSU & Oregon State University \\
PBL & Planetary Boundary Layer \\
PPM & Piecewise Parabolic Method \\
QNM & Quasi Newton Method \\
RHS & Right Hand Side \\
RRTM & Rapid Radiative Transfer Model \\
RUC & Rapid Update Cycle \\
TKE & Turbulent Kinetic Energy \\
UCAR & University Corporation for Atmospheric Research \\
YSU & Yonsei University (Korea) \\
VAR & Variational Data Assimilation \\
WPS & WRF Preprocessing System (programs geogrid, ungrib, metgrid) \\
WRF & Weather Research and Forecasting Model \\
WSF & WRF Software Framework \\
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