************************************ Appendix: Acronyms and Abbreviations ************************************ .. list-table:: Table of Acronyms and Abbreviations :name: TableAcronyms :widths: 20 80 :class: tight-table * - AMF1 - First ARM Mobile Facility * - API - application programming interface * - ARM - US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility * - BNL - Brookhaven National Laboratory * - CACTI - Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions field campaign * - CAPE - convective available potential energy * - CDF2 & CDF5 - netCDF data format version 2 and 5, respectively * - Co-PI - Co-Principal Investigator * - CPU - central-processing unit * - CSAPR2 - Second Generation C-Band Scanning ARM Precipitaiton Radar * - CSI - Critical Success Index * - CSU - Colorado State University * - CSV - comma-separated values file format * - DEM - digital elevation model * - DOI - digital object identifier * - DQ Office - ARM Data Quality Office * - ETH - echo-top height * - ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts * - EDA - ECMWF Ensemble of Data Assimilations * - ERA5 - ECMWF Reanalysis Version 5 * - FB - frequency bias * - FNL - NCEP Final Operational Global Analysis * - FTP - File Transfer Protocol * - G-1 - ARM's Gulfstream-159 aircraft * - GEFS - NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System * - GEOS-5 - Goddard Earth Observing System Version 5 global earth-system model * - GOES - Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite * - GOES-16 - 16th GOES satellite * - GPFS - General Parallel File System * - GPU - graphical-processing unit * - GRIB - General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form file format * - HAGL - height above ground level * - HAMSL - height above mean sea level * - HDF5 - Hierarchal Data Format version 5 * - HPF - high-performance computing * - IR - infrared * - LASSO - LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation activity * - LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol * - LES - large-eddy simulation * - MC3E - ARM Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment field campaign * - MCS - mesoscale convective system * - MERIT - Multi-Error-Removed Improved-Terrain Digital Elevation Map * - MFE - WRF-Hydro Meteorological Forcing Engine * - ML - mixed layer * - MPI - Message Passing Interface * - MU - most unstable layer * - MYJ - Mellor-Yamada-Janjic boundary layer parameterization * - NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration * - NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research * - NCEP - National Center for Environmental Prediction * - NSF - National Science Foundation * - netCDF - Network Common Data Form file format * - OLCF - Oakridge Leadership Class Facility * - PBL - planetary boundary layer * - PI - Principal Investigator * - PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * - RMS - root mean square * - RMSD - root mean square difference * - RRTMG - Rapid Radiation Transfer Model for Global Climate Models * - RELAMPAGO - Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, and Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations * - SatCORPS - Satellite ClOud and Radiation Property retrieval System * - SGS - sub-grid scale * - THREDDS - Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services * - TKE - turbulent kinetic energy * - VISST - Visible Infrared Solar-Infrared Split Window Technique * - WPS - WRF Preprocessing System * - WRF - Weather Research and Forecasting atmosphere model * - YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language™️ * - YSU - Yonsei University boundary layer parameterization