Appendix: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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 |