APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS LIST
ADVIS Automated Flood Advisory Procedure
AFOS Automation of Field Operations and Services
AHPS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System
ALERT Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time
AMS American Meteorological Society
API Antecedent Precipitation Index
ARC Automatic Remote Collectors
ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers
ASOS Automated Surface Observing System
AWIPS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
CADAS Centralized Automated Data Acquisition System
COE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
CWA County Warning Area
CWFA County Warning and Forecast Area
DAPM Data Acquisition Program Manager
DCP Data Collection Platform
EBS Emergency Broadcast System
EMA Emergency Management Agency
EMWIN Emergency Management Weather Information Network
ESA Electronics Systems Analyst
ESP Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard
FLARE Flood Analysis and River Emulator
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
HADS Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
HAS Hydrometeorological Analysis and Support
HMD Hydrometeorological Discussion Product
HPC Hydrologic Prediction Center
HSA Hydrologic Service Area
IFLOWS Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System
IFP Interactive Forecast Program
IWIN Interactive Weather Information Network (Internet version
of EMWIN)
LAN Local Area Network
LARC Limited Automated Remote Collectors
MAP Mean Areal Precipitation
MAR Modernization and Associated Restructuring
MARFC Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center
MIC Meteorologist-in-Charge
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NAWAS National Warning System
NCCF NOAA Central Computer Facility
NCEP National Center for Environmental Prediction
NEXRAD Next Generation Weather Radar
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOHRSC National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
NPPU National Precipitation Prediction Unit
NWA National Weather Association
NWR NOAA Weather Radio
NWS National Weather Service
NWSFO NEXRAD Weather Service Forecast Office
NWSO NEXRAD Weather Service Office
NWSRFS National Weather Service River Forecast System
NWWS NOAA Weather Wire Service
OES Office of Emergency Services
OH Office of Hydrology
OHRFC Ohio River Forecast Center
OML Operations Manual Letter
OSF WSR-88D Operational Support Facility
PMDEPD Extended Forecast Discussion from the HPC/NCEP
QPF Quantitative Precipitation Forecast
QPFERD Excessive Rainfall Potential Outlook from the HPC/NCEP
QPFPFD Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Discussion from the
HPC/NCEP
RDA Radar Data Acquisition
RFC River Forecast Center
ROML Regional Operations Manual Letter
ROSA Remote Observation System Automation
RPG Radar Product Generator
SDM Station Duty Manual
SEUS Snow Estimation and Updating System
SH Service Hydrologist
SHEF Standard Hydrometeorological Exchange Format
SOO Science and Operations Officer
SRBC Susquehanna River Basin Commission
UADJ UADJUST parameter for NWSRFS
UHF Ultra High Frequency
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
UTC universale temp coordinaire (French) translated as coordinated
universal time
WAN Wide Area Network
WCM Warning Coordination Meteorologist
WARFS Water Resources Forecast System
WHFS WFO Hydrologic Forecast System
WSH National Weather Service Headquarters
WSR-88D Doppler Weather Surveillance Radar
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