| 2D / 3D / 4D |
2 / 3 / 4-Dimensional |
| 1D / 3D / 4D-Var |
1 / 3 / 4-Dimensional Variational analysis |
| AAI |
Absorbing Aerosol Indicator (Ozone SAF product) |
| AAPP |
AVHRR and ATOVS Processing Package |
| AD |
Applicable Document |
| ADD |
Architectural Design Document |
| ADEOS |
ADvanced Earth Observing Satellite (NASDA, Japan) |
| ADM |
Angular Distribution Model |
| AFG |
Administrative and Finance Group (of EUMETSAT) |
| AGCM |
Atmospheric Global Circulation Model |
| AGS |
Application Ground Segment |
| AIRS |
Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder |
| AIT |
Assembly, Integration, Test |
| AIV |
Assembly, Integration, Verification |
| AMA |
Air Mass Analysis (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| AMI |
Active Microwave Instrumentation (on ERS-1/2) |
| AMSU |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
| AMSU-A |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A |
| AMSU-B |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B |
| AMV |
Atmospheric Motion Vector (MSG MPEF product) |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| AO |
Announcement of Opportunity |
| AOCS |
Attitude Orbit Control System |
| AOD |
Aerosol Optical Depth |
| AOT |
Aerosol Optical Thickness |
| API |
Antecedent Precipitation Index |
| API |
Algorithm Processing Interface |
| APT |
Automatic Picture Transmission |
| AQC |
Automatic Quality Control |
| AR |
Ambiguity Removal |
| ARGOS |
Meteorological Data Collection and Location System |
| ARPEGE |
Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle (French NWP model) |
| AS |
Associated Scientist |
| ASCAT |
Advanced SCATterometer |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASI |
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana |
| ASII |
Automatic Satellite Image Interpretation (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| ATOVS |
Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| ATSR |
Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Rate Radiometer |
| BALTEX |
BALTic sea EXperiment |
| BfG |
Bundesamt für Gewässerkunde (Koblenz, Germany) |
| bps |
bits per second |
| BSH |
Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (Hamburg, Germany) |
| BRDF |
Bi-directional Reflection Distribution Function |
| BSRN |
Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
| BTE |
Bench Test Equipment |
| BUFR |
Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (of WMO) |
| Cal/Val |
Calibration and Validation |
| CAL-MON |
Calibration Monitoring |
| CBS |
Commission for Basic Systems (of WMO) |
| CCF |
Cloud Correction Factor |
| CCSDS |
Consultative Committee on Space Data Systems |
| CDA |
Command and Data Acquisition |
| CDR |
Critical Design Review |
| CD-ROM |
Compact Disk-Read Only Memory |
| CDS |
Climate Data Set (MSG MPEF Product) |
| CDS |
Cloud Detection System (from KNMI) |
| CEO |
Centre for Earth Observation |
| CEOS |
Committee of Earth Observation Satellites |
| CERES |
Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| CGMS |
Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites |
| CGS |
Core Ground Segment (of EPS) |
| CIE |
Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (International Commission on Illumination) |
| CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) |
| CLA |
Cloud Analysis (MSG MPEF Product) |
| CLARA |
CLouds And RAdiation measurement campaign (from KNMI) |
| CLM |
Calibration support/monitoring (MSG MPEF product) |
| CLM |
CLimate Monitoring |
| CLW |
Cloud Liquid Water |
| CM |
Conceptual Models |
| CM |
Climate Monitoring |
| CMa |
Cloud Mask (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| CMF |
Circular Median Filter |
| CMOD |
C MODel (geophysical transfer function for C-band scatterometer) |
| CMP |
Configuration Management Plan |
| CMS |
Centre de Météorologie Spatiale (Lannion, France) |
| CMV |
Cloud Motion Vector |
| CMW |
Cloud Motion Winds (MTP product) |
| CNES |
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (France) |
| CNRM |
Centre National de Recherche Météorologique (Toulouse, France) |
| COTS |
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf |
| CPS |
Complementary Platform System |
| CRAG |
Cloud Recognition Algorithm for GOME |
| CRR |
Convective Rainfall Rate (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| CSR |
Clear Sky Radiances (MSG MPEF Product) |
| CT |
Cloud Type (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| CTH |
Cloud Top Height (MSG MPEF product) |
| CTTH |
Cloud Top Temperature and Height |
| DADF |
Data Acquisition and Dissemination Facility |
| dB |
decibel |
| DCP |
Data Collection Platform |
| DCS |
Data Collection System |
| DDD |
Detailed Design Document |
| DEM |
Digital Earth Model / Digital Elevation Model |
| DISORT |
DIScrete Ordinates Radiative Transfer |
| DLR |
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) |
| DLR |
Downwelling Long-wave Radiation |
| DMI |
Danish Meteorological Institute |
| DMSP |
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (of the US Department of Defense) |
| DNMI |
Det Norske Meteorologiske Institutt (Norwegian Meteorological Institute) |
| DOAS |
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
| DoD |
Department of Defense (USA) |
| DRS |
Data Relay Satellite |
| DSLF |
Downward Surface Long-wave Flux (Ocean & Sea Ice and Land SAF product) |
| DSSF |
Downward Surface Short-wave Flux (Ocean & Sea Ice and Land SAF product) |
| DTM |
Digital Terrain Model |
| DU |
Dobson Units |
| DWD |
Deutscher Wetterdienst (German National Meteorological Service) |
| EBBT |
Equivalent Black Body Temperature |
| EC |
European Commission |
| ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (Reading, UK) |
| ECSN |
European Climate Support Network |
| EGOPS |
End-to-end GNSS Occultation Performance Simulator |
| EGSE |
Electrical Ground Support Equipment |
| EIRP |
Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power |
| EM |
Engineering Model |
| ENSO |
El Niño Southern Oscillation |
| ENVISAT |
ENVIronmental SATellite (ESA) |
| EOL |
End of Life |
| EOS |
Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS |
Earth Observation System Data Information System |
| EPS |
EUMETSAT Polar System |
| ERA |
ECMWF Re-Analysis |
| ERB |
Earth Radiation Budget |
| ERBE |
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (NASA) |
| ERBS |
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ERS |
European Remote-sensing Satellite (ESA) |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESOC |
European Space Operation Centre |
| ESTEC |
European Space Research & Technology Centre |
| ETC/LC |
European Topic Centre/Land Cover |
| EU |
European Union |
| EUMETSAT |
EUropean Organisation for the Exploitation of METeorological SATellites |
| EURD |
End Users Requirements Document |
| FAPAR |
fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetic Active Radiation (Land SAF product) |
| FAR |
Flight Acceptance Review |
| FASTEX |
Fronts and Atlantic Storm-Track EXperiment |
| FDP |
Fast Delivery Product |
| FGAT |
First Guess at Appropriate Time |
| FGV |
Fraction of Green Vegetation (Land SAF product) |
| FIR |
Flight Information Region |
| FM |
Flight Model |
| FMA |
Fondazione di Meteorologia Applicata (Florence, Italy) |
| FMI |
Finnish Meteorological Institute |
| FOV |
Field of View |
| FPP |
Frequency Power Profile |
| FSSP |
Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| G/S |
Ground Segment |
| GAC |
Global Area Coverage |
| GAW |
Global Atmosphere Watch |
| GCM |
Global Circulation Model |
| GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
| GDS |
Global Data Stream |
| GEMI |
Global Environment Monitoring Index |
| GEOSAR |
GEOstationary satellite Search And Rescue |
| GEOSAT |
GEOdetic/GEOphysical SATellite (US Navy) |
| GEOS-C |
Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite (NASA) |
| GERB |
Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (instrument on MSG) |
| GEWEX |
Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment (of WMO) |
| GFE |
Government-Furnished Equipment |
| GII |
Global Instability Index (MSG MPEF Product) |
| GIIS |
General Instrument Interface Specification |
| GKSS |
Gesellschaft für Kernenergieverwertung in Schiffbau und Schiffahrt (Geesthacht, Germany) |
| GLONASS |
GLObal NAvigation Satellite System (Russia) |
| GMS |
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan) |
| GMES |
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
| GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time |
| GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
| GO3OS |
Global Ozone Observing System |
| GODIVA |
GOme Data Interpretation, Validation and Application |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GOME |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
| GOMETRAN |
GOME radiative TRANsfer model |
| GPCP |
Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| GPSOS |
Global Positioning System Occultation Sensor (NPOESS) |
| GRAS |
GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding |
| GRIB |
GRIdded Binary format (of WMO) |
| GRM |
GRAS Meteorology |
| GS |
Ground Segment |
| GSE |
Ground-Support Equipment |
| GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD, USA) |
| GTS |
Global Telecommunication System (of WMO) |
| GUAN |
GCOS Upper Air Network |
| GVaP |
Global water Vapour Project (from WCRP/GEWEX) |
| HCP |
Humidity Composite Product (Climate SAF product) |
| HIRLAM |
HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model |
| HIRS |
High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder |
| HL |
High Latitude |
| HNMS |
Hellenic National Meteorological Service (Athens, Greece) |
| HOPE |
Hamburg Operations Primitive Equations model (Ocean Circulation Model) |
| HPI |
High resolution Precipitation Index (MSG MPEF Product) |
| HQ |
Headquarters |
| HRIT |
High Rate Image Transmission |
| HRPT |
High Rate Picture Transmission |
| HRUS |
HRIT User Station |
| HRV |
High Resolution Visible |
| HRVIS |
High Resolution VISible |
| HRW |
High Resolution Wind vectors from HRVIS (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| I/F |
Interface |
| IAMAP |
International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics |
| IASI |
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IATA |
Institute of Agrometeorology and Environmental Analysis Applied in Agriculture (Florence, Italy) |
| ICAT |
Instituto de Ciencia Aplicada e Tecnologia (Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal) |
| ICD |
Interface Control Document |
| ICFA |
Initial Cloud Fitting Algorithm |
| ICU |
Instrument Control Unit |
| IDCS |
International Data Collection System |
| IDHS |
Instrument Data Handling System |
| IDS |
ISCCP Data Set (MSG MPEF Product) |
| IEEC |
Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) |
| IERS |
International Earth Rotation Service |
| IFOV |
Instantaneous Field Of View |
| IFREMER |
Institut Français de REcherche pour l'exploitation de la MER (French Oceanic Institute, Brest) |
| IGBP |
International Geosphere / Biosphere Programme |
| IGS |
International GPS Service |
| IM |
Instituto de Meteorologia (Lisbon, Portugal) |
| IMK |
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (Karlsruhe, Germany) |
| IMPF |
Image Processing Facility (part of the MSG Ground Segment) |
| INM |
Institut Nacional de Meteorologia (Spanish National Meteorological Service) |
| INRIA |
INstitut de Recherche en Informatique Appliquee |
| IPCC |
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IR |
InfraRed |
| IRR |
Integration Readiness Review |
| IRTS |
Infrared Temperature Sounder |
| ISCCP |
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| ISSWG |
IASI Sounder Science Working Group |
| ITPP |
International TOVS Processing Package |
| ITRA |
Intercomparison of Transmittance and Radiance Algorithms |
| ITRF |
International Terrestrial Reference Frame |
| ITS |
Interferometer Thermal Sounder |
| JASIN |
Joint Air-Sea INteraction experiment |
| JERS |
Japanese Earth Resources Satellite |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, California, USA) |
| JRC |
Joint Research Centre |
| KNMI |
Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands) |
| LAI |
Leaf Area Index (Land SAF product) |
| LAM |
Local Area Model |
| LBL |
Line-By-Line (type of RTM) |
| LEO |
Low Earth Orbit |
| LEOP |
Launch and Early Orbit Phase |
| LMD |
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (Palaiseau, France) |
| LML |
Low and Mid-Latitude |
| LPW |
Layer Precipitable Water (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| LRIT |
Low Rate Image Transmission |
| LRPT |
Low Rate Picture Transmission |
| LSA |
Land Surface Analysis |
| LST |
Land Surface Temperature (Land SAF product) |
| LUT |
Look-Up Table |
| LUX |
AVHRR cloud parameters extraction scheme from Météo France |
| LW |
Long-Wave |
| LWC |
Liquid Water Content |
| LWR |
Long-Wave Radiation |
| MARF |
Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility |
| MAUVE |
MApping UV by Europe |
| MCP |
Meteorological Communications Package |
| MCS |
Mesoscale Convective System |
| MERIS |
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| METOP |
METeorological OPerational satellite (EUMETSAT) |
| MF |
Météo France |
| MHS |
Microwave Humidity Sounder |
| MIEC |
Meteorological Information Extraction Centre |
| MIMR |
Multi-frequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer |
| MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer |
| MMI |
Man Machine Interface |
| MODIS |
MODerate resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
| MODTRAN |
MODerate resolution TRANsmittance code |
| MOL |
Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg |
| MOP |
Meteosat Operational Programme |
| MPEF |
Meteorological Products Extraction Facility (part of MSG Ground Segment) |
| MPIfM |
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Hamburg, Germany) |
| MSG |
Meteosat Second Generation |
| MSL |
Mean Sea Level |
| MSU |
Microwave Sounding Unit |
| MTBF |
Mean Time Between Failure |
| MTL |
Master Timeline |
| MTP |
Meteosat Transition Programme |
| MTR |
Mid-Term Review |
| MTS |
Microwave Temperature Sounder |
| MTTR |
Mean Time To Repair |
| N/A |
Not Applicable or Not Available |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) |
| NASDA |
Nippon Aeronautics and Space Development Administration |
| NCEP |
National Center for Environmental Prediction (Washington) |
| NDVI |
Normalised Differential Vegetation Index (Land SAF product) |
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NOAA) |
| NETD |
Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature |
| NILU |
Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
| NIR |
Near InfraRed |
| NMC |
National Meteorological Center (Washington, USA) |
| NMS |
National Meteorological Service |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NORDRAD |
NORdic RADar network |
| NPOESS |
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NOAA) |
| NRT |
Near-Real-Time |
| NSCAT |
NASA SCATterometer (on ADEOS-1) |
| NVAP |
NASA water VApour Project |
| NWC |
Nowcasting |
| NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
| O3M |
Ozone Monitoring |
| OASE |
Ozone Application Simulator and Explorer |
| OI |
Optimum Interpolation |
| OMI |
Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
| OPD |
OPtical Depth |
| ORR |
Operational Readiness Review |
| OSE |
Observing System Experiment |
| OSI |
Ocean and Sea Ice |
| OSSE |
Observing System Simulation Experiment |
| PA |
Product Assurance |
| PAR |
Photosynthetic Active Radiation |
| PBL |
Planetary Boundary Layer |
| PC |
Precipitating Clouds (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| PDR |
Preliminary Design Review |
| PFL |
Probability of Frame Loss |
| PLM |
Payload Module |
| PMD |
Polarisation Measurement Device |
| PMSL |
Pressure at Mean Sea Level |
| POD |
Precise Orbit Determination |
| POLDER |
POLarisation and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances |
| PP |
Project Plan |
| PPS |
Precise Positioning Service |
| RADR |
Requirements and Architectural Design Review |
| RASS |
Radio-Acoustic Sounding System |
| RD |
Reference Document |
| RDT |
Rapidly Developing Thunderstorms (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| REKLIP |
Regionales KLIma Projekt (from CH, D and F) |
| RF |
Radio Frequency |
| RFC |
Radio Frequency Compatibility |
| RFI |
Radio Frequency Interference |
| RGB |
Red Green Blue |
| RH |
Relative Humidity |
| RMA |
Royal Military Academy (Brussels, Belgium) |
| RMDCN |
Regional Meteorological Data Communication Network (ECMWF) |
| RMIB |
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (Brussels, Belgium) |
| RMS |
Root Mean Square |
| RO |
Radio Occultation |
| ROM |
Rough Order of Magnitude |
| RS |
Remote Sensing |
| RSM |
Root-zone Soil Moisture (Land SAF product) |
| RSS |
Root Sum of the Squares |
| RTM |
Radiative Transfer Model |
| RTTOV |
Radiative Transfer model for TOVS |
| S&R |
Search and Rescue |
| SADT |
Structured Analysis and Design Technique |
| SAF |
Satellite Application Facility |
| SAG |
Science Advisory Group |
| SAGE |
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
| SAI |
Stability Analysis Imagery (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SARR |
Space Absolute Radiometric Reference |
| SARVI |
Atmosphere Resistant Vegetation Index |
| SASS |
Seasat-A Scatterometer System |
| SATEM |
SATellite TEMperature (WMO code for temperature data) |
| SatRep |
Satellite Report |
| SAVI |
Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index |
| SBUV |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet radiometer |
| SC |
Snow Cover (Land SAF product) |
| SCANDIA |
SMHI Cloud Analysis model using Digital AVHRR data |
| ScaRaB |
Scanner for Earth's Radiation Budget |
| SCIAMACHY |
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (instrument on ENVISAT) |
| SCM |
Spatial Coherence Method |
| SEASAT |
SEA SATellite (launched on 27 June 1978 on behalf of NASA/JPL dedicated to ice and ocean monitoring) |
| SeaWinds |
Scatterometer system to be flown on QuikSCAT and ADEOS-2 |
| SEM |
Space Environment Monitor |
| SEVIRI |
Spinning Enhanced Visible InfraRed Imager |
| SG |
Steering Group |
| SIGMET |
SIGnificant METeorological weather chart |
| SIRR |
System/Software Integration Readiness Review |
| SIVVRR |
System/Software Integration Verification and Validation Results Review |
| SM |
Soil Moisture |
| SMAC |
Simplified Method for Atmospheric Correction |
| SMHI |
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute |
| SNR |
Signal-to-Noise Ratio |
| SODA |
Studies for Ozone Data Assimilation (EU project) |
| SOW |
Statement of Work |
| SP |
Science Plan |
| SPU |
Software Package Unit |
| SRB |
Surface Radiation Budget |
| SRD |
Software/System Requirements Document |
| SSI |
Surface Solar Irradiance |
| SSM/I |
Special Sensor Microwave/Image (on DMSP satellite) |
| SSP |
Sub-Satellite Point |
| SSS |
Scatterometer Simulator System |
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
| SSU |
Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| STG |
Scientific and Technical Group (of EUMETSAT) |
| SUVDAMA |
Scientific UV DAta MAnagement |
| SVM |
Service Module |
| SV&VP |
System/Software Verification & Validation Plan |
| SW |
Short-Wave |
| SWG |
Science Working Group (of EUMETSAT) |
| Synop |
SYNOPtical observations |
| TBC |
To Be Confirmed |
| TBD |
To Be Defined |
| TBR |
To Be Reviewed |
| TC |
Tropical Cyclone |
| TFP |
Thermal Front Parameter |
| TH |
Tropospheric Humidity (MSG MPEF Product) |
| TIP |
TIROS Information Processor |
| TIROS |
Television Infra-Red Observing Satellite |
| TM |
TeleMetry |
| TM |
Thematic Mapper |
| TOA |
Top Of the Atmosphere |
| TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| TOPEX/POSEIDON |
TOPography EXperiment satellite (launched on 10 August 1992 on behalf of NASA and CNES dedicated to the monitoring of ocean circulation) |
| TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| TOZ |
Total OZone (MSG MPEF product) |
| TPW |
Total Precipitable Water (Nowcasting SAF product) |
| TWV |
Total Water Vapour |
| UA |
University of the Aegean (Athens, Greece) |
| UBR |
University of BRemen (Bremen, Germany) |
| UBO |
University of BOnn (Bonn, Germany) |
| UE |
University of Evora (Evora, Portugal) |
| UHF |
Ultra-High Frequency |
| UICD |
Unique Instrument interface Control Document |
| UIIS |
Unique Instrument Interface Specification |
| UKMO |
Met Office of the United Kingdom |
| U-MARF |
Unified-Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility |
| UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
| URD |
User Requirements Document |
| URL |
Universal Resource Locator (Internet address) |
| UT |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece) |
| UTC |
Universal Time Coordinated |
| UTH |
Upper Tropospheric Humidity (MTP MPEF product) |
| UTM |
Universal Transverse Mercator projection system |
| UV |
Ultraviolet |
| UV |
University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain) |
| VAS |
VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |
| VCDU |
Virtual Channel Data Unit |
| VHF |
Very High Frequency |
| VIRSR |
Visible and Infrared Scanning Radiometer |
| VIS |
VISible |
| VIS/IR |
Visible / Infrared |
| VISSR |
Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer |
| VNIR |
Visible and Near Infrared |
| VS |
Visiting Scientist |
| VSRF |
Very Short Range Forecasting |
| VUB |
Free University of Brussels (Brussels, Belgium) |
| WAM |
WAve Model |
| WCDMP |
World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme |
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
| WGS-84 |
World Geodetic System, 1984 (standard ellipsoid used for GPS) |
| WHO |
WOCE Hydrographic Programme |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| WOCE |
World Ocean Circulation Experiment (of the World Climate Research Program) |
| WOUDC |
World Ozone and Ultraviolet Data Center |
| WRDC |
World Radiation Data Centre |
| WRMC |
World Radiation Monitoring Centre (Zürich) |
| WSC |
Wind SCatterometer |
| WV |
Water Vapour |
| WWW |
World Weather Watch (WMO) |
| WWW |
World Wide Web (Internet) |
| ZAMG |
Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (Austrian National Meteorological Service) |
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