Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

EUROTRAC — European Experiment For Transporting And Transforming Environmentally Relevant Trace Construction In The Troposphere
EUV — Extreme Ultraviolet
EV — Earned Value
EVE — Equilibrium Vegetation Ecology
EWE — Equatorial Winds Experiment
EWF — Early Warning Form
EXABYTE — Boulder-based Computer Company
EXAMETNET — Experimental Inter-American Meteorological Rocket Network
EXCEL — Experimental Chloride Extraction Line
EXEC — Executable Program
EXOSAT — European X-ray Observatory Satellite
EXPRESSO — EXPeriment For REgional Sources And Sinks of Oxidants
EXPRS — EXpendable Probe Receiver System
F — Fahrenheit
F — Femto
F — Frequency
F — Forad
F&A — Finance And Administration
F-V — Fussell-Vesely
F/P-INT — Fabry-Perot Interferometer
F/P-INT — Fabry Perot Interferometer
F77 — FORTRAN77
FAA — Federal Aviation Administration
FAC — Facilities Advisory Council
FAC — Friday Afternoon Club
FACA — Federal Advisory Committee Act
FACE — Florida Area Cirrus Experiment
FACE — Also Known As FACE ’75
FAGS — Federation of Astronomical And Geophysical Services
FAL — Frontier Airline
FAME — Florida Area Mesoscale Experiment
FAME — Formatting And Multiplexing Equipment
FAN — File Array Notation
FAO — Food And Agriculture Organization
FAPS — Fate of Atmospheric Pollutants Study
FAPS — Freedom Attached Payloads
FAQ — Frequently Asked Questions
FAS — Federation of American Scientists
FASB — Financial Accounting Standards Board
FASCODE — Fast Atmosphere Signature Code
FASE — Foundation For Advancement In Science And Education
FASINEX — Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment
FASTEX — Fronts Atlantic Storm Track Experiment
FAT — Factory Acceptance Test
FATS — Factory Acceptance Test Specification
FATS — Firearms Training Simulator
FATS — FORTRAN Automatic Timing System
FATS — Forward Area Target Surveillance System
FATS — South African Air Force Tactical Support Command
FB — Blanketing Frequency
FB — Funds Budgeted
FB — Fleischmann Building
FBA — Forecasting By Analogy
FBI — Federal Bureau of Investigation
FCA — Functional Configuration Audit
FCC — Federal Communications Commission
FCCSET — Federal Coordinating Council On Science
FCM — Federal Coordinator For Meteorological Services And Supporting Research
FCOM — Federal Coordinators Office of Meteorology
FCST — Federal Council For Science And Technology
FD — Facility Division
FDA — Food And Drug Administration
FDC — Fluid Dynamics Conference
FDCA — Federal Drug And Cosmetics Act
FDDA — Fiber Distributed Data Interface
FDDI — Fiber-distributed Data Interface
FDF — Flight Dynamics Facility
FDM — Full-depth Model
FDMA — Frequency Division Multiple Access
FDT — Fully Developed Turbulence
FE — Front-end
FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEOSH — Federal Employee Occupational Safety And Health
FEP — Front End Processor
FEPCA — Federal Environmental Pesticides Control Act
FEPCA — Federal Environmental Pollution Control Act
FERC — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FERMILAB — FERMI National Acceleration Laboratory
FEST — Fronts Experiment Systems Test
FET — Field-effect Transistor
FEWS — Follow-on Early Warning System
FFDCA — Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act (US)
FFP — Firm Fixed Price
FFRDCS — Federally Funded Research And Development Centers
FFS — Flight Facilities Survey
FFT — Fast Fourier Transform
FFTF — Fast Flux Test Facility
FFTS — Fast-Fourier Transforms
FGCMS — Fast GC / MS = Fast Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry
FGGE — First GARP Global Experiment
FHSA — Federal Hazardous Substances Act
FHWA — Federal Highway Administration
FIAR — European Aviation Partnership
FICA — Federal Insurance Contributions Act
FICS — Facility Information And Control System
FIFE — First ISLSCP Field Experiment
FIFE II — First ISLSCP Field Experiment II
FIFOLIB — N/A
FIFRA — Federal Insecticide
FILOS — Far Infrared Limb Observing Spectrometer