Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

• GEOSIF — Geoscientific Information Framework
• GEU — Gyro Electronics Unit
• GEWEX — Global Energy And Water Cycle Experiment
• GEWEX — Continental-Scale Project
• GF — Gigaflops
• GFDL — Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• GFE — Government Furnished Equipment
• GFLOPS — Gigaflops
• GFP — Government Furnished Property
• GFS — Global Forecast System
• GFY — Government Fiscal Year
• GGEM — Gravity Gradiometer Explore Mission
• GGI — GPS Geoscience Instrument
• GGNS — Grand Gulf Nuclear Station
• GGS — Global Geospace Science Program
• GGS — Global Geospace Study
• GHB — Goddard Handbook
• GHOST — Global Horizontal Sounding Technique
• GHRS — Goddard High Resolution Spectograph
• GHZ — Giga Hertz
• GIF — Graphics Interchange Format
• GIIS — General Instrument Interface Specification
• GIMMS — Global Inventory And Monitoring And Modeling Study
• GIMPAP — GOES Product Assurance Plan
• GINI — GOES Ingest & NOAAPORT Interface
• GIPS — Billions of Instructions Per Second
• GIS — Geographic Information Systems
• GISMOS — Global Incoherent Scatter Measurements of Substorms
• GISP — Greeland Ice Sheet Program
• GISS — Goddard Institute For Space Studies
• GISST — Global Sea Ice And Sea Surface Temperature
• GKS — Graphic Kernal System
• GLA — Goddard Laboratory of The Atmospheres
• GLAS — Goddard Laboratory For Atmospheric Science
• GLERL — Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab
• GLGS — GOES Local Groundstation System
• GLIS — Global Land Information System
• GLOBE — Global Learning And Observations To Benefit The Environment
• GLOBEC — Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics
• GLOCHEM — Global Atmospheric Chemistry (or Chemical) Survey
• GLOMAC — Part of EUROTRAC
• GLONET — Global Ozone Observing System
• GLRS — Geodynamics (or Geoscience) Laser Ranging System
• GLS — GOMR Limb Sounder
• GLWQA — Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
• GM — General Motors
• GMCC — Geophysical Monitoring For Climatic Change
• GMD — Geometric Mean Diameter
• GMD-1 — N/A
• GMP — Ground Water Monitoring Plan
• GMS — Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
• GMSA — Global Multivariate Statistical Analysis
• GMT — Greenwich Mean Time
• GMU — Gyro Mechanical Unit
• GN — Ground Network
• GN AND C — Guidance
• GNSS — Ground Network Scheduling System
• GNU — GNU’s Not UNIX (a Recursive Acronym)
• GOALS — Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System
• GOASEX — Gulf of Alaska Experiment
• GOCC — GARP Operations Control Center
• GOCO — Government Owned
• GOES — Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
• GOESTAP — N/A
• GOEZS — Global Ocean Euphotic Zone Study
• GOFS — Global Ocean Flux Study
• GOM — Global Observations And Modeling Project
• GOMOOS — Gulf of Main Ocean Observing System
• GOMOT — Global Observations
• GOMR — Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer
• GONG — Global Oscillations Network Group
• GOOS — Global Ocean Observing System
• GOS — Global Observing System
• GOS — Geomagnetic Observing System
• GOSIP — Government Open Systems Interconnect Protocol
• GOST — Goals Objectives Strategies Tactics
• GOTS — GALE Oceanographic Temperature Studies
• GPC — Global Processing Center
• GPCP — Global Precipitation Chemistry Project
• GPIB — General Purpose Interface Board
• GPM — Geopotential Meter
• GPO — Government Printing Office
• GPP — Gross Primary Productivity
• GPRA — Government Performance And Results Act
• GPS — Global Positioning System
• GPS — Geophysical Processor System
• GPS — Grants Program Section
• GPS CORS — Global Positioning System Continuously Operating Reference Stations
• GPS-IPW — Global Positioning System-Integrated Precipitable Water
• GPS/MET — GPS Meteorological Satellite
• GPX — A Suffix Which Designates Graphics Capabilities On The DEC MicroVax System (typically Seen As DEC VAXstation/GPX.)
• GRA — Graduate Research Assistant
• GRACE — Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment
• GRAF — Gridded Representation of Analyses And Forecasts
• GRASP — Graphic Animation System For Professionals
• GRD — Geophysics Research Directorate
• GREM — Geopotential Research Explorer Mission
• GRGC — Geologic Record of Global Change
• GRI — Gas Research Institute
• GRIB — Grid In Binary