Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

OPLE — Omega Position Location Equipment
OPP — Office of Polar Programs
OPPE — Office of Policy
OPS — Onboard Payload Support
OPTRAN — Optical Test Transmittance Model
OR — Operational Research
ORB — Object Request Broker
ORCP — Ocean Ridge Crest Processes
ORD — Office of Research And Development
ORNL — Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORR — Operations Readiness Review
ORSTOM — Institut Francais Pour Le Developpment En Corporation
ORU — Orbital Replacement Unit
OS — Oceanography Section
OS/2 — A Multitasking Operating System Developed By IBM For Its PC-class Computers
OSA — Optical Society of America
OSCAR — Oxidant-Scavenging Characteristics of April Rains
OSD — Office of Systems Development
OSDPD — Office of Space Data Processing And Distribution
OSF — Operational Support Facility
OSI — Open Systems Interconnection
OSIS — Office of Scientific Information Service
OSL — Orbiting Solar Laboratory
OSO — Orbiting Solar Observatory
OSO — Office of Systems Operations
OSO — Office of Space Operations
OSPF — Open Shortest Path First
OSR — Office of Scientific Research
OSS — Observation System Simulation
OSS — Office of Space Station
OSSA — Office of Space Science And Applications
OSSE — Observing System Simulation Experiment
OST — Office of Science And Technology
OSTIV — Organization Scientifique Et Technique Internationale Du Vol A Voile (conferences)
OSTP — Office of Science And Technology Policy
OSTPC — Open Systems Transition Planning Committee
OSV — Ocean Station Vessel
OT — Optical Techniques Group
OTA — Office of Technology Assessment
OTB — Operations Training Branch
OTS — Office of Technical Services
OU — University of Oklahoma
OUASS — Omega Upper Atmospheric Sounding Systems
OWRR — Office of Water Resources Research
OWWS — Office of World Weather Systems
P/B — Priority Playback
P/L-EX — Payload Executive
P/L-EX — Payload Executive
PA — Position Angle
PA — Payload Accommodations
PA/CCC — Payload Accommodations/Carrier Control Center
PAC — Polar Atmospheric Chemistry
PACDEX — PACific Dust EXperiment
PACE — Precipitation Augmentation For Crops Experiment
PACEM — Physics And Chemistry of Earth Materials
PACJET — Pacific Land-falling Jets Experiment
PACLAT — Pacific Latitudinal Distribution of Photochemical Trace Species
PACS — Pan-American Climate Studies
PACT — Professional Association of Computing And Technology
PACX — Private Automatic Computer Exchange
PAGE — Program For The Advancement of Geoscience Education
PAGES — Past Global Changes
PAIR — Particulate Airborne Inlet Research
PAKIT — Photochemistry And Kinetics of Important Trace Gases
PALE — Paleoclimates From Arctic Lakes And Estuaries
PAM — Portable Automated Mesonet
PAM-III — Portable Automated Mesonet Station
PAN — Peroxyacyl Nitrates
PAN-CIMS — PAN Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer
PAR — Performance Assurance Requirements
PAR — Photosynthetically Active Radiation
PARS — Paralleled-processing Applied Research Systems
PAS — Platform Analysis System
PASE — Polar Air-Show Experiment
PASIN — Particle-Matter Airborne Sampling Inlet Experiment
PASJ — Publications of The Astronomical Society of Japan
PASSCAL — Program For Array Seismic Studies of The Continental Lithosphere
PAWS — Psychological
PB — Product of Polarization And Brightness
PBL — Planetary Boundary Layer
PBYTE — Petabyte (1015bytes)
PC — Geomagnetic Pulsations
PC — Continuous Pulsations
PC — Personal Computer
PCA — Physical Configuration Audit
PCAS — Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer
PCAST — President’s Council of Advisers On Science And Technology
PCC — Profiler Control Center
PCC — Profiler Control Center
PCDS — Pilot Climate Data System
PCM — Parallel Climate Model
PCM — Pulse Code Modulation
PCM — Punched Card Machine
PCMDI — Program For Climate Model Diagnosis And Intercomparison
PCMS — Process And Change Management System
PCNFS — Personal Computer Network File System
PCO — Polar Cap Observatory
PCO — Polar Cap Observatory
PCRGA — Precipitation Chemistry
PCRGA — Precipitation Chemistry