Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Atmospheric Research Center Acronyms

PCWG — Polar Climate Working Group
PD — Positive Definite
PD — Positive Definite
PDAM — Point Data Access And Management
PDE — Partial Differential Equation
PDF — Probability Density Functions
PDL — Program Design Language
PDM — Pulse Duration Modulation
PDM — Pulse Duration Modulation
PDR — Preliminary Design Review
PDS — Planetary Data System
PDS — Platform Data System
PDT — Product Development Team
PDU — Power Distribution Unit
PDU — Protocol Data Unit
PDW — Preliminary Design Walk-through
PE — Primitive Equation
PE — Payload Executive
PEACE — DOD Atoll-drilling Program For Coral Core Sample
PEATMOS — Primitive Equation And Trojectory Model Output Statistics
PEC — Performance Management Committee
PECASE — Presidential Early Career Award For Scientists And Engineers
PEL — Photo-electron Layer
PELTI — Passing Efficiency For The Low Turbulence Inlet
PEM — Particle Environment Monitor
PEM — Pacific Exploratory Measurements
PEM — Pacific Exploratory Mission
PEP — Photo-electron Plasma
PEPPI — Photometric Eclipse Polar Plume Imager
PERFMON — Performance Monitor Utility
PERL — Practical Extraction And Report Language
PERT — Performance Evaluation And Review Technique
PETA — People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals
PETS — Performance Evaluation And Test System
PF — Performance Factor
PFA — Prime Factor Algorithm
PFA — Primary Flux Array
PFS — Physical Facilities Service(s)
PFU — Proto Flight Unit
PGGA — Permanent GPS Geodetic Array
PGS — Product
PHIGS — Programmer’s Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System
PHIGS — Portable Hierarchical Image And Graphic Standard
PHOXA — Photochemical Oxidant And Acid Deposition Model Application
PHS — Public Health Service
PI — Principal Investigator
PI/TL — Principal Investigator/Team Leader
PIBALS — Pilot Balloons
PICF — Principal Investigator Computing Facility
PICS — Positive Ion Composition Spectrometer
PID — Prototype International Directory
PIDC — Precision Instrument Development Center
PIFM — Practical Improved Flux Method
PILPS — Program For Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes
PIN — Power Input
PIPOR — Program For International Polar Ocean Research
PIPOR — Programme of International Polar Oceans Research
PIRAC — PC-based Integrated Radar Acquisition Card
PIRAQ-III — PC-based Radar Acquisition ? 3rd Generation
PIREP — Pilot Weather Report
PIREPS — Pilot Reports
PISP — Polar Ice Sheet Program
PIXE — Proton Induced X-ray Emission
PLDS — Pilot Land Data System
PM2.5 — Particulate Matter With Mass Median Aerodynamic Diameter Less Than 2.5 Micrometers
PMA — Platform Management Application
PMB — Performance Measurement Baseline
PMEL — Pacific Marine Environment Laboratory
PMIP — Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project
PMR — Pressure Modulator Radiometer
PMR — Pacific Missile Range
PMS — Particle Measuring System
PMS — Particle Measuring Systems
PMS — Performance Measurement System
PMS — Platform Management System
PNA — Pacific/North American
PNR — Profiler Network Review
POAM — Polar Ozone And Aerosol Measurement
POC — Proof of Concept
POC — Project Operations Center
POCIBO — Polar Circling Balloon Observatory
POCM — Parallel Ocean Climate Model
POD — Probability of Detection
POES — Polar Operational Environmental Satellite
POGO — Polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
POISE-98 — POlarimetric Instrument For Solar Eclipse-98
POLARIS — Photochemistry of Ozone Loss In The Arctic Region In Summer
POLEX — Polar Experiment
POP — Parallel Ocean Program
POP — Photochemical Oxidation And Products
POP — Probability of Precipitation
POSIX — Portable Operating System Interface For Computer Environments
PP — Parts Per
PPB — Parts Per Billion
PPHM — Parts Per Hundred Million
PPI — Plan-postition Indicator
PPM — Parts Per Million
PPMV — Parts Per Million By Volume
PPO — Profiler Program Office
PPP — Point-to-Point Protocol