DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS of iSHAI

Please refer to the “Nowcasting SAF Glossary” document in the NWC SAF web for a wider glossary and a complete list of acronyms for the NWC SAF project.

ABI

Advanced Baseline Imager

AEMET

Agencia Estatal de Meteorología

Meteorology State Agency (Spain)

AHI

Advanced Himawari Imager

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information and Interchange

ATBD

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

BL

Precipitable water in low layer (Psfc – 850 hPa)

BT

Brightness Temperature

CDOP (CDOP-1)

Continuous Development and Operations Phase (1)

CDOP-2

Continuous Development and Operations Phase 2

CDOP-3

Continuous Development and Operations Phase 3

CF

NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions

CIMSS

Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (USA)

CMa

Cloud Mask

COTS

Commercial-Off-The-Shelf

CPU

Central Processor Unit

DEM

Digital Elevation Model

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts

EOF

Empirical Orthogonal Function

EUMETSAT

European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

FCI

Flexible Combined Imager (MTG)

FG

First Guess

FOV

Field Of View

FOR

Field Of Regard

  GDL
GNU Data Language (Free GNU version of IDL)

GEO

Geostationary Satellites

GEO-CMa

GEO Cloud Mask and Cloud Amount

GEO-iSHAI

GEO imagery Satellite Humidity And Instability

GRIB

Gridded Information in Binary Form

HDF5

Hierarchical Data format version 5

HL

Precipitable water in High Layer (500  –  0 hPa)

hPa

Hecto Pascal

HRIT

High Rate Image Transmission

IDL

Interactive Data Language

IR

InfraRed

IREMIS

InfraRed Emissivity

IRS

Infrared Sounder (MTG)

iSHAI

imaging Satellite Humidity And Instability

K

Kelvin

KI

K-Index

km

kilometre

LI

Lifted Index

LPW

Layer Precipitable Water

LST

Land Surface Temperature

MARS

ECMWF Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility

McIDAS

Man Computer Interactive Data Access System

ML

Precipitable water in Medium Layer (850 – 500 hPa)

MSG

Meteosat Second Generation

MTG

Meteosat Third Generation

MTG-FCI

Meteosat Third Generation Flexible Combined Imager

MTG-IRS

Meteosat Third Generation Infra Red Sounder

netCDF

Network Common Data Form

NRT

Near Real Time

NWC

Nowcasting

NWC/GEO

Geostationary part of the Nowcasting SAF

NWCLIB

Nowcasting Library

NWCSAF

Nowcasting SAF

NWP

Numerical Weather Prediction

NWP SAF

SAF for Numerical Weather Prediction

LPW

Layer Precipitable Water

PGE

Product Generation Element

PGE01                   Cloud Mask (GEO-CMa) Product Generator

PGE13            SEVIRI Physical Retrieval (SPhR) Product Generator

PW

Precipitable Water

RTM

Radiative Transfer Model

RTTOV

Radiative Transfer for TOVs

SAF

Satellite Application Facility

SEVIRI

Spinning Enhanced Visible InfraRed Imager

SG

Steering Group

SHAI

Satellite Humidity And Instability

SHW

Showalter Index

SKT

Skin Temperature

SST

Sea Surface Temperature

SW

Software

TOZ

Total ozone

TPW

Total Precipitable Water

TM

Task Manager

UM

User Manual

VR

Validation Report

VSA

Visiting Scientist Activities

WV

Water Vapour Channel