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 |