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.
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ABI |
Advanced Baseline Imager |
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AEMET |
Agencia Estatal de Meteorología Meteorology State Agency (Spain) |
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AHI |
Advanced Himawari Imager |
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ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information and Interchange |
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ATBD |
Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
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BL |
Precipitable water in low layer (Psfc – 850 hPa) |
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BT |
Brightness Temperature |
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CDOP (CDOP-1) |
Continuous Development and Operations Phase (1) |
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CDOP-2 |
Continuous Development and Operations Phase 2 |
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CDOP-3 |
Continuous Development and Operations Phase 3 |
| CDOP-4 | Continuous Development and
Operations Phase 4 |
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CF |
NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions |
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CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (USA) |
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CMa |
Cloud Mask |
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COTS |
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf |
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CPU |
Central Processor Unit |
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DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
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ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts |
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EOF |
Empirical Orthogonal Function |
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EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
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FCI |
Flexible Combined Imager (MTG) |
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FG |
First Guess |
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FOV |
Field Of View |
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FOR |
Field Of Regard |
| GDL |
GNU Data Language (Free GNU version of IDL) |
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GEO |
Geostationary Satellites |
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GEO-CMa |
GEO Cloud Mask and Cloud Amount |
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GEO-iSHAI |
GEO imagery Satellite Humidity And Instability |
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GRIB |
Gridded Information in Binary Form |
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HDF5 |
Hierarchical Data format version 5 |
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HL |
Precipitable water in High Layer (500 – 0 hPa) |
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hPa |
Hecto Pascal |
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HRIT |
High Rate Image Transmission |
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IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
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IR |
InfraRed |
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IREMIS |
InfraRed Emissivity |
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IRS |
Infrared Sounder (MTG) |
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iSHAI |
imaging Satellite Humidity And Instability |
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K |
Kelvin |
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KI |
K-Index |
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km |
kilometre |
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LI |
Lifted Index |
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LPW |
Layer Precipitable Water |
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LST |
Land Surface Temperature |
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MARS |
ECMWF Meteorological Archive and Retrieval Facility |
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McIDAS |
Man Computer Interactive Data Access System |
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ML |
Precipitable water in Medium Layer (850 – 500 hPa) |
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MSG |
Meteosat Second Generation |
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MTG |
Meteosat Third Generation |
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MTG-I/FCI |
Meteosat Third Generation Flexible Combined Imager |
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MTG-S/IRS |
Meteosat Third Generation Infra Red Sounder |
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netCDF |
Network Common Data Form |
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NRT |
Near Real Time |
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NWC |
Nowcasting |
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NWC/GEO |
Geostationary part of the Nowcasting SAF |
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NWCLIB |
Nowcasting Library |
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NWCSAF |
Nowcasting SAF |
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NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
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NWP SAF |
SAF for Numerical Weather Prediction |
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LPW |
Layer Precipitable Water |
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PGE |
Product Generation Element PGE01 Cloud Mask (GEO-CMa) Product Generator PGE13 SEVIRI Physical Retrieval (SPhR) Product Generator |
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PW |
Precipitable Water |
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RTM |
Radiative Transfer Model |
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RTTOV |
Radiative Transfer for TOVs |
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SAF |
Satellite Application Facility |
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SEVIRI |
Spinning Enhanced Visible InfraRed Imager |
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SG |
Steering Group |
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SHAI |
Satellite Humidity And Instability |
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SHW |
Showalter Index |
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SKT |
Skin Temperature |
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SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
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SW |
Software |
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TOZ |
Total ozone |
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TPW |
Total Precipitable Water |
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TM |
Task Manager |
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UM |
User Manual |
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VR |
Validation Report |
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VSA |
Visiting Scientist Activities |
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WV |
Water Vapour Channel |