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