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