************************************ Appendix: Acronyms and Abbreviations ************************************ .. list-table:: Table of Acronyms and Abbreviations :name: TableAcronyms :widths: 20 80 :class: tight-table * - API - application programming interface * - ARM - US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility * - BNL - Brookhaven National Laboratory * - CACTI - Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions field campaign * - Co-PI - Co-Principal Investigator * - CPU - central-processing unit * - CSI - Critical Success Index * - DOI - digital object identifier * - ECMWF - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts * - ERA5 - ECMWF Reanalysis Version 5 * - FTP - File Transfer Protocol * - G-1 - ARM's Gulfstream-159 aircraft * - GMAO - Global Modeling and Assimilation Office * - GPFS - General Parallel File System * - GPU - graphical-processing unit * - HPF - high-performance computing * - LASSO - LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation activity * - LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol * - LES - large-eddy simulation * - MPDATA - Multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm * - NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration * - netCDF - Network Common Data Form file format * - OLCF - Oakridge Leadership Class Facility * - PI - Principal Investigator * - PNNL - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * - RRTMG - Rapid Radiation Transfer Model for Global Climate Models * - SGS - sub-grid scale * - THREDDS - Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services * - YAML - YAML Ain't Markup Language™️