Appendix: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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™️ |