Appendix: Acronyms and Abbreviations
AAF |
ARM Aerial Facility |
AGL |
above ground level |
API |
application programming interface |
ARM |
US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility |
ARSCL |
Active Remote Sensing of Clouds VAP |
BNL |
Brookhaven National Laboratory |
CACTI |
Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions field campaign |
CCN |
cloud condensation nuclei |
CF |
cloud fraction |
CLI |
command-line interface |
COD |
cloud optical depth |
Co-PI |
Co-Principal Investigator |
CPU |
central-processing unit |
CSI |
Critical Success Index |
CSV |
comma-separated values |
DOE |
US Department of Energy |
DOI |
digital object identifier |
DYCOMS |
Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus field campaign |
ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
ENA |
Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory |
ERA5 |
ECMWF Reanalysis Version 5 |
FB |
Frequency Bias |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
G-1 |
ARM’s Gulfstream-159 aircraft |
GMAO |
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office |
GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
GPFS |
General Parallel File System |
GPU |
graphical-processing unit |
HPC |
high-performance computing |
JJA |
June, July, August (summer season) |
KAZR |
Ka-band ARM Zenith Radar |
LASSO |
LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation activity |
LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol |
LES |
large-eddy simulation |
LW |
longwave |
LWP |
liquid water path |
MERRA-2 |
Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 |
MFRSR |
Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer |
MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MPDATA |
Multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm |
MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
netCDF |
Network Common Data Form file format |
NPOESS |
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
OLCF |
Oak Ridge Leadership Class Facility |
PI |
Principal Investigator |
PNNL |
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory |
RLPROF-FEX |
Raman-Lidar Profiles Feature Detection and Extinction VAP |
RMS |
root mean square |
RRTMG |
Rapid Radiation Transfer Model for Global Climate Models |
SACR |
Scanning ARM Cloud Radar |
SAM |
System for Atmospheric Modeling |
SBM |
spectral-bin microphysics |
SEVIRI |
Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager |
SGP |
Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory |
SGS |
sub-grid scale |
SSH |
Secure Shell |
SST |
sea surface temperature |
SW |
shortwave |
THREDDS |
Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
TKE |
turbulent kinetic energy |
TSI |
Total Sky Imager |
UHSAS |
Ultra-High Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer |
VAP |
value-added product |
WRF |
Weather Research and Forecasting model |
XSAPR |
X-band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar |
YAML |
YAML Ain’t Markup Language™️ |