.. _Acronyms:

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Acronyms
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   | Abbreviation   | Explanation                                       |
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   | aa             | Aerosol-aware                                     |
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   | API            | Application Programming Interface                 |
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   | b4b            | Bit-for-bit                                       |
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   | CCPP           | Common Community Physics Package                  |
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   | CF conventions | Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions         |
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   | CPP            | C preprocessor                                    |
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   | CPT            | Climate Process Team                              |
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   | CSAW           | Chikira-Sugiyama convection with Arakawa-Wu       |
   |                | extension                                         |
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   | DDT            | Derived Data Type                                 |
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   | dycore         | Dynamical core                                    |
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   | EDMF           | Eddy-Diffusivity Mass Flux                        |
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   | EMC            | Environmental Modeling Center                     |
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   | eps            | Encapsulated PostScript                           |
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   | ESMF           | The Earth System Modeling Framework               |
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   | ESPC           | Earth System Prediction Capability                |
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   | FMS            | Flexible Modeling System                          |
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   | FV3            | Finite-Volume Cubed Sphere                        |
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   | GF             | Grell-Freitas convective scheme                   |
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   | GFDL           | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory             |
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   | GFS            | Global Forecast System                            |
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   | GSD            | Global Systems Division                           |
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   | HEDMF          | Hybrid eddy-diffusivity mass-flux                 |
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   | HTML           | Hypertext Markup Language                         |
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   | IPD            | Interoperable Physics Driver                      |
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   | LSM            | Land Surface Model                                |
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   | MG             | Morrison-Gettelman                                |
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   | MP             | Microphysics                                      |
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   | MPAS           | Model for Prediction Across Scales                |
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   | MPI            | Message Passing Interface                         |
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   | MYNN           | Mellor-Yamada-Nakanishi-Niino                     |
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   | NCAR           | National Center for Atmospheric Research          |
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   | NEMS           | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration   |
   |                | (NOAA) Environmental Modeling System              |
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   | NEMSfv3gfs     | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration   |
   |                | (NOAA) Environmental Modeling System              |
   |                | using FV3 dynamic core and GFS physics            |
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   | NGGPS          | Next Generation Global Prediction System          |
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   | NOAA           | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration   |
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   | NRL            | Naval Research Laboratory                         |
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   | NSST           | Near Sea Surface Temperature ocean scheme         |
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   | NUOPC          | National Unified Operational Prediction           |
   |                | Capability                                        |
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   | OpenMP         | Open Multi-Processing                             |
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   | PBL            | Planetary Boundary Layer                          |
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   | png            | Portable Network Graphic                          |
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   | PR             | Pull request                                      |
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   | PROD           | Compiler optimization flags for production mode   |
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   | REPRO          | Compiler optimization flags for reproduction mode |
   |                | (bit-for-bit testing)                             |
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   | RRTMG          | Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for Global         |
   |                | Circulation Models                                |
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   | RT             | Regression test                                   |
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   | RUC            | Rapid Update Cycle                                |
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   | sa             | Scale-aware                                       |
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   | SAS            | Simplified Arakawa-Schubert                       |
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   | SCM            | Single Column Model                               |
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   | SDF            | Suite Definition File                             |
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   | sfc            | Surface                                           |
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   | SHUM           | Perturbed boundary layer specific humidity        |
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   | SKEB           | Stochastic Kinetic Energy Backscatter             |
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   | SPPT           | Stochastically Perturbed Physics Tendencies       |
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   | TKE            | Turbulent Kinetic Energy                          |
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   | TWP-ICE        | Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment |
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   | UML            | Unified Modeling Language                         |
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   | UFS            | Unified Forecast System                           |
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   | VLab           | Virtual Laboratory                                |
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   | WRF            | Weather Research and Forecasting                  |
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