Appendix

List of Acronyms 


ALPEX  Alpine Experiment of the Global Atmosphere Research Programme  

ALPTRAC  High-Alpine Aerosol and Snow Chemistry Study  

AREP  Atmospheric Research and Environment Programme  

BUFR  Binary Universal Form for Data Representation (code)  

CAS  Commission of Atmospheric Sciences  

CIG  Coordination and Implementation Group  

CLEOPATRA  Cloud Experiment Oberpfaffenhofen and Transports  

CMDB  Central MAP Data Bank  

CNES  Centre National d`Etude Spatiale  

CNRS  Centre National de Recherche Scientifique  

COMPARE  Comparison of Mesoscale Prediction and Research Experiments  

COST is the acronyme (in French) for "European Cooperation in the 
     Field of Scientific and Technical Research". 
     It is a framework for international research and 
     development cooperation, allowing to coordinate national 
     research at European level. COST does not 
     fund research as such, but coordination of research. 
     COST includes as member states countries from the European 
     Union, and a number of other European countries. 

Daquamap Data Quality MAP 

DEM Digital Elevation Model. This is an interactive 
    program that comes in very handy for GIS 
    people and environmental scientists. USGS has made available on 
    the Internet, 1-degree Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data for the 
    entire United States. Determining exactly which DEM file covers the 
    region of your interest can sometimes be cumbersome.

DFG  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft  

DLR  Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Luft und Raumfahrt e.V.  

DWD  Deutscher Wetterdienst  

ECMWF  European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 

ECOMET Economic Interes Grouping (1995 20 èlanic-naconalne met. službe, sod. tudi s privatnimi službani) 

ECSN European Climate Support Network (samo EU, mi samo sodelujemo pri nekaterih projektih, koordinator Tanja C.)

EUROTRAC  European Experiment on the Transport and Transformation of Environmentally Relevant Trace Constituents in the Troposphere over Europe  

ELDORA  airborne Doppler radar system  

FRONTS 87  British/French Fronts Experiment 1987  

FTP  File Transfer Protocol  

GARP  Global Atmospheric Research Programme  

GCM  Global Circulation Model  

GEKIS Geographical Climate Information System

GEWEX  Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment  

GOP  General Observing Period  

GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) resulting from a
        collaborative effort led by the staff at the U.S. Geological 
        Survey's EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.  
        Elevations in GTOPO30 are regularly spaced at 30-arc seconds 
        (approximately 1 kilometer).  

GPS  Global Positioning System  

GRIB  Gridded Binary (code)  

GTS  Global Telecommunication System  

ICEAWS 1999  2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EXPERIENCES
       WITH AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS 
       27 - 29 September 1999, Vienna, Austria  

IGN  Institut National de Géographie  

IGP  International Governing Panel  

IOP  Intensive Observational Period  

KLIMVIS Climate Information System

MAC  Mesoscale Alpine Climate

MAP  Mesoscale Alpine Programme  

MATREP  Monitoraggio dell'Attività Temporalesca nella Regione Padana  

MDC  MAP Data Centre 

MF  Météo France  

NASA  U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration  

NCAR  U. S. National Center for Atmospheric Research  

NOAA  U. S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  

NWP  Numerical Weather Prediction  

OI  Optimum Interpolation  

OSSE  Observing System Simulation Experiment  

PBL  Planetary Boundary Layer  

PO  Programme Office 

POLLUMET  Pollution and Meteorology  

PV  Potential Vorticity 

PYREX  Pyrenean Experiment  

RASS  Radio Acoustic Sounding System  

SESAME  Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Mid-Latitude Experiment  

SETEX  Severe Thunderstorm Experiment  

SMDB  Special MAP Data Bank  

SMI  Swiss Meteorological Institute  

SOP  Special Observing Period  

SPARC  Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate  

SCC  Scientific Steering Committee  

ST-Radar  Stratosphere-Troposphere-Radar  

SYNOP  report of a surface observation of a land station  

UKMO  United Kingdom Meteorological Office  

ULF  Upper Level Feature 

UNIDART (Uniform Data Request Interface)

WCRP  World Climate Research Programme  

WGROUND (Working Group Routine Network Data) 

WMO  World Meteorological Organization