Please note: All the Tropical Weather Acronyms have been placed above in the Navigation Bar.
While there is a lull in the tropics with no Invests or anything that looks suspicious tropic wise, I have posted a list of acronyms relating to tropical weather.
ACE: Accumulated Cyclone Energy
AMO: Atlantic Multidecadal Osillation
ATCF: Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting system
AVN: AViatioN run of the NCEP Medium Range Forecast(MRF) model
BAM: Beta and Advection model
BAMD: BAM Deep (for deep/vertically tall systems)
BAMM: BAM Medium (for medium-depth systems)
BAMS: BAM Shallow (for weak systems/systems steered by shallow aspects of the atmoshpere)
BOC: Bay Of Campeche
CAA: Cold Air Advection
CATL: Central Atlantic
CARCAH: Chief, Aerial Reconnaissance Coordination, All Hurricanes
CDO: Central Dense Overcast
CFS: Coupled Forecast System & Climate Forecast System
CIMSS: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
CLIPER: CLImatology and PERsistence statistical track forecast model
CMC: Canadian Meteorological Center model
CONUS: CONtinental United States
CV: Cape Verde
Dmax: is Diurnal Maximum is an intense flare up at convection just before sunrise and DMIN is the opposite. Dmax occurs just before sunrise when the differences in temperatures between the ocean and the air are the greatest; helps to create instability and convection
Dmin-is for Diurnal Minimum; this occurs just before sunset when the differences in temperatures between the ocean and the air are the least; generally a weakening in convection occurs at this time.
EATL: East Atlantic
ECMWF: European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting
ENSO: El Nino/Southern Oscillation
EPAC: Eastern PACific
EWRC: EyeWall Replacement Cycle
FROPA: FROntal PAssage
FSU MM5: Florida State University model
GEFS: Global Ensemble Forecast System model
GFDL: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory model
GFS: Global Forecast System model
GFDL: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GFS: Global Forecast System
GOMEX: Gulf Of MEXico
HDOB: High Density OBservations
HWRF: Hurricane and Weather Research Forecasting model
ITCZ: InterTropical Convergence Zone
LBAR: Limited area sine transform BARotropic model
LLLC: Low Level Circulation
LLJ: Low Level Jet
MCC: Mesoscale Covective Complex
MDR: Main Development Region
MJO: Madden Julian Oscillation
MM5: FSU Mesoscale Model
MRF: Medium Range Forcast model
MSLP: Mean Sea Level Pressure
MEI: Multivariate ENSO Index
NAM: North American Mesoscale Model
NAO: North Atlantic Oscillation
NCATL: North Central Atlantic
NESDIS – National Enviromental Sattelite Data Information Service
NEWD: Northeastward
NHC90/NHC91: statistical track forecast models
NHC: National Hurricane Center
NOGAPS: Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
NWD: Northward
ONI: Oceanic Nino Index
QBO: Quasi Biennial Oscillation
PDO: Pacific Decadal Oscillation
POD: Plan of the Day (Recon flights)
RUC: Rapid Update Cycle
SAL: Saharan Air Layer
SEUS: SouthEast U.S.
SFMR: Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (measures wave frequencies from the surface for wind direction/speed of systems)
SLOSH: Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge due to Hurricanes
SOI: Southern Oscillation Index
SPC: Storm Prediction Center
SSD: Satellite Services Division
SST: Sea Surface Temperature
STD: SubTropical Depression
STJ: SubTropical Jet
SWEAT: Severe WEAther Threat
SWWD: Southwestward
T-number: Dvorak current intensity (1.0-8.0)
TPC: Tropical Prediction Center
TCPOD: Tropical Cyclone Plan Of the Day
THCP: Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential
TUTT: Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough
TPW: Total Precipitable Water
UKMET: United Kingdom METeorological office (global forecast model run by the UK)
ULL: Upper Level Low
VV: Vertical Velocity
WW3: Wave Watch 3 model
WPAC: Western PACific
UTC: Universal Time Coordinated (same as Zulu time)
XTRP: Not a model. Short for Extrapolation. Dead reckoning plot of a storm if it kept in a straight line, with no other forces acting upon it.