Acronyms
|
Meaning
|
| ADPC |
Asian Disaster and Preparedness Centre |
| AIRBM |
Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management |
| BMD |
Bangladesh Meteorological Department |
| CAP |
Common Alert Protocol |
| CMA |
China Meteorological Agency |
| CORDEX |
Southeast African flagship pilot study on climate research |
| CRDB |
Country Profile Data Base |
| DCCMS |
Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (in Malawi) |
| Diana |
Digital Analyse, open source software displaying meteorological data for an area. |
| DMH |
Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (in Myanmar) |
| DPGA |
Digital Public Goods Alliance |
| ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| EGU |
European Geosciences Union |
| EMI |
Ethiopian Meteorological Institute |
| EPS |
Ensemble Prediction System |
| EWS |
Early Warning System |
| GBON |
Global Basis Observation Network |
| HPC |
High performance computing |
| ICIMOD |
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development |
| ICPAC |
IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Center |
| INAM |
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia Mozambique |
| JICA |
Japan International Cooperation Agency |
| JMA |
Japan Meteorological Agency |
| KMA |
Korean Meteorological Department |
| LDC |
Least Developed Countries |
| MET Norway |
Norwegian Meteorological Institute |
| NIBIO |
Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi |
| NMA |
National Meteorological Agency (in Ethiopia), previous name. From 1.1.22 EMI |
| NORAD |
The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation |
| NORCAP |
Norwegian Refugee Council |
| NOREC |
the Norwegian Agency for Exchange Cooperation |
| NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction |
| QPE |
Quantitative Precipitation Amounts |
| R |
Language environment for statistical computing |
| RIMES |
The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System for Africa and Asia |
| ROMS |
Regional Ocean Model System |
| SIDS |
Small Island Developing States |
| SOFF |
Systematic Observations Financing Facilities |
| SWAN |
Simulating WAves Nearshore (Bølge modell) |
| TMA |
Tanzania Meteorological Agency |
| Tseries |
Time Series Tool (Displaying meteorological data for a location) |
| VNMHA |
Vietnam National Hydro Meteorological Agency |
| WB |
World Bank |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
| WRF |
Weather Research and Forecast model |
