7. Acronyms

Abbreviation	Explanation
AOML	NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
API	Application Programming Interface
b4b	Bit-for-bit
CCPP	Common Community Physics Package
CPP	C preprocessor
dycore	Dynamical core
EDMF	Eddy-Diffusivity Mass Flux
EMC	Environmental Modeling Center
ESMF	The Earth System Modeling Framework
ESRL	NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
FMS	Flexible Modeling System
FV3	Finite-Volume Cubed Sphere
GFDL	Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GFS	Global Forecast System
GSD	Global Systems Division
HTML	Hypertext Markup Language
LSM	Land Surface Model
MPI	Message Passing Interface
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP	National Centers for Environmental Predicction
NEMS	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Modeling System
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSSL	National Severe Storms Laboratory
OpenMP	Open Multi-Processing
PBL	Planetary Boundary Layer
png	Portable Network Graphic
PR	Pull request
PROD	Compiler optimization flags for production mode
REPRO	Compiler optimization flags for reproduction mode (bit-for-bit testing)
RRTMG	Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for Global Circulation Models
RT	Regression test
SAS	Simplified Arakawa-Schubert
SDF	Suite Definition File
sfc	Surface
SHUM	Perturbed boundary layer specific humidity
SKEB	Stochastic Kinetic Energy Backscatter
SPPT	Stochastically Perturbed Physics Tendencies
TKE	Turbulent Kinetic Energy
UFS	Unified Forecast System
VLab	Virtual Laboratory
WM	Weather Model