Glossary

Glossary

A quick resource to help you understand common terms, people and events from the weather forecasting industry.

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A

Absolute Error

Actual

Albedo

AMS Annual Meeting

ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System)

Atmospheric River Reconnaissance (AR Recon)

B

Bias (Average Error)

Brier Score (BS)

Brier Skill Score (BSS)

Bust (Weather Forecasting)

C

Climatology

Convective-Allowing Models (CAMs)

D

Data Assimilation (DA)

Days Out

Destination Earth (DestinE)

Dew Point

E

Early Warnings for All (EW4All)

Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC)

Ensemble Prediction Systems (EPS)

Equitable Threat Score (ETS)

EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference

Explainable AI (XAI) in Meteorology

F

False Alarm Rate

FM-12 (SYNOP)

FM-15 (METAR)

Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO)

G

Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO)

H

High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF)

I

Impact-Based Forecasting (IBF)

Inversion (Temperature Inversion)

J

K

L

M

Machine Learning (ML) Emulation

Marine Heatwaves (MHWs)

Meteorological Technology World Expo

Meteosat Third Generation – Sounder (MTG-S)

N

Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)

O

P

Phased-Array Radar (PAR)

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)

Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI)

Q

R

Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS)

Relative Niño 3.4 Index

S

Space Weather Workshop

Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction

SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On)

T

U

Unified Forecast System (UFS)

Urban Canopy Modeling (UCM)

V

VORTEX-USA

W

Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS)

WeatherBench 2

WWRP “Weather and Society” Conference

X

Y

Z