Atmospheric Acronyms

Convert a Common Oceanic/Atmospheric Acronym to/from a Full Name

This web page lets you convert a common oceanic/atmospheric acronym to/from a full name.
For example, the acronym "NOAA" converts to the full name "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration".

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Or, bypass this web page and do oceanic/atmospheric acronym conversions from within a computer program, script, or web page.

Or, view/download the entire oceanic/atmospheric acronyms list in these file types: .csv, .htmlTable, .itx, .json, .jsonlCSV, .jsonlKVP, .mat, .nc, .nccsv, .tsv, or .xhtml.

Notes

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Exact Match - This service requires case-sensitive, exact matches. If there is no exact match, you will get an error error message. Most of the acronyms are entirely upper case. Some common variants with different cases are included (e.g., ESPRESSO and ESPreSSO).
Not Perfect - This service isn't perfect. Many acronyms could be expanded to two or more full names. This service includes acronyms that fairly reliably (> 95% confidence?) expand to a particular name, but that doesn't mean it will be correct for your use of the acronym. This service doesn't include acronyms that commonly expand to more than one full name (e.g., SAF, which could be expanded to Synthetic Aperture Focusing or Satellite Application Facility).
Suggestions? This service's list of acronyms is not complete. If you want to add a common acronym or make a correction, please email it to bob.simons at noaa.gov.

Want To Do Oceanic/Atmospheric Acronym Conversions from within a Computer Program, Script, or Web Page?

If you change the extension of this web page's URL from .html to .txt, ERDDAP will respond with just the text result.

An example which converts an acronym to a full name is
http://osug-smos-rea.osug.fr:8081/erddap/convert/oceanicAtmosphericAcronyms.txt?acronym=NOAA
An example which converts a full name into an acronym is
http://osug-smos-rea.osug.fr:8081/erddap/convert/oceanicAtmosphericAcronyms.txt?fullName=National%20Oceanic%20and%20Atmospheric%20Administration

Percent Encoded - The constraints in the URL must be properly percent encoded (external link)

:
all characters other than A-Za-z0-9_-!.~'()* (other than the initial '&' and the main '=', if any)
must be encoded as %HH, where HH is the 2 digit hexadecimal value of the character.
Usually, you just need to convert a few of the punctuation characters: % into %25,
& into %26, " into %22, < into %3C, = into %3D, > into %3E, + into %2B,
| into %7C, space into %20, and convert all characters above #127 into their UTF-8
form and then percent encode each byte of the UTF-8 form into the %HH format
(ask a programmer for help).
For example, fullName=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
becomes fullName=National%20Oceanic%20and%20Atmospheric%20Administration
Note that percent encoding is generally required when you access ERDDAP via
software other than a browser. Browsers usually handle percent encoding for you.
There are web sites that percent encode and decode for you (external link)

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