| Abbreviation | Explanation |
|---|---|
| aa | Aerosol-aware |
| CA | Cellular Automata |
| CCN | Cloud Condensation Nulei |
| CCPP | Common Community Physics Package |
| CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
| CLM | Community Land Model |
| CSAW | Chikira-Sugiyama convection with Arakawa-Wu extension |
| dycore | Dynamical core |
| EDMF | Eddy-Diffusivity Mass Flux |
| EMC | Environmental Modeling Center |
| FV3 | Finite-Volume Cubed Sphere |
| GF | Grell-Freitas convective scheme |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| GFS | Global Forecast System |
| GOCART | Goddard Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport model |
| GSL | NOAA Global Systems Laboratory |
| HEDMF | Hybrid eddy-diffusivity mass-flux |
| HRRR | High-Resolution Rapid Refresh |
| LSM | Land Surface Model |
| LW | Longwave |
| McICA | Monte-Carlo Independent Column Approximation |
| MERRA-2 | Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version2 |
| MF | Mass-Flux |
| MG | Morrison-Gettelman |
| MP | Microphysics |
| MYNN | Mellor-Yamada-Nakanishi-Niino |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NoahMP | Noah-Multiparameterization Land Surface Model |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSST | Near Sea Surface Temperature ocean scheme |
| NSSL | NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| PBL | Planetary Boundary Layer |
| PSD | Partical size distribution |
| PSL | NOAA Physics Sciences Laboratory |
| RRFS | Rapid Refresh Forecast System |
| RRTMG | Rapid Radiative Transfer Model for General circulation model applications |
| RRTMGP | Rapid Radiation Transfer Model for General circulation model applications-Parallel |
| RTE | Radiative Transfer for Energetics |
| RUC | Rapid Update Cycle |
| sa | Scale-aware |
| SAS | Simplified Arakawa-Schubert |
| SCM | Single-Column Model |
| SDF | Suite Definition File |
| sfc | Surface |
| SHUM | Perturbed boundary layer specific humidity |
| SKEB | Stochastic Kinetic Energy Backscatter |
| SPPT | Stochastically Perturbed Physics Tendencies |
| SW | Shortwave |
| TOA | Top of the Atmosphere |
| TKE | Turbulent Kinetic Energy |
| YSU | Yonsei University |
| UFS | Unified Forecast System |
| UGWP | Unified Gravity Wave Physics |
| WoFS | Warn on Forecast |
| WRF | Weather Research and Forecasting |