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• €MIME•••Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension. A definitive list of file types used by

e-mail clients and Web browsers (among others) to determine how to process the content

of a file.

• €MML•••MesoMap Live. Flash movie software which displays animated weather data from

thousands of stations across the world on your web page. The user can define the areas

covered by their own maps and the stations to be displayed on each map.

• €NOAA•••National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[10]

. A part of the United

States Department of Commerce

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. The parent agency of the United States National

Weather Service

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• €POP3•••Post Office Protocol version 3. Local e-mail programs use the Post Office

Protocol version 3 (POP3), an application-layer Internet standard protocol, to retrieve

e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection. Nearly all subscribers to

individual Internet service provider e-mail accounts access their e-mail with client

software that uses POP3. (From Wikipedia

[13]

)

• €SMTP•••Simple Mail Transport Protocol. The set of processes used for email

transmission by the bulk today's Internet e-mail systems. In practice, this protocol gets

the e-mail message from the originator to the e-mail server supporting the recipient(s).

The actual e-mail receipt is usually handled using either POP3 or IMAP.

• €SYNOP•••Synoptic Observation. This observation coding format is used worldwide, and

comprises the primary method for weather distibution outside of North America. The

format, designed mainly for meteorologists, consists of blocks of numerical data. The

observations are usually taken every 6 or 12 hours (sometimes every three). (From

Weather Forecasting Handbook, 5th ed., Tim Vasquez)

• €TCP•••Transmission Control Protocol. Data to be transmitted across a network, i.e. the

Internet, is broken up into "packets" of a specific number of characters for transmission

over a network within an IP envelope. Since the nature of computer networks is such that

the delivery of packets can not be guaranteed, each packet also contains additional

information that the receiving computer can use to assure that all packets have been

received and placed into their correct order. This information is defined in the TCP

standards specifications.

• €URL•••Uniform Resource Locator. The unique address of a document on the World Wide

Web, e.g http:/ / www. weather-watch. com/ smf/ index. php. A URL consists of the

document name (index.php) preceded by the hierarchy of directory names in which the

document is stored (/smf), the Internet domain name of the server that hosts the file

(www.weather-watch.com), and the software and manner by which the browser and the

document's host server communicate to exchange the document (http:/ / ).

• €WAP•••Wireless Application Protocol. The description of a data format suitable for

viewing on mobile phones that have this functionality.

• €WD•••Weather Display. Software which collects data from a variety of automatic weather

station types and displays it on a computer and formats the data for display on Web

pages.

• €WDL•••Weather Display Live. Flash movie software which displays data from the

Weather Display clientraw.txt using animation. The WDL display is configurable, allowing

different instruments to be displayed and their location within the display area defined.

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