\chapter{Acronyms}

A summary of all acronyms is documented in Table \ref{tab:acro}.

\begin{longtable}{| l | l |}
\caption{A summary of acronyms used in alphabetical order.}\label{tab:acro}\\
\hline
Acronym & Abbreviation \\
\hline
African Easterly Wave & AEW \\
African Easterly Jet & AEJ \\
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis & AMMA \\
Climate Forecasting System Reanalysis & CFSR \\
Convective Available Potential Energy & CAPE \\
Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate & DALR \\
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting & ECMWF \\
Eddy Kinetic Energy & EKE \\
GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment & GATE \\
Global Forecast System & GFS \\
Global Precipitation Mission & GPM \\
Long Wave (Radiation) & LW \\
Mesoscale Convective System & MCS \\
National Aeronautical and Space Administration & NASA \\
National Center for Atmospheric Research & NCAR \\
National Center for Environmental Prediction & NCEP \\
National Hurricane Center & NHC \\
National Science Foundation & NSF \\
Planetary Boundary Layer & PBL \\
Potential Vorticity & PV \\
Short Wave (Radiation) & SW \\ 
Quasi-Geostrophic & QG \\
Rossby Wave & RW \\
Tropical Cyclone & TC \\
TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Analysis & TMPA \\
Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission & TRMM \\
Weather Research and Forecasting Model & WRF \\
\hline
\end{longtable}

