Definitions for "AWIPS"
Advance Weather Interactive Processing System. The main computer system that the National Weather Service uses to compose and transmit its forecasts and warning.
Stands for dvanced eather nteractive rocessing ystem. Cornerstone of the NWS modernization and restructuring. A high-speed computer system that integrates all meteorological and hydrological data, all satellite and radar data, and enables the forecaster to prepare and issue more accurate and timely forecasts and warnings.
the Advanced Weather Information Processing System; this new computer system integrates computer graphics, satellite and radar imagery. (This system is scheduled to be put in all National Weather Service offices by the end of the 1990s).