NPOESS Preparatory Program (NASA)

The NPOESS Preparatory Project, a satellite to bridge the gap between the NOAA series of AVHRR satellites, the NASA series of EOS satellites, and the NPOESS joint mission series. See the NPP page for more details.

The difference between the rate of conversion of solar energy into biomass in an ecosystem and the rate at which energy is used to maintain the producers of the system.

Net primary productivity. the ratio of all biomass accumulation and biomass losses in units of carbon, weight or energy, per land surface unit, over a set time interval (usually a year)

net primary productivity. Rate at which all the plants in an ecosystem produce net useful chemical energy; equal to the difference between the rate at which the plants in an ecosystem produce useful chemical energy (gross primary productivity) and the rate at which they use some of that energy through cellular respiration. Compare gross primary productivity.

National Patriotic Party

New Patriotic Party

Acronym for uclear ropulsion ackage.

Non-Player Professor/Professional. NPP's are almost always terrifyingly competent at their chosen field, but most are pathetically useless outside of it.

National Privacy Principles

National Privacy Principals

Notice of Privacy Practices

Nail in power pole

Nonutility Power Producer. A corporation, person, agency, authority, or other legal entity or instrumentality that owns electric generating capacity and is not an electric utility. NPPs include qualifying cogenerators, qualifying small power producers, and other non-utility generators such as independent power producers.

Nuclear Power Plants

network packet provider. The Network Monitor component that collects network traffic in frames, and then passes the frames to an expert, and NPP application. An NPP uses the Network Monitor system driver (Nmnt.sys) to get the frames collected from the network, and provides several COM interfaces that pass the frames to an expert, monitor, and network packet provider (NPP) application where they can be displayed and analyzed.

See network packet provider.

Neighborhood Preservation Program

New Project Proposal