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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11187.
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Acronyms

1DVAR

one-dimensional variational

3DVAR

three-dimensional variational

4DVAR

four-dimensional variational


ABI

Advanced Baseline Imager

ACRIMSAT

Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite, an EOS satellite mission to measure total solar irradiance

ADEOS

Advanced Earth Observational Satellite

AFWA

U.S. Air Force Weather Agency

AIREP

aircraft report

AIRS

Atmospheric Infrared Radiation Sounder

AMSU

Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit

ASEB

Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board

ATMS

Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder

ATN

Advanced TIROS-N satellite

ATOVS

Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

ATS

Advanced Technology Satellite

AVHRR

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AWIPS

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System


BASC

Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

BRDF

bidirectional reflectance distribution function

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11187.
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BUV

backscatter ultraviolet


CAIV

cost as independent variable

CAL/VAL

calibration/validation

CAPE

convective available potential energy

CBA

cost/benefit analysis

CDR

climate data record

CERES

Cloud and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System, an instrument on the Earth Observing System’s Terra spacecraft that measures the energy exchanged between the Sun; the Earth’s atmosphere, surface and clouds; and outer space

CICE

Los Alamos Sea Ice Model

CIMSS

Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

CLASS

Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System

CONNTRO

Committee on NASA-NOAA Transition from Research to Operations (NRC)

CONUS

continental United States

COSMIC

Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate

CrIS

Cross-track Infrared Sounder

CW

coastal waters


DAAC

Distributed Active Archive Center

DISCOVR

Deep Space Climatic Observatory

DMSP

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (Systems Program Office)

DOD

Department of Defense


ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ECS

EOSDIS Core System

EDR

environmental data record

EMC

Environmental Modeling Center of the National Weather Service’s NCEP

ENVISAT

Environmental Satellite

EO-1

Earth Orbiter-1, a NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center satellite that demonstrated technology for the next-generation Landsat mission

EOR

environmental observation requirement

EOS

Earth Observing System

EOSDIS

Earth Observing System Data and Information System

EP

Earth Probe

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11187.
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ERB

Earth radiation budget

ERBS

Earth Radiation Budget Satellite

ERBE

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (NASA)

ERTS

Earth Resources Technology Satellite

ESA

European Space Agency

ESDIS

Earth Science Data and Information System

ESE

Earth Science Enterprise

ESSA

Environmental Satellite Services Administration

ETM+

Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus, an instrument on the Landsat 7 spacecraft

EU

European Union

EUMETSAT

European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites


FCDR

fundamental climate data record

FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FNMOC

Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (U.S. Navy)

FTP

File Transfer Protocol


GEO

geosynchronous Earth orbit

GIFTS

Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

GLM

Geostationary Lightning Mapper

GMES

Global Monitoring for Environmental Security

GMI

Geostationary Microwave Imager

GOES

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GOES-R

next-generation GOES

GPS

Global Positioning System

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center

GUI

graphical user interface


HES

Hyperspectral Environmental Satellite; Hyperspectral Environmental Suite

HIRDLS

High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder

HIRS

High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder

HRPT

high-resolution picture transmission


IASI

Interferometer Atmospheric Sounding Instrument

ICESS

Institute for Computational Earth System Science

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11187.
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IEOS

Integrated Earth Observing System

IMAPP

International MODIS and AIRS Processing Package

IORD

Integrated Operational Requirements Document

IP

Internet Protocol

IPO

Integrated Program Office

IR

infrared

IT

information technology

ITOS

Improved Television Infrared Observations Satellite


JCSDA

Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation


LEO

low Earth orbit

LORE

Limb Ozone Retrieval Experiment

LWIR

long-wave infrared


MLS

Microwave Limb Sounder

MODIS

Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MRD

mission requirements document

MSU

Microwave Sounding Unit

MWIR

mid-wave infrared


NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCDC

National Climatic Data Center

NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NDVI

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NEdT

noise-equivalent-difference-temperature

NESDIS

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

NetCDF

Network Common Data Format

NEXRAD

Next Generation Radar, a network of Doppler radars operated by the National Weather Service

NIR

near-infrared

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPOESS

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

NPP

NPOESS Preparatory Project

NRC

National Research Council

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11187.
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NSF

National Science Foundation

NWP

numerical weather prediction

NWS

National Weather Service


ODB

Observation Data Base

OLI

Operational Land Imager instrument (NASA)

OLS

Operational Linescan System

OMI

Ozone Monitoring Instrument

OMPS

Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite

OSE

observing system experiment


PAOB

synthetic surface pressure data

PM

particulate matter

POES

Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite

PORD

Performance and operation requirements document


QuikSCAT

Quick Scatterometer (also called Seawinds General)


R&D

research and development

RDR

raw data record


SAGE

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

SAPC

Space Applications and Commercialization

SBUV

solar backscatter ultraviolet

SCIAMACHY

Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography

SDR

sensor data record

SeaWiFS

Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor

SOAP

Simple Object Access Protocol

SSB

Space Studies Board

SMS

Synchronous Meteorological Satellite

SST

sea-surface temperature

SSU

Stratospheric Sounding Unit

SWIR

short-wave infrared


TCDR

thematic climate data record

TES

Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer

TIROS

Television Infrared Observation Satellite

TMI

TRMM Microwave Imager

TOA

top-of-the-atmosphere measurements

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G Acronyms." National Research Council. 2004. Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness for 2010 and Beyond. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11187.
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TOMS

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

TOMS/EP

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, onboard an Earth Probe satellite (NASA)

TOPEX/Poseidon

Ocean Topography Experiment

TOS

TIROS Operational Satellite

TOVS

TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

TRMM

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

TRMM-PR

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Precipitation Radar


UARS

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

UCSB

University of California, Santa Barbara

UDDI

Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, protocol for Web services

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

USAF

U.S. Air Force

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

UV

Ultraviolet


VIIRS

Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite

VIS

Visible


WMO

World Meteorological Organization

WSDL

Wireless Digital Subscriber Link, a high-speed Internet connection

WWW

World Weather Watch


XML

Extensible Markup Language

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