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Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. NOAA's Role in Space-Based Global Precipitation Estimation and Application. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11724.
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Acronyms

4D-VAR four-dimensional variational

AGU American Geophysical Union

AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

AMS American Meteorological Society

AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System

AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

AQUA satellite of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS)

ASOS automated surface observing system

CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

CHILL National Radar Facility at Colorado State University CloudSat Cloud Satellite

CMIS Conical Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder

CMORPH Climate Prediction Center Morphing Technique

COARE Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment

CSA Canadian Space Agency

DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DOD U.S. Department of Defense

ECMWF European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts

EGPM European Global Precipitation Measurement

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. NOAA's Role in Space-Based Global Precipitation Estimation and Application. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11724.
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ESA European Space Agency

EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

FY Fengyun (Chinese satellite series); fiscal year

GCOM Global Change Observing Mission

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

GIFTS Atmospheric Soundings from Geostationary Orbit

GHz gigahertz

GMI GPM Microwave Imager

GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite

GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GPCP Global Precipitation Climatology Project

GPM Global Precipitation Measurement

GPS/RO Global Positioning System/Radio Occultation

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center

GSICS Global Space-Based Inter-Calibration System

HADS Hydrometeorological Automated Data System

HMT Hydrometeorological Testbed

HWRF Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting

IEOS DEP International Earth Observation System Data Exchange Principles

IFLOWS Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System

INSAT Indian National Satellite

IPWG International Precipitation Working Group

IR infrared

ISRO Indian Space Research Organization

JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

JEA Japan Environment Agency

JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

JSC Joint Scientific Committee

JWG Joint Working Group

km kilometer

LDAS Land Data Assimiliation System lidar light detection and ranging

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. NOAA's Role in Space-Based Global Precipitation Estimation and Application. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11724.
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MADRAS Microwave Analysis and Detection of Rain and Atmosphere Structure

Meteosat Meteorological Satellite

METOP Meteorological Operational satellite

MHS Microwave Humidity Sensor

MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan

MOU memorandum of understanding

MTSAT Multi-Functional Transport Satellite

MW microwave

MWRI Microwave Radiation Imager

N7C Oceanographer of the Navy

NAE National Academy of Engineering

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASDA National Space Development Agency of Japan

NCDC National Climatic Data Center

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

NEXRAD Next Generation Radar

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

NPP NPOESS Preparatory Mission

NRC National Research Council

NRL Naval Research Laboratory

NSF National Science Foundation

NWP numerical weather prediction

NWS National Weather Service

OAR Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA)

OTA Office of Technology Assessment

PERSIANN Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks

PMM Precipitation Measurement Missions

POES Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite

R-CLIPER Rainfall CLImate and PERsistence

SCaMPR Self-calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval

SSMI Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

Suggested Citation:"Appendix E: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2007. NOAA's Role in Space-Based Global Precipitation Estimation and Application. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11724.
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SSMIS Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder

STA Japanese Science and Technology Agency

STAR Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA)

TMI TRMM Microwave Imager

TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

USAF United States Air Force

USN United States Navy

WindSat Wind Satellite

WMO World Meteorological Organization

WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) uses precipitation data in many applications including hurricane forecasting. Currently, NOAA uses data collected from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite that was launched in 1997 by NASA in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. NASA is now making plans to launch the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission in 2013 to succeed TRMM, which was originally intended as a 3 to 5 year mission but has enough fuel to orbit until 2012. The GPM mission consists of a "core" research satellite flying with other "constellation" satellites to provide global precipitation data products at three-hour intervals. This book is the second in a 2-part series from the National Research Council on the future of rainfall measuring missions. The book recommends that NOAA begin its GPM mission preparations as soon as possible and that NOAA develop a strategic plan for the mission using TRMM experience as a guide. The first book in the series, Assessment of the Benefits of Extending the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (December 2004), recommended that the TRMM mission be extended as long as possible because of the quality, uniqueness, and many uses of its data. NASA has officially extended the TRMM mission until 2009.

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