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Acronyms and Abbreviations
3-D Winds Three-Dimensional Tropospheric Winds from Space-based Lidar
ABBA automated biomass burning algorithm
ABI advanced baseline imager
ABYSS Altimetric Bathymetry from Surface Slopes
A-CD Aerosol-Cloud Discovery (mission)
ACE aerosol-cloud-ecosystem
ACRIM Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor
ADM Atmospheric Dynamics Mission
AERONET Aerosol Robotics Network
AGAGE Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
AIRS Aerometric Information Retrieval System or Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
ALOS Advanced Land Observing Satellite
ALT radar altimeter
AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observation System
AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
AOD Aerosol Optical Depth
APS advanced polarimetric sensor
AQI air quality index
ARIES Atmospheric Remote-Sensing and Imaging Emission Spectrometer
ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
ASCAT advanced scatterometers
ASCENDS Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons
ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
ATLS Across Trophic Level Systems
ATMS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
ATOMMS Active Temperature, Ozone, and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVIRIS Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
BC blackcarbon
BRDF bidirectional reflectance distribution function
BSRN broadband solar radiometer
CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CAMEO Composition of the Atmosphere from Mid-Earth Orbit
C-CAN Continuous Coastal Awareness Network
CCSP Climate Change Science Program
CDOM colored dissolved organic matter
CDR climate data record
CERES Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System
CHAMP Coral Health and Monitoring Project or Challenging Minisatellite Payload
CHARMS Cloud Height and Altitude-Resolved Motion Stereo-imager
CHASM Cloud Hydrology and Albedo Synthesis Mission
CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
CLARREO Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory
CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability
CLPP Cold Land Processes Pathfinder
CM1 Climate Mission 1
CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
CME coronal mass ejection
CMIS Conical-Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder
CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
C/NOFS Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System
COCOA Coastal Ocean Carbon Observations and Applications
COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate
COSPAR Committee on Space Research
CPR cloud profiling radar
CrIS cross-track infrared sounder
CRYSTAL FACE Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers-Florida Area Cirrus Experiment
CTM chemical transport models
CZCS coastal zone color scanner
DESDynl Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice
DIAL Differential Absorption Lidar
DLR German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V.)
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOC dissolved organic carbon
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DOM dissolved organic matter
DSCOVR Deep Space Climate Observatory
DWL Doppler wind lidar
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
EDR environmental data record
EIT Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope
ENSO El Niño Southern Oscillation
Envisat environmental satellite
EOS Earth Observing System
E—P freshwater flux
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERA-40 European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 40-yr global reanalysis
ERB Earth radiation budget
ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
ERBS Earth radiation budget sensor
ERS European Remote-Sensing Satellites
ESA European Space Agency
ESAP Earth Science Applications Pathfinder
ESSP Earth System Science Pathfinder
ETM+ Enhanced Thematic Mapper +
EUV extreme ultraviolet
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FOV field of view
FY fiscal year
GACM Global Atmospheric Composition Mission
GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEO geostationary Earth orbit
GEO-CAPE Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events
GeoSAR Geographic Synthetic Aperture Radar
GEOSS Global Earth Observing System of Systems
GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GFE government furnished equipment
GFO Geosat Follow-On
GIFTS Geostationary Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer
GISMO Glaciers and Ice Sheets Mapping Orbiter
GLAS Geoscience Laser Altimeter System
GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System
GNSS Global Navigating Satellite System
GOCE European Gravity Field and Steady State Ocean Circulation Explorer
GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOES-R Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (the next generation of GOES satellites)
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GPM Global Precipitation Measurement (mission)
GPS Global Positioning System
GPSRO Operational GPS Radio Occultation
GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
HAB harmful algal bloom
HAZUS Hazards US
HDWL Hybrid Doppler Wind Lidar
HES Hyperspectral Environmental Sensor
HIRDLS High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
HIRS high resolution infrared radiation sounder
HPS hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
HSB Humidity Sounder for Brazil
HSRL high-spectral-resolution lidar
HyspIRI Hyperspectral Infrared Imager
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer.
ICESat Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite
ICOS Integrated Carbon Observing System
ICSU International Council for Science
IEOS International Earth Observing System
IGACO Integrated Global Atmospheric Chemistry Observations
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy
IIP Instrument Incubator Program
InSAR Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
IORD-II Integrated Operational Requirements Document II
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPO Integrated Program Office
IR infrared
ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LASCO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph
LDCM Landsat Data Continuity Mission
LEO low Earth orbit
Lidar Light Detection and Ranging
LIST Lidar Surface Topography
LST land radiometric surface temperature
LTER long term ecological research
LVIS Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor
M3 Moon Mineralogy Mapper
MAPSAR Multi Application Purpose SAR
MATH Monitoring Atmosphere Turbulence and Humidity
Mbps megabits per second
MDI Michelson Doppler Imager
MEO medium Earth orbit
MetOp Meteorological Operational Satellite Program
MIS microwave imager/sounder
MISR multi-angle imaging spectroradiometer
MLS microwave limb sounder
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOPITT Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
MOSAIC Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-service Aircraft
MOSS Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface
MSS multispectral scanner
MSU microwave sounding units
MTSAT Multi-Function Transport Satellite
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA National Space Development Agency (of Japan)
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NEON National Ecological Observatory Network
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
NH Northern Hemisphere
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
NSA National Snow Analysis
NSCAT NASA scatterometer
NSF National Science Foundation
NWP numerical weather prediction
OCEaNS Ocean Carbon, Ecosystem and Near-Shore
OCO Orbiting Carbon Observatory
OLOM Ocean and Land Operational Mission
OMI ozone monitoring instrument
OMPS ozone monitoring and profiling suite
OOLM Operational Ocean and Land Mission
ORION Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
OVWM Ocean Vector Winds Mission
PARAGON Progressive Aerosol Retrieval and Assimilation Global Observing Network
PARASOL Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar
PATH Precipitation and All-Weather Temperature and Humidity
PBL planetary boundary layer
PM particulate matter
POLDER Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances
R&A research and analysis
R&D research and development
RADARSAT radar satellite
RAOB rawinsonde observation
RASS radio acoustic sounding system
RCTRO Radiance Calibration and Time Reference Observatory
RFI request for information
RMSE root mean square error
RO radio occultation
SAC-C Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-C
SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SAR synthetic aperture radar
SATCOM satellite communication
SAVII Spaceborne Advanced Visible Infrared Imager
ScanSAR Scanning Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography
SCLP Snow and Cold Land Processes
SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field of View Sensor
SESWG Solid Earth Sciences Working Group
SH Southern Hemisphere
SH2OUT Sensing of H2O in the Upper Troposphere
SI Systeme Internationale
SIM Spectral Irradiance Monitor
SIRCUS Spectral Irradiance and Radiance Responsivity Calibrations with Uniform Sources
SIRICE Submillimeter Infrared Radiometer Ice Cloud Experiment
SLR Satellite Laser Ranging
SMAP Soil Moisture Active-Passive
SMD Science Mission Directorate
SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SNOTEL Snowpack Telemetry
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
SORCE Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
SPOT Satellite Probatoire de I’Observation de la Terre
SRTM Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SSI satellite-to-satellite interferometer
SSM/I special sensor microwave/imager
SSO Sun-synchronous orbit
SST sea-surface temperature
STEREO Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory
SURFRAD Surface Radiation Budget Network
SWE snow water equivalent
SWIR short-wave infrared
SWOT Surface Water and Ocean Topography
TanDEM-X TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement
TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
TCHP tropical cyclone heat-potential field
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TIM total irradiance monitor
TIROS-N Television Infrared Observation Satellite-N
TM thematic mapper
TOA top of atmosphere
TOGA Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere Program
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment
TOPSAR Topographic Synthetic Aperture Radar
T/P TOPEX/Poseidon (mission)
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TSI total solar irradiance
TSIS total solar irradiance sensor
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
UHF ultra high frequency
ULDB ultra-long duration balloon
USCRN U.S. Climate Reference Network
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
UV ultraviolet
VBZ vector-borne and zoonotic
VCL vegetation canopy lidar
VHF very high frequency
VIIRS Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer suite
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VOC volatile organic chemical
WatER Water Elevation Recovery Satellite Mission
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WF-ABBA Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WOWS Water and Ocean Wind Sensor
WRF-CHEM Weather Research and Forecasting Regional Chemical Transport Model
WRSI Water Requirement Satisfaction Index
WSOA Wide Swatch Ocean Altimeter
WTC World Trade Center
XBT expendable bathythermograph
XOVWM Extended Ocean Vector Winds Mission