Appendix E
Acronyms and Initialisms
ABLE Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments
ACTO Atmospheric Chemistry and Transport of Ozone
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AQS Air Quality Standards
ATOFMS aerosol-time-of-flight mass spectrometry
CAA Clean Air Act
CAIR Clean Air Interstate Rule
CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CAMNET Canadian Atmospheric Mercury Network
CAMR Clean Air Mercury Rule
CARIBIC Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container
CASTNET Clean Air Status and Trends Network
CCM chemistry-climate model
CTM chemical transport model
DI dry air intrusion
EA East Asia
EANET Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia
EDGAR Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research
EI emissions inventory
STET European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
EOS Earth Observing System
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ERS-2 European Remote Sensing satellite 2
ESRL Earth System Research Laboratory
EU European Union
EXPORT European eXport of Precursors and Ozone by long-Range Transport
FDDA four-dimensional data assimilation
FOC fluorinated organic chemical
GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
GEMS Global and regional Earth-system (Atmosphere) Monitoring using Satellite and insitu data
GEOS Goddard Earth Observing System
GHG greenhouse gas
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
HTAP-TF Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution
IADN Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
ICARTT International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation
IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
IGACO Integrated Global Atmospheric Chemistry Observations
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy
IMPROVE Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments
INTEX-NA Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment-NorthAmerica
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ITCT Intercontinental Transport and Chemical Transformation
ITCZ Intertropical Convergence Zone
ITOP Intercontinental Transport of Pollution
LDAR Light Detection and Ranging
LRT long-range transport
LRTAP Long Range Transport of Air Pollutantion
LSM Land surface model
MAXOX Maximum oxidation rates in the free troposphere
MCS mesoscale convective system
MDA8 maximum daily 8-hour average
MDN/AMI Mercury Deposition Network/Atmospheric Mercury Initiative
METAALICUS Mercury Experiment to Assess Atmospheric Loading in Canada and the U.S.
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOPITT Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
MOZAIC Measurements of OZone, water vapor, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides by in-service AIrbus airCraft
MOZART Model for Ozone and Related Tracers
NA North American
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NARE North Atlantic Regional Experiment
NARSTO North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEAQS New England Air Quality Study
NEXAFS Near-edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
NH Northern Hemisphere
NMHC nonmethane hydrocarbon
NMVOC nonmethane volatile organic compounds
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOXAR Measurements of Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone Along Air Routes
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
OCP organochlorine pesticide
OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument
PAH polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PBDE polybrominated diphenyl ethers
PBL planetary boundary layer
PCDD/Fs polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans
PEM-West Pacific Exploratory Mission-West
PFCA perfluorinated carboxylic acid
PFOA perfluorooctanoic acid
PHOBEA Photochemical Ozone Budget of the Eastern North Pacific Atmosphere
PM particulate matter
POLARCAT Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models of Climate Chemistry, Aerosols and Transport
POLINAT Pollution from Aircraft Emissions in the North Atlantic Flight Corridor
POP persistent organic pollutant
PRB policy relevant background
PSD Prevention of Significant Deterioration
RAINS Regional Air Pollution Information and Simulation
RGM Reactive Gaseous Mercury
RF Radiative forcing
S-R source-receptor
SA South Asia
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric CHartographY
SH Southern Hemisphere
SOAs secondary organic aerosols
SONEX subsonic assessment ozone and nitrogen oxide experiment
SRES Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
STM Scanning tunneling microscopy
TCO tropospheric column ozone
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TMDL Total Maximum Daily Load
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOPSE Tropospheric Ozone Production about the Spring Equinox
TRACE-P Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific
TTN Technology Transfer Network
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNFCCC U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change
VOC volatile organic compound
WCB warm conveyor belt
WHO World Health Organization
WMO World Meteorological Organization