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APPENDIX B
ACRONYM LIST
ALMA Atacama Large Mm/SubMm Array
AM(R)S aeronautical mobile (R) service
AMSR2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2
AMSR‐ E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer‐Earth
AMSU‐A Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
ARO Arizona Radio Observatory
ATMS JPSS’s Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
CI neutral carbon
CIWSIR Cloud Ice Water Sub‐millimetre Imaging Radiometer
CSO Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DoD Department of Defense
EESS Earth Exploration‐Satellite Service
EIRP equivalent isotropically radiated power
EOS Aqua NASA’s EOS Aqua
GEM Geosynchronous Microwave Sounder/Imager
GMI GPM Microwave Imager
GOMAS Geostationary Observatory for Microwave Atmospheric Sounding
GPM NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement
HAPS high altitude platform stations
HSO Herschel Space Observatory
ITU International Telecommunication Union
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JCMT James Clark Maxwell Telescope
JPSS Joint Polar Satellite System
LWA Long Wavelength Array
MASTER Millimetre‐wave Acquisitions for Stratosphere/Troposphere Exchange Research
MIS JPSS’s Microwave Imager Sounder
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder
MWA Murchison Widefield Array
MWI Microwave Imager
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NiCT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC U.S. National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
OOB Out of Band
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OSCR Ocean Surface Current Radar
PREMIER Process exploration through Measurement of Infrared and millimeter‐wave Emitted
Radiation
RAS Radio Astronomy Service
RFI radio frequency interference
SAFIR Single Aperture Far‐Infrared Observatory
SM soil moisture
SMA Submillimeter Array
SMILES Submillimeter‐Wave Limb Emission Sounder
SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SMT ARO’s Sub‐Millimeter Telescope
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Far‐Infrared Astronomy
SOPRANO Sub‐millimeter Observations of Processes in the Atmosphere Noteworthy for Ozone
SPT South Pole Telescope
SSB single‐sideband
SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imager
SSMI/S Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
SST sea surface temperature
TMI TRMM Microwave Imager
TRMM Tropical Rain Fall Measurement Mission
UAS unmanned aircraft systems
WERA WavE RAdar systems
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WRC World Radiocommunication Conference
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