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Views of the NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (2012)
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Committee on Radio Frequencies, National Research Council. "APPENDIX B ACRONYM LIST." Views of the NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2012.

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** PREPUBLICATION COPY – WORDING SUBJECT TO CHANGE **  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   46 

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** PREPUBLICATION COPY – WORDING SUBJECT TO CHANGE **  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     47