DAEDALUS

Documenting Aerosol Electromagnetics, Defining Aerosol Lifetimes, and Understanding Sources (Research Stations)

DMS

Dimethyl sulfide

DOD

U.S. Department of Defense

DOE

U.S. Department of Energy

DOI

U.S. Department of the Interior

DTR

Diurnal temperature range

ENSO

El Niño/Southern Oscillation

EOS

Earth Observing System

EOSP

Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter

EPA

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ERBE

Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

FT

Free troposphere

GAW

Global Atmospheric Watch

GCM

General circulation model

GHG

Greenhouse gas

GOME

Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

HALOE

Halogen Occultation Experiment

HCFC

Hydrogenated chlorofluorocarbon

ICARUS

Interagency Climate-Aerosol Radiative Uncertainties and Sensitivities (Program)

IFN

Ice-freezing nuclei

IGAC

International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (Project)

IGY

International Geophysical Year

ILAS

Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IR

Infrared

ISS

Integrated sounding systems

ITCZ

Intertropical convergence zone

IWC

Ice water content

IWP

Ice water path

LITE

Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment

MABL

Marine atmospheric boundary layer

MAC

Multiphase Atmospheric Chemistry (Activity)

MAGE

Marine Aerosol and Gas Exchange (Activity)

MBL

Marine boundary layer

MISR

Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer

MODIS

Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MSA

Methanesulfonic acid

NAPAP

National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program

NARE

North Atlantic Regional Experiment

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration