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Acronyms/Abbreviations
ACE Aerosol Characterization Experiments
AERONET Aerosol Robotic Network
AGAGE Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
AOT Aerosol Optical Thickness
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radar
CAC Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry
CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
EOS Earth Observing System
GHG Greenhouse gas
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GTCM Global chemical transport model
HALOE Halogen Occultation Experiment
HCFC Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
HFC Hydrofluorocarbon
HRDLS High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
ILAS II Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer-II
IMPROVE Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments
INDOEX INDian Ocean EXperiment
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
LRTAP Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (Convention)
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MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding
MISR Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer Project
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder
MODIS Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MOPITT Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere
MOZAIC Measurement of OZone by Airbus In-service airCraft
NAAQS National Ambient Air Quality Standards
NARSTO North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NRC National Research Council
OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument
OMPS Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite
PICASSO-CENA Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spacebourne Observations - Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols
PM Particulate matter
POAM III Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement III
PPB Parts Per Billion
PPM Parts Per Million
SAGE III Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric Chartography
SHADOZ Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TRACE-P TRAnsport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific