A | affordability |
ACE | Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems (missions) |
ACRIMSat | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite |
AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
AO | Announcement of Opportunity |
AR | autoregressive |
AR5 | Fifth Assessment of the IPCC |
ARCM | Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models (report) |
ASCENDS | Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons |
ATLAS | Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System |
ATMS | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder |
AWS | automated weather station |
B |
benefit |
BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
CALIOP |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization |
CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observing Satellites |
CERES | Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System |
CH4 | methane |
CIESIN | Center for International Earth Science Information Network |
CLARREO | Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory |
CMIP | Climate Model Intercomparison Project |
CNES | Centre National d’Études Spaciales |
CO2 | carbon dioxide |
CRF | cloud radiative forcing |
DESDynI |
Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice |
DSCOVR | Deep Space Climate Observatory |
ECS |
equilibrium climate sensitivity |
ECV | essential climate variable |
ENSO | El Niño southern oscillation |
EOS | Earth Observing System |
ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
ERF | effective radiative forcing |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ESD | Earth Science Division |
ESSP | Earth System Science Pathfinder |
EUMETSAT | European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
EV | Earth Venture |
EVI | Earth Venture-Instrument |
EVM | Earth Venture Mission |
EVS | Earth Venture Suborbital |
FY |
fiscal year |
GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
GEDI | Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation |
GEO-CAPE | Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events |
GIA | Glacial Isostatic Adjustment |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GOSAT | Greenhouse gases Observing Satellite |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement |
GPS-RO | GPS-Radio Occultation |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
GRACE-FO | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on |
GRUAN | GCOS Reference UpperAir Network |
GSICS | Global Space-based Intercalibration System |
HyspIRI |
Hyperspectral Infrared Imager |
I |
importance |
ICESat | Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite |
ICESat-2 | Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 |
IDPS | Interface Data Processing Segment |
InSAR | interferometric synthetic aperture radar |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IR | infrared |
ISRO | Indian Space Research Organization |
JPSS |
Joint Polar Satellite System |
JPSS-2 | Joint Polar Satellite System-2 |
LDCM |
Landsat Data Continuity Mission |
LW | longwave |
MOD |
merged ozone data |
MODIS | Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
NAC |
NASA Advisory Council |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
NISAR | NASA-ISRO synthetic aperture radar |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
NPP | NPOESS Preparatory Project |
NRA | NASA Research Announcement |
NRC | National Research Council |
OCO |
Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
OCO-2 | Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 |
OIB | Operation IceBridge |
OMPS-L | Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite Limb |
OSSE | Observing System Simulation Experiment |
PACE |
Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and Ocean Ecosystem |
PMOD | Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos |
Q |
quality |
QBO | quasi-biennial oscillation |
QESO | quantified Earth science objective |
QuickSCAT | Quick Scatterometer |
RBI |
Radiation Budget Instrument |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences |
RSS | Remote Sensing System |
S |
success probability |
SAGE III | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment–III |
SAR | synthetic aperture radar |
SBUV | Solar Backscatter UltraViolet |
SCC | Social Cost of Carbon memo |
SMAP | Soil Moisture Active-Passive |
SMMI | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
S-NPP | Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
SORCE | Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
SST | sea surface temperature |
SW | shortwave |
SW CRF | shortwave cloud radiative forcing |
SWOT | Surface Water and Ocean Topography |
SYN | Synoptic Radiative Fluxes and Clouds |
TIM |
Total Irradiance Monitor |
TIR | thermal infrared |
TLT | temperature lower troposphere |
TOA | top of the atmosphere |
TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
TOPEX | Ocean Topography Experiment |
TRL | technology readiness level |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
TSI | total solar irradiance |
TSIS | Total Solar Irradiance Sensor |
TSIS-2 | Total Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 |
U |
utility |
UAH | University of Alabama in Huntsville |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
UV | ultraviolet |
V |
value |
VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
VIS | visible |
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
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