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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Global Air Quality: An Imperative for Long-Term Observational Strategies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10097.
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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)

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Global Air Quality: An Imperative for Long-Term Observational Strategies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10097.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms." National Research Council. 2001. Global Air Quality: An Imperative for Long-Term Observational Strategies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10097.
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The National Research Council's Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry (NRC/CAC) was established to serve as a focal point for NRC activities on issues related to atmospheric chemical change and its impacts on air quality, climate, stratospheric ozone depletion, and other related issues. The committee consists of 12 members with expertise covering the areas of tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry; urban/regional air pollution; modeling of climate, chemistry, and atmospheric dynamics; in situ and remote sensing observational systems; and interfaces of science and public policy.

This CAC study was motivated by a concern that, in the coming decades, dramatic increases in global population and urbanization levels, as well as changes in global climate, may significantly affect air quality over large regions of the globe. The charge to the committee was to examine the linkages among regional/ global changes in atmospheric composition, climate change, and air quality.

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