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Acronyms and Abbreviations
AAOE Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment
AASE Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition
ACAM Airborne Compact Atmospheric Mapper
ACE Aerosol-Cloud-Ecosystems
ACE Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment
AI&T assembly, integration, and test
AirMISR Airborne MISR instrument
ARCTAS Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites
ASCENDS Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons
ASHOE/MAESA Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment/Measurement for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
ASP Airborne Science Program
ASRAT Astrophysics Sounding Rocket Assessment Team
AVE Aura Validation Experiment
BARREL Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses
BLAST Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
BOOMERanG Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics
BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
BPA Balloon Program Office
CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
CAMEX Convection and Moisture Experiment
CCD charge-coupled device
CFC chlorofluorocarbon
CLARREO Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory
CMB cosmic microwave background
CPL Cloud Physics Lidar
CR-AVE Costa Rica Aura Validation Experiment
CrIS Cross-track Infrared Sounder
CRS Cloud Radar Sensor
CRYSTAL–FACE Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers–Florida Area Cirrus Experiment
DESDynI Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice mission
EPO education and public outreach
ESA European Space Agency
ESD Earth Science Division
EUV extreme ultraviolet
FILOS Far-Infrared Limb Observing Spectrometer
FIRST Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere instrument
GACM Global Atmospheric Composition (mission)
GeoCAPE Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events
GOCO government-owned, contractor-operated
INTEX Intercontinental Transport Experiment
IR infrared
KAO Kuiper Airborne Observatory
LBA Large-scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment
LDB long-duration balloon
LISA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
MAS MODIS Airborne Simulator
MASTER MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator
MAXIMA Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array
MDA Missile Defense Agency
MINIS Miniature Spectrometers balloon project
MISR Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR)
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOPITT Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
NAMMA NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses
NAST-I NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Interferometer
NAST-M NPOESS Aircraft Sounder Testbed-Microwave
NCT Nuclear Compton Telescope
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NSROC NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract(or)
NuSTAR Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
OSR Orbital Sounding Rocket
PAVE Polar Aura Validation Experiment
PI principal investigator
PODEX Polarimeter Definition Experiment
POLARIS Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region In Summer
R&A research and analysis
RBSP Radiation Belt Storm Probes
Retrieval algorithm complex recipe of calculations utilized to retrieve geophysical data from raw signals
REU Research Experience for Undergraduates
RTMM Real Time Mission Management
SAFARI Southern African Fire Atmosphere Research Initiative
SARP Student Airborne Research Program
SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory
SERI Solar Energy Research Institute
SLS Submillimeterwave Limb Sounder
SMD Science Mission Directorate
SMEX Small Explorer
SOFIA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
SOLVE SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment
SONEX Subsonic Assessment Ozone and NOx Experiment
SPADE Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition
SRP Sounding Rocket Program
SRPO Sounding Rocket Program Office
STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
STEP Stratospheric Tropospheric Exchange Project
STEREO Solar-Terrestrial Relations Observatory
STRAT Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport
SUCCESS Subsonic aircraft: Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study
TC4 Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling
TCSP Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes
TEFLUN Texas-Florida Underflights
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TOTE/VOTE Tropical Ozone Transport Experiment/Vortex Ozone Transport. Experiment
TRACE Transport and Chemical Evolution Experiment
UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UAS unmanned aircraft system
UAVSAR Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
ULDB ultralong-duration balloon
USRA Universities Space Research Association
WFF Wallops Flight Facility
XQC x-ray quantum calorimeter