Appendix D
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AIRS |
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
ALOS |
Advanced Land Observing Satellite |
ASCENDS |
Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, & Seasons |
ASTER |
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
AVO |
Alaska Volcano Observatory |
CALIPSO |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
CIDER |
Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research |
CIG |
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics |
CMG |
Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences |
COSMO-SkyMed |
Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation |
CSEDI |
Cooperative Studies of the Earth’s Deep Interior |
DOAS |
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
ENSO |
El Niño–Southern Oscillation |
FTIR |
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy |
GeoPRISMs |
Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and Subducting Margins |
GNSS |
Global Navigation Satellite System |
GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
IASI |
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
InSAR |
interferometric synthetic aperture radar |
IR |
infrared |
IRIS |
Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology |
MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer |
MLS |
Microwave Limb Sounder |
MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NERSC |
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
OMI |
Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
OMPS |
Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite |
PASSCAL |
Portable Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere |
PDC |
pyroclastic density current |
PREVENTS |
Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events |
SAGE |
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
SEES |
Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability |
TanDEM-X |
TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement |
USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
VDAP |
Volcano Disaster Assistance Program |
VEI |
Volcano Explosivity Index |
XSEDE |
Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment |