Appendix C
Acronyms
ABoVE | Artic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment |
ACCP | Aerosol and Cloud, Convection and Precipitation |
ACTIVATE | Aerosol-Cloud-Meteorology Interaction Airborne Field Investigations |
AGL | above ground level |
AirMOSS | Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface |
AIRSAR | Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar |
AirSWOT | Air Surface Water and Ocean Topography |
ARCTAS | Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites |
ARISE | Arctic Radiation IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment |
ASCENDS | Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons |
ASL | above sea level |
ASO | Airborne Snow Observatory |
ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
ATM | Airborne Topographic Mapper |
ATom | Atmospheric Tomography Mission |
ATTREX | Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment |
AVIRIS | Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Classic |
AVIRIS-NG | Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer Next Generation |
BioSCape | Biodiversity: Marine, Freshwater, and Terrestrial Biodiversity Survey of the Cape |
CAMEX | Convection And Moisture EXperiment |
CBLAST | Coupled Boundary Layer Air–Sea Transfer |
CH4 | methane |
CH2O | formaldehyde |
CLPX | Cold Land Processes Field Experiment |
CO | carbon monoxide |
CO2 | carbon dioxide |
CORAL | COral Reef Airborne Laboratory |
CPEX | Convective Processes Experiment |
CPEX-AW | Convective Processes Experiment—Aerosols and Winds |
DC3 | Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry |
DC-8 | Douglas DC-8-72 aircraft |
DEI | diversity, equity, and inclusion |
DEMs | Digital Elevation Models |
DIAL | differential absorption lidar |
DO | designated observable |
DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
DOI | U.S. Department of Interior |
DopplerScat | Doppler Scatterometer |
ECOSTRESS | ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station |
eMAS | Enhanced MODIS Airborne Simulator |
EMIT | Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation |
ER-2 | Earth Resources 2 |
ESAS | Earth Science and Applications from Space Decadal Survey |
ET | evapotranspiration |
EUFAR | European Facility for Airborne Research |
EVI | Earth Venture Instrument |
EVS | Earth Venture Suborbital |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
FIREX-AQ | Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality |
GCPEx | Global Precipitation Measurement Cold Season Precipitation Experiment |
GEDI | Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation |
GEO | geostationary Earth orbit |
GeoCARB | Geostationary Carbon Observatory |
GEOS | Goddard Earth Observing System |
GIII | Gulfstream III |
GIV | Gulfstream IV |
GLISTIN-A | Glacier and Ice Surface Topography Interferometer |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GRIP | Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes |
GV | Gulfstream V |
HASP | High Altitude Student Platform |
HIAPER | High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research |
HIPPO | High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) Pole-to-Pole Observations |
HyspIRI | Hyperspectral Infrared Imager |
ICESat | NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite |
IIP | Instrument Incubator Program |
InSAR | Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar |
IR | infrared |
ISDAC | Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign |
ISRO | Indian Space Research Organisation |
ITOP | Impacts of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific |
KORUS-AQ | Korea-United States Air Quality |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
LVIS | Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor |
MAIA | Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols |
MASS | Modular Aerial Sensing System |
MASTER | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)/Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Airborne Simulator |
MIZOPEX | Marginal Ice Zone Observations and Processes EXperiment |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
NAAMES | North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystem Study |
NAMMA | NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NAST-I | National Airborne Sounder Testbed—Interferometer |
NISAR | NASA-Indian Space Research Organization Synthetic Aperture Radar |
NO2 | nitrogen dioxide |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
OCO-3 | Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 |
OIB | Operation IceBridge |
OLYMPEX | Olympic Winter Precipitation Experiment |
OMG | Oceans Melting Greenland |
ONR | Office of Naval Research |
PACE | Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem |
PBL | planetary boundary layer |
PECAN | Plains Elevated Convection at Night |
POLARCAT | Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport |
POLSAR | polarimetric synthetic aperture radar |
POS AV | Applanix Position and Orientation System |
PREFIRE | Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment |
PRISM | Portable Remote Imaging SpectroMeter |
RaDFIRE | Rapid Deployments to Wildfires Experiment |
RSP | Research Scanning Polarimeter |
SABOR | Ship Aircraft BioOptical Research |
SAR | synthetic aperture radar |
SARP | Student Airborne Research Program |
SBG | Surface Biology and Geology |
SEAC4RS | Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling Regional Surveys |
SIERRA-B | Sensor Integrated Environmental Remote Research Aircraft |
SIR-C | Shuttle Imaging Radar with Payload C |
SMAP | Soil Moisture Active-Passive |
SO2 | sulfur dioxide |
SOARS | Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science |
SRTM | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
SWOT | Surface Water Ocean Topography |
TC4 | Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling Experiment |
TEMPO | Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution |
TOGA COARE | Tropical Ocean–Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Response Experiment |
TRACE-P | Transport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific |
TROPOMI | TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument |
UAS | uncrewed airborne systems |
UAVSAR | Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar |
USAF | U.S. Air Force |
USFS | U.S. Forest Service |
VOCs | volatile organic compounds |
VPD | vapor pressure deficit |