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Other A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| 3S |
Sun-Sky-Surface photometer |
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| ACE-Asia |
Aerosol Characterization Experiment–Asia |
| ACMAP |
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Analysis Program |
| ACS |
American Chemical Society |
| ADEOS |
Advanced Earth Observation Satellite |
| AERONET |
Aerosol Robotic Network |
| AETD |
Applied Engineering and Technology Directorate |
| AFWEX |
ARM-FIRE Water Vapor Experiment |
| AI |
Aerosol Index |
| AIRS |
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| AL |
Aerosol Lidar |
| AMS |
American Meteorological Society |
| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| AMSR-E |
AMSR Earth Observing System (EOS) |
| AMSU |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
| ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (Program) |
| ARM CART |
ARM Cloud and Radiation Test Bed |
| AROTAL |
Airborne Raman Ozone, Temperature, and Aerosol Lidar |
| ARREX |
Aerosol Recirculation and Rainfall Experiment |
| AT Lidar |
Aerosol and Temperature Lidar |
| ATMS |
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder |
| ATOVS |
Advanced TOVS |
| AVE |
Aura Validation Experiment |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AVIRIS |
Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer |
| AWEX-G |
AIRS Water Vapor Experiment–Ground |
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| BASE-ASIA |
Biomass-burning Aerosols in South East-Asia: Smoke Impact Assessment |
| Brewer UV |
Brewer Ultraviolet Spectrometer |
| BUV |
Backscatter Ultraviolet |
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| CALIPSO |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations |
| CAMEX |
Convection And Moisture EXperiment |
| CCAST |
Cooperative Center for Atmospheric Science and Technology |
| CCD |
Convective Cloud Differential |
| CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| CEAS |
Center for Earth–Atmosphere Studies |
| CERES |
Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System |
| CFCs |
Chlorofluorocarbons |
| CHINA-TEA |
Climate and Health Impacts in North/east Asia–Tropospheric Experiment on Aerosols |
| CHyMERA |
Compact Hyperspectral Mapper for Environmental Remote Sensing Applications |
| CIFAR |
Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Research |
| CIMSS |
Cooperative Institute of Meteorological Satellite Studies |
| CLAMS |
Chesapeake Lighthouse and Aircraft Measurements for Satellites |
| CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability Programme |
| CNES |
Centre Nationale d’Etude Spatiales |
| Co-I |
Co-Investigator |
| COMMIT |
Chemical, Optical, and Microphysical Measurements of In situ Troposphere |
| CONTOUR |
Comet Nucleus Tour |
| COVIR |
Compact Visible and Infrared Radiometer |
| CPL |
Cloud Physics Lidar |
| CrIS |
Crosstrack Infrared Sounder |
| CRS |
Cloud Radar System |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization |
| CSTEA |
Center for the Study of Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Atmospheres |
| CTM |
Chemical Transport Model |
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| DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Center |
| DAO |
Data Assimilation Office |
| DAS |
Data Assimilation System |
| DDF |
Director’s Discretionary Fund |
| DIAL |
DIfferential Absorption Lidar |
| DISS |
Distributed Image Spreadsheet |
| DMSP |
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DOI |
Digital Object Identifiers |
| DSCOVR |
Deep Space Climate Observatory Project (formerly Triana) |
| DWP |
Doppler Wind Lidar |
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E
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| ECS |
EOSDIS Core System |
| ECSO |
Executive Committee for Science Outreach |
| EDOP |
ER-2 Doppler Radar |
| EDR |
Environmental Data Record |
| EMC |
NCEP’s Environmental Modeling Center |
| ENSO |
El Niño Southern Oscillation |
| ENVISAT |
Environmental Satellite |
| EO3 |
Earth Observing 3 mission called GIFTS |
| EOS |
Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS |
EOS Data and Information System |
| EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPIC |
Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera |
| EP-TOMS |
Earth Probe TOMS |
| ERBE |
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| ERBE TOA |
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment Top-Of-Atmosphere |
| ERBS |
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESE |
Earth Science Enterprise |
| ESPI |
ENSO Precipitation Index |
| ESSIC |
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center |
| ESSP |
Earth System Science Pathfinder |
| ESTO |
Earth Science Technology Office |
| ESTO/ACT |
Earth Science Technology Office/Advanced Component Technologies |
| E-Theater |
Electronic Theater |
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F
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| FFPA |
filter/focal plane array |
| FvDAS |
Finite volume data assimilation system |
| FvGCM |
Finite volume GCM |
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G
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| GADS |
Global Aircraft Data Set |
| GATE |
GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| GCE |
Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model |
| GCM |
General Circulation Model |
| GCMS |
Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer |
| GEOS |
Goddard Earth Observing System |
| GeoSpec |
Geostationary Spectrograph |
| GEST |
Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center |
| GEWEX |
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
| GIFTS |
Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| GIS |
Geographical Information Systems |
| GISS |
Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| GLAS |
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System |
| GLOBE |
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment |
| GLOW |
Goddard Lidar Observatory for Winds |
| GMAO |
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office |
| GMI |
Global Modeling Initiative |
| GMS |
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
| GOCART |
Global Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation Transport |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GoHFAS |
Goddard Howard University Fellowship in Atmospheric Sciences |
| GOME |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
| GPCP |
Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
| GPM |
Global Precipitation Measurement |
| GPS |
Global Positioning Satellite |
| GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GSRP |
Graduate Student Researchers Program |
| GSWP |
Global Soil Wetness Project |
| GTE |
Global Tropospheric Experiment |
| GV |
Ground Validation |
| GVP |
Ground Validation Program |
| GWEC |
Global Water and Energy Cycle |
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| HARGLO-2 |
Intercomparison of Wind Profile Systems experiment involving the HARLIE and GLOW instruments |
| HARLIE |
Holographic Airborne Rotating Lidar Instrument Experiment |
| HBCUs |
Historically Black Colleges and Universities |
| HDTV |
High Definition TV |
| HIRDLS |
High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| HIRS |
High Resolution Infrared Sounder |
| HOTS |
Holographic Optical Telescope and Scanner |
| HSB |
Humidity Sounder Brazil |
| HU |
Howard University |
| HUPAS |
Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences |
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| I3RC |
Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes |
| IAMAS |
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences |
| ICESat |
Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite |
| IGS |
Internal Government Studies |
| IHOP |
International H20 Project |
| IIP |
Instrument Incubator Program |
| INDOEX |
Indian Ocean Experiment |
| INPE |
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Institute for Space Research) |
| INSAT |
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite |
| IORD |
Integrated Operational Requirements Document |
| IPCC |
International Panel on Climatic Change |
| IPO |
Integrated Program Office |
| IR |
Infrared |
| IRAD |
Independent Research and Development |
| ISAS |
Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science |
| ISCCP |
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| ISIR |
Infrared Spectral Imaging Radiometer |
| ITCZ |
Intertropical Convergence Zone |
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| JARG |
Joint Agency Requirements Group |
| JAXA |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| JCET |
Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology |
| JCOSS |
Joint Center for Observation System Science |
| JCSDA |
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation |
| JHU/APL |
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
| JIESIC |
Joint Interdisciplinary Earth Science Information Center (with George Mason University) |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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K
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| KILT |
Kiritimati Island Lidar Trailer |
| KNMI |
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
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L
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| L2-SVIP |
Lagrange-2 Solar Viewing Interferometer Prototype |
| LaRC |
Langley Research Center |
| LAS |
Leonardo Airborne Simulator |
| LASAL |
Large Aperture Scanning Airborne Lidar |
| LORE |
Limb Ozone Retrieval Experiment |
| LRR |
Lightweight Rainfall Radiometer |
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| MBA |
Microbolometer Array |
| MBL |
Marine Boundary Layer |
| MEIDEX |
Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment |
| MEMS |
Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems |
| Metop |
future European POES satellites |
| MISR |
Multi-Angle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MLS |
Microwave Limb Sounder |
| MM5 |
Mesoscale Model 5 |
| MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOPITT |
Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere |
| MPI |
Message Passing Interface |
| MPL |
Micro-Pulse Lidar |
| MPLNET |
Micro-Pulse Lidar Network |
| MSU |
Microwave Sounding Unit |
| MTR |
Management Technical Review |
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| NAS |
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASDA |
National Space Development Agency |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCCS |
NASA Center for Computational Sciences |
| NCEP |
National Center for Environmental Prediction |
| NDSC |
Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change |
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service |
| NGI |
Next Generation Internet |
| NGIMS |
Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer |
| NIEHS |
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
| NIIEM |
Russian Scientific Research Institute of Electromechanics |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NMNH |
National Museum of Natural History |
| NMS |
Neutral Mass Spectrometer |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOAA CMDL |
NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory |
| NPOESS |
National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System |
| NPOL |
NASA Polarimetric Radar |
| NPP |
NPOESS Preparatory Project |
| NRC |
National Research Council |
| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSCAT |
NASA Scatterometer |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| NSIPP |
NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project |
| NTSC |
National Television Standards Committee |
| NWS |
National Weather Service |
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| OAT |
Operation Algorithm Team |
| OGO |
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory |
| OLR |
Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| OMI |
Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
| OMPS |
Ozone Mapper and Profiler System |
| OSE |
Observing System Experiment |
| OSIRIS |
ODIN Spectrometer and IR Imager System |
| OSSE |
Observing System Simulation Experiment |
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| PACJET |
Pacific Landfalling Jets Experiment |
| PAVE |
Polar Aura Validation Experiment |
| PBL |
Planetary Boundary Layer |
| PI |
Principal Investigator |
| PICASSO-CENA |
Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations—Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols |
| PLACE |
Parameterization for Land Atmosphere Cloud Exchange |
| POAM |
Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement |
| POES |
Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite |
| PR |
Precipitation Radar |
| PRESTORM |
Oklahoma–Kansas Preliminary Regional Experiment for STORM–Central |
| PRiDE |
Puerto Rico Dust Experiment |
| PSAS |
Physical-space Statistical Analysis System |
| PSC |
Polar Stratospheric Clouds |
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Q
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| QEM |
Quality Education for Minorities |
| QuikSCAT |
(NASA’s) Quick Scatterometer satellite |
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R
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| RASL |
Raman Airborne Spectroscopic Lidar |
| RCDF |
Radiometric Calibration and Development Facility |
| RDAS |
Retrospective Data Assimilation System |
| RTOP |
Research and Technology Objectives and Plans |
| RTOVS |
Revised TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder |
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| SACZ |
South Atlantic Convergence Zone |
| SAFARI |
Southern Africa Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative |
| SAGE |
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
| SBIR |
Small Business Innovative Research |
| SBUV |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet |
| SBUV/2 |
Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet/version 2 |
| SCIAMACHY |
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography |
| SCO |
Stratospheric Column Ozone |
| SCSMEX |
South China Sea Monsoon Experiment |
| SeaWiFS |
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor |
| SERDP |
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program |
| SHADOZ |
Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes |
| SHARP |
Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program |
| SIMBIOS |
Sensor Intercomparison and Merger for Biological and Interdisciplinary Oceanic Studies |
| SLAM |
Small Lidar Advanced Measurement |
| SLP |
Sea Level Pressure |
| SMART |
Surface-sensing Measurements for Atmospheric Radiative Transfer |
| SMiR |
Scanning Microwave Radiometer |
| SO |
Southern Oscillation |
| SOARS |
Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science |
| SOLAS |
Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Studies |
| SOLSE/LORE |
Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment/Limb Ozone Retrieval Experiment |
| SOLVE |
SAGE III Ozone Loss and Validation Experiment |
| SORCE |
SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment |
| SPANDAR |
Space Range Radar, Wallops Island, VA |
| SPCZ |
South Pacific Convergence Zone |
| SPIE |
Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers |
| SPRL |
Space Physics Research Laboratory |
| SRL |
Scanning Raman Lidar |
| SRT |
Sounder Research Team |
| SSBUV |
Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet |
| SSE |
Space Science Enterprise |
| SSM/I |
Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
| SST |
sea surface temperature |
| SSU |
Spectral Sensor Unit |
| STAAC |
Systems, Technology, and Advanced Concepts Directorate |
| STROZ LITE |
Stratospheric Ozone Lidar Trailer Experiment |
| STS |
Space Transportation System |
| SVIP |
Solar Viewing Interferometer Prototype |
| SVS |
Scientific Visualization Studio |
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| TCO |
Tropospheric Column Ozone |
| TES |
Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| THOR |
cloud THickness from Offbeam Returns |
| THORPEX |
THe Observing-system Research and Predictability Experiment |
| TIMED |
Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics |
| TIROS |
Television Infrared Observation Satellite |
| TMI |
TRMM Microwave Imager |
| TOGA-COARE |
Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere–Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| TOPEX |
Topography Experiment |
| TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| TPW |
Total Precipitable Water |
| TRACE-P |
TRAnsport and Chemical Evolution over the Pacific |
| TRMM |
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| TRMM KWAJEX |
TRMM Kwajalein Experiment |
| TRMM LBA |
TRMM Large Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia |
| TSI |
Total Solar Irradiance |
| TSVO |
TRMM Satellite Validation Office |
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| UAE2 |
United Arab Emirates Unified Aerosol Experiment |
| UARS |
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| UAV |
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UCLA |
University of California, Los Angeles |
| UHI |
Urban Heat Island |
| UMBC |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| UMCP |
University of Maryland, College Park |
| UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
| URF |
University Research Foundation |
| USRA |
Universities Space Research Association |
| USWRP |
U.S. Weather Research Program |
| UV |
Ultraviolet |
| UV-B |
Ultraviolet-B radiation |
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V
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| VAL |
Visualization Analysis Laboratory |
| VINTERSOL |
Validation of International Satellites and study of Ozone Loss |
| VSEP |
Visiting Student Enrichment Program |
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| WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
| WHO |
World Health Organization |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
| WMO/UNEP |
WMO/United Nations Environment Programme |
| WVTs |
Water Vapor Tracers |
