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Acronyms and Abbreviations
ACT | Advanced Component Technology |
AirMSPI-2 | Airborne Multi-angle Spectro Polarimetric Imager-2 |
AO | announcement of opportunity |
Athena-OAWL | Atmospheric Transport, Hurricanes and Extratropical Numerical Weather Prediction-Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar |
CDR | contract data requirement |
CERES | Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System |
CO | carbon monoxide |
COVID | coronavirus |
CYGNSS | Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System |
ECOSTRESS | Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station |
EMIT | Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation |
EOS | Earth Observing System |
ESAS | Earth Science and Applications from Space |
ESD | Earth Science Division |
ESSP | Earth System Science Pathfinder |
ESSPPO | ESSP Program Office |
ESTO | Earth Science Technology Office |
EV | Earth Venture |
EV-C | Earth Venture Continuity |
EV-I | Earth Venture Instrument |
EV-M | Earth Venture Mission |
EV-S | Earth Venture Suborbital |
FY | fiscal year |
GA-EMS | General Atomic Electromagnetic Systems |
GEDI | Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation |
GEMS | geostationary scanning ultraviolet-visible spectrometer |
GEO | geosynchronous Earth orbit |
GEO-CAPE | Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events |
GeoCarb | Geostationary Carbon Observatory |
GLIMR | Geosynchronous Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer |
GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
HQ | Headquarters |
IIP | Instrument Incubator Program |
INCUS | Investigation of Convective Updrafts |
IR | infrared |
ISS | International Space Station |
JEM-EF | Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
KDP | key decision point |
LaRC | Langley Research Center |
LEO | low Earth orbit |
LSP | Launch Services Program |
MAIA | Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols |
MIDEX | Medium-class Explorer |
MIT LL | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
MoO | Mission of Opportunity |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPR | NASA Procedural Requirement |
OCO-2 | Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 |
PI | principal investigator |
PM | project manager |
PREFIRE | Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment |
RFP | request for proposal |
ROSES | Research Opportunities in the Space and Earth Sciences |
SMD | Science Mission Directorate |
SMA | safety and mission assurance |
SMEX | Small Explorer (a class of missions) |
STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics |
TEMPEST | Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical System |
TEMPO | Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution |
TIR | thermal infrared |
TMC | technical, management, and cost |
TRL | technology readiness level |
TROPICS | Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats |
YAG | yttrium-aluminum garnet |