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Appendix G Acronyms
Pages 154-160

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... G Acronyms 1DVAR one-dimensional variational 3DVAR three-dimensional variational 4DVAR four-dimensional variational ABI Advanced Baseline Imager ACRIMSAT Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite, an EOS satellite mission to measure total solar irradiance ADEOS Advanced Earth Observational Satellite AFWA U.S. Air Force Weather Agency AIREP aircraft report AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Radiation Sounder AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit ASEB Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board ATMS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder ATN Advanced TIROS-N satellite ATOVS Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder ATS Advanced Technology Satellite AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AWIPS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System BASC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate BRDF bidirectional reflectance distribution function 154
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... DOD Department of Defense ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECS EOSDIS Core System EDR environmental data record EMC Environmental Modeling Center of the National Weather Service's NCEP ENVISAT Environmental Satellite EO-1 Earth Orbiter-1, a NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center satellite that demonstrated technology for the next-generation Landsat mission EOR environmental observation requirement EOS Earth Observing System EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System EP Earth Probe EPA Environmental Protection Agency
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... Navy) FTP File Transfer Protocol GEO geosynchronous Earth orbit GIFTS Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer GLM Geostationary Lightning Mapper GMES Global Monitoring for Environmental Security GMI Geostationary Microwave Imager GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-R next-generation GOES GPS Global Positioning System GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center GUI graphical user interface HES Hyperspectral Environmental Satellite; Hyperspectral Environmental Suite HIRDLS High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder HIRS High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder HRPT high-resolution picture transmission IASI Interferometer Atmospheric Sounding Instrument ICESS Institute for Computational Earth System Science
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... Appendix G 157 IEOS Integrated Earth Observing System IMAPP International MODIS and AIRS Processing Package IORD Integrated Operational Requirements Document IP Internet Protocol IPO Integrated Program Office IR infrared IT information technology ITOS Improved Television Infrared Observations Satellite JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation LEO low Earth orbit LORE Limb Ozone Retrieval Experiment LWIR long-wave infrared MLS Microwave Limb Sounder MODIS Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MRD mission requirements document MSU Microwave Sounding Unit MWIR mid-wave infrared NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NCDC National Climatic Data Center NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index NEdT noise-equivalent-difference-temperature NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service NetCDF Network Common Data Format NEXRAD Next Generation Radar, a network of Doppler radars operated by the National Weather Service NIR near-infrared NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System NPP NPOESS Preparatory Project NRC National Research Council NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
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... R&D research and development RDR raw data record SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment SAPC Space Applications and Commercialization SBUV solar backscatter ultraviolet SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography SDR sensor data record SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor SOAP Simple Object Access Protocol SSB Space Studies Board SMS Synchronous Meteorological Satellite SST sea-surface temperature SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit SWIR short-wave infrared TCDR thematic climate data record TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer TIROS Television Infrared Observation Satellite TMI TRMM Microwave Imager TOA top-of-the-atmosphere measurements
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... Appendix G 159 TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer TOMS/EP Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, onboard an Earth Probe satellite (NASA) TOPEX/ Ocean Topography Experiment Poseidon TOS TIROS Operational Satellite TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission TRMM-PR Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission-Precipitation Radar UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite UCSB University of California, Santa Barbara UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration, protocol for Web services UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization USAF U.S.
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Key Terms

  • data record
  • operational environmental
  • earth observing
  • climate data
  • meteorological satellite

  • sounding unit
  • radiation sounder
  • flight center
  • national weather
  • infrared radiation

  • hyperspectral environmental
  • television infrared
  • limb sounder
  • earth probe
  • space flight

  • microwave imager
  • access protocol
  • spectrometer tiros
  • spectrometer glm
  • synchronous meteorological

  • ultraviolet sciamachy
  • record seawifs
  • stratospheric sounding
  • requirement eos
  • probe epa

  • geostationary microwave
  • user interface
  • suite hirdls
  • goes gps
  • environmental observation


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