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Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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... Appendix D Acronyms and Abbreviations AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder FTIR Fourier Transform Infrared ALOS Advanced Land Observing Satellite Spectroscopy ASCENDS Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, & Seasons GeoPRISMs Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Subducting Margins Emission and Reflection Radiometer GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution GOES Geostationary Operational Radiometer Environmental Satellite AVO Alaska Volcano Observatory GPS Global Positioning System CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Pathfinder Satellite Observation Interferometer CIDER Cooperative Institute for Dynamic InSAR interferometric synthetic aperture radar Earth Research IR infrared CIG Computational Infrastructure for IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Geodynamics Seismology CMG Collaboration in Mathematical MISR Multi-angle Imaging Geosciences SpectroRadiometer COSMO- Constellation of Small Satellites for MLS Microwave Limb Sounder   SkyMed Mediterranean basin Observation MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging CSEDI Cooperative Studies of the Earth's Spectroradiometer Deep Interior NASA National Aeronautics and Space DOAS Differential Optical Absorption Administration Spectroscopy NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research ENSO El Niño–Southern Oscillation NERSC National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 121
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... 122 APPENDIX D 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

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