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+ | |'''AERONET''' || AErosol RObotic NETwork | ||
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+ | |'''AGS''' || Application Ground Segment | ||
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+ | |'''AOD''' || Aerosol Optical Depth | ||
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|'''AIRS''' || Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder | |'''AIRS''' || Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder | ||
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|'''AMSR-E''' || Special Sensor Microwave/Imager | |'''AMSR-E''' || Special Sensor Microwave/Imager | ||
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+ | |'''ASTER ''' || Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer | ||
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|'''AVHRR''' || Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | |'''AVHRR''' || Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | ||
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- | |''' | + | |'''BRDF''' || Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
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+ | |'''BSRN''' || Baseline Surface Radiation Network | ||
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+ | |'''CA''' || Cloud Amount | ||
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|'''CALIPSO''' || Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation | |'''CALIPSO''' || Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation | ||
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+ | |'''CERES''' || Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System | ||
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|'''CLOUDSAT''' || Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA | |'''CLOUDSAT''' || Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA | ||
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- | |''' | + | |'''CM''' || Cloud Mask |
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+ | |'''CM-SAF''' || Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility | ||
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|'''CNRS''' || Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) | |'''CNRS''' || Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) | ||
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- | |''' | + | |'''COD''' || Cloud Optical Depth |
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- | |''' | + | |'''COT''' || Cloud Optical Thickness |
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- | |''' | + | | '''CPH''' || Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase |
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- | | ''' | + | | '''CTT''' || cloud top temperature |
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- | | ''' | + | | '''CTP''' || cloud top pressure |
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- | | ''' | + | | '''CTH''' || cloud top height |
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- | | ''' | + | | '''DISORT''' || DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer |
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- | | ''' | + | | '''DLR (e.V.)''' || Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (energie und Verkehr) |
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+ | | '''DWD''' || Deutscher WetterDienst | ||
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+ | | '''ECC''' || European Cloud Climatology | ||
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|'''ECMWF''' || European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | |'''ECMWF''' || European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts | ||
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+ | |'''ENVISAT''' || ENVIronmental SATellite | ||
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+ | |'''ERBE''' || Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | ||
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|'''ESA''' || European Space Agency | |'''ESA''' || European Space Agency | ||
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|'''EUMETSAT''' || European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites | |'''EUMETSAT''' || European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites | ||
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+ | |'''GERB''' || Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget | ||
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+ | |'''GEWEX''' || Global Energy and Water Cycle EXperiment | ||
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+ | |'''GISS''' || Goddard Institute for Space Studies | ||
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+ | |'''GMS''' || Geostationary Meteorological Satellite | ||
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|'''GOES''' || Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite | |'''GOES''' || Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite | ||
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+ | |'''GSFC''' || Goddard Space Flight Center | ||
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+ | |'''HRV''' || High Resolution Visible (channel) | ||
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|'''IASI''' || Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer | |'''IASI''' || Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer | ||
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+ | |'''IPA''' || Independent Pixel Approximation | ||
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|'''IPCC''' || Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | |'''IPCC''' || Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | ||
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|'''ISCCP''' || International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project | |'''ISCCP''' || International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project | ||
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- | | ''' | + | |'''IWP''' || (cloud) ice water path |
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+ | |'''libRadtran''' || library for Radiative transfer | ||
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|'''LUT''' || Look Up Table | |'''LUT''' || Look Up Table | ||
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- | | ''' | + | | '''LWP''' || (cloud) liquid water path |
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- | |'''MODIS''' || Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | + | | '''MERIS''' || MEdium Range Imaging Spectrometer |
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+ | | '''MISR''' || Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | ||
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+ | |'''MODIS''' || Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | ||
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|'''METEOSAT''' || Meteorological satellite | |'''METEOSAT''' || Meteorological satellite | ||
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+ | |'''MPEF''' || Meteorological Product Extraction | ||
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|'''MSG''' || Meteosat Second Generation | |'''MSG''' || Meteosat Second Generation | ||
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+ | |'''MTG''' || Meteosat Third Generation | ||
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|'''MWR''' || MicroWave Radiometer | |'''MWR''' || MicroWave Radiometer | ||
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+ | |'''MYSTIC''' || Monte Carlo code for the phYsically incorrect Tracing of photons In Cloudy atmospheres | ||
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|'''NASA''' || National Aeronautics and Space Administration | |'''NASA''' || National Aeronautics and Space Administration | ||
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+ | |'''NCAR''' || National Center for Atmospheric Research | ||
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+ | |'''NESDIS''' || National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service | ||
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|'''NIR''' || Near-infrared | |'''NIR''' || Near-infrared | ||
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|'''NWP''' || Numerical Weather Prediction model | |'''NWP''' || Numerical Weather Prediction model | ||
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- | | ''' | + | |'''OLR''' || Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
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+ | |'''OPAC''' || Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds | ||
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+ | |'''PDF''' || Probability Density Function | ||
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+ | | '''RAL''' || Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | ||
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+ | | '''REF''' || Effective Radius | ||
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+ | | '''RMSD''' || Root Mean Square Deviation | ||
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|'''RTM''' || Radiative Transfer Model | |'''RTM''' || Radiative Transfer Model | ||
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+ | |'''SBDART''' || Santa Barbara Discrete ordinate Atmospheric Radiative Transfer | ||
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|'''SEVIRI''' || Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | |'''SEVIRI''' || Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | ||
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+ | |'''SHDOM''' || Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinate Method | ||
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+ | |'''SYNOP''' || Surface SYNOPtic Observations | ||
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|'''TOA''' || Top Of Atmosphere | |'''TOA''' || Top Of Atmosphere | ||
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+ | |'''U-MARF''' || Unified-Meteorological Archiving and Retrieval Facility | ||
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+ | |'''UTC''' || Universal Time Coordinated | ||
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+ | |'''UV''' || Ultra-Violett | ||
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|'''VIS''' || Visible | |'''VIS''' || Visible | ||
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+ | |'''WCRP''' || World Climate Research Programme | ||
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+ | |'''WMO''' || World Meteorological Organization | ||
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+ | |'''WRDC''' || World Radiation Data Center | ||
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|'''WV''' || Water-Vapor | |'''WV''' || Water-Vapor | ||
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