Acronyms
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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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|'''GOES''' || Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite | |'''GOES''' || Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite | ||
Revision as of 17:26, 9 June 2011
| Acronym | |
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| AIRS | Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder |
| AMSR-E | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| ca | Cloud Amount |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
| CLOUDSAT | Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA |
| cm | cloud mask |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) |
| CM-SAF | Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility |
| cot | Cloud Optical Thickness |
| cod | Cloud Optical Depth |
| cph | Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase |
| ctt | cloud top temperature |
| ctp | cloud top pressure |
| cth | cloud top height |
| cod | cloud optical depth |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| GERB | Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite |
| HRV | High Resolution Visible (channel) |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IR | Infrared |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| iwp | (cloud) ice water path |
| LUT | Look Up Table |
| lwp | (cloud) liquid water path |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (NASA/Terra, Aqua) |
| METEOSAT | Meteorological satellite |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| MWR | MicroWave Radiometer |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NIR | Near-infrared |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction model |
| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| ref | effective radius |
| RTM | Radiative Transfer Model |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
| TOA | Top Of Atmosphere |
| VIS | Visible |
| WV | Water-Vapor |
