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|'''AERONET''' || AErosol RObotic NETwork | |'''AERONET''' || AErosol RObotic NETwork | ||
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| + | |'''AGS''' || Application Ground Segment | ||
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|'''AOD''' || Aerosol Optical Depth | |'''AOD''' || Aerosol Optical Depth | ||
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|'''BSRN''' || Baseline Surface Radiation Network | |'''BSRN''' || Baseline Surface Radiation Network | ||
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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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|'''ISCCP''' || International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project | |'''ISCCP''' || International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project | ||
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| - | | '''IWP''' || (cloud) ice water path | + | |'''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 | | '''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 | | '''RAL''' || Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | ||
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| - | | '''REF''' || | + | | '''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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Latest revision as of 12:51, 10 June 2011
| Acronym | |
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| AERONET | AErosol RObotic NETwork |
| AGS | Application Ground Segment |
| AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
| AIRS | Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder |
| AMSR-E | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
| BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
| CA | Cloud Amount |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation |
| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System |
| CLOUDSAT | Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA |
| CM | Cloud Mask |
| CM-SAF | Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) |
| COD | Cloud Optical Depth |
| COT | Cloud Optical Thickness |
| CPH | Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase |
| CTT | cloud top temperature |
| CTP | cloud top pressure |
| CTH | cloud top height |
| DISORT | DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer |
| DLR (e.V.) | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (energie und Verkehr) |
| DWD | Deutscher WetterDienst |
| ECC | European Cloud Climatology |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ENVISAT | ENVIronmental SATellite |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| GERB | Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle EXperiment |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| GMS | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HRV | High Resolution Visible (channel) |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IPA | Independent Pixel Approximation |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IR | Infrared |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| IWP | (cloud) ice water path |
| libRadtran | library for Radiative transfer |
| LUT | Look Up Table |
| LWP | (cloud) liquid water path |
| MERIS | MEdium Range Imaging Spectrometer |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| METEOSAT | Meteorological satellite |
| MPEF | Meteorological Product Extraction |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| MTG | Meteosat Third Generation |
| MWR | MicroWave Radiometer |
| MYSTIC | Monte Carlo code for the phYsically incorrect Tracing of photons In Cloudy atmospheres |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NIR | Near-infrared |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction model |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| OPAC | Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds |
| Probability Density Function | |
| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| REF | Effective Radius |
| RMSD | Root Mean Square Deviation |
| RTM | Radiative Transfer Model |
| SBDART | Santa Barbara Discrete ordinate Atmospheric Radiative Transfer |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
| SHDOM | Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinate Method |
| SYNOP | Surface SYNOPtic Observations |
| TOA | Top Of Atmosphere |
| U-MARF | Unified-Meteorological Archiving and Retrieval Facility |
| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated |
| UV | Ultra-Violett |
| VIS | Visible |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WRDC | World Radiation Data Center |
| WV | Water-Vapor |