April 7, 2015
Acronyms
AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A |
AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B |
ATOVS | Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
CFC | ChloroFluoroCarbon |
CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability |
CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
CoI | Co-Investigator |
EPS | EUMETSAT Polar System |
EPS-SG | EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation |
ERBE | Earth's Radiation Budget Experiment |
ESA | European Space Agency |
EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
GCTE | Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems |
HIRS | High Resolution Infrared Sounder |
IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
IASI-NG | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer of New Generation |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IFOV | Instantaneous Field-of-View |
IGAC | International Geosphere-Biosphere Program |
IOS | Initial Observing System |
IRCCM | Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in General Circulation Models |
ISSWG | IASI Sounding Science Working Group |
ITRA | Intercomparison of Transmittance and Radiance Algorithms |
METOP | Meteorological Operational Satellite |
METOP-SG | Meteorological Operational Satellite - Second Generation |
MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder |
NEDT | Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPOESS | NOAA Polar Orbiting Earth Operational Environmental Satellite |
NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
PI | Principal Investigator |
ScaRaB | Scanner for Earth's Radiation Budget |
SIRS | Satellite InfraRed Spectrometer |
TBC | To Be Confirmed |
TIROS | Television InfraRed Observing Satellite |
TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
UNEP | United Nations Environment Program |
VTPR | Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer |
WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
WRCP | World Climate Research Program |
WWW | World Weather Watch |
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