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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Abbreviations and Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12033.
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Appendix D
Abbreviations and Acronyms

(A)ATSR Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (also AATSR)

ABI Advanced Baseline Imager

ACE aerosol-cloud-ecosystem (mission)

ACRIMSAT Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite

ADCS Altitude Determination and Control System

ADM Air Data Management

AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder

ALOS Advanced Land Observation Satellite

ALT altimeter

AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System

AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

AoA Analysis of Alternatives

APS Aerosol Polarimeter Sensor

ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar

ASCAT advanced scatterometers

ASCENDS Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Seasons

ASTER Advanced Spacebone Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

ATLID Atmospheric Light Detection and Ranging Instrument

ATMS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder

AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

BIOMASS Biomass monitoring mission for carbon assessment (ESA)

CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

CDR climate data record

CEOS Committee on Earth Observations Satellites

CERES Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System

CERES S’COOL Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System Students’ Clouds Observations On-Line

CGMS Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Abbreviations and Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12033.
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CHAMP Coral Health and Monitoring Project or Challenging Minisatellite Payload

CLARREO Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory

CMIS Conical Microwave Imager and Sounder

CNES Centre National d’Etude Spatiales

COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate

CrIS Cross-track Infrared Sounder

CryoSat Cryosphere Satellite (mission)

DESDynI Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice Mission

DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DOD Department of Defense

DSCOVR Deep Space Climate Observatory

EarthCARE ESA’s cloud and aerosol (mission)

ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ECV essential climate variable

EDR environmental data record

ENVISAT Environmental Satellite

EOS Earth Observing System

ERB Earth’s radiation budget

ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Sensor

ESA European Space Agency

ET-EGOS Expert Team on Evolution of the Global Observing System

EUMETSAT European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

Feng Yun Feng Yun Wind and Cloud (meteorological satellite)

FPAR fraction of photosynthetically active radiation

GACM Global Atmospheric Composition Mission

GCOM Global Change Observation Mission

GCOS Global Climate Observing System

GEMS Global and regional Earth-system (Atmosphere) Monitoring

GEO geosynchronous Earth orbit

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GERB geostationary Earth radiation budget

GFO Geosat (Geodetic Satellite) Follow-on

GHRSST-PP Global High Resolution SST Pilot Project

GIFTS Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer

GLAS Geoscience Laser Altimeter System

GLI Global Imager

GLM Geostationary Lightning Mapper

GMES Global Monitoring for Environmental Security

GMI Giant Magneto-Impedance

GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite

GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

GOS Global Observing System

GOSAT Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite

GPM Global Precipitation Measurement

GPS/RO Global Positioning System/Radio Occultation

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Abbreviations and Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12033.
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GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

GRAS Global Navigation Satellite System Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding

HES Hyperspectral Environmental Suite

HIRDLS High-Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder

HIRS High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder

IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer

ICESat Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite

IEOS Integrated Earth Observation System

IOCCG International Ocean Colour Coordination Group

IORD Integrated Operational Requirements Document (NPOESS)

IOS Integrated Observing System

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IR infrared

IRS Indian Remote Sensing Satellite

ISRO Indian Space Agency

ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations

ITSC Information Technology Support Center

JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

LAI leaf area index

LDCM Landsat Data Continuity Mission

LEO low Earth orbit

MAM mirror attenuated mosaic

MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (ESA)

Meteosat Meteorological satellite for European counterpart to GOES

MetOp Meteorological Operational Satellite (European)

METSAT Meteorological Satellite

MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding

MIS Microwave Imager and Sounder

MISR Multi-Angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer

MLS microwave limb sounder

MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer

MSG Meteosat Second Generation

MSU microwave sounding unit

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NESDIS National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service

NESDIS/STAR National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service/Center for Satellite Applications and Research

NIR near infrared

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NODC National Oceanic Data Center (NOAA)

NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

NPP NPOESS Preparatory Project

NRC National Research Council

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Abbreviations and Acronyms." National Research Council. 2008. Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: A Workshop Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12033.
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NSTC National Science and Technology Council

OCO Orbiting Carbon Observatory

OLS Operational Line Scanner

OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument

OMPS Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite

OPAG Open Programme Area Group

OSIP Operational Satellite Improvement Program

OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment

OSTM Ocean Surface Topography Mission

OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy

OSTST Ocean Surface Topography Science Team

P3I preplanned product improvement

PALSAR Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar

PARASOL Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar

PATH Precipitation and All-Weather Temperature and Humidity

POES Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite

POLDER Polarization and Directionality of Earth’s Reflectances

QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer

RADARSAT Radar Satellite (Canada)

SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

SAR synthetic aperture radar

SARAL Satellite with Argos and AltiKa

SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking

SBUV Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument

SBUV/2 Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer, MOD 2

ScaRAB Scanner for the Radiation Budget

SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography

SCLP Snow and Cold Land Processes

SeaWiFS Sea-Viewing Wide-Field Sensor

SESS Space Environment Sensor Suite

SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager

SGLI Second Generation Global Imager

SIM Spectral Irradiance Monitor

SMAP Software Assurance Management Program

SMMR Scanning Multichannel (or Multifrequency) Microwave Radiometer

SMOS Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

SORCE Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment

SPOT Satellite Probatoire de l’Observation de la Terre

SSI spectral solar irradiance

SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imager

SSMIS Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder

SST sea surface temperature

STAR Center for Satellite Applications and Research

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SuS Survivability Sensor

SWOT Surface Water-Ocean Topography

TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer

TIM Total Irradiance Monitor

TMI TRMM [Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission] Microwave Imager

TOMS Total Ozone Mapping (Spectrolab/System/Spectrometer)

TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment

TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

TSI total solar irradiance

TSIS Total Solar Irradiance Suite

UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UV ultraviolet

VAS VISSR Atmospheric Sounder

VIIRS Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite

VIRI visible and infrared imager

VISSR Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer

WindSat a joint Integrated Program Office/DOD/NASA satellite-based polarimetric microwave radiometer

WMO World Meteorological Organization

XOVWM Extended Ocean Vector Winds Mission

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In 2000, the nation's next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch in 2008. By November 2005, however, it became apparent that NPOESS would overrun its cost estimates by at least 25 percent. In June 2006, the planned acquisition of six spacecraft was reduced to four, the launch of the first spacecraft was delayed until 2013, and several sensors were canceled or descoped in capability. To examine the impacts of these changes, particularly those associated with climate research, and ways to mitigate those impacts, NASA and NOAA asked the NRC to add this task to its ongoing "decadal survey," Earth Science and Applications from Space. The sponsors and the NRC agreed to address this task separately and to base its analysis on a major workshop. This book presents summaries of discussions at the workshop, which included sessions on the measurements and sensors originally planned for NPOESS and GOES-R; generation of climate data records; mitigation options, including the role of international partners; and cross-cutting issues.

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