. "Appendix D: Acronyms." Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: Elements of a Strategy to Recover Measurement Capabilities Lost in Program Restructuring. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008.
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Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: Elements of a Strategy to Recover Measurement Capabilities Lost in Program Restructuring
CrIS Cross-track Infrared Sounder
CryoSat-2 Cryosphere Satellite 2
CWI Coastal Waters Imager
CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner
CZI Coastal Zone Imager
DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOD Department of Defense
DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
ECCO Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean
ECV essential climate variable
EDR environmental data record
ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation
EOS Earth Observing System/Satellite
ERB Earth radiation budget
ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Sensor
ESA European Space Administration
ESSP Earth System Science Pathfinder
EUMETSAT European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FM flight model
GCOM Global Change Observation Mission
GCM global climate model
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEO geostationary Earth orbit
GEO Group on Earth Observations
GEO-CAPE Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GMI GPM Microwave Imager
GOCE Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer