ALMA | Atacama Large Mm/SubMm Array |
AM(R)S | aeronautical mobile (R) service |
AMSR2 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 |
AMSR- E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth |
AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
ARNS | Aeronautical Radionavigation Service |
ARO | Arizona Radio Observatory |
ATMS | JPSS’s Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder |
CI | neutral carbon |
CIWSIR | Cloud Ice Water Sub-millimetre Imaging Radiometer |
CSO | Caltech Submillimeter Observatory |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
DOD | Department of Defense |
EESS | Earth Exploration-Satellite Service |
EIRP | equivalent isotropically radiated power |
EOS Aqua | EOS Aqua (NASA) |
GEM | Geosynchronous Microwave Sounder/Imager |
GMI | GPM Microwave Imager |
GOMAS | Geostationary Observatory for Microwave Atmospheric Sounding |
GPM | Global Precipitation Measurement (NASA) |
HAPS | high-altitude platform stations |
HSO | Herschel Space Observatory |
ITU | International Telecommunication Union |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
JCMT | James Clark Maxwell Telescope |
JPSS | Joint Polar Satellite System |
LWA | Long Wavelength Array |
MASTER | Millimetre-wave Acquisitions for Stratosphere/Troposphere Exchange Research |
MIS | Microwave Imager Sounder (JPSS) |
MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder |
MWA | Murchison Widefield Array |
MWI | Microwave Imager |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NiCT | National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NRC | U.S. National Research Council |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
OOB | out of band |
OSCR | Ocean Surface Current Radar |
PREMIER | Process Exploration Through Measurement of Infrared and Millimeter-wave Emitted Radiation |
RAS | Radio Astronomy Service |
RFI | radio frequency interference |
SAFIR | Single Aperture Far-Infrared Observatory |
SM | soil moisture |
SMA | Submillimeter Array |
SMILES | Submillimeter-Wave Limb Emission Sounder |
SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
SMT | Sub-Millimeter Telescope (ARO) |
SOFIA | Stratospheric Observatory for Far-Infrared Astronomy |
SOPRANO | Sub-millimeter Observations of Processes in the Atmosphere Noteworthy for Ozone |
SPT | South Pole Telescope |
SSB | single-sideband |
SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
SSMI/S | Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder |
SST | sea surface temperature |
TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager |
TRMM | Tropical Rain Fall Measurement Mission |
UAS | unmanned aircraft systems |
WERA | wave radar systems |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
WRC | World Radiocommunication Conference |