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Acronyms and Abbreviations
3D-WINDS 3D Tropospheric Winds from Space-based Lidar
4STAR Spectrometer for Sky-Scanning, Sun-Tracking Atmospheric Research (for SEAC4RS)
ABACATE Airborne Biodiversity Assessment of Coastal and Terrestrial Ecosystems
ACE Aerosol/Cloud/Ecosystems [Missions]
ACRIMSAT Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor Satellite
ADM Atmospheric Dynamics Mission
AERONET Aerosol Robotic Network
AID Aircraft Instrument Demonstration
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Aladin Atmospheric Laser Doppler-Lidar Instrument
ALT [Ocean] Altimeter
AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
APS Advanced Polarimetry Sensor
ARCTAS Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites
ARRA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
ASCENDS Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons
ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
ATMS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
AVIRIS CONUS Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer [over the] continental United States
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CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CAR Cloud Absorption Radiometer
CASIE Characterization of Arctic Sea Ice Experiment
CC-VEX Calipso and CloudSat Validation Experiment
CERES Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System
CIESEN Center from International Earth Science Information Network
CLARREO Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory
CLASIC Cloud and Land Surface Interaction Campaign
CLPXII Cold Land Processes Field Experiment (II)
CMIS Conical Microwave Imager/Sounder
CNES Centre National d’Études Spaciales
CONAE Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales
COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate; aka
FORMOSAT
CrIS Cross-track Infrared Sounder
CTM Chemistry and Transport Model
DESDynI Deformation, Ecosystem Structure, and Dynamics of Ice
DFS Dual-frequency Scatterometer
DISCOVER-AQ Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved
Observations Relevant to Air Quality
DLR German Aerospace Center
DOD Department of Defense
DOI Department of the Interior
DPR Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar
DSCOVR Deep Space Climate Observatory
DWSS Defense Weather Satellite System
ECMWF European Centre from Medium Range Weather Forecasts
EDU Engineering Development Unit
EELV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle
EO-1 Earth Observing Mission-1
EOS Earth Observing System
EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System
ERB Earth Radiation Budget
ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Sensor
ESA European Space Agency
ESAS Earth Science and Applications from Space
ESD Earth Science Division
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ESE Earth Science Enterprise
ESPO Earth Science Program Office
ESTO Earth Science Technology Office
EUMETSAT European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EV Earth Venture
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FNMOC U.S. Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
FORMOSAT See COSMIC
GACM Global Atmospheric Composition Mission
GCOM-C Global Change Observation Mission-Climate
GCOM-W Global Change Observation Mission-Water
GEO-CAPE Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events [mission]
GIFTS Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transfer System
GLEAM Great Lakes Environmental Assessment and Mapping [Project]
GloPac Global Hawk Pacific
GMAO Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
GMI GPM Microwave Imager
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Office
GOES-R Geostationary Orbit Environmental Satellite-R Series
GOSAT Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite
GPM Global Precipitation Measurement
GPS Global Positioning System
GPSRO Global Positioning System Radio Occultation
GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GRACE-FO Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Follow On
GRACE-II Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-II
GRIP Genesis and Rapid Intensification Process
GWE Global Weather Experiment
HES Hyperspectral Environmental Suite
HEX Hydrometeorological Experiment
HICO Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean
HyspIRI Hyperspectral Infrared Imager
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
ICECAP Investigating the Crysopheric Evolution of the Central Antarctic Plate
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ICESat-2 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
INTEX-B Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Phase B
IPO Integrated Program Office
ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
ISS International Space Station
JASD Joint Agency Satellite Division
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
JEM-EF Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility
JPSS Joint Polar Satellite System
LASP Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
LCLUC Land Cover/Land Use Change
LDCM Landsat Data Continuity Mission
LIO Low-Inclination Orbiter
LIST Lidar Surface Topography
MACPEX Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment
MAP Modeling, Analysis, and Prediction
MAPEX Midlatitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment
MERRA Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications
MILAGRO Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations
MODIS Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOE Mission Operations Element
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
NLS NASA Launch Services
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP NPOESS Preparatory Project
NRC National Research Council
NWS National Weather Service
OCO Orbiting Carbon Observatory
OIB Operation IceBridge
OLI Operational Land Imager
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OMB Office of Management and Budget
OMPS Ozone Monitoring and Profiling Suite
ONR Office of Naval Research
OSC Orbital Sciences Corporation
OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment
OSTM Ocean Surface Topography Mission
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
PACE Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem
PATH Precipitation and All-weather Temperature and Humidity
POC Point of Contact
QuikSCAT Quick Scatterometer
R&A Research and Analysis
ROSES Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
SAC[-D] Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas
SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCLP Snow and Cold Land Processes
SEAC RS Southeast Asia Composition, Cloud, Climate Coupling Regional Study
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SEDAC Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
SIMPL Slope Imagine Multi-polarization Photon-counting Lidar
SMAP Soil Moisture Active-Passive
SMAPVEX Soil Moisture Active-Passive-Validation Experiment
SMD [NASA] Science Mission Directorate
SLR Satellite Laser Ranging
SORCE Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment
SPoRT Short-Term Prediction and Research Transition Center
SWOT Surface Water and Ocean Topography
TC-4 Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling
TCCON Total Carbon Column Observing Network
TIM Total Irradiance Monitor
TIRS Thermal Infrared Sensors
TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
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TSI Total Solar Irradiance
TSIS Total Solar Irradiance Sensor
UAS Unmanned Aircraft System
UAV Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle
UAVSAR Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar
ULA United Launch Alliance
USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture
USGEO U.S. Group on Earth Observations
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
VIRS Visible and Infrared Scanner
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
XOVWM Extended Ocean Vector Winds Mission
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