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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B." National Research Council. 1998. Readiness for the Upcoming Solar Maximum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9518.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACE

Advanced Composition Explorer

AFOSR

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

ARGOS

Advanced Research and Global Observations Satellite

CANOPUS

Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program Unified Study

CEDAR

Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions

CGRO

Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory

CME

Coronal mass ejection

CSSP

Committee on Solar and Space Physics

CSTR

Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research

DMSP

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

Department of Energy

DSN

Deep Space Network

EIT

Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

ESA

European Space Agency

EUV

Extreme ultraviolet

EVA

Extravehicular activity

FAST

Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer

GEM

Geospace Environment Modeling program

GGS

Global Geospace Science program

GIC

Geomagnetically induced current

GOES

Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite

GONG

Global Oscillations Network Group

GPS

Global positioning system

GRO

Gamma-ray Observatory

HESSI

High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager

IMAGE

Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration

IMP

Interplanetary Monitoring Platform mission

ISAS

Institute for Space and Astronautical Studies

ISS

International Space Station

ISTP

International Solar-Terrestrial Physics program

LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LASCO

Large Angle and Spectrometric COronagraph

L1

First Lagrangian point (on Earth-Sun line)

MIDEX

Medium Explorer

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NGDC

National Geophysical Data Center

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC

National Research Council

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSO

National Solar Observatory

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B." National Research Council. 1998. Readiness for the Upcoming Solar Maximum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9518.
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NSWP

National Space Weather Program

ONR

Office of Naval Research

OSS

Office of Space Science (NASA)

PCO

Polar Cap Observatory

PI

Principal Investigator

SAMPEX

Solar Anomalous Magnetospheric Particle Explorer

SEC

Space Environment Center

SEON

Solar Electro Optical Network

SHINE

Solar Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment program

SMEX

Small Explorer

SOHO

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

STS

Space Transportation System

SUNRISE

Sun's Radiative Inputs from Sun to Earth program

SuperDARN

Super Dual Auroral Radar Network

SWS

Space Weather Squadron

TIMED

Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Energetics and Dynamics mission

TRACE

Transition Region and Coronal Explorer

UARS

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

UHF

Ultrahigh frequency

USAF

United States Air Force

UV

Ultraviolet

VLF

Very low frequency

WWW

World Wide Web

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B." National Research Council. 1998. Readiness for the Upcoming Solar Maximum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9518.
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