| Acronym |
Definition |
A |
| ACE | Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment |
| ACSG | Atmospheric Chemistry Subgroup |
| ACVE | Atmospheric Chemistry Validation of Envisat |
| AER | Atmospheric and Environmental Research |
| AERONET | AErosol RObotic NETwork |
| AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
| AO | Announcement of Opportunity |
| API | Application Programming Interface |
| ARCTAS | Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites |
| ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASF | Access Status Flag |
| AVDC | Atmospheric composition Validation Data Center |
| AVE | Aura Validation Experiment |
| AVWG | Aura Validation Working Group |
B |
| BEAT | The Basic Envisat Atmospheric Toolbox |
| BSR | Backscatter Ratio |
| BrO | Bromine Monoxide |
C |
| CA | California |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations |
| CARIBIC | Civil Aircraft for the Regular Investigation of the atmosphere Based on an Instrument Container |
| CDS | Conversion Data Suite |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
| CH4 | Methane |
| CHAMP | CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload |
| CLO | Hypochlorite |
| CMDL | Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory |
| CNRS | French National Research Center |
| CO | Colorado |
| CO2 | Carbon Dioxide |
| CODI | Center for Ozone Data and Information |
| COSMIC | Constellation Observing System for Meteorology |
| CSA | Canadian Space Agency |
D |
| DAAC | Data Archives and Distributed Active Archive Center |
E |
| E.G. | For Example |
| ENVISAT | European Space Agency's Environmental Satellite |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| EP-TOMS | Earth Probe Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESPO | Earth Science Project Office |
F |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FDF | Flight Dynamics Facility |
| FTIR | Fourier Transform InfraRed |
| FZJ | Forschungszentrum Jülich Research Center |
G |
| GAW | Global Atmosphere Watch |
| GC | Gas Chromatograph |
| GEOMS | Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard |
| GES DAAC | Goddard Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center |
| GOME | Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment |
| GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRL | Geophysical Research Letters |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
H |
| H2O | Water Vapor |
| HALOE | Halogen Occultation Experiment |
| HCl | Hydrochloride |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| HF | Hydrofluoric acid |
| HIRDLS | High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder |
| HNO3 | Nitric Acid |
| HOCL | Hypochlorous Acid |
| HW | HardWare |
I |
| I.E. | That Is |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical of Electronics Engineers |
| ILAS | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer |
| IMK | Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung |
| INTEX | Intercontinental Chemical Transport EXperiment |
| IR | Infra Red |
J |
| JGR | Journal of Geophysical Research |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
K |
| KM | Kilometer |
| KNMI | Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
L |
| LIDAR | LIght Detection And Ranging |
| LWG | LIDAR Wave Gage |
M |
| MAESTRO | Measurements of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation |
| MB | Megabytes |
| MD | Maryland |
| MIPAS | Michelson Interferometric Passive Atmospheric Sounding |
| MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder |
| MOC | Mission Operation Center |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOPITT | Measurement Of Pollution In The Troposphere |
| MOZAIC | Measurement of OZone and wAter vapour by Airbus In-Service airCraft |
| MOZART | Model for OZone and Related chemical Tracers |
N |
| N/A | Not Applicable |
| N2O | Nitrous Oxide |
| NASA | National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NCSA | National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
| NDACC | Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change |
| NDSC | Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change |
| NILU | Norwegian Institute for Air Research |
| NM | Nanometer |
| NMHC | Non-Methane HydroCarbons |
| NO | Nitric Oxide |
| NO2 | Nitrogen Dioxide |
| NOAA | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration |
| NZ | New Zealand |
O |
| O3 | Ozone |
| OClO | Chlorinedioxide |
| OMI | Ozone Monitoring Instrument |
| OMS | Observations in the Middle Stratosphere |
| OSIRIS | Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System |
P |
| PARASOL | Polarization and Anisotropy of Réflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar |
| PDF | Portable Document File |
| PDS | Payload Data Segment |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PIXE | Particle chemical composition, laboratory, Impactor, Proton Induced X-ray Emission |
| POAM | Polar Ozone And Aerosols Mission |
| PPBV | Part Per Billion by Volume |
R |
| RMS | Root Mean Square |
S |
| SABER | Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry |
| SAC-C | Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-C |
| SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
| SBUV | Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet |
| SCF | Scientific Computing Facilities |
| SCIAMACHY | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer For Atmospheric Cartography |
| SCISAT | SCIentific SATellite |
| SF6 | Sulfur Hexafluoride |
| SHADOZ | Southern Hemisphere Additional OZonesondes |
| SIPS | Science Investigator-Led Processing System |
| SMR | Specialized Mobile Radio |
| SOSST | Solar Occultation Satellite Science Team |
T |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TC4 | Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| TIMED | Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics Dynamics |
| TMF | Table Mountain Facility |
| TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
U |
| UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
W |
| WGCV | Working Group on Clibration and Validation |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
| WMO-GAW | WMO Global Atmospheric Watch |
| WV | Water Vapor |
