| Acronym
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| AERONET | AErosol RObotic NETwork
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| AGS | Application Ground Segment
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| AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth
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| AIRS | Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder
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| AMSR-E | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
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| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function
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| BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network
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| CA | Cloud Amount
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| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
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| CERES | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
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| CLOUDSAT | Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA
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| CM | Cloud Mask
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| CM-SAF | Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility
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| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research)
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| COD | Cloud Optical Depth
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| COT | Cloud Optical Thickness
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| CPH | Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase
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| CTT | cloud top temperature
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| CTP | cloud top pressure
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| CTH | cloud top height
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| DISORT | DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer
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| DLR (e.V.) | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (energie und Verkehr)
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| DWD | Deutscher WetterDienst
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| ECC | European Cloud Climatology
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| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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| ENVISAT | ENVIronmental SATellite
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| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
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| ESA | European Space Agency
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| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
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| GERB | Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget
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| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle EXperiment
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| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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| GMS | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
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| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite
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| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center
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| HRV | High Resolution Visible (channel)
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| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
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| IPA | Independent Pixel Approximation
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| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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| IR | Infrared
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| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
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| IWP | (cloud) ice water path
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| libRadtran | library for Radiative transfer
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| LUT | Look Up Table
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| LWP | (cloud) liquid water path
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| MERIS | MEdium Range Imaging Spectrometer
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| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
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| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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| METEOSAT | Meteorological satellite
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| MPEF | Meteorological Product Extraction
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| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation
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| MTG | Meteosat Third Generation
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| MWR | MicroWave Radiometer
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| MYSTIC | Monte Carlo code for the phYsically incorrect Tracing of photons In Cloudy atmospheres
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| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research
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| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
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| NIR | Near-infrared
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| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction model
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| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation
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| OPAC | Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds
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| PDF | Probability Density Function
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| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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| REF | Effective Radius
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| RMSD | Root Mean Square Deviation
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| RTM | Radiative Transfer Model
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| SBDART | Santa Barbara Discrete ordinate Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
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| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
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| SHDOM | Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinate Method
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| SYNOP | Surface SYNOPtic Observations
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| TOA | Top Of Atmosphere
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| U-MARF | Unified-Meteorological Archiving and Retrieval Facility
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| UTC | Universal Time Coordinated
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| UV | Ultra-Violett
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| VIS | Visible
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| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme
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| WMO | World Meteorological Organization
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| WRDC | World Radiation Data Center
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| WV | Water-Vapor
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