Talk:Acronyms

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!width="100"|  '''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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