Talk:Acronyms
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RTM Radiative Transfer Model | RTM Radiative Transfer Model | ||
SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager | ||
| + | TOA Top Of Atmosphere | ||
| + | VIS Visible | ||
| + | WV Water-Vapor | ||
Revision as of 15:15, 24 May 2011
| Acronym | |
|---|---|
| cm | cloud mask |
| CNRS | |
| CM-SAF | Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility |
| cph | cloud phase |
| ctt | cloud top temperature |
| ctp | cloud top pressure |
| cth | cloud top height |
| cod | cloud optical depth |
| ref | effective radius |
| lwp | liquid water path |
| iwp | ice water path |
AIRS Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder AMSR-E Special Sensor Microwave/Imager AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer CA Cloud Amount CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation CLOUDSAT Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA LWP cloud Liquid Water Path COT Cloud Optical Thickness COD Cloud Optical Depth CPH Cloud thermodynamic PHase ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ESA European Space Agency EUMETSAT Europe’s Meteorological Satellite Organisation GOES Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IR Infrared ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project LUT Look Up Table MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (NASA/Terra, Aqua) METEOSAT Meteorological satellite MSG Meteosat Second Generation MWR MicroWave Radiometer NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIR Near-infrared NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NWP Numerical Weather Prediction model RTM Radiative Transfer Model SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager TOA Top Of Atmosphere VIS Visible WV Water-Vapor
