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AERONET AErosol RObotic NETwork
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AOD Aerosol Optische Dicke
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APOLLO AVHRR Processing scheme Over cLouds, Land and Ocean
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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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CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
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Cb-TRAM Thunderstorm (Cb) TRacking And Monitoring using multichannel Meteosat SEVIRI data
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CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
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CM-SAF Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility
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DHI Diffuse Hemispherical Irradiance
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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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DNI Direct Normal Irradiance
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DU Dobson Units
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DWD Deutscher WetterDienst
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ECC European Cloud Climatology
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ECHAM ECMWF model, HAMburg version
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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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GADS Global Aerosol Data Set
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GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
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GCM General Circulation Model
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GEBA Global Energy Balance Archive
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GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle EXperiment
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GHI Global Hemispherical Irradiance
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GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
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GMT Greenwich Mean Time
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GOCART Georgia Tech/Goddard Global Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation Transport model
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GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
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GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
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IPA Independent Pixel Approximation or Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
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IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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IR Infra-Rot
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ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
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ISIS Irradiance at the Surface derived form ISCCP cloud data
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ISE Fraunhofer-Institut f¨ur Solare Energiesysteme
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LANDSAT LAND remote sensing SATellite
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LES Large Eddy Simulation
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libRadtran library for Radiative transfer
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MB Mean Bias
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MERIS MEdium Range Imaging Spectrometer
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MFG Mit Freundlichen Grüssen (or also Meteosat Fourth Generation)
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MISR Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer or arabic for Egypt
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MODIS MODerate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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MSG Madison Square Garden (or also Meteosat Second Generation) ;-)
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MTG Magic: The Gathering (or also Meteosat Third Generation)
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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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NN Normal Null (Meeresspiegelniveau)
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NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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OPAC Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds
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OLR Outgoing Longwave Radiation
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PDF Probability Density Function
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RMSD Root Mean Square Deviation
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SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
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SAM Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
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SBDART Santa Barbara Discrete ordinate Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
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ScaRaB Scanner for Radiation Budget instrument
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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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SKAL-ET HochSKALierung der EuroTrough Technologie
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SWERA Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment
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SYNOP Surface SYNOPtic Observations
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TAR Third Assessment Repprt
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TIROS Television InfraRed Observation Satellite
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TLA Three Letter Acronym
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TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
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TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
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TUDoLLARS The Unbiased/Ultimate DOuble Local estimator for Lidars in Air, gRound, and Space
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UTC Universal Time Coordinated
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UV Ultra-Violett
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WBF WeltraumBauFahrzeug
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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

Revision as of 17:29, 9 June 2011

Acronym
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
cm cloud mask
CNRS Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research)
CM-SAF Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility
COT Cloud Optical Thickness
COD Cloud Optical Depth
cph Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase
ctt cloud top temperature
ctp cloud top pressure
cth cloud top height
cod cloud optical depth
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
iwp (cloud) ice water path
LUT Look Up Table
lwp (cloud) liquid water path
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
ref effective radius
RTM Radiative Transfer Model
SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
TOA Top Of Atmosphere
VIS Visible
WV Water-Vapor

AERONET AErosol RObotic NETwork AOD Aerosol Optische Dicke APOLLO AVHRR Processing scheme Over cLouds, Land and Ocean ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer BRDF Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function BSRN Baseline Surface Radiation Network CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation Cb-TRAM Thunderstorm (Cb) TRacking And Monitoring using multichannel Meteosat SEVIRI data CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System CM-SAF Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility DHI Diffuse Hemispherical Irradiance DISORT DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer DLR e.V. Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, energie und Verkehr DNI Direct Normal Irradiance DU Dobson Units DWD Deutscher WetterDienst ECC European Cloud Climatology ECHAM ECMWF model, HAMburg version ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ENVISAT ENVIronmental SATellite ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment GADS Global Aerosol Data Set GAW Global Atmosphere Watch GCM General Circulation Model GEBA Global Energy Balance Archive GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle EXperiment GHI Global Hemispherical Irradiance GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite GMT Greenwich Mean Time GOCART Georgia Tech/Goddard Global Ozone Chemistry Aerosol Radiation Transport model GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center IPA Independent Pixel Approximation or Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IR Infra-Rot ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ISIS Irradiance at the Surface derived form ISCCP cloud data ISE Fraunhofer-Institut f¨ur Solare Energiesysteme LANDSAT LAND remote sensing SATellite LES Large Eddy Simulation libRadtran library for Radiative transfer MB Mean Bias MERIS MEdium Range Imaging Spectrometer MFG Mit Freundlichen Grüssen (or also Meteosat Fourth Generation) MISR Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer or arabic for Egypt MODIS MODerate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MSG Madison Square Garden (or also Meteosat Second Generation) ;-) MTG Magic: The Gathering (or also Meteosat Third Generation) MYSTIC Monte Carlo code for the phYsically incorrect Tracing of photons In Cloudy atmospheres NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service NN Normal Null (Meeresspiegelniveau) NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NREL National Renewable Energy Laboratory OPAC Optical Properties of Aerosols and Clouds OLR Outgoing Longwave Radiation PDF Probability Density Function RMSD Root Mean Square Deviation SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment SAM Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement SBDART Santa Barbara Discrete ordinate Atmospheric Radiative Transfer ScaRaB Scanner for Radiation Budget instrument SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager SHDOM Spherical Harmonics Discrete Ordinate Method SKAL-ET HochSKALierung der EuroTrough Technologie SWERA Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SYNOP Surface SYNOPtic Observations TAR Third Assessment Repprt TIROS Television InfraRed Observation Satellite TLA Three Letter Acronym TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder TUDoLLARS The Unbiased/Ultimate DOuble Local estimator for Lidars in Air, gRound, and Space UTC Universal Time Coordinated UV Ultra-Violett WBF WeltraumBauFahrzeug WCRP World Climate Research Programme WMO World Meteorological Organization WRDC World Radiation Data Center