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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
|'''AIRS''' || Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder
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|'''AMSR-E''' || Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
|'''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
|'''AVHRR'''  || Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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|'''ca'''  || Cloud Amount
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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
|'''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
|'''CLOUDSAT'''  || Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA
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|'''cm'''  || cloud mask
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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)
|'''CNRS'''  ||  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research)
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|'''CM-SAF'''  || Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility
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|'''COD'''  || Cloud Optical Depth
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|'''cot'''  || Cloud Optical Thickness
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|'''COT'''  || Cloud Optical Thickness
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|'''cod'''   || Cloud Optical Depth
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| '''CPH''' || Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase
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| '''cph'''  || Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase
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| '''CTT'''  || cloud top temperature
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| '''ctt'''  || cloud top temperature
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| '''CTP'''  || cloud top pressure
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| '''ctp'''  || cloud top pressure
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| '''CTH'''  || cloud top height
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| '''cth'''  || cloud top height
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| '''DISORT'''  || DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer
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| '''cod'''  || cloud optical depth
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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
|'''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
|'''ESA'''  || European Space Agency
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|'''EUMETSAT'''  || Europe’s Meteorological Satellite Organisation
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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
|'''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
|'''IASI'''  || Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
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|'''IPA'''  || Independent Pixel Approximation
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|'''IPCC'''  || Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
|'''IPCC'''  || Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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|'''ISCCP'''  || International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
|'''ISCCP'''  || International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
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| '''iwp'''  || (cloud) ice water path
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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
|'''LUT'''  || Look Up Table
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| '''lwp'''  || (cloud) liquid water path
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| '''LWP'''  || (cloud) liquid water path
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|'''MODIS'''  || Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (NASA/Terra, Aqua)
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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
|'''METEOSAT'''  || Meteorological satellite
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|'''MPEF'''  || Meteorological Product Extraction
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|'''MSG'''  || Meteosat Second Generation
|'''MSG'''  || Meteosat Second Generation
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|'''MTG'''  || Meteosat Third Generation
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|'''MWR'''  || MicroWave Radiometer
|'''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
|'''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
|'''NIR'''  || Near-infrared
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|'''NWP'''  || Numerical Weather Prediction model
|'''NWP'''  || Numerical Weather Prediction model
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| '''ref'''  || effective radius
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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
|'''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
|'''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
|'''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
|'''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
|'''WV'''  || Water-Vapor
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Latest revision as of 12:51, 10 June 2011

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