Acronyms
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|'''CM-SAF''' || Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility | |'''CM-SAF''' || Climate Monitoring - Satellite Application Facility | ||
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| - | |''' | + | |'''cot''' || Cloud Optical Thickness |
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| - | |''' | + | |'''cod''' || Cloud Optical Depth |
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| '''cph''' || Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase | | '''cph''' || Cloud (thermodynamic) PHase | ||
Revision as of 17:20, 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 |
