| Acronym
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| AIRS | Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder
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| AMSR-E | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
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| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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| CA | Cloud Amount
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| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
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| CLOUDSAT | Cloud satellite mission operated by NASA
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| cm | cloud mask
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| 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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| COT | Cloud Optical Thickness
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| COD | Cloud Optical Depth
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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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| cod | cloud optical depth
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| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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| ESA | European Space Agency
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| EUMETSAT | Europe’s Meteorological Satellite Organisation
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| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite
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| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
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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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| LUT | Look Up Table
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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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| METEOSAT | Meteorological satellite
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| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation
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| MWR | MicroWave Radiometer
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| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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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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| ref | effective radius
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| RTM | Radiative Transfer Model
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| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
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| TOA | Top Of Atmosphere
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| VIS | Visible
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| WV | Water-Vapor
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