Talk:Acronyms
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| Acronym | |
|---|---|
| AERONET | AErosol RObotic NETwork |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DISORT | DIScrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| GERB | Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite |
| HRV | High Resolution Visible (channel) |
| 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 |
| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |
| ref | effective radius |
| RTM | Radiative Transfer Model |
| SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
| TOA | Top Of Atmosphere |
| VIS | Visible |
| WV | Water-Vapor |
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
MPEF Meteorological Product Extraction U-MARF Unified-Meteorological Archiving and Retrieval Facility AGS Application Ground Segment
