Institutes and organisations
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| BIRA-IASB |
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy |
| DLR |
German Aerospace Center |
| EC |
European Commission |
| ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| KNMI |
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| ULB |
Free University of Brussels |
Projects and programmes
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| ACC |
Atmospheric Composition Constellation -- part of CEOS |
| GMES |
The European Earth Observation Programme |
| MACC |
Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate |
| NDACC |
Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change |
| NOVAC |
Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change |
| PROMOTE |
Protocol Monitoring for the GMES Service Element: Atmosphere |
| SACS |
Support to Aviation Control Service |
| TEMIS |
Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service |
Satellites and instruments
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| ENVISAT |
Environmental Satellite (ESA); March 2002 - present |
| EOS-Aqua |
Earth Observing System - Water & land mission (NASA); May 2002 - present |
| EOS-Aura |
Earth Observing System - Chemistry & Climate Mission (NASA); July 2004 - present |
| ERS-2 |
European Remote Sensing satellite 2 (ESA); April 1995 - present |
| FRESCO |
Fast Retrieval Scheme for Cloud Observables |
| GOME-2 |
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (aboard MetOp-A) |
| IASI |
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (aboard MetOp-A) |
| OMI |
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (aboard EOS-Aura) |
| MetOp-A |
Meteorological Operational Satellite (Eumetsat); October 2006 - present |
| MODIS |
Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MSG |
Meteosat Second Generation (Eumetsat); August 2002 - present |
| SCIAMACHY |
Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (aboard ENVISAT) |
Other acronyms
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| AAI / AI |
Absorbing Aerosol Index / Aerosol Index |
| AMF |
Air-Mass Factor |
| AOD / AOT |
Aerosol Optical Depth / Aerosol Optical Thickness |
| BrO |
Bromine monoxide |
| CCF |
Cloud Cover Fraction |
| DOAS |
Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy |
| DU |
Dobson Unit |
| EO |
Earth Observation (as in "EO data") |
| HDF |
Hierarchical Data Format |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
| IR |
InfraRed |
| NRT |
Near-Real Time |
| O3 |
Ozone |
| OCRA |
Optical Cloud Recognition Algorithm |
| PDU |
Product Dissemination Unit |
| ROCINN |
Retrieval Of Cloud Information by Neural Networks |
| SAA |
South Atlantic Anomaly |
| SCD |
Slant Column Density |
| SO2 |
Sulphur dioxide |
| SZA |
Solar Zenith Angle |
| UTC |
Universal Time Coordinated |
| UV |
UltraViolet |
| VCD |
Vertical Column Density |
