Institutes and organisations |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |