Acronyms and Abbreviations
ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing Satellite |
AFGL | Air Force Geophysics Laboratory |
AL | Aeronomy Laboratory of NOAA, USA |
AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit |
ARC | NASA Ames Research Center, USA |
ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring |
ATLAS | Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (Spacelab Shuttle Missions) |
ATMOS | Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy |
CCR | Clear Column Radiance |
CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (on UARS) |
CMDL | NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, USA |
CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France |
DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center, NASA LaRC, USA |
DIAL | Differential Absorption LIDAR |
DLH | Diode Laser Hygrometer |
DLR | Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany |
DMSP | Defence Meteorological Satellite Program |
DOE | Department of Energy, USA |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
EI | Emission Index |
ENSO | El Niño and the South Oscillation |
EOS | Earth Observing System (of NASA's global satellite system) |
ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
FIRS | Far-Infrared Spectrometer |
FISH | Fast In-situ Stratospheric Hygrometer |
FTIR | Fourier Transform Infra-Red |
FWHM | Full Width Half Maximum |
GOES | Goddard Positioning System |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, USA |
HALOE | Halogen Occultation Experiment (on UARS) |
HITRAN | HIgh-resolution TRANsmission |
HIRS | High Resolution Infrared Sounder |
ILAS | Improved Limb Absorption Spectrometer |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
ISAMS | Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder |
LASE | LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing Experiment |
LIDAR | LIght Detection And Ranging |
LIMS | Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere |
LS | Lower Stratosphere |
MAS | Microwave Atmospheric Sounder |
MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for passive Atmospheric Sounding |
MJO | Madden-Julian Oscillation |
MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder (on UARS) |
MOZAIC | Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-Service Aircraft |
MPAE | Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Germany |
MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA |
NASDA | National Space Development Agency, Japan |
NCEP | National Center for Environmental Prediction, USA |
NDSC | Network for the Detection of Statospheric Change |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NOAA) |
NIST | National Institute for Standards and Technology, USA |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA |
NRL | Naval Research Laboratory, USA |
POAM | Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurements |
POLARIS | Photochemistry of Ozone Loss in the Arctic Region in Summer |
POLINAT | Pollution from Aircraft Emissions in the North Atlantic Flight Corridor |
ppmv | parts per million (by volume), i.e. 10-6 |
PV | Potential Vorticiy |
QBO | Quasi-Biennal Oscillation |
RH | Relative humidity |
RMS | Root-Mean-Square |
SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
SAO | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, USA |
SPADE | Stratospheric Photochemistry Aerosols and Dynamics Expedition |
SPARC | Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate |
SSB | Single sideband |
SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
SSMT2 | Special Sensor Microwave / Temperature 2 parameter of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program microwave instrument |
SSU | Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
TDL | Tuneable Diode Laser |
TIGR | TOVS Initial Guess Retrieval |
TIO | Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillation |
TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office, UK |
UT | Upper Troposphere |
UTH | Upper Tropospheric Humidity |
VUV | Vacuum Ultra Violet |
WASPAM | Wasserdampf und Spurengasmessungen mit Mikrowellen |
WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
WVMS | Water Vapour Millimetre-wave Spectrometer |