|
AAO
|
Antarctic Oscillation
|
|
ACD
|
Arctic Coastal Dynamics
|
|
ACSYS
|
WCRP Arctic Climate
System Study
|
|
AIRS
|
Atmospheric InfraRed
Sounder
|
|
AMSR
|
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
|
|
AMSU
|
Advanced Microwave
Sounding Unit
|
|
AO
|
Arctic Oscillation
|
|
AOPC
|
Atmospheric Observation
Panel of GCOS
|
|
ARM
|
Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement Program
|
|
ASOS
|
Automated Surface
Observing System
|
|
AWS
|
Automatic Weather
Station
|
|
AVHRR
|
Advanced Very High
Resolution Radiometer
|
|
BOREAS
|
Boreal
Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
|
|
CALM
|
Circumpolar Active
Layer Monitoring
|
|
CCC
|
Canadian Centre for
Climate
|
|
CEOP
|
Coordinated Enhanced
Observing Period
|
|
CEOS
|
Committee on Earth
Observing Satellites
|
|
CERES
|
Clouds & The Earths
Radiant Energy System
|
|
CIMO
|
WMO Commission for
Instruments and Methods of Observation
|
|
CliC
|
WCRP Climate and
Cryosphere project
|
|
CNES
|
Centre National des Etudes Spatiales, France
|
|
COSPAR
|
Committee on Space
Research (member of ICSU)
|
|
COPES
|
Coordinated Observation
and Prediction of the Earth System
|
|
CSIRO
|
Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organization, Australia
|
|
DAAC
|
Distributed Active
Archive Centers
|
|
DMSP
|
Defense Meteorological
Satellite Program
|
|
DOE-ARM
|
U.S. Department of
Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
|
|
ECMWF
|
European Centre for
Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
|
|
ENSO
|
El Nino and the
Southern Oscillation
|
|
ENVISAT
|
Environmental Satellite
|
|
EOS
|
NASA Earth Observing
System
|
|
ERS
|
European Remote Sensing
|
|
ESA
|
European Space Agency
|
|
ETM+
|
Enhanced Thematic
Mapper
|
|
EUMETSAT
|
European Organization
for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
|
|
FOV
|
Field-of-view
|
|
GCM
|
General Circulation
models
|
|
GCOS
|
Global Climate
Observing System
|
|
GEMS
|
Global Environment
Monitoring Program
|
|
GEO
|
Geostationary satellites
|
|
GEO
|
Group on Earth
Observations
|
|
GEOSS
|
Global Earth
Observation System of Systems
|
|
GEWEX
|
Global Energy and Water
Cycle Experiment
|
|
GHOST
|
Global Hierarchical
Observing Strategy
|
|
GLIMS
|
Global Land-Ice
Measurement from Space
|
|
GLOSS
|
Global Sea-Level Observing
System
|
|
GMES
|
Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security
|
|
GOOS
|
Global Ocean Observing
System
|
|
GOES
|
Geostationary
Operational Environmental Satellites
|
|
GPCP
|
Global Precipitation
Climatology Project
|
|
GPM
|
Global Precipitation
Measurement
|
|
GrADS
|
Grid Analysis and
Display System
|
|
GSWP
|
Global Soil Wetness
Project
|
|
GTN-P
|
Global Terrestrial
Network for Permafrost
|
|
GTOS
|
Global Terrestrial
Observing System
|
|
GTN-H
|
Global Terrestrial
Network for Hydrology
|
|
GTOS
|
Global Terrestrial
Observing System
|
|
GWSP
|
Global Water System
Project
|
|
HELP
|
Hydrology for
Environment, Life and Policy
|
|
HIRS
|
High resolution
Infrared Radiation Sounder
|
|
HYDROS
|
Hydrosphere State
mission
|
|
IAHS
|
International
Association of Hydrologic Sciences
|
|
ICSU
|
International Council
of Scientific Unions
|
|
IGOS-P
|
Integrated Global
Observing Strategy-Partnership
|
|
IGWCO
|
International Global
Water Cycle Observation
|
|
IPA
|
International
Permafrost Association
|
|
IPCC
|
Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change
|
|
IPS
|
Ice Profiling Sonar
|
|
IPY
|
International Polar
Year
|
|
ISCCP
|
International Satellite
Cloud Climatology Project
|
|
IHDP
|
International Human
Dimensions Programme
|
|
ITU
|
International
Telecommunication Union
|
|
JAXA
|
Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency
|
|
JERS
|
Japanese Earth
Resources Satellite
|
|
LEO
|
Low earth orbit
|
|
LIDAR
|
Light Detection and
Ranging
|
|
LTER
|
Long-term Ecological
Research
|
|
MASTER
|
MODIS/ASTER
|
|
MIZ
|
Marginal Ice Zone
|
|
MODIS
|
Moderate Resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer
|
|
MSU
|
Microwave Sounding Unit
|
|
NAO
|
North Atlantic
Oscillation
|
|
NASA
|
National Aeronautic and
Space Administration (USA)
|
|
NASDA
|
National Space
Development Agency (Japan)
|
|
NCEP
|
National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (USA)
|
|
NESDIS
|
National Environmental
Satellite Data and Information Service (USA)
|
|
NOAA
|
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (USA)
|
|
NPOESS
|
National Polar-orbiting
Operational Environmental Satellite System
|
|
NSCAT
|
NASA Scatterometer
|
|
NSIDC
|
National Snow and Ice
Data Center (USA)
|
|
NSF
|
National Science
Foundation
|
|
NWP
|
Numerical Weather
Prediction
|
|
NWS
|
National Weather Service, U.S.
|
|
PACE
|
Permafrost and Climate
in Europe
|
|
PMW
|
Passive Microwave
|
|
POES
|
Polar-orbiting
Operational Environmental Satellites
|
|
QPE
|
Quantitative
precipitation estimation
|
|
SAR
|
Synthetic Aperture
Radar
|
|
SCICEX
|
Scientific Ice Experiment
|
|
SeaBASS
|
SeaWiFS Bio-optical
Archive and Storage System
|
|
SeaWiFS
|
Sea-viewing Wide
Field-of-view Sensor
|
|
SMMR
|
Scanning Multichannel
Microwave Radiometer
|
|
SPOT
|
Satellite Earth
Observation System by Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
|
|
SSM/I
|
Special Sensor
Microwave/Imager
|
|
SST
|
Sea Surface Temperature
|
|
SWE
|
Snow Water-Equivalent
|
|
TM
|
Thematic Mapper
|
|
TOVS
|
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
|
|
TSP
|
Thermal State of Permafrost
|
|
TRMM
|
Tropical Rainfall
Measuring Mission
|
|
ULS
|
Upward Looking Sonar
|
|
WCRP
|
World Climate Research
Programme
|
|
WGCM
|
Working Group on
Coupled Modeling (CLIVAR)
|
|
WGI
|
World Glacier Inventory
|
|
WGNE
|
Working Group on
Numerical Experimentation (WCRP)
|
|
WGMS/WHYCOS
|
World Glacier
Monitoring Service/World Hydrological Cycle Observing System
|
|
WOAP
|
WCRP Observation and
Assimilation Panel
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