March 23, 2015
Acronyms
| AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A | |
| AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B | |
| ATOVS | Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder | |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | |
| CFC | ChloroFluoroCarbon | |
| CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability | |
| CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales | |
| CoI | Co-Investigator | |
| EPS | EUMETSAT Polar System | |
| ERBE | Earth's Radiation Budget Experiment | |
| ESA | European Space Agency | |
| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites | |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment | |
| GCTE | Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems | |
| HIRS | High Resolution Infrared Sounder | |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer | |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | |
| IFOV | Instantaneous Field-of-View | |
| IGAC | International Geosphere-Biosphere Program | |
| IOS | Initial Observing System | |
| IRCCM | Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in General Circulation Models | |
| ISSWG | IASI Sounding Science Working Group | |
| ITRA | Intercomparison of Transmittance and Radiance Algorithms | |
| METOP | Meteorological Operational Satellite | |
| MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder | |
| NEDT | Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature | |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |
| NPOESS | NOAA Polar Orbiting Earth Operational Environmental Satellite | |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction | |
| PI | Principal Investigator | |
| ScaRaB | Scanner for Earth's Radiation Budget | |
| SIRS | Satellite InfraRed Spectrometer | |
| TBC | To Be Confirmed | |
| TIROS | Television InfraRed Observing Satellite | |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder | |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Program | |
| VTPR | Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer | |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organisation | |
| WRCP | World Climate Research Program | |
| WWW | World Weather Watch |
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