NOAA's Role in Space-Based Global Precipitation Estimation and Application (2007)
Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms
E
Acronyms
4D-VAR four-dimensional variational
AGU American Geophysical Union
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AMS American Meteorological Society
AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System
AMSU-B Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
AQUA satellite of NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS)
ASOS automated surface observing system
CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations
CHILL National Radar Facility at Colorado State University CloudSat Cloud Satellite
CMIS Conical Scanning Microwave Imager/Sounder
CMORPH Climate Prediction Center Morphing Technique
COARE Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
CSA Canadian Space Agency
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
EGPM European Global Precipitation Measurement
ESA European Space Agency
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
FY Fengyun (Chinese satellite series); fiscal year
GCOM Global Change Observing Mission
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GIFTS Atmospheric Soundings from Geostationary Orbit
GHz gigahertz
GMI GPM Microwave Imager
GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPCP Global Precipitation Climatology Project
GPM Global Precipitation Measurement
GPS/RO Global Positioning System/Radio Occultation
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSICS Global Space-Based Inter-Calibration System
HADS Hydrometeorological Automated Data System
HMT Hydrometeorological Testbed
HWRF Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting
IEOS DEP International Earth Observation System Data Exchange Principles
IFLOWS Integrated Flood Observing and Warning System
INSAT Indian National Satellite
IPWG International Precipitation Working Group
IR infrared
ISRO Indian Space Research Organization
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JCSDA Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
JEA Japan Environment Agency
JMA Japan Meteorological Agency
JSC Joint Scientific Committee
JWG Joint Working Group
km kilometer
LDAS Land Data Assimiliation System lidar light detection and ranging
MADRAS Microwave Analysis and Detection of Rain and Atmosphere Structure
Meteosat Meteorological Satellite
METOP Meteorological Operational satellite
MHS Microwave Humidity Sensor
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan
MOU memorandum of understanding
MTSAT Multi-Functional Transport Satellite
MW microwave
MWRI Microwave Radiation Imager
N7C Oceanographer of the Navy
NAE National Academy of Engineering
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA National Space Development Agency of Japan
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NEXRAD Next Generation Radar
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP NPOESS Preparatory Mission
NRC National Research Council
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NSF National Science Foundation
NWP numerical weather prediction
NWS National Weather Service
OAR Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA)
OTA Office of Technology Assessment
PERSIANN Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks
PMM Precipitation Measurement Missions
POES Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
R-CLIPER Rainfall CLImate and PERsistence
SCaMPR Self-calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval
SSMI Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
SSMIS Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
STA Japanese Science and Technology Agency
STAR Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA)
TMI TRMM Microwave Imager
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
USAF United States Air Force
USN United States Navy
WindSat Wind Satellite
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler
