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Suggested Citation: "Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24650.

Appendix D

Acronyms and Abbreviations

AIRS	Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
ALOS	Advanced Land Observing Satellite
ASCENDS	Active Sensing of CO₂ Emissions over Nights, Days, & Seasons
ASTER	Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
AVHRR	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVO	Alaska Volcano Observatory
CALIPSO	Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
CIDER	Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research
CIG	Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
CMG	Collaboration in Mathematical Geosciences
COSMO-SkyMed	Constellation of Small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation
CSEDI	Cooperative Studies of the Earth’s Deep Interior
DOAS	Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
ENSO	El Niño–Southern Oscillation
FTIR	Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
GeoPRISMs	Geodynamic Processes at Rifting and Subducting Margins
GNSS	Global Navigation Satellite System
GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPS	Global Positioning System
IASI	Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
InSAR	interferometric synthetic aperture radar
IR	infrared
IRIS	Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
MISR	Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
MLS	Microwave Limb Sounder
MODIS	Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research
NERSC	National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

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NSF	National Science Foundation
OMI	Ozone Monitoring Instrument
OMPS	Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite
PASSCAL	Portable Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere
PDC	pyroclastic density current
PREVENTS	Prediction of and Resilience against Extreme Events
SAGE	Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SEES	Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability
TanDEM-X	TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement
USGS	U.S. Geological Survey
VDAP	Volcano Disaster Assistance Program
VEI	Volcano Explosivity Index
XSEDE	Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment

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