| 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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