Glossary
Num | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
| Numeric
1D-Var One-dimensional variational analysis
3D-Var Three-dimensional variational analysis
4D-Var Four-dimensional variational analysis |
| A
AAPP ATOVS and AVHRR processing package
ADEOS Advanced Earth Observing System (launched in 1996, ADEOS II launched in 2002)
AIRS Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AMI Active Microwave Instrument
AMSR Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer
AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
AMV Atmospheric motion vector (satellite wind)
AS Associate Scientist
ASCAT Advanced Scatterometer
ATOVS Advanced TOVS
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AWDP ASCAT Wind Data Processor |
| B
BUFR Binary universal format for data representation |
| C
C-band 3.90-6.20 GHz frequency radiation (used by ERS-2)
CGMS Co-ordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
CHAMP Challenging Mini–Satellite Payload
CIMSS Co-operative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
CLW Cloud Liquid Water
CMOD4 Scatterometer transfer function for the C-band ERS scatterometer
CMS Centre de Météorologie Spatiale (of Météo-France)
CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (of France)
CNRM Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate |
| D
DMI Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (Danish Meteorological Institute)
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (USA)
DoD US Department of Defense
DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst |
| E
EC Environment Canada
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts
EGOPS End-to-end GNSS Occultation Performance Simulator
ENVISAT Environmental Satellite
EOF Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOS Earth Observing System
EPS EUMETSAT Polar System
ERS European Remote Sensing satellite
ESA European Space Agency
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EURD End User Requirements Document |
| F
FAQ Frequently asked question
FM Forward Model
FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute
FASTEM FAST Emissivity Model
FR Final Review
FTP File Transfer Protocol |
| G
GALILEO European GNSS constellation project (EU)
GERB Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget experiment
GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System (Russia)
GMF Geophysical Model Function
GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (Japan)
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System (GPS + GLONASS and the future GALILEO)
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (USA)
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GPS Global Positioning System (USA)
GPS/MET Global Positioning System / Meteorology experiment
GRAS GNSS Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding
GTS Global Telecommunications System |
| H
HIRLAM High-resolution Limited Area Model
HIRS High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
HRPT High-resolution Picture Transmission |
| I
IAMAP International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IEEC Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya
IMD Indian Meteorological Department
IO Input/Output
IRM Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique
ISRF Instrument Spectral Response Function
ISSWG IASI Sounder Science Working Group
ISWMR Integrated Satellite Wind Monitoring Report
ITRA Intercomparison of Transmittance and Radiance Algorithms |
| J |
| K
KNMI Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
Ku-band 10.9-18.0 GHz frequency radiation (used by QuickSCAT) |
| L
LBL Line-by-line (type of radiative transfer model)
LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (Palaiseau, France) |
| M
MetDB Meteorological Database
METOP Meteorological Operational Polar satellite
MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder
MLE Maximum likelihood estimator
MOP METEOSAT Operational Programme
MPEF Meteorological Product Extraction Facility (of EUMETSAT)
MSC Meteorological Service of Canada (a division of Environment Canada)
MSG METEOSAT Second Generation satellite
MTG METEOSAT Third Generation satellite
MTP METEOSAT Transitional Programme
MTR Mid-Term Review
MTSAT Next generation geostationary meteorological satellite, Japan
MVD Mean vector difference
MVIRI METEOSAT Visible and Infrared Imager |
| N
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (of the USA)
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction (of the USA)
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (of NOAA)
NMS National meteorological service
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (of the USA); polar-orbiting satellite series of same name
NRL Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California
NRMSVD Normalised root mean square vector difference
NRT Near real time
NSCAT Navy Scatterometer (USA)
NSMC National Satellite Meteorological Center (China)
NWP Numerical weather prediction |
| O
OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument
OPS-LRS Operation Software – Local Reception Station
OPTRAN Optical Path Transmittance model
ORA Office of Research Applications, NESDIS
OSE Observing System Experiment
OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiment |
| P |
| Q
QI Quality Indicator
QC Quality Control
QuickSCAT Ku-band scanning scatterometer (on SeaWinds platform) |
| R
R+D Research and Development
RAPR Requirements Assessment and Planning Review
RMS Root Mean Square
RO Radio Occultation
ROM SAF Radio Occulation for Meteorology SAF
ROPP Radio Occultation Processing Package
RTM Radiative Transfer Model
RTTOV Radiative Transfer model for TOVS |
| S
SAF Satellite Application Facility
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SATOB WMO code format “SATOB”
SCAT Scatterometer (on ERS-1 and ERS-2)
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography
SD Standard deviation
SDP SeaWinds Data Processor
SEVIRI Scanning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
SSG SAF Steering Group
SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave / Imager
SSMIS Special Sensor Microwave Imager-Sounder
SST Sea-surface temperature
STG Scientific and Technical Group (of EUMETSAT)
SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| T
TIROS Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
TOA Top of the atmosphere
TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| U
UM Unified Model (Met Office’s NWP model suite)
UR User requirements |
| V
VS Visiting Scientist |
| W
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WV Water vapour |
| X |
| Y |
| Z |
