Main Links & Acronyms
Products
| 3I | Improved Initialization Inversion |
| 4A | Automatized Atmospheric Absorption Atlas |
| ARSA | Analyzed RadioSoundings Archive |
| TIGR | Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval |
A-D
| ACE-FTS | Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment-Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ASC/SCISAT-1) |
| AIRS | Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder |
| AMMA | African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis |
| AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A |
| AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B |
| API | Action Programmée Interorganismes |
| ARA | Analyse du Rayonnement Atmosphérique |
| ASC | Agence Spatiale Canadienne |
| ATOVS | Advanced-TOVS |
| ATSR | Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| CALIPSO | Cloud Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations |
| CEREMADE | Centre de recherche Mathématiques de la Décision |
| CICLAD | Calcul Intensif pour le CLimat , l'Atmosphere et la Dynamique |
| CIRAMOSA | CIrrus microphysical properties and their effect on RAdiation: survey and integration into climate MOdels using combined SAtellite observations |
| CLIMSERV | Service de données et de calcul de l'IPSL |
| CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| COCO | Measuring CO2 from space |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DISORT | Discrete Ordinate Radiative Transfer |
| DLR | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luft und Raumfahrt |
E-H
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecasting |
| ENS | Ecole Normale Supérieure |
| ENSO | El Niño - Southern Oscillation |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| ERA | ECMWF Re-Analysis |
| ERS | ESA Remote Sensing Satellite |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ETHER | Ether |
| ETHZ | Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |
| EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| GAPA | Gewex Global Aerosol Product Assessment |
| GEISA | Gestion et Etude des Informations Spectroscopiques de l'Atmosphère (Management and study of atmospheric spectroscopic information) |
| GEMS | Global and regional Earth-system Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data (contrat européen) |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment |
| GEWEX-CA | GEWEX Cloud Assessment |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory de la NOAA |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
| GMD | Global Monitoring Division (previously CMDL- Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory) |
| GMES | Global Monitoring for Environment and Security |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GOSAT | Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite |
| HIRS | High Resolution Infrared Sounder |
| HSB | Humidity Sounder Brazil |
I-L
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer |
| IDRIS | Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique |
| IIR | Imageur Infrarouge (CALIPSO) |
| INDOEX | INDian Ocean EXperiment |
| INSU | Institut National de Sciences de l’Univers |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPSL | Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Programme |
| ISSWG | IASI Sounding Science Working Group |
| ITSC | International TOVS Study Conference |
| ITWG | International TOVS Working Group |
| JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| LA | Laboratoire d'Aérologie |
| LATMOS | Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales) |
| LMD | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique |
| LOCEAN | Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat-Expérimentation et Analyse Numérique |
| LODYC | Laboratoire d'Océanographie Dynamique et Climatologie |
| LSCE | Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement |
M-P
| MACC | Monitoring of Atmospheric Composition and Climate |
| MASSIF | Meteorological Aspects of Studies and Simulations for IASI in France |
| METOP | Meteorological Operational (Satellite) |
| MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (ENVISAT) |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MONUMEEP | Modélisation/Observation des NUages à Multi-Echelles pour l'Etude de Processus dans les CIRRUS |
| MOPITT | Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
| NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NIES | National Institue for Environmental Studies |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOVELTIS | Scientific and technical engineering company specialized in Earth, Environmental and Universe Sciences |
| OCO | Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
| ONERA | Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales |
| PARASOL | Polarisation et Anisotropie des Réflectances au sommet de l'Atmosphère, couplées avec un Satellite d'Observation emportant un Lidar |
| PICASSO-CENA | Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations Climatologie Etendue des Nuages et des Aerosols |
| POLDER | POLarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectances |
Q-T
| SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol Gas Experiment |
| SCARAB | SCAnner RAdiation Budget |
| SCIAMACHY | SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
| SSM/T | Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature |
| SSM/T-2 | Special Sensor Microwave/ Water Vapor Sounder |
| SSU | Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| TANSO | Thermal And Near infrared Sensor for carbon Observation |
| TIGR | Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval |
| TIROS | Television InfraRed Operational Satellite |
| TOVS | TIROS Observationnal Vertical Sounder |
| TOVS/PathB | Désignation des données issues de la réanalyse du TOVS par le LMD dans le cadre du programme NOAA/NASAPathfinder |
U-Z
| UGAMP | UK Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme |
| UPMC | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) |
| VIRTEM | Validation of IASI Radiative Transfer: Experiments and Modelling |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| X | Ecole Polytechnique |
Last update : 2011/01/25