LaRC

Langley Research Center

LDAS

Land Data Assimilation System

LEOCAT

Low Earth Orbiting Cloud Algorithm Testbed

LRC

Lesser Regional Contingency

LSA

Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry

MAS

MODIS Airborne Simulator

MECB

Marine Ecosystems and Climate Branch

MERIS

Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer

METOP

Meteorological Operations Platform

MHS

Microwave Humidity Sounder

MIRS

Microwave Integrated Retrieval System

MOBY

Marine Optical Buoy

MOCE

Marine Optical Characterization Experiment

MODIS

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radiometer

MOU/MOA

Memorandums of Understanding and Agreement

MSG

METEOSAT Second Generation

MSMR

Multi-frequency Scanning Microwave Radiometer

MSU

Microwave Sounding Unit

MTG

METEOSAT Third Generation

MW

Microwave

NAAPS

Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASDA

National Space Development Agency of Japan

NAVOCEANO

Naval Oceanographic Office

NCAR

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCCOS

National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

NCEP

National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NCEP/NCAR

National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research

NDE

NPOESS Data Exploitation

NDVI

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NESDIS

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service

NGA

National Geospatial Agency

NGDC

National Geophysical Data Center

NHC

National Hurricane Center

NIC

NOAA National Ice Center

NIMA

National Imagery and Mapping Agency

NIST

National Institute of Science and Technology

NMFS

National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOS

National Ocean Service

NPOESS

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

NPP

NPOESS Preparatory Program

NRC

National Research Council

NRCS

Normalized Radar Cross-Section

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

NRT

Near-Real-Time

NSF

National Science Foundation

NWP

National Weather Prediction

NWS

National Weather Service

OAR

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research

OCM

Ocean Color Monitor

ODDAB

Ocean Dynamics and data Assimilation Branch

OH

Office of Hydrology

OHC

Ocean Heat Content

OLR

Outgoing Longwave Radiation

OLS

Optical Linescan System

OMI

Ozone Monitoring Instrument

OMPS

Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite

OPDB

Operational Products Development Branch

OPT

Ozone Processing Team

ORA

Office of Research and Applications

ORAD

Oceanic Research and Applications Division

OSCAR

Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time

OSDAD

Office of Satellite Data Processing

OSDPD

Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution

OSSE

Observing System (Simulation) Experiment

PALSAR

Japanese Phased Array L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar

PATMOS

Pathfinder Atmosphere

PEFL

NOAA Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory

PMEL

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

POES

Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites

POP

Product Oversight Panel

PPBES

Project, Planning, Budgeting and Execution System

QPE

Quantitative Precipitation Estimation

QPF

Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts

RADS

Radar Altimetry Database System

RAMMB

Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

RAMSDIS

Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Team Advanced Meteorological Satellite Demonstration and Interpretation System

R&D

Research and Development

RFI

Radio Frequency Interference

RPP

Research Project Plan

RT

Radiative Transfer

RTTOV

Radiative Transfer for TOVS

R2D2

Research Repository for Data and Diagnostics

SABER

System-Agnostic Background Error Representation

SAGE

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

SAR

Synthetic Aperture Radar

SBA

Satellite Bleaching Alert

SBUV/2

Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Spectral Radiometer, MOD 2

SCaMPR

Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval

SDS

Scientific Data Stewardship

SECW

Southeast CoastWatch Program

SEVIRI

Synthetic Aperture Radar

SMCD

Satellite Meteorological and Climatology Division

SNO

Simultaneous Nadir Overpass

SOCD

Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division

SOSB

Satellite Ocean Sensors Branch

SPB

Sensor Physics Branch

SPC

Storm Prediction Center

SPS

Science Project Summaries

SRSO

Super-Rapid Scan Operations

SSF

Single Scanner Footprint TOA/Surface Fluxes and Clouds

SSM/I

Special Sensor Microwave Imager

SSMIS

Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder

SSR

Sea Surface Roughness

SST

Sea Surface Temperature

STAR

Center for Satellite Applications and Research

TARFOX

Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment

TCFP

Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability

TCHP

Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential

TIROS

Television and Infrared Observation Satellite

TOMS

Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

TOPEX

Ocean Topography Experiment (A Sensor)

TOVS

TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder

TRMM

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

TST

Technical Support Team

UCAR

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UKMO

United Kingdom Meteorological Office

UMBC

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

USCG

United States Coast Guard

USDA

United States Department of Agriculture

USGS

United States Geological Survey

USGCRP

U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan

USWRP

United States Weather Research Program

VCI

Vegetation Condition Index

VIIRS

Visible/Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite

VIRS

Visible Infrared Scanner

VIS

Visual Imaging System

VISIT

Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training

VISSR

Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer

WCRP

World Climate Research program

WF_ABBA

Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm

WINDEX

Wind Experiment

WIPE

World-Wide Web Image Processing Environment

WMSI

Wet Microburst Severity Index

WMO

World Meteorological Organization

WRF

Weather Research & Forecasting