Advanced along track Scanning Radiometer
Glossary
AATSR
AEROCOM
The AEROCOM-project is an open international initiative of scientists interested in the advancement of the understanding of the global aerosol and its impact on climate
AERONET
(AErosol RObotic NETwork) program is a federation of ground-based remote sensing aerosol networks
AIRS
Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
AMSU-B
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
AOD
Aerosol Optical Depth
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
BRF
Bi-directional Reflection Factors
CCCS
Copernicus Climate Change Service
CCI
(ESA) Climate Change Initiative
CDR
Climate Data Record
CDS
Climate Data Store
CEOS WGISS
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Working Group on Information Systems and Services
CF
Climate and Forecast (metadata convention)
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts
ECV
Essential Climate Variables
ERA-CLIM2
European Reanalysis of Global Climate Observations -2
FCDR
Fundamental Climate Data Record
GRUAN
GCOS Reference Upper Air Network
GSICS
Global Space-based Inter-calibration System
HIRS
High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder
IASI
Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IR
Infra-red
LAC
Local Area Coverage
MMS
Multi Sensor Match up system
MVIRI
Meteosat Visible Infra-Red Imager
MW
Microwave
NetCDF
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data
NMI
National Metrology Institutes
NWP
Numerical Weather Prediction
QA4ECV
Quality Assurance for Essential Climate Variables
SCOPE-CM
Sustained Coordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite Data for Climate Monitoring
SEVIRI
Spinning Enhanced Visible Infra-Red Imager
SI
International sytem of units
SLSTR
Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
SRF
Spectral Response Function
SSCC
SEVIRI Solar Channel Calibration
SSM/T2
Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature-2
SST
Sea Surface Temperature
TOA
Top of Atmosphere
UERRA
Uncertainties in Ensembles of Regional Re-analyses
UTH
Upper Tropospheric Humidity
WCRP
World Climate Research Programme