Acronyms & links

Below follows a list of acronyms and links related to the Service, subdivided in these subjects:

• Institutes and organisations
• Projects and programmes
• Satellites and instruments
• Other acronyms

 

Institutes and organisations
BIRA-IASB	Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
CGS	Carlo Gavazzi Space
CNES	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
DLR	German Aerospace Center
EC	European Commission
ECMWF	European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast
ESA	European Space Agency
ESRIN	European Space Agency Research Institute
EUMETSAT	European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
IAVW	International Airways Volcano Watch
ICAO	International Civil Aviation Organization
INGV	Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology
INGV Catania	Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology based in Catania
KNMI	Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NILU	Norwegian Institute for Air Research
NL-SCIA-DC	Netherlands Sciamachy Data Center
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA/CIMSS	Volcanic Cloud Monitoring Web Portal
SRON	Netherlands Institute for Space Research
ULB	Free University of Brussels
UMD	University of Maryland
USGS	US Geological Survey
VAAC	Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre; see for example: London VAAC and Toulouse VAAC
WOVO	World Organization of Volcano Observatories
Projects and programmes
ACC	Atmospheric Composition Constellation -- part of CEOS
AMFIC	Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in China
CEOS	Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
DUE / DUP	Data User Element / Data User Programme
EVOSS	European Volcano Observatory Space Services
GlobVolcano	GlobVolcano - Satellite Monitoring in Support to Early Warning of Volcanic Risk
GMES	The European Earth Observation Programme
GVP	Global Volcanism Program (at the Smithsonian Institute)
LANCE/NASA	Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS / National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MACC	Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate
NDACC	Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change
NOVAC	Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change
PROMOTE	Protocol Monitoring for the GMES Service Element: Atmosphere
SACS	Support to Aviation Control Service
SAVAA	Support to Aviation for Volcanic Ash Avoidance
SMASH	Study on an end-to-end system for volcanic ash plume monitoring and prediction
TEMIS	Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service
VAST	Volcanic Ash Strategic-initiative Team
Satellites and instruments
AIRS	Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (aboard EOS-Aqua)
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ENVISAT	Environmental Satellite (ESA); March 2002 - present
EOS-Aqua	Earth Observing System - Water & land mission (NASA); May 2002 - present
EOS-Aura	Earth Observing System - Chemistry & Climate Mission (NASA); July 2004 - present
ERS-2	European Remote Sensing satellite 2 (ESA); April 1995 - present
FRESCO	Fast Retrieval Scheme for Cloud Observables
GOME-2	Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (aboard MetOp-A)
IASI	Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (aboard MetOp-A)
OMI	Ozone Monitoring Instrument (aboard EOS-Aura)
MetOp-A	Meteorological Operational Satellite (Eumetsat); October 2006 - present
MODIS	Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MSG	Meteosat Second Generation (Eumetsat); August 2002 - present
SCIAMACHY	Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (aboard ENVISAT)
SEVIRI	Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (aboard MSG)
TOMS	Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
Other acronyms
AAI / AI	Absorbing Aerosol Index / Aerosol Index
AMF	Air-Mass Factor
AOD / AOT	Aerosol Optical Depth / Aerosol Optical Thickness
BrO	Bromine monoxide
CCF	Cloud Cover Fraction
DOAS	Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy
DU	Dobson Unit
EO	Earth Observation (as in "EO data")
HDF	Hierarchical Data Format
IDL	Interactive Data Language
IR	InfraRed
NRT	Near-Real Time
O3	Ozone
OCRA	Optical Cloud Recognition Algorithm
PDU	Product Dissemination Unit
ROCINN	Retrieval Of Cloud Information by Neural Networks
SAA	South Atlantic Anomaly
SCD	Slant Column Density
SO2	Sulphur dioxide
SZA	Solar Zenith Angle
UTC	Universal Time Coordinated
UV	UltraViolet
VCD	Vertical Column Density