| AES |
Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| bpi |
bytes per inch |
| CCT |
Computer Compatible Tape |
| CDA |
Command and Data Acquisition |
| CIRA |
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere |
| CSD |
Climate Services Division |
| CSU |
Colorado State University |
| EBCDIC |
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| EUM |
European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| ESOC |
European Space Operations Centre |
| FGGE |
First GARP Global Experiment |
| FTP |
File Transfer Protocol |
| GAC |
Global Area Coverage |
| GARP |
Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| Gbytes |
Giga bytes |
| GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| GISS |
Goddard Space Flight Center Institute for Space Studies |
| GMS |
Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
| GMT |
Greenwich Mean Time |
| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| GPC |
Global Processing Center |
| HIRS/2 |
High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder/2 |
| ICA |
ISCCP Central Archive |
| ICSU |
International Council of Scientific Unions |
| IMD |
Indian Meteorological Department |
| IR |
Infrared |
| ISCCP |
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| JMA |
Japan Meteorological Agency |
| km |
kilometer |
| Mbytes |
Mega bytes |
| MSU |
Microwave Sounding Unit |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center |
| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA) |
| SAPC |
Special Area Processing Center |
| SCC |
Satellite Calibration Center |
| SI |
Watts/m2-steradian |
| SPC |
Sector Processing Center |
| SSB |
Satellite Services Branch |
| SSEC |
Space Science and Engineering Center |
| SSU |
Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| TOVS |
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator |
| UWS |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time (same as Greenwich Mean Time) |
| VIS |
Visible |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
| WV |
Water Vapor |
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