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ACF ARM Central Facility AGL Above Ground Level ARESE ARM Enhanced Shortwave Experiment ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASL Above Sea Level AST ARM Science Team or ARESE Science Team ASTEX Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer CAGEX CERES/ARM/GEWEX Experiment CART Cloud and Radiation Testbed CEPEX Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System CF Central Facility COADS Comprehensive Ocean and Atmosphere Data Set COARE Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center EF Extended Facility ENSO El Nino/Southern Oscillation EOS Earth Observing System EOSDIS EOS Data and Information System EOSP Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment ERBS Earth Radiation Budget Satellite EROS Earth Resources Observation System FIRE First ISCCP Regional Experiment GCM General Circulation Model GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GMT Greenwich Mean Time GOES Geostationary Operational Environment Satellite GPS Global Positioning System GTE GlobalTropospheric Experiment HALOE Halogen Occultation Experiment HBTM Hybrid Bispectral Threshold Method IFO Intensive Field Observation IGARSS International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IOP Intensive Observing Period IR Infrared ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project LBTM Layer Bispectral Threshold Method MAPS Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites McIDAS Man-Computer Interactive Display System MISR Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer MONEX Monsoon Experiment MOPITT Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere NSA North Slope of Alaska SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment SAM Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement SASS Subsonic Assessment SCAR Smoke, Clouds and Radiation SCARAB Scanner for the Radiation Budget SCM Single Column Model SDS Site Data System SGP Southern Great Plains SRB Surface Radiation Budget SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager SUCCESS Subsonic Contrails and Clouds Effects Special Study SZA Solar Zenith Angle TES Tropical Emission Spectrometer TIROS Television Infrared Observational Satellite TISA Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging TM Thematic Mapper TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder TWP Tropical Western Pacific UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite UAV Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle UT Universal Time VISSR Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer VZA Viewing Zenith Angle WCRP World Climate Research Program WFOV Wide Field of View
ANL Argonne National Laboratory ARC Ames Research Center AS&M Analytical Services & Materials, Inc. BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory DOE Department of Energy EDC EROS Data Center GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory LaRC Langley Research Center LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NCDC National Climatic Data Center NMC National Meteorological Center NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NODC National Ocean Data Center NREL Natioanl Renewable Energy Laboratory NSF National Science Foundation ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory PNL Pacific Northwest National Laboratory SAIC Science Applications International Corporation SNL Sandia National Laboratory UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research WMO World Meteorological Organization
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The ARM Program Acronyms and Abbreviations page may be found here. If you are desperate to find an acronym not listed above, try the NOAA Ocean Science-Related Acronyms (OSRA) page.