Glossary
AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
CLIMCAPS Community Long-Term Infrared Microwave Combined
Atmospheric Product System
CrIS Cross-track Infrared Sounder
DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center
DISC Data and Information Services Center
DN Data Number
ECMWF European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (UK)
EOS Earth Observing System
EOSDIS Earth Observing System Data and Information System
EU Engineering Unit
EUMETSAT European Organization for the Exploitation of
Meteorological Satellites
FOV Field of View
FOR Field of Regard
GDAAC Goddard Space Flight Center Distributed Active Archive Center
GES Goddard Earth Sciences
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
HDF Hierarchical Data Format
HIRAS Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounder
HSB Humidity Sounder for Brazil
IASI Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
IR Infrared
JPSS Joint Polar Satellite System
L1A Level 1A Data
L1B Level 1B Data
L2 Level 2 Data
L3 Level 3 Data
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MW Microwave
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PGE Product Generation Executive
PGS Product Generation System
QA Quality Assessment
RTA Radiative Transfer Algorithm
S-NPP Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership
SIPS Science Investigator-led Processing Systems
SPS Science Processing System
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Vis/NIR Visible/Near Infrared