Acronyms

ACE: Arctic Collaborative Environment

ART: Astronomical Rontgen Telescope

AXP: Anomalous X-ray Pulsar

BATSE: Burst and Transient Source Experiment

CLASP: Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha SpectroPolarimeter

CLASP-2: Chromospheric Layer Spectropolarimeter-2

CSPAR: Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research

CREST: Coupled Routing and Excess Storage

DEVELOP: NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences Training and Development

DMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DoD: Department of Defense

EOS: Earth Observing System

FOXSI: Focusing X-ray Solar Imager

GBM: Gamma-ray Burst Monitor

GLAST: Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

GLM: Geostationary Lightning Mapper

GMAO: Global Modeling and Assimilation Office

GMS: Geostationary Meteorological Satellite

GOES: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement

HERO: High Energy Replicated Optics

Hi-C: High-Resolution Coronal Imager

HIRAD: Hurricane Imaging Radiometer

HRD: Hurricane Research Division

HST: Hubble Space Telescope

IDC: Interplanetary Dust cloud

INTEGRAL: International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory

IPN: Interplanetary Network

IS: Interstellar

ISERV: International Space Station (ISS)/SERVIR Environmental Research and Visualization System

ISM: Interstellar Medium

ISS: International Space Station

IXPE: Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

JCSDA: Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

JEM: Japanese Experiment Module

JEM-EUSO: Japanese Experiment Module-Extreme Universe Space Observatory

LAT: Large Area Telescope

LCLU: Land  Cover/Land Use

LIP: Lightning Instrument Package

LIS: Lightning Imaging Sensor

LMA: Lightning Mapping Array

LST: Land Surface Temperature

MaGIXS: Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrography

MC3E: Midlatitude Continental and Convective Clouds Experiment

MERRA: Modern-Era Analysis for Research and Applications

 

 

 

MODIS: Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

MSG: Meteosat Second Generation

MVP: Mars Variable Pressure

NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research

NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NEXRAD: National Weather Service Next Generation Radar

NLCD: National Land Cover Database

NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NSSTC: National Space Science and Technology Center

NWS: National Weather Service

ODC: Optimal Deconvolution

PREAM: Pollen Regional Atmospheric Model

R&A: Research and Analysis

R&D: Research and Development

ROSES: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science

RTMM: Real Time Mission Monitor

S-Z: Sunyaev-Zel'dovitch

SAO: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

SEM: Scanning Electron Microscope

SGR: Soft Gamma Repeater

SWEAP: Solar Wind Electrons, Alphas and Protons

SRAG: Space Radiation Analysis Group at Johnson Space Center

SSM/I: Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

SRG: Spectrum-Rontgen-Gamma

SFMR: Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer

SERVIR: Means "To Serve" Serves as the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System

SPIE: International Society for Optics and Photonics

SPoRT: Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center

SPORT: Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task

SRPD: Science Research and Projects Division

TIP: Technology Investment Program

TMI: TRMM Microwave Imager

TRMM: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

USAID: U.S. Agency for international Development

USRA: Universities Space Research Association

UAB: University of Alabama in Birmingham

UAH: University of Alabama in Huntsville

UTSI: University of Tennessee Space Institute

UAS: Unmanned Aerial System

UHI: Urban Heat Island

VUV: Vacuum Ultraviolet

VCSI: Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation

WFO: Weather Forecast Office

WRF: Weather Research and Forecast

XRCF: X-ray and Cryogenics Facility

 

 

 

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