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Acronyms & Letter Abbreviations


10baseT
10 Mbits/sec Baseband Twisted pair (ethernet)

AEAP
The NASA Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Project

ARC
NASA Ames Research Center

ARM
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement

ARP
Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ATHOS
Airborne Tropospheric Hydrogen Oxides Sensor

ATC
Air Traffic Control

AUI
Attachment Unit Interface [networking]

CART
Cloud and Radiation Testbed

CCD
Charged Coupled Device

CCN
Cloud Condensation Nuclei

CFD
Continuous Flow Detector

CLS
Cloud Lidar System [ER-2]

CSU
Colorado State University

CVI
Counterflow Virtual Impactor

DACOM
Differential Absorption, CO Measurement

DASI
Digital Array Scanned Interferometer

DLH
Diode Laser Hygrometer

DNS
Domain Name System/Server

DOE
Department of Energy

DSU
Data Service Unit

DRI
Desert Research Institute

ESPO
ARC Earth Science Project Office

ESSC
Earth System Science Center (Penn State Univ)

ETL
NOAA Environmental Technology Lab

FAA
Federal Aviation Administration

FIRE
First ISSCP Regional Experiment

FSSP
Forward Scattering Spectrometer Probe

FTP
File Transfer Protocol

GIF
Graphics Interchange Format

GSFC
Goddard Space Flight Center

HIS
High Resolution interferometer Sounder [ER-2]

HTML
Hyper-Text Markup Language

HTTP
Hyper-Text Transport Protocol

IFO
Intensive Field Operations

IP
Internet Protocol

ISCCP
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project

JEMS
Jet Exhaust Mass Spectrometer

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group

JPL
Jet Propulsion Lab

KSU
Kansas State University

LAN
Local Area Network

LaRC
NASA Langley Research Center

LIDAR
LIght raDAR

MAS
MODIS Airborne Simulator [ER-2]

MASP
Multiangle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe

MASS
Mobile Aerosol Sampling System [DC-8]

MAU
Media Attachment Unit [networking]

MCIDAS
Man Computer Interactive Data Access System

MIR
Microwave Imaging Radiometer [ER-2]

MMS
Meteorological Measurement System

MODIS
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ER-2]

MPEG
Moving Pictures Expert Group

MPT
MultiPort Transceiver [networking]

MSFC
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

MTP
Microwave Temperature Profiler [DC-8]

MTPE
Mission To Planet Earth

NASA
National Aeronautics & Space Administration

NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCSA
National Center for Supercomputer Applications

NFS
Network File System

NIC
Network Interface Card / Network Information Center

NSI
NASA Science Internet

NSIPO
NSI Project Office

NSSDC
NASA Space Science Data Center

PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

PCASP
Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer

PDL
Polarization Diversity Lidar

PING
Packet Internet Groper [networking]

PSCN
Program Support Communication Network

PSU
Pennsylvania State University

RAMS
Radiation Measurement System [ER-2]

RPA
Remotely Piloted Aircraft

SASS
Subsonic Assessment

SIO
Scripps Institute of Oceanography

SLN
Salina KS airport

SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SPFR
Spectral Flux Radiometer

SQE
Signal Quality Error

SRB
Surface Radiation Budget

SRI
Stanford Research Institute

SSEC
Space Sciences Engineering Center (Univ of Wisconsin)

SUCCESS
SUbsonic Contrails and Clouds Effects Special Study

TRACE
Tropospheric Aerosol Characterization Experiment

TSCC
Tilt Scan CCD Camera

UARS
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

UAV
Upper Atmosphere Vehicle / Unmanned Aerial Vechicle

UMR
University of Missouri at Rolla

UNH
University of New Hampshire

UTP
Unshielded Twisted Pair [networking]

USAF
United States Air Force

VIPS
Video Ice particle Sampler

WAN
Wide Area Network


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