Monitoring the composition of the Earth's atmosphere
Some acronyms
The names of projects, instruments and satellites are often acronyms made up
of words specifying what it is all about, while the acronyms are also meant
to sound nice. Here are those mentioned at the web pages related to my work
related to "Monitoring the composition of
the Earth's atmosphere" at the:
with links to Web sites that provide more information.
Projects and activities I have been or am involved in
(in alphabetic order)
- AMFIC
= Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting in China
- EU project: 2007 - 2009
- GlobVolcano
= GlobVolcano -
Satellite Monitoring in Support to Early Warning of Volcanic Risk
- ESA project: 2007 - 2010
- GODFIT-2
= GOME Direct Fitting - Phase B
- ESA project: 2005 - 2007
- GOME-2 TOOLS
= GOME-2 Total Column Ozone and Trace Gases Retrieval Tools
- EUMETSAT project: 2005 - 2007
- GOFAP
= GOME Ozone Fast delivery and value-Added Products
- ESA project: 1997 - 2001
- GomeCal
= Software package for GOME wavelength calibration
- part of the GOFAP project: 1998-2000
- NOVAC
= Network for Observation of Volcanic and Atmospheric Change
- EU project: 2005 - 2009
- OMI Science
= Ozone Monitoring Instrument
- NSO project: 20xx - present
- PROMOTE
= PROtocol MOniToring for the GMES Service Element
- ESA project: 2004 - 2007 (Stage I), 2007 - 2009 (Stage II)
- QA4ECV
= Quality Assurenace for Essential Climate Variables
- EU project: 2015-2018
- SACS
= Support to Aviation Control Service
- service of ESA project PROMOTE Stage II: 2007 - 2009
- continued later via ESA & EU projects
- TEMIS
= Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service
- ESA project: 2001 - 2009; website & data service continued
- TROPOMI phase C/D/E
= Troposphere Monitoring Instrument
- NSO project: 2007 - present
- Sentinel-5 level-2 prototype processor
- EUMETSAT project: 2017 - present
Satellite instruments
- GOME
= Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
- on board of :
ERS-2
=
European Remote Sensing satellite 2
- launced by : ESA
- time period : 19 April 1995
-- 5 July 2011
- SCIAMACHY
= SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for
Atmospheric CartograpHY
- on board of :
ENVISAT
=
Environmental Satellite
- launced by : ESA
- time period : 1 March 2002
-- 8 April 2012
- OMI
= Ozone Monitoring Instrument
- on board of :
EOS Aura
=
Earth Observing System (Chemistry & Climate Mission)
- launced by : NASA
- time period : 15 July 2004
-- ...
- GOME-2
= Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
- IASI
= Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
- both on board of :
three successive satellites:
MetOp
=
Meteorological Operational Satellite
- launced by : ESA
and : EUMETSAT
- time period MetOp-A : 19 Oct. 2006
-- ...
- time period MetOp-B : 17 Sep. 2012
-- ...
- time period MetOp-C : 07 Nov. 2018
-- ...
- TROPOMI
= TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument
- on board of :
GMES Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite.
- launced by : ESA
- time period : 13 Oct. 2017
-- ...
- Sentinel-5
- on board of :
Metop-SG (second generation) satellite
- launced by : EUMETSAT
- time period : 2021/22
-- ...
Institutes and organisations
- KNMI
= Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
- BIRA-IASB
= Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
- ESA
= European Space Agency
- EUMETSAT
= European Organisation for the Exploitation of
Meteorological Satellites
- DUP / DUE
= Data User Programme / Data User Element(of ESA)
- GMES
= Global Monitoring for Environment and Security,
- a joint initiative of the European Commission and ESA
- VAAC = Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre
- see the map at
VAAC London
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various other related acronyms
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