APPENDIX A
ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS, and NOTATIONS
ABLE = Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment
ACE-Asia = Aerosol Chemistry Experiment – Asia
APARE = East Asia/North Pacific Regional
Study
APT = Automatic Picture Transmission
ASCII = American Standard Code
for Information Interchange
AVHRR = Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
BIBLE = Biomass Burning
and Lightening Experiment
CCB = Configuration Change Board
CITE = Chemical Instrumentation Test
and Evaluation
C/O = Checkout
DAAC = Distributed Active Archive Center
DADS = Data Acquisition
and Distribution System
DAO = Data Assimilation Office
DAS = Data Assimilation System
DFRC = Dryden Flight Research Center
ECMWF = European Center
for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
FBO = Fixed Base Operator
FMS = Flight Management System
FRR = Flight Readiness Review
FSU = Florida State University
FTIR = Fourier Transform Infrared
spectrometer
GPS = Global Positioning System
GSFC = Goddard Space Flight Center
GTE = Global Tropospheric Experiment
HKO = Hong Kong Observatory
HKPU = Hong Kong Polytechnic University
ICATS
= Information Collection and Transmission System
INMARSAT = International Mobile Satellite
Organization
INU = Inertial Navigation Unit
IR = Infrared
IRIG = Inter-Range Instrumentation Group
JMA = Japan Meteorological Agency
LaRC = Langley Research Center
McIDAS = Man computer Interactive Data Access System
MIT = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MOPITT = Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere
N/A = Not Applicable/Not Available
NAS = Numerical Aerospace Simulator
NASA = National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
NASDA = National Space Development Agency
of Japan
NMS = Navigational Management System
NOAA = National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
N/R = Not Required
NRA = NASA Research Announcement
NTU = National Taiwan University
ORR = Operational Readiness Review
PC = Personal Computer
PDS = Project Data System
PEACE = Pacific Exploration
of Asian Continental Emission
PEM-Tropics = Pacific Exploratory Mission-Tropics
PEM-West = Pacific Exploratory Mission-West
PI = Principal Investigator
SDS = Serial Data System
SHADOZ - Southern
Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes
TBD = To Be Determined
TRACE-A = Transport
and Atmospheric Chemistry near the Equator
- Atlantic
TRACE-P = Transport
and Chemical Evolution – Pacific
UT = Universal Time
UTC = Coordinated Universal Time
UV = Ultraviolet
VDS = Video Distribution System
WFF = Wallops Flight Facility
WWW = World Wide Web
YAB = Yokota Air Base
