J

JCMM Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology
JEOS Japanese Earth Observing Satellite
JEM Japanese Experiment Module
JERS-1 Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite-1
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP programme)
JMA Japan Meteorological Agency
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPOP Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform
JSC Johnson Space Center


K


K kelvin, unit of thermodynamic temperature (the number of
kelvins equals the number of degrees Celsius plus 273.15,
i.e., tK=tdegree C +273.15)
kbps kilobits per second
keV kilo electron volts
kg kilogram
kHz kilohertz
kJ kilojoule (energy measure)
km kilometer
KNMI Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
(Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)
kW kilowatt


L


LAC Local Area Coverage
LACTOZ Laboratory Studies of Chemistry Related to Tropospheric Ozone
(EUROTRAC)
LAGEOS Laser Geodynamics Satellite
LAMBADA Large Scale Atmospheric Moisture Balance of Amazonia using
Data Assimilation (BAHC/GEWEX)
Landsat Land Remote Sensing Satellite
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LaRC Langley Research Center
LAWS Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder
LEFI Local Electric Field Instrument
LERTS Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetection
Spatiale (France)
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging Instrument
LIMS Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere
LIS Lightning Imaging Sensor
LITE Lidar In-space Technology Experiment
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LOICZ Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
LR Laser Retroreflector
LRA Laser Retroreflector Array
LRPT Low-resolution Picture Transmission
LWIR Long-Wavelength (Thermal) Infrared

M


m metre
Magsat Magnetic Field Satellite
MAESA Measurements for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft
MAHLOVS Middle and High Latitudes Oceanic Variability Study
MAP Mesoscale Alpine Programme
MAPS Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution from Satellites
mb millibar
Mbps megabits per second
MCC Mission Control Center
McIDAS Man-computer Interactive Data Access System
MCP Meteorological Communications Package, direct broadcast of
operational data
MEPED Medium Energy Proton & Electron Detector
MERIS Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
MESSR Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer
METEOR USSR Operational Weather Satellite
METEOSAT Geosynchronous Meteorology Satellite (ESA)
MeV mega electron volts
MF/MAGNOLIA Magnetic Field Experiment
MHS Microwave Humidity Sounder
MIMR Multi-frequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer
MIPAS Michelson Interferometric Passive Atmosphere Sounder
MISR Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MITI Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan)
MLOPEX Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder
mm millimetre
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MODIS-N Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Nadir
MODIS-T Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer-Tilt
MOHMATN Met Office Historical night Marine Air Temperature
MOHSST Met Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
MOPITT Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
MOS-1 Marine Observation Satellite (Japan)
MOZIAC Measurement of Ozone on Airbus in-service Aircraft
MPE Mission to Planet Earth
MPI Max Planck Institut (Germany)
MPIA Max Planck Institut für Aeronomie (Germany)
MPIC Max Planck Institut für Chemie (Germany)
MRF Met Office Research Flight
MRI Meteorlogical Research Institute (Japan)
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
MSLP Mean Sea Level Pressure
MSS Multispectral Scanner (Landsat)
MSU Microwave Sounding Unit
MST Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere (Radar)
MTPE Mission to Planet Earth
MTS Microwave Temperature Sounder
MWIR Medium-Wavelength Infrared

N

N2O nitrous oxide
N2O5 nitrogen pentoxide
NACNEMS North American Cooperative Network of Enhanced Measurement Sites
NAD Nitric Acid Dihydrate
NAEI National Atmospheric Emission Inventory (UK)
NAS National Academy of Sciences (US)
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
NASCOM NASA Communications Network
NASDA National Space Development Agency of Japan
NAT Nitric Acid Trihydrate
NBIOME Northern Biosphere Observation and Modeling Experiment
NBIS Northern Biosphere Information System
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research (US)
NCC Network Control Center
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
NDSC Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change
NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NERC Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information
Service (NOAA US)
NETC National Environmental Technology Centre (UK)
NH3 ammonia
NH Northern Hemisphere
Nimbus NASA Meteorological Satellites (1 through 7)
NILU Norsk institutt for luftforskning
(Norwegian Institute for Air Research)
NIR Near Infrared
NIST National Institute of Standards & Technology (US)
NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand
nm nanometer
NMC National Meteorological Center (US)
NO nitric oxide
NO2 nitrogen dioxide, nitrogen peroxide
NO3 nitrate radical
NOx nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2, NO3)
NOy total active nitrogen
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
NODS NASA Ocean Data
NODIS NSSDC Online Data and Information System Services System
NORDA Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity
NOSS National Oceanic Satellite System
NPOP NASA Polar Orbiting Platform
NRC National Research Council (Canada)
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NSC Norwegian Space Center
NSCAT NASA Scatterometer
NSF National Science Foundation (US)
NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center (US)
NSSDC National Space Science Data Center (US)
NSTS National Space Transportation System
NWP numerical weather prediction
NWS National Weather Service (US)

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O


O2 (normal) molecular oxygen
O3 ozone
Ox odd oxygen (O+O3)
OClO chlorine dioxide
OCCM Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
OCTS Japanese Ocean Color Temperature Scanner
ODP Ozone Depletion Potential
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris)
OH hydroxyl radical
OLS Optical Line Scanner
ONR Office of Naval Research
OPS Optical Sensor
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OSSA Office of Space Science and Applications (NASA HQ)
OST Office of Science and Technology
OSU Oregon State University

P

PAGES Past Global Changes
PBL
PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
PEM Particle Environment Monitor
PI Principal Investigator
PMC Pressure-Modulator Cell
PMIR Pressure Modulator Infrared Radiometer
PMR Pressure Modulator Radiometer
POEM Polar-Orbiting Earth Mission (ESA)
POEMS Positron Electron Magnetic Spectrometer
POES Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite
POGO Polar-Orbiting Geophysical Observatory
POLDER Polarization and Directionality of Reflectances
POLES Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface
ppb parts per billion
ppm parts per million
PPR Photopolarimeter Radiometer
ppt parts per trillion
PR Precipitation Radar
PRARE Precise Range and Rate Equipment
PRAREE Precise Range and Rate Equipment-Extended Version
PRF Pulse Repetition Frequency
PSC Polar Stratospheric Cloud
PV potential vorticity

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Q

QBO Quasi-Biennial Oscillation


R

rms root-mean-square
rpm revolutions per minute
rss root-sum-square
RA Radar Altimeter
Radarsat Canadian Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite
RAF Radiation Amplification Factor
RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
RF Radio Frequency
RIS Reflector In Space (laser beam absorption)
RMS Royal Meteorological Society

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S

SAFARI Southern African Fire-Atmosphere Research Initiative (BIBEX)
SAFIRE Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere Using Far Infrared Emission
SAFISY Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (1992)
SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (I, II and III)
SAM Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement
SAMS Stratospheric and Mesopheric Sounder
SAO Semi Annual Oscillation
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SARSAT Search and Rescue Satellite
SAT Sulphuric Acid Tetrahydrate
SBUV Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (radiometer)
SCANSCAT Scanning Scatterometer
SCARABE Scanning Radiation Budget Experiment
SCATT Scatterometer
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for
Atmospheric Charto (sic)
SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
SCOR Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Research
Seasat Sea Satellite
SeaStar Spacecraft flying SeaWiFS
SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensors second
SEC Science Executive Committee of the IWG
SEM Space Environment Monitor
SERC Science and Engineering Research Council
SESAME Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Middle Latitude Experiment
S-GCOS Space-based Global Change Observation System
SH Southern Hemisphere
SI Solar Influences
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SIR Spaceborne Imaging Radar
SIR-C Shuttle Imaging Radar-C
SISEX Shuttle Imaging Spectrometer Experiment
SLIES Stratospheric Limb Infrared Emission Spectrometer
SME Solar Mesosphere Explorer
SMM Stratosphere Mesosphere Model
SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SMS/GOES Synchronous Meteorological Satellite/Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite
SNR Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SO2 sulfur dioxide
SO4 sulfate radical
SOAPEX Southern Ocean Atmospheric Photochemistry EXperiment
SORG Stratospheric Ozone Review Group
SOLSTICE Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment
SPADE Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics Expedition
SPAN Space Physics Analysis Network
SPARC Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate
SPE Solar Proton Event
SPIE Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
SPOT Systeme pour l'Observation de la Terre (France)
SPSO Science Processing Support Office
SRB Surface Radiation Budget
SSALT Solid-State radar Altimeter
SSBUV Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet radiometer
SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
SST Sea Surface Temperature
STA Science and Technology Agency (Japan)
STE Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
STEP Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project
STERAO Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments: Radiation, Aerosols, and Ozone
stp standard temperature and pressure
STRATOZ Stratospheric Ozone Expedition
STREAM Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiment by Aircraft Measurements
SUNY State University of New York
SUSIM Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor
SWIR Short-Wavelength Infrared
SWIRLS Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder
SZA Solar Zenith Angle

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T

TDRSS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
TED Total Energy Detector
TERSE Tunable Etalon Remote Sounder of Earth
TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
TGT TDRSS Ground Terminal
TIR Thermal Infrared
TIROS Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
TM Thematic Mapper (Landsat), or Team Member
TMI TRMM Microwave Imager
TMR TOPEX Microwave Radiometer
TOASTE Transport of Ozone and Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange
TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
TOGA/COARE TOGA/Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOMUIS 3-D Ozone Mapping with Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer
TOPEX/Poseidon Ocean Topography Experiment (U.S. -France)
TOR Tropospheric Ozone Research (EUROTRAC)
TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
TRACT Transport of Pollutants over Complex Terrain (EUROTRAC)
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (U.S.-Japan)
TROPOZ Tropospheric Ozone Expedition

U

US United States
UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UCD University of California, Davis
UCI University of California, Irvine
UCLA University of California, Los Angeles
UCSB University of California, Santa Barbara
UEA University of East Anglia
UGAMP Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UK United Kingdom
UKMO United Kingdom Meteorological Office
UM Unified Model
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(June 3-14, 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
UNEP United Nations Environment Program
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
URGENT Urban ReGeneration and the ENvironmenT
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USFS United States Forest Service
USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
USGS United States Geological Survey
UTC Universal Time, Coordinated
UTLS Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere
UV Ultraviolet
UWERN University WEather Research Network

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V

VAS VISSR Atmospheric Sounder (GOES)
VHF Very High Frequency
VIRS Visible Infrared Scanner
VIRSR Visible Infrared Scanning Radiometer
VIRTEM Validation of IASI Radiative Transfer: Experiments and Modelling
VIS Visible
VISSR Visible/Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer (GOES)
VNIR Visible and Near Infrared
VOC Volatile Organic Compound

W

W watt
WBDCS Wide-Band Data Collection System
WCRP World Climate Research Program
WDC World Data Centre (ICSU)
WEFAX Weather Facsimile (via geosynchronous weather satellites)
WETNET Network for Distribution and Joint Analysis of SSM/I Data (MSFC)
WFOV Wide Field of View
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WINDII Wind Imaging Interferometer
WMO World Meteorological Organization
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WWW World Weather Watch
WWW World Wide Web

X

XIE X-ray Imaging Experiment
X-SAR X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar

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All seniors please tell me, given below these abbreviations and Units exact and actual.
Abbreviation
1. LASER
2. SONAR
3. LCD
4. MASER
5. RADAR
6. CCTV
7. SIM
8. I.C.U
9. BCG
10. AIDS
11. NTP
12. SARS
13. RQ
14. NPN
15. ATP
16. PNP
17. MAF
18. CRO
19. BOT
20. AMU
21. EMF
22. ADH
23. CRT
24. TNT
25. GUT
26. CNS
27. PTFE
28. LDL
29. MeV
30. AWACS
31. LORAN
32. DVD
33. VCD
34. USB
Units & Quantity
1. Faraday
2. Curie
3. Light year
4. Degree
5. Erg
6. Slug
7. Foot Pound

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Abbreviation
1. LASER (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation)
2. SONAR (sound navigation and ranging)
3. LCD (liquid crystal display)
4. MASER (Microwave Amplification by Stimulation Emission of Radiation)
5. RADAR (RADIO detecting and ranging)
6. CCTV (CLOSED circuit television)
7. SIM (Subscriber Identity Module)
8. I.C.U (intensive care unit)
9. BCG (bacillus of celmette and guerin)
10. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
11. NTP (network time protocol)
12. SARS (Severe acute respiratory syndrome)
13. RQ (Respiratory quotient)
14. NPN (negative-positive-negative) transistor
15. ATP (alternate to practical)
16. PNP (Positive-negative-positive)transistor
17. MAF (Minor allele frequency)Genetics
18. CRO (CLINICAL research organization)
19. BOT (built operate and transfer)
20. AMU (ATOMIC MASS UNIT)
21. EMF (ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE)
22. ADH (Alcohol dehydrogenase)
23. CRT (cathode ray tube)
24. TNT (tri-nitro-toluene)high explosive
25. GUT (Grand Unified Theory)
26. CNS (chief of the naval staff)
27. PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene)
28. LDL (Low-density lipoprotein)
29. MeV (megaelectron volT)
30. AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System)
31. LORAN (LOng RAnge Navigation)
32. DVD (digital video disk)
33. VCD (VIDEO compact disk)
34. USB (universal serial bus)
Units & Quantity
1. Faraday (UNIT OF ELECTRICAL CHARGE)
2. Curie (unit of radioactivity)
3. Light year (unit of distance)
4. Degree (unit of rotations and angels)
5. Erg (unit of energy and mechanical work)
6. Slug (unit of mass associated with Imperial units)
7. Foot Pound(unit of torque (a vector)

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Truly,you are praiseworthy and glorious.

@ above !!!!

CNS( central nerves system) ......chief of naval staff is also ryt.....

but i think our answers should be science related !!!!!

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