Glossary

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W X

SAGE

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment

SAM

Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement

SAR

Synthetic Aperture Radar

SCAR-A

Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation - America

SCAR-B

Smoke/Sulfates, Clouds and Radiation - Brazil

SDAC

Satelitte Data Analysis Center

SDS

Scientific Data Set
An HDF set that stores rectangular gridded arrays of floating-point and integer data together with information about the data.

SDSC

San Diego Supercomputer Center

SDSD

Satellite Data Services Division

SEAC4RS

Studies of Emissions and Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS)

Seasat

Sea Satellite

SeaWiFS

Sea-viewing Wide Fied-of-view Sensor

SEDAC

Socio-Economic Data and Applications Center

Sensor

The instruments which collect the data (e.g., VISSR, MIR).

SGI

Silicon Graphic - Iris