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What does EOS stand for?

Earth Observing System


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École Ouvrière Supérieure (French; graduate school; Brussels, Belgium)
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In daily forecasts for NASA satellite missions and field campaigns, the GMAO typically runs its flagship Goddard Earth Observing System Model, Version 5 (GEOS-5) at 27-kilometer resolution.
Working with Richard Stolarski and Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, Li adapted the Goddard Earth Observing System Chemistry-Climate Model (GEOS-CCM) to examine how climate change will affect ozone recovery.
We have a very weakened Earth observing system just at a time where we need every bit of data that we could possibly get," said Elisabeth Holland, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) is responsible for capturing and managing the terabytes of data beamed down every day by 5 orbiting satellites, observing the land surface, oceans, biosphere and atmosphere of the Earth.
SORCE is a key component of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program and will carry four instruments to measure the solar radiation incident at the top of the Earth's atmosphere (640 km altitude).
The work involves the processing, archiving, and distribution of earth science data from the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, one of several distributed active archive centers NASA sponsors as part of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System.
In glowing language, sometimes more reminiscent of politics than science, the space agency calls Terra "the flagship" of its Earth Observing System (EOS)--an 18-year-long program of unprecedented scope designed to explore the planet and assess its health.
Under the SCNS contract, ITT will support NASA's Space and Near Earth Networks, which provide most of the communications and tracking services for a wide range of Earth-orbiting spacecraft, including the International Space Station, the space shuttle, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Earth Observing System satellites.

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