APPENDIX_A.TXT A.U. Astronomical Unit ADCS Attitude Determination and Control System http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/lib/ADCS.html Ap geomagnetic activity index C&DH Command and Data Handling processor http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/lib/CDH.html CDF Common Data Format http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cdf/ CGM Corrected Geo Magnetic http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/cgm/cgm.html cm centimeter doy Day Of Year (1 through 366) F10.7 10.7 cm radio flux HCI Horizon Crossing Indicator http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/lib/ADCS.html IDL Interactive Data Language http://www.rsinc.com km kilometer LASP Laboratory For Atmospheric and Space Physics http://lasp.colorado.edu L1/2/3/4/5 Level One/Two/etc. data products from SNOE see PROCESSING.TXT, FILE_USAGE.TXT LOS Loss of Signal m meters mW milliWatts NCDF network Common Data Format http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ NO Nitric Oxide nm nanometer NSSDC National Space Science Data Center http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov p photon PMC Polar Mesospheric Cloud S/C Spacecraft sec second (time unit) SNOE Student Nitric Oxide Explorer http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/ SNR Signal to Noise Ratio SXP Solar X-ray Photometer http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/lib/instruments.html#SXP URL Universal Resource Locator (a web address) UTC Universal Coordinated Time UVS Ultraviolet Spectrometer http://lasp.colorado.edu/snoe/lib/instruments.html#UVS YYYYDDD A date format, Year Day-of-Year (January 1, 1998 = 1998001)