Acronym | Word or Phrase Acronym Stands For |
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°C | Degrees Celsius |
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△ | Change |
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AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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ACDD | Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery |
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ACS | American Chemical Society |
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ADPS | Aquarius Data Processing System |
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ADVICE | Aquarius Data Visualization, Interpretation, Communication & Engagement |
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AETD | Applied Engineering & Technology Directorate |
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AGU | American Geophysical Union |
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AICB | Aquarius Instrument Connector Bracket |
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AMOC | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
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AMS | American Meteorological Society |
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AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS |
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AR | Augmented Reality |
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ARC | Aerospace Research Central |
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ASI | Agenzia Spaziale Italiana |
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ATBD | Algorithm Theoreotical Basis Document |
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ATC | Active Thermal Control |
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AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
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BEC | Barcelona Expert Center |
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BEC | Barcelona Expert Center |
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BT | Brightness Temperature |
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Cal/Val | Calibration/Validation |
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CAP | Combined Active Passive |
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CCMP | Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform |
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CF | Climate Forecast |
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CINDY | Cooperative Indian Ocean Experiment on Intraseasonal Variability |
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CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability |
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CMC | Canadian Meteorological Center |
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CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
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CMORPH | CPC MORPHing technique |
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CMS | Catalina Marine Society |
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CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
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CO2 | Carbon Dioxide |
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CONAE | Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales |
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COSEE-OS | COSEE-Ocean Systems |
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CryoSat | Cryogenic Satellite |
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CUSS | Customer User Segment Service |
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DCS | Data Collection System |
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DPU | Digital Processing Unit |
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DR | Deflection Ratio |
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DTIC | Defense Technical Information Center |
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DYNAMO | Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation |
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E | Evaporation |
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ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
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EDT | Eastern Daylight Time |
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EGU | European Geoscience Union General Assembly |
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ENN | Environmental News Network |
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ENSO | El Niño/Southern Oscillation |
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EOS | NASA's Earth Observing System |
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EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
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EOSDIS Data Processing Levels | Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data products are processed at various levels |
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EOSPSO | EOS Project Science Office |
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EPO | Education and Public Outreach |
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ESR | Earth & Space Research |
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ESSP | Earth System Science Pathfinder |
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FAQs | Frequently Asked Questions |
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FOT | Flight Operations Team |
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FPPD | Flight Program & Projects Directorate |
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FSW | Scatterometer Flight SoftWare |
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FT | Feet |
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GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System |
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GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Exchanges |
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GHRSST | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
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GHz | Gigahertz |
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GLDAS | Global Land Data Assimilation System |
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GMF | Geophysical Model Function |
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GoM | Gulf of Mexico |
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GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
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GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
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GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
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HiTIDE | High-level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction |
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HSC | High Sensitivity Camera |
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HYCOM | Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
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ICDS | Instrument Control and Data System |
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IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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IFREMER | Français de Recherche Pour l'Exploitation de la Mer |
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IGARSS | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
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IGS | International GPS Service for Geodynamics |
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IMERG | Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM |
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INPE | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
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IONEX | IONosphere Map EXchange |
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IPRC | International Pacific Research Center |
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IR | Inter-Research Science Center |
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ISPRS | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
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ITCZ | Inter Tropical Convergence Zone |
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JCOPE2 | Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment |
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JGR | Journal of Geophysical Research |
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JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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JSTARS | Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing |
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KFAS | Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences |
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KM | Kilometer |
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L0 | EOSDIS Data Level 0 - Reconstructed, unprocessed instrument and payload data at full resolution, with any and all communications artifacts (e.g., synchronization frames, communications headers, duplicate data) removed. |
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L1 | EOSDIS Data Level 1 - Reconstructed, unprocessed instrument data at full resolution, time-referenced, and annotated with ancillary information, including radiometric and geometric calibration coefficients and georeferencing parameters |
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L2 | EOSDIS Data Level 2 - Derived geophysical variables at the same resolution and location as Level 1 source data. |
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L3 | EOSDIS Data Level 3 - Variables mapped on uniform space-time grid scales, usually with some completeness and consistency. |
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L4 | EOSDIS Data Level 4 - Model output or results from analyses of lower-level data (e.g., variables derived from multiple measurements). |
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LAS | Live Access Server |
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LC | Loop Current |
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LDM | Lower Deployment Mechanism |
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LIT-INPE | Laboratório de Integração e Testes - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
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LOCEAN | Laboratory of Oceanography and Climatology |
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LPT | Limited Performance Test |
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LVA | Launch Vehicle Adapter |
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M | Meters |
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MC | Maritime Continent |
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MDPI | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
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MERRA | Modern-era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications |
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MicroRad | Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment |
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MinCyT | Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovative Production |
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MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
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MOM | Modular Ocean Model |
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MWR | Microwave Radiometer |
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NAAEE | North American Association for Environmental Education |
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NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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NASA SeaDAS | NASA SeaDAS is a comprehensive software package for processing, display, analysis, and quality control of remote-sensing Earth data, and the official distribution point of the NASA OBPG Science Softwar |
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NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
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NECC | North Equatorial Counter Current |
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NEO | NASA Earth Observations |
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netCDF | Network Common Data Form |
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NGSS | Next Generation Science Standards |
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NIOST | Northern Indian Ocean Salt Transport |
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NIRST | New Infrared Sensor Technology |
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NMM3D | Numerical Maxwell's Model in 3-D |
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NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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NSES | National Science Education Standards |
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NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
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NSPIRES | NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System |
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OAFlux | Objectively Analyzed air-sea Fluxes |
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OCO | Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
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ODPS | Ocean Data Processing System |
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OI | Optimum Interpolation |
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OISSS | Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity |
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OLS | Ocean Literacy Standards |
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OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
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OSCAR | Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Real time |
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OSI SAF | Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility |
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OSM | Ocean Sciences Meeting |
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OSST | Ocean Salinity Science Team |
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P | Precipitation |
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PALS | Passive-Active L- and S-band |
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PDF | Portable Document Format |
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PDT | Pacific Daylight Time |
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PI | Principal Investigator |
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Pi-MEP | Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform |
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PLAR | Post Launch Assessment Review |
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PO.DAAC | Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
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PODAAC-WS | PODAAC Web Service |
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PSS | Practical Salinity Scale |
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PSU | Practical Salinity Units |
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RAMA | Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction |
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RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
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RIM | Rain Impact Model |
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RMetS | Royal Meteorological Society |
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RSS | Remote Sensing Systems |
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RTU | Remote Terminal Unit |
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S-max | Salinity maximum |
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S/P | Service Platform |
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SAC | Satellite for Scientific Applications |
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SARAL | Satellite with Argos and Altika |
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SCP | Salinity Continuity Project |
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SEATS | SouthEast Asian Time-series Study |
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SISS | Satellite & In Situ Salinity |
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SMAP | Soil Moisture Active/Passive |
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SMOS | Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity |
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SODA | Simple Ocean Data Assimilation |
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SOTO | State of the Ocean |
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Sp | Practical salinity |
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SPCZ | South Pacific Convergence Zone |
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SPURS | Salinity Processes in the upper Ocean Regional Study |
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SSPA | Solid State Power Amplifier |
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SSS | Sea Surface Salinity |
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SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
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STEM | Science, Technology, Math and Engineering |
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STUW | Subtropical Underwater |
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SVS | Scientific Visualization Studio |
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SWC | Salinity Wind Cell |
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SWPC | Space Weather Prediction Center |
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TB | Brightness Temperature |
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TEC | Total Electron Content |
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THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
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TIW | Tropical Instability Wave |
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TOPAZ | Tracking Operation Pre-Amplifier Zone |
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TOPEX | Ocean Topography Experiment |
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TOS | The Oceanography Society |
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TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
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UDM | Upper Deployment Mechanism |
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USDS | United States Department of State |
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UT | Universal Time |
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V | Version |
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VAFB | Vandenberg Air Force Base |
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VC-HS | Visibly Clean - Highly Sensitive |
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VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
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WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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WOD | World Ocean Database |
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WSPD | Wind Speed |