| Acronym | Word or Phrase Acronym Stands For |
|---|
| °C | Degrees Celsius |
| △ | Change |
| AAAS | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| ACDD | Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery |
| ACS | American Chemical Society |
| ADPS | Aquarius Data Processing System |
| ADVICE | Aquarius Data Visualization, Interpretation, Communication & Engagement |
| AETD | Applied Engineering & Technology Directorate |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AICB | Aquarius Instrument Connector Bracket |
| AMOC | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS |
| AR | Augmented Reality |
| ARC | Aerospace Research Central |
| ASI | Agenzia Spaziale Italiana |
| ATBD | Algorithm Theoreotical Basis Document |
| ATC | Active Thermal Control |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BT | Brightness Temperature |
| Cal/Val | Calibration/Validation |
| CAP | Combined Active Passive |
| CF | Climate Forecast |
| CINDY | Cooperative Indian Ocean Experiment on Intraseasonal Variability |
| CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability |
| CMC | Canadian Meteorological Center |
| CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
| CMORPH | CPC MORPHing technique |
| CMS | Catalina Marine Society |
| CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
| CO2 | Carbon Dioxide |
| CONAE | Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales |
| COSEE-OS | COSEE-Ocean Systems |
| CryoSat | Cryogenic Satellite |
| CUSS | Customer User Segment Service |
| DCS | Data Collection System |
| DPU | Digital Processing Unit |
| DR | Deflection Ratio |
| DTIC | Defense Technical Information Center |
| DYNAMO | Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation |
| E | Evaporation |
| EDT | Eastern Daylight Time |
| EGU | European Geoscience Union General Assembly |
| ENN | Environmental News Network |
| ENSO | El Niño/Southern Oscillation |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
| EOSPSO | EOS Project Science Office |
| EPO | Education and Public Outreach |
| ESR | Earth & Space Research |
| ESSP | Earth System Science Pathfinder |
| FAQs | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FOT | Flight Operations Team |
| FPPD | Flight Program & Projects Directorate |
| FSW | Scatterometer Flight SoftWare |
| FT | Feet |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Exchanges |
| GHRSST | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
| GHz | Gigahertz |
| GLDAS | Global Land Data Assimilation System |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| HSC | High Sensitivity Camera |
| HYCOM | Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
| ICDS | Instrument Control and Data System |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IFREMER | Français de Recherche Pour l'Exploitation de la Mer |
| IGARSS | International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |
| INPE | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
| IPRC | International Pacific Research Center |
| IR | Inter-Research Science Center |
| ISPRS | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing |
| ITCZ | Inter Tropical Convergence Zone |
| JCOPE2 | Japan Coastal Ocean Predictability Experiment |
| JGR | Journal of Geophysical Research |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JSTARS | Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing |
| KFAS | Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences |
| KM | Kilometer |
| L2 | Level 2 |
| L2B | Level 2B |
| L3 | Level 3 |
| LAS | Live Access Server |
| LC | Loop Current |
| LDM | Lower Deployment Mechanism |
| LIT-INPE | Laboratório de Integração e Testes - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
| LPT | Limited Performance Test |
| LVA | Launch Vehicle Adapter |
| M | Meters |
| MDPI | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute |
| MERRA | Modern-era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications |
| MicroRad | Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment |
| MinCyT | Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovative Production |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOM | Modular Ocean Model |
| MWR | Microwave Radiometer |
| NAAEE | North American Association for Environmental Education |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NECC | North Equatorial Counter Current |
| NEO | NASA Earth Observations |
| netCDF | Network Common Data Form |
| NGSS | Next Generation Science Standards |
| NIOST | Northern Indian Ocean Salt Transport |
| NIRST | New Infrared Sensor Technology |
| NMM3D | Numerical Maxwell's Model in 3-D |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NSES | National Science Education Standards |
| NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
| NSPIRES | NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System |
| OAFlux | Objectively Analyzed air-sea Fluxes |
| OCO | Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
| OI | Optimum Interpolation |
| OISSS | Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity |
| OLS | Ocean Literacy Standards |
| OPeNDAP | Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
| OSCAR | Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Real time |
| OSM | Ocean Sciences Meeting |
| OSST | Ocean Salinity Science Team |
| P | Precipitation |
| PALS | Passive-Active L- and S-band |
| PDF | Portable Document Format |
| PDT | Pacific Daylight Time |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| PLAR | Post Launch Assessment Review |
| PO.DAAC | Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
| PODAAC-WS | PODAAC Web Service |
| PSS | Practical Salinity Scale |
| PSU | Practical Salinity Units |
| RAMA | Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference |
| RIM | Rain Impact Model |
| RMetS | Royal Meteorological Society |
| RSS | Remote Sensing Systems |
| RTU | Remote Terminal Unit |
| S-max | Salinity maximum |
| S/P | Service Platform |
| SAC | Satellite for Scientific Applications |
| SARAL | Satellite with Argos and Altika |
| SEATS | SouthEast Asian Time-series Study |
| SISS | Satellite & In Situ Salinity |
| SMAP | Soil Moisture Active/Passive |
| SMOS | Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity |
| SODA | Simple Ocean Data Assimilation |
| SOTO | State of the Ocean |
| Sp | Practical salinity |
| SPCZ | South Pacific Convergence Zone |
| SPURS | Salinity Processes in the upper Ocean Regional Study |
| SSPA | Solid State Power Amplifier |
| SSS | Sea Surface Salinity |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| STEM | Science, Technology, Math and Engineering |
| STUW | Subtropical Underwater |
| SVS | Scientific Visualization Studio |
| THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
| TIW | Tropical Instability Wave |
| TOPAZ | Tracking Operation Pre-Amplifier Zone |
| TOPEX | Ocean Topography Experiment |
| TOS | The Oceanography Society |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
| UDM | Upper Deployment Mechanism |
| USDS | United States Department of State |
| UT | Universal Time |
| V | Version |
| VAFB | Vandenberg Air Force Base |
| VC-HS | Visibly Clean - Highly Sensitive |
| VIIRS | Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| WSPD | Wind Speed |
