| 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 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
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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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| GFS | Global Forecast System |
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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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| OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
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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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| SeaDAS | SEAWIFS Data Analysis System |
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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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| SSMI | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
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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 |
