Acronym | Word or Phrase Acronym Stands For |
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°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 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
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 |
BEC | Barcelona Expert Center |
BEC | Barcelona Expert Center |
BT | Brightness Temperature |
Cal/Val | Calibration/Validation |
CAP | Combined Active Passive |
CCMP | Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform |
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 |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
EDT | Eastern Daylight Time |
EGU | European Geoscience Union General Assembly |
ENN | Environmental News Network |
ENSO | El Niño/Southern Oscillation |
EOS | NASA's Earth Observing System |
EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
EOSDIS Data Processing Levels | Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data products are processed at various levels, from 0 to 4 |
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 |
GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System |
GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Exchanges |
GFS | Global Forecast System |
GHRSST | Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
GHz | Gigahertz |
GLDAS | Global Land Data Assimilation System |
GMF | Geophysical Model Function |
GoM | Gulf of Mexico |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
HiTIDE | High-level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction |
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 |
IGS | International GPS Service for Geodynamics |
IMERG | Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM |
INPE | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
IONEX | IONosphere Map EXchange |
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 |
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. |
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 |
L2 | EOSDIS Data Level 2 - Derived geophysical variables at the same resolution and location as Level 1 source data. |
L3 | EOSDIS Data Level 3 - Variables mapped on uniform space-time grid scales, usually with some completeness and consistency. |
L4 | EOSDIS Data Level 4 - Model output or results from analyses of lower-level data (e.g., variables derived from multiple measurements). |
LAS | Live Access Server |
LC | Loop Current |
LDM | Lower Deployment Mechanism |
LIT-INPE | Laboratório de Integração e Testes - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais |
LOCEAN | Laboratory of Oceanography and Climatology |
LPT | Limited Performance Test |
LVA | Launch Vehicle Adapter |
M | Meters |
MC | Maritime Continent |
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 |
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 Software |
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 |
OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
OCO | Orbiting Carbon Observatory |
ODPS | Ocean Data Processing System |
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 |
OSI SAF | Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility |
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 |
Pi-MEP | Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform |
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 |
SCP | Salinity Continuity Project |
SeaDAS | SEAWIFS Data Analysis System |
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 |
SSMI | Special Sensor Microwave Imager |
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 |
SWC | Salinity Wind Cell |
SWPC | Space Weather Prediction Center |
TB | Brightness Temperature |
TEC | Total Electron Content |
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 |
WOD | World Ocean Database |
WSPD | Wind Speed |