Acronyms
- AATSR
- Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer
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ABOM
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology RDAC
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AC
- Advisory Council
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ACDD
- Unidata Attribute Conventions for Dataset Discovery
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AD
- Applicable Document
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AHL
- Atlantic High Latitude
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AMSR
- Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
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AMSR-E
- Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System
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AOD
- Aerosol Optical Depth
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APPW
- Analysed Product Processing Window
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ARC
- ATSR Re-analysis for Climate
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ARC-Lake
- ATSR Reprocessing for Climate: Lake Surface Water Temperature & Ice Cover
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ASIP
- Air-Sea Interaction Profiler
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ATBD
- Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document
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ATOVS
- Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
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ATSR
- Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
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AUS
- Australian regional analysis area
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AUS-TAG
- Applications and User Services Technical Advisory Group
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AVHRR
- Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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BIPM
- Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
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BODC
- British Oceanographic Data Centre
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BT
- Brightness Temperature
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CAC
- Central Assembly Center(s)
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CAF
- Central Application Facility (EUMETSAT)
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CASSTA
- Composite Arctic Surface Temperatures
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CDL
- network Common Data form Language
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CDOP
- Continuous Development and Operations Phase
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CDR
- Climate Data Record
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CDR-TAG
- Climate Data Records Technical Advisory Group
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CEOS
- Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
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CEOS-SIT
- CEOS Strategic Implementation Team
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CF
- Climate Forecast (convention of netCDF)
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CICS
- Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites
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Clw
- Cloud liquid water content
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CMS
- Centre de Météorologie Spatiale (F)
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CNES
- Centre National d\'Etudes Spatiales (F)
- CNS
- central nervous system
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CNS
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (I)
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COMS
- Communications, Oceanography and Meteorology Satellite
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CRED
- Coral Reef Ecosystem Division
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CSIRO
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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CTD
- Conductivity, Temperature, Depth (in situ ocean measurements)
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CVS
- Concurrent Versions System
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DAP
- Data Access Protocol
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DAS-TAG
- Data Assembly and Systems Technical Advisory Group
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DB
- Data Base
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DBCP
- Data Buoy Coordination Panel
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DD
- Description Document
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DDS
- Diagnostic Data Set
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DM
- Data Management
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DMI
- Danish Meteorological Institue
- DODS
- Distributed Oceanographic Data System
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DPF
- Data Processing Framework
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DRN
- Data Ready Notification
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DTD
- Document Type Definition
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DUE
- Data User Element
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DV
- Diurnal Variation
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DVWG
- Diurnal Variability Working Group
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DWD
- Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service)
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EAR
- Ecological Acoustic Recorder
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EARS
- EUMETSAT ATOVS Retransmission Service
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EARWiG
- Estimation and Retrievals Working Group
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EB
- Equivalent Buoy
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ECMWF
- European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting
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ECSS
- European Cooperation for Space Standardisation
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ECV
- Essential Climate Variable
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EEZ
- Exclusive Economic Zone
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ENVISAT
- Environmental Satellite
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EO
- Earth Observation
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EOEP
- Earth Observation Envelope Programme
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EOP
- Earth Observation Programme
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EOSDIS
- NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System
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EPS
- EUMETSAT Polar System
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ERNESST
- European Research Network for Estimation from Space of Surface Temperature
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ERRLOG
- Operational Error Log
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ERS
- European Remote Sensing satellite
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ESA
- European Space Agency
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ESACCI
- European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative
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ESL
- Expert Support Laboratory
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EUM
- EUMETSAT
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EUMETSAT
- European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
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EUR
- European RDAC
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fCDR
- fundamental Climate Data Record
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FNMOC
- Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
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FOAM
- Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model
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FP
- Final Presentation
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FR
- Final Report
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FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
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FY
- Feng Yun satellites
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G-POD
- ESA Grid Processing on Demand
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GAL
- Area around the Galapagos Islands
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GAMSSA
- Global Australian High-Resolution SST Analysis
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GCOM
- Global Change Observation Mission
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GCOM-W
- Global Change Observation Mission � Water GHRSST
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GCOS
- Global Climate Observing System
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GDAC
- Global Data Assembly Cetre
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GDIP
- GHRSST development and implementation plan
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GDS
- GHRSST Data Specification
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GDSV
- Generic Data Structure Viewable
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GEO
- Group on Earth Observation
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GEOSS
- Global Earth Observation System of Systems
- GHRSST
- Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
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GHRSST
- Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
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GHRSST-PO
- International GHRSST Project Office
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GHRSST-PP
- Godae High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project
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GI
- Global integration
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GLOB
- Global coverage data sets
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GMES
- Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
- GMPE
- GHRSST-PP Multi Product Ensemble
- GODAE
- Global Ocean Data Assimilation Project
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GOES
- Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
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GOMS
- Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite
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GOOS
- Global Ocean Observing System
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GOS
- Gruppo di Oceanografia da Satellite
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GPM
- Global Precipitation Mission
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GPO
- GHRSST Project Office
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GTS
- Global Telecommunications System
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HDF
- Hierarchical Data Format
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HI
- Haiyang satellites
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HIRLAM
- High Resolution Limited Area Model
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HL
- High Latitude
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HL-TAG
- High Latitude Technical Advisory Group
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HRDDS
- High Resolution Diagnostic Data-Set
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HRPT
- High Resolution Picture Transmissions
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HTTP
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
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IASI
- IR Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer
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IC-TAG
- Inter Comparison Technical Advisory Group
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ICD
- Interface Control Document
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ICOADS
- International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set
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IFREMER
- Institut Français de Recherche pour l\'Exploitation de la Mer
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IMOS
- Integrated Marine Observing System
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IMPF
- Image Processing Facility
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IOC
- Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
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IOOS
- Integrated Ocean Observing System
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IPY
- International Polar Year
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iQuam
- in situ SST Quality monitor
- IR
- Infrared
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ISAR
- Infrared Sea surface temperature Autonomous Radiometer
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ISO
- International Organization for Standardization
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IST
- Ice Surface Temperature
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IWWG
- Inland Waters Working Group
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JAXA
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- JCOMM
- Joint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
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JMA
- Japan Meteorological Agency
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JPL
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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JPSS
- Joint Polar Satellite System
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KML
- Keyhole Markup Language
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KO
- Kick-Off
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L2
- Level 2 data products
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L2P
- Level 2 Pre-processed data products
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L3
- Level 3 data products
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L3C
- Level 3 collated data products
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L3S
- Level 3 super-collated product
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L3U
- Level 3 un-collated data products
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L4
- Level 4 data products
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LAS
- Live Access Server
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LEO
- Low Earth Orbiter
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LML
- Low and MidLatitude
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Ln
- Level n of data processing
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LST
- Local Sun Time
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LSWT-WG
- Lake Surface Water Temperature Working Group (new: IWWG)
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LTSRF
- Long Term Stewardship and Reanalysis Facility
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M-AERI
- Marine-Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
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MDB
- Match-up Database
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MED
- Mediterranean Sea area
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METNO
- Norwegian Meteorological Institute
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MetOp
- Meteorological Operational Satellite
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MFC
- Monitoring and Forecast Center
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MGDSST
- Merged satellite and in situ data Global Daily Surface Temperatures
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MISST
- Multi Instrument SST
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MIZ
- Marginal Ice Zone
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MMR
- Master Metadata Repository
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MMS
- Multi-sensor Match-up System
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MODIS
- Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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MSG
- METEOSAT Second Generation
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MTR
- Mid-Term Review
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MTSAT
- Multi-functional Transport Satellite Imager
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MW
- MicroWave
- MWRI
- Microwave Radiation Imager μ-wave
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MYO
- MyOcean
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MyOcean
- EU-GMES project for Ocean Monitoring and forecasting
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NAAPS
- Navy Aerosol Analysis Prediction System
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NAR
- North Atlantic Region
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NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NASA-SST
- The NASA Sea Surface Temperature Science Team
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NAVO
- Naval Oceanographic Office (US)
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NAVOCEANO
- Naval Oceanographic Office
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NCDC
- NOAA National Climatic Data Center
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NCEO
- National Centre for Earth Observation (UK)
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NCEP
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (US)
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NCOF
- The National Centre for Ocean Forecasting
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NEODAAS
- NERC Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service
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NERC
- Natural Environment Research Council (UK)
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NESDIS
- National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
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netCDF
- Network Common Data Format
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NGSST-O
- New Generation SST for Open Ocean
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NIR
- Near InfraRed
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NIRST
- New IR Sensor Technology
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NIST
- National Institute of Standards and Technology
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NLSST
- Non-linear SST
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NMHS
- National Meteorological and Hydrographic Service
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NMP
- New Millennium Program
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NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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NOAAETL
- NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory
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NOC
- National Oceanography Centre
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NODC
- NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center
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NODCLAS
- NODC Live Access Serve
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NOP
- Numerical Ocean Prediction
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NOPP
- National Oceanographic Partnership Program
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NPL
- National Physical Laboratory
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NPOESS
- National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
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NPP
- National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project
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NRL
- Naval Research Laboratory
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NRT
- Near-Real-Time
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NSEABALTIC
- North Sea and Baltic Region
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NSIDC
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
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NWCSAF
- Nowcasting and Very Short Range Forecasting
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NWE
- North-West of Europe
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NWP
- Numerical Weather Prediction
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OA
- Objective Analysis
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OceanSITES
- A worldwide system of long-term, deepwater reference stations
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OCG
- JCOMM Observations Programme Area Coordination Group
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ODYSSEA
- Multi-Sensor Merged High-Resolution SST over Global Ocean at 0.1� Geographical Grid
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OE
- Optimal estimation
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OGCM
- Ocean General Circulation Model
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OI
- Optimal Interpolation
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OM
- Operation Manual
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OMP
- Office of Marine Prediction (JMA)
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OPeNDAP
- Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol
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OSDPD
- NOAA Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution
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OSE
- Observing System Experiments
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OSISAF
- EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Applications Facility
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OSSE
- Observing System Simulation Experiments
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OSTIA
- Operational SST and Sea Ice Analysis
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PAR
- Preliminary Analysis Report
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PFV
- PathFinder Version
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PM
- Progress Meeting
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PMEL
- Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory
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PNG
- Portable Network Graphics
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PO.DAAC
- Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Centre
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POES
- Polar Operational Environmental Satellite
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POET
- The PO.DAAC Ocean ESIP Tool
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PP
- Pilot Project
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PSBE
- Potential Satellite Bias Error
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PVP
- Product Validation Plot
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QA4EO
- Quality Assurance for Earth Observation data
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QC
- Quality Control
- QCed
- Quality Controlled
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QI
- Quality Indicator
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R&D
- Research & Development
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R/GTS
- Regional/Global Task Sharing framework of GHRSST
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R2HA2-WG
- Rescue & Reprocessing of Historical AVHRR Archives Working Group
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RAMSSA
- Regional Australian Multi-sensor SST analysis
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RAN
- Re-analysis
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RAN-TAG
- Reanalysis Technical Advisory Group(now: CDR-TAG)
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RB
- Requirement Baseline
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RD
- Reference Document
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RDAC
- Regional Data Assembly Centres
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REMSS
- Remote Sensing Systems
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REP
- Report
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RFI
- Radio Frequency Interference
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RMS
- Root Mean Square
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RSD
- Relative Standard Deviation
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RSMAS
- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
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RTC
- Radiative Transfer Code
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RTM
- Radiative Transfer Model
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RTTOV
- Radiative Transfer for TOVS
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S-3
- GMES Sentinel-3
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SAF
- Satellite Applications Facility
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SEVIRI
- Spinnning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
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SGLI
- Second generation Global Imager
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SI
- System International
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SLSTR
- Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
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SOOP
- Ship-of-Opportunity Programme
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SOT
- JCOMM Ship Observing Team
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SOTO
- State of the Ocean
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SoW
- Statement of Work
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SPURS
- Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
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SQUAM
- SST Quality Monitor
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SSES
- Sensor Specific Error Statistics
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SSI
- Surface Solar Irradiance
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SSM/I
- Special Sensor Microwave Imager
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SSS
- Sea Surface Salinity
- SST
- Sea Surface Temperature
- ST-VAL
- Sea Surface Temperature Validation Working Group
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STS
- Surface Temperature and Salinity
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TAC
- Thematic Assembly Center
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TAG
- Technical Advisory Group
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TB
- Temperature Brightness
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TBC
- To Be Confirmed
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TCHP
- Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential
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TDP
- Technical Data Package
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TDS
- THREDDS Data Server
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THREDDS
- Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services
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TIR
- Thermal Infrared
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TIROS
- Television Infrared Observation Satellites
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TMI
- TRMM Microwave Imager
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TOA
- Top Of Atmosphere
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TOVS
- TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
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TRMM
- Tropical Rainfall Mapping Mission
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TWP
- Tropical Warm Pool
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TWP+
- The GHRSST Tropical Warm Pool Diurnal Variability Project
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U
- surface wind speed at 10m height
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UKMO
- UK Met Office
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UM
- User Manual
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UNESCO
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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UNFCCC
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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UNOLS
- University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
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UPA
- United Kingdom Multi-Mission Processing and Archiving Facility
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URD
- User Requirement Document
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URL
- Universal Resource Locator
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US
- United States
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UTC
- Coordinated Universal Time
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VC
- Virtual Constellation
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VIIRS
- Visible/IR Imager Radiometer Suite
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VNIR
- Visible Near InfraRed
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WCRP
- World Climate Research Program
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WCS
- Web Coverage Service
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WG
- Working Group
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WHOI
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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WindSat
- WindSat is a satellite-based polarimetric microwave radiometer
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WMO
- World Meterological Organisation
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WMS
- Web Mapping Service
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WPN
- White paper on Sea Surface Temperature Error Budget from the NASA Interim Sea Surface Temperature Science Team
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WWW
- WMO World Weather Watch
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XML
- Extensible Mark-up Language