36 Pierre-Yves Le Traon
Acronyms
ALACE Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer
ARGO Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites
CTD Conductivity Temperature Depth
CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner
DUACS Developing Use of Altimetry for Climate Studies
GFO GEOSAT Follow On
GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
OCTS Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner
P-ALACE Profiling Autonomous LAgrangian Circulation Explorer
PIRATA PIlot Research moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
POLDER Polarization and Directionality ofthe Earth's Reflectance
PROVOR (www.brest.ird.fr/goos/provor.html)
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SLA Sea Level Anomaly
SST Sea Surf ace Temperature
SMOS Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity
TAO Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean
TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere (Program)
WOCE Wor1d Ocean Circulation Experimen
XBT EXpendable BathyThermograph