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Acronyms
PATMOS
Pathfinder Atmospheres
PDO
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PHAM
Pelagic Habitat Analysis Module
PIRATA
Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
PMEL
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PMW
Passive MicroWave
PO.DAAC
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
POAMA
Protective Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia
POES
Polar Operational Environmental Satellite
POLDER
Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances
PSS
Practical Salinity Scale
QAA
Quasi-Analytical Algorithm
QuikSCAT
Quick Scatterometer
RADARSAT
Canadian Satellite Carrying a SAR
RAMSES
Radiométrie Appliquée Mesure Salinité et Eaudans le Sol
RFI
Radio Frequency Interference
RMS/rms
Root-Mean-Square
RSMAS
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
RSS
Remote Sensing Systems
RTG
Real Time Global
RTM
Radiative Transfer Model
RWS
Rijkswaterstaat (NL)
SAC
Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas
SAC-D
Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas-D
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SASWG
SST Archive Science Working Group
SEASAT
SEA (Ocean Remote Sensing) SATellite, US
SeaWiFS
Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
SEAWINDS
Scatterometer on the QuikSCAT
SENTINEL-1
(Future) European Remote Sensing Satellite
SEVIRI
Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
SGLI
Second-Generation Global Imager
SHA
Sea Height Anomaly
SIO
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SISTeR
Scanning Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Radiometer
SLA
Sea Level Anomalies
SLSTR
Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
SMAP
Soil Moisture Mapping
SMMR
Scanning Multi-channel Microwave Radiometer
SMOS
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
SMOSops
SMOS Operational System
SRTM
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SSALTO
(-DUACS) Multimission Altimeter Data Processing System
SSES
Single Sensor Error Statistics
SSH
Sea Surface Height
SSHA
Sea Surface Height Anomaly
SSIWG
Salinity and Sea Ice Working Group
SSM/I
Scanning Multichannel Microwave/Imager
SSMIS
Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
SSMR
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SSS
Sea Surface Salinity
SST
Sea Surface Temperature
STD
Standard Deviation
Acronyms
PATMOS
Pathfinder Atmospheres
PDO
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PHAM
Pelagic Habitat Analysis Module
PIRATA
Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
PMEL
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PMW
Passive MicroWave
PO.DAAC
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
POAMA
Protective Ocean Atmosphere Model for Australia
POES
Polar Operational Environmental Satellite
POLDER
Polarization and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances
PSS
Practical Salinity Scale
QAA
Quasi-Analytical Algorithm
QuikSCAT
Quick Scatterometer
RADARSAT
Canadian Satellite Carrying a SAR
RAMSES
Radiométrie Appliquée Mesure Salinité et Eaudans le Sol
RFI
Radio Frequency Interference
RMS/rms
Root-Mean-Square
RSMAS
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
RSS
Remote Sensing Systems
RTG
Real Time Global
RTM
Radiative Transfer Model
RWS
Rijkswaterstaat (NL)
SAC
Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas
SAC-D
Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas-D
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SASWG
SST Archive Science Working Group
SEASAT
SEA (Ocean Remote Sensing) SATellite, US
SeaWiFS
Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
SEAWINDS
Scatterometer on the QuikSCAT
SENTINEL-1
(Future) European Remote Sensing Satellite
SEVIRI
Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
SGLI
Second-Generation Global Imager
SHA
Sea Height Anomaly
SIO
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SISTeR
Scanning Infrared Sea Surface Temperature Radiometer
SLA
Sea Level Anomalies
SLSTR
Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer
SMAP
Soil Moisture Mapping
SMMR
Scanning Multi-channel Microwave Radiometer
SMOS
Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
SMOSops
SMOS Operational System
SRTM
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
SSALTO
(-DUACS) Multimission Altimeter Data Processing System
SSES
Single Sensor Error Statistics
SSH
Sea Surface Height
SSHA
Sea Surface Height Anomaly
SSIWG
Salinity and Sea Ice Working Group
SSM/I
Scanning Multichannel Microwave/Imager
SSMIS
Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder
SSMR
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SSS
Sea Surface Salinity
SST
Sea Surface Temperature
STD
Standard Deviation