Acronyms
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SVP
Surface Velocity Program
SWC
Soya Warm Current
SWG
Science Working Group
SWIR
Short Wave Infra Red
SWOT
Surface Water Ocean Topography
T/P
Topography Experiment/Poseidon
TA
Antenna Temperature
TanDEM-X
TerraSAR-X Add-On Digital Elevation Measurements
TAO
Tropical Atmosphere Ocean
TAO/TRITON
Tropical Atmosphere Ocean/TRITON
TB
Brightness Temperature
T B
Brightness Temperatures
TC
Tropical Cyclone
TCHP
Tropical Cyclone Heat Potential
TerraSAR-X
German Satellite Carrying an X Band SAR
TIR
Thermal Infra-Red
TIROS
Television and Infrared Observation Satellite
TMI
TRMM, Microwave Imager
TMI TRMM
Microwave Imager
TOGA
Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Program
TOPAZ
Towards an Operational Prediction System for the North Atlantic European
Coastal Zones
TOPEX
(-Poseidon) TOPography Experiment, US-F, 1992
TOVS
TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
TRITON
Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network
TRMM
Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TSM
Total Suspended Matter (Mass)
TV
Television
TXR
Transfer Radiometer
UNCLOS
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UnTRIM
Numerical Circulation Model (Name)
US
United States
USA
United States of America
USGS
US Geological Survey
UTC
Universal Time Coordinate
VIIRS
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite
VIRR
Visible and Infrared Scan Radiometer
VIRS
Visible Infrared Radiometer Sounder
VIS
Visible
VMS
Vessel Monitoring System
VV
Vertical (Radar) Co-polarisation
WISE
Wind and Salinity Experiment
WMO
World Meteorological Organisation
WNW
West–North–West
WOCE
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WSOA
Wide Swath Ocean Altimeter
XBT
eXpendable Bathy Thermograph
XTI
Cross-Track (Radar) Interferometry