Acronyms

Here follows a formatted list of acronyms

Acronym	Meaning
acdm	Absorption coefficient for color detrital matter
AMSR	Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
BL	Barrier-Layer
BLT	Barrier-Layer Thickness
CAP	Combined Active-Passive
CATDS	Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS
CCI-SSS	ESA Climate Change Initiative-Sea Surface Salinity project
CDTI	Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology
CIMR	Conical Imaging Microwave Radiometer
CMB	Cosmic Microwave Background
CNES	French Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
Ch-la	Chlorophyll-a
CONAE	Comisión Nacional
CTD	Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
DIC	Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
EAF-FOV	Extended Alias-Free Field Of View
EASE-grid	Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid
ECMWF	European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecast
ECV	Essential Climate Variable
ENSO	El Niño Southern Oscillations
EO	Earth Observation
E-P	Evaporation (E) minus Precipitation (P)
EPE	Eddy Potential Energy
ESA	European Space Agency
ESTAR	Electrically Scanning Thinned Array Radiometer
ESTEC	European Space Research and Technology Centre, the Netherlands
EUC	Equatorial UnderCurrent
FOV	Field Of View
GCOS	Global Climate Observing System
GOOS	Global Ocean Observing System
GMF	Geophysical Model Functions
GOSUD
GODAE	Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GPM	Global Precipitation Mission
HH	Horizontally-polarized emitted Horizontally-polarized received
HYCOM	HYbrid COordinate Model
IOD	Indian Ocean Dipole
ITCZ	Inter-tropical Convergence Zone
ITU	International Telecommunication Union
JPL	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
KS	dielectric constant model for sea water from Klein and Swift (1977)
LSC	Land Sea Contamination
MIRAS	Microwave Imaging Radiometer with Aperture Synthesis
MJO	Madden-Julian Oscillation
MW	dielectric constant model for sea water from Meissner and Wentz (2004)
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBC	North Brazilian Current
NCEP	National Center for Environmental Prediction
NEDT	Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODC	NOAA National Oceanic Data Center
OS	Ocean Salinity
OTT	Ocean Target Transformation
PALS	Passive-Active L-band System
PI-MEP	SMOS Pilot Mission Exploitation Platform
RMS	Root Mean Square
RMSD	Root Mean Square Difference
RFI	Radio Frequency Interferences
RR	Rain Rate
RSS	Remote Sensing System
RSTN	United States Air Force Radio Solar Telescope Network
SAMOS	Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System
SEPSI	Southeastern Pacific SSS Index
SIO	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SLFMR	Scanning Low Frequency Microwave Radiometer
SMAP	Soil Moisture Active-Passive mission
SMOS	Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
SOI	Southern Oscillation Index
SSM/I	Special Sensor Microwave Imager
SSH	Sea Surface Height
SSS	Sea Surface Salinity
SSSA	SSS Anomalies
SST	Sea Surface Temperature
STD	STandard Deviation
SWH	Significant Wave Height
TA	Total Alkalinity
TB	brightness temperature
TC	Tropical Cyclones
TEC	Total Electron Content
TIW	Tropical Instability Wave
TOA	Top Of the Atmosphere
TOI	Top of the Ionosphere
TSG	ThermoSalinoGraphs
VTEC	Vertical ionospheric Total Electron Content
VV	Vertically-polarized emitted Vertically-polarized received
WOCE	World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WOD	World Ocean Database