Acronym
ACC
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
CIGAR
Consortium for Investigation on Gravity Anomaly Recovery
ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
EGM96
Earth Geopotential Model (1996)
ENSO
El Niño/Southern Oscillation
ERS-1
European Remote Sensing Satellite-1
ESA
European Space Agency
GCIP
GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
GCM
General Circulation Model
Geosat
Geodesy Satellite
GEWEX
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GLONASS
Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS
Global Positioning System
GPS/MET
GPS Meteorology Satellite
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
JGM
Joint Gravity Model
LAGEOS
Laser Geodynamics Satellite
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NRC
National Research Council
PSD
Power Spectral Density
RMS
Root Mean Square
SAR
Synthetic Aperture Radar
SGG
Spaceborne Gravity Gradiometer
SGGE
Spaceborne Gravity Gradiometer Extended
SSI
Satellite to Satellite Interferometry
SST
Satellite to Satellite Tracking
TOPEX
Ocean Topography Experiment
WBC
Western Boundary Current
WOCE
World Ocean Circulation Experiment