Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Envelopes (1997)

Chapter: ACRONYMS

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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

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