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SOOP  

Ship of Opportunity Programme  

SSIWG  

Salinity   Sea Ice Working Group  

SSS  

Sea Surface Salinity  

SST  

Sea Surface Temperature  

SURFA  

Surface Reference Sites Project  

TAO  

Tropical Atmosphere   Ocean (buoy array)  

TEMA  

Training Education and Mutual Assistance  

TRITON  

Japanese Moored Buoy in TMBN  

TRMM  

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission  

TS 

Temperature Salinity  

UKMO  

UK Met Office  

UNFCCC  

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change  

UOP  

Upper Ocean Panel  

UOT  

Upper Ocean Thermal  

VAMOS  

Variability of the American Monsoon Systems  

VIIRS  

Visible and Infra red Sensor (NPOESS Sensor)  

VOS  

Voluntary Observing Ship  

WBC  

Western Boundary Current  

WCRP  

World Climate Research Program  

WDB  

WMO Data Base  

WGASF  

Working Group on Air Sea Fluxes  

WGNE  

Working Group on Numerical Experimentation  

WGSIP  

Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Predication  

WHOI  

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution  

WMO  

World Meteorological Organization  

WOCE  

World Ocean Circulation Experiment  

WS  

Workshop  

XBT 

Expendable Bathythermograph  

XCTD  

Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth Instrument