Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine .  

CALibration - VALidation 

Center for Ocean Atmospheric Prediction Studies 

 Terciles are range of values of a physical variables (e.g. precipitation, temperature...) defined so as to sort into 2 sections 1/3 of the lower, of the average and higher values of a distribution that could represent a climatology.  

Very Low Frequency .  

Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer Infrared imaging instrument onboard Envisat, used to study sea-surface temperatures. Follow-on from ATSR-1 and ATSR-2 on board ERS-1 and ERS-2. Data are derived from measurements of reflected and emitted radiation taken at several wavelengths.

Antarctic Circumpolar Current Cold current encircling the Antarctic, driven by westerly winds between 40° and 50° South. The flow of the ACC is not checked by the continents. It thus links the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.  

Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements 

Antarctic Circumpolar Wave 

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler