Abbreviations

ADCP: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
AW: Atlantic Water
AdDW: Adriatic Deep Water
AeDW: Aegean Deep Water
AVHRR: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
CTD: Conductivity (to compute Salinity) Temperature Depth (actually Pressure) probe
LIW: Levantine Intermediate Water
MWs: Mediterranean Waters
NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
POEM: Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean
SST: Sea Surface Temperature
TDW: Tyrrhenian Dense water
WMDW: Western Mediterranean Deep Water
XBT: EXpendable BathyThermograph probe
XCTD: EXpendable Conductivity Temperature Depth probe