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acronym | fullName |
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AASP | Australian Antarctic Sciences Program |
AATSR | Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
ABOM | Australia Bureau of Meteorology |
ACCLAIM | Antarctic Circumpolar Currents Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurement |
ACECRC | Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre |
ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
ADCIRC | ADvanced CIRCulation |
adcirc | ADvanced CIRCulation |
AFSC | Alaska Fisheries Science Center |
AI | Agouron Institute |
AIMS | Australian Institute of Marine Science |
AKRO | Alaska Regional Office |
ALACE | Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer |
AMIP | Atmosphere Model Intercomparison Project |
AMSR-2 | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on JAXA's GCOM-W1 |
AMSRE | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS |
AMSR-E | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS |
AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
ANDAS | Automated Near-real-time Data Acquiring System |
ANT | Antarctic Sciences |
AOD | Aerosol Optical Depth |
AODC | Australian Oceanographic Data Center |
AOML | Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory |
AOOS | Alaska Ocean Observing System |
AOU | Apparent Oxygen Utilization |
APDRC | Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center |
ARC | Arctic Sciences |
ARGO | Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography |
AR3 | Third Assessment Report |
AR4 | Fourth Assessment Report |
AR5 | Fifth Assessment Report |
AR6 | Sixth Assessment Report |
ARL | Air Resources Laboratory |
ARRM | Asynchronous Regional Regression Model |
ARSLOE | Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment |
ARW | Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting Model |
ASCAT | Advanced SCATterometer |
ASMD | Atlas of Surface Marine Data |
ASTEP | Astrobiology Science & Technology for Exploring Planets |
ATDB | Accession Tracking Data Base |
ATES | Alcatel Espace Systems |
AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
AVISO | Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Data in Oceanography |
AVNIR | Advanced Visible & Near-Infrared Radiometer |
AWI | Alfred Wegener Instituite for Polar and Marine Research |
AWIPS | Automated Weather Interactive Processing System |
AXBT | Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph |
BCO-DMO | Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office |
BIRS | Biological Information Retrieval System |
BODC | British Oceanographic Data Centre |
BOEM | Bureau of Ocean Energy Management |
BoM | Bureau of Meteorology |
BOM | Bureau of Meteorology |
C-DEBI | Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations |
CalCOFI | California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations |
CAMMP | Coastal and Marine Management Program |
CAMS | Climate Anomaly Monitoring System |
CaRA | Caribbean Regional Association |
CariCOOS | Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System |
CARDEEP | CARbon dioxide and DEEPwater formation |
CARDS | Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set |
CASG | California Sea Grant |
CBMP | Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program |
CCMA | Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment |
CCRS | Canadian Center for Remote Sensing |
CCSP | Climate Change Science Program |
CDAS | Climate Data Assimilation System |
CDFW | California Department of Fish and Wildlife |
CDOM | Colored Dissolved Organic Matter |
CDRI | Climate Data Research Institute |
CEMES | Centre d'Etudes de la Meteorologie Spatiale |
CeNCOOS | Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System |
CEONet | Canadian Earth Observation Network |
CERSAT | Centre ERS d'Archivage et de Traitment |
CF | Climate and Forecast |
CFC | ChloroFlouroCarbon |
CGDI | Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure |
CHLA | Chlorophyll-a |
CIGAR | Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean & Adjacent Regions |
CIMAR | Centro de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental |
CIMT | Center for Integrated Marine Technology |
CINECA | Cooperative Investigations of the Northern part of the Eastern Central Atlantic |
CIOSS | Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies |
CIRA | Cooperative Institute for Research the Atmosphere |
CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences |
CLASS | Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System |
CLIMAP | Climate: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction |
CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability programme |
CLS | Collecte Localisation Satellites |
C-MAN | Coastal Marine Automated Networks |
CMAN | Coastal Marine Automated Networks |
CMC | Canadian Meteorological Centre |
CMD | Continuously Managed Database |
CMIP | Climate Model Intercomparison Project |
CMIP4 | Climate Model Intercomparison Project 4 |
CMIP5 | Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5 |
CMIP6 | Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6 |
CMOR | Climate Model Output Rewriter |
CNES | Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
CNMI | Commonwealth of the Northen Mariana Islands |
CNR | National Research Council |
COADS | Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set |
COADS1 | Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set 1 |
COAP | Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction |
COAPS | Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies |
COAS | College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences |
COAWST | Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport |
COCMP | Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program |
CODAR | Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar |
CODAS | Common Oceanographic Data Analysis System |
COGOW | Climatology of Global Ocean Winds |
CONICYT | National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT), Chile |
CONUS | Contiguous United States |
COOA | Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis |
CPC | Climate Prediction Center |
CPO | Climate Program Office |
CPR | Continuous Plankton Recorder |
CRM | Coastal Relief Model |
CRMN | Coral Reef Monitoring Network |
CRU | Climatic Research Unit |
CRW | Coral Reef Watch |
CSCOR COP | Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program |
CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
CTD | Conductivity, Temperature, Depth |
CWCGOM | CoastWatch Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico |
CW | CoastWatch |
DATARING | Data Acquisition for Tidal Applications for the Remote Interrogation of Network Gauges |
DCDB | Data Center for Digital Bathymetry |
DEB | Division of Environmental Biology |
DFO | Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
DOC | Department of Commerce |
DOD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
DMI | Danish Meteorological Institute |
DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
DSTL | Defence Science and Technology Laboratory |
DWD | Deutscher Wetterdienst |
DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite |
ECDA | Ensemble Coupled Data Assimilation |
ECDC | European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
ECMCA | European Commission Marie Curie Actions Program |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
ECOMSED | Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Model with Sediment Transport |
EGMEX | Eastern Gulf of Mexico |
ENSO | El Nino - Southern Oscillation |
ENVISAT | ENVironmental SATellite |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
ERS | European Remote Sensing Satellite |
ESDIM | Environmental Science Data and Information Management |
ESPRESSO | Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics |
ESPreSSO | Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics |
Espresso | Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics |
ESRL | Earth System Research Laboratory |
EU | European Union |
EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
EUREF | European REference Frame |
FAGS | Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services |
FLH | Fluorescence Line Height |
FCCC | Framework Convention on Climate Change |
FMRC | Forecast Model Run Collection |
FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
FOCI | Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations |
FONACIT | Fondo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación of Venezuela |
FP7-ENV-2010 | European Commission Seventh Framework Program |
FRST | Foundation for Research, Science and Technology |
FSM | Free Surface Mask |
FWS | Fish & Wildlife Service |
GAC | Global Area Coverage |
GADR | Global Argo Data Repository |
GAMSSA | Global Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis |
GARFO | Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office |
GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
GCOOS | Gulf of Mexico Coastal Observing System |
GDAC | Global Data Assembly Centres |
GEOS | Geodetic Satellite |
GEOSAT | GEodetic and Oceanographic SATellite |
GES DAAC | Goddard Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center |
GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
GFO | Geosat Follow-On |
GHCN | Global Historical Climatology Network |
GHRSST | Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
GLCFS | Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System |
GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory |
GLOBEC | GLOBal Ocean ECosystems Dynamics |
GLOSS-ALT | Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for ALTimetry calibrations |
GLOSS-LTT | Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for Long Term Trends studies |
GLOSS-OC | Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for ongoing Ocean Circulation monitoring |
GLOSS | Global Sea Level Observing System |
GLOS | Great Lakes Observing System |
GMS | Geostationary Meteorology Satellite |
GOCE | Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer |
GODAE | Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment |
GODAR | Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue |
GODAS | Global Ocean Data Assimilation System |
GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
GOFS | Global Ocean Flux Study |
GoMOOS | Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System |
GOM | Gulf of Mexico |
GOOS | Global Ocean Observing System |
GOSAMOR | Global Ocean SAlinity MonitORing |
GOTS | Global Ocean Temperature & Salinity |
GPCC | Global Precipitation Climatology Centre |
GPCP | Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
GPI | GOES Precipitation Index |
GPS | Global Positioning System |
GRCTellus | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Tellus |
GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
GSHHS | Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shorelines |
GSMFC | Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission |
GTMBA | Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array |
GTOS | Global Terrestrial Observing System |
GTS | Global Telecommunications System |
GTSPP | Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program |
HAB | Harmful Algal Bloom |
HadISST | Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature |
HadISST1 | Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1 |
HadISST1.1 | Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1.1 |
HadISST1.2 | Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1.2 |
HFRadar | High Frequency Radar |
HFR | High Frequency Radar |
HF | High Frequency |
HIRAM | HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model |
HOTO | Health Of The Oceans |
HOTS | Hawaiian Ocean Time Series |
HRPT | High Resolution Picture Transmission |
HSSTD | Historical Sea Surface Temperature Data project |
HURL | Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory |
HYCOM | HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
IASNFS | Intra-Americas Sea Nowcast/Forecast System |
IATTC | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission |
ICER | Division of Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research |
ICOADS | International Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set |
ICRAN | International Coral Reef Action Network |
IFREMER | Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer |
IGBP | International Geosphere Biosphere Programme |
IGOS | Integrated Global Observing Strategy |
IGOSS | Integrated Global Ocean Services System |
IHB | International Hydrographic Bureau |
IHO | International Hydrographic Organisation |
ILP | International Lithosphere Programme |
IMI | Irish Marine Institute |
IMOS | Integrated Marine Observing System |
INMARSAT | International Maritime Satellite Organisation |
INODC | Indian National Oceanographic Data Center |
INQUA | International Union for Quaternary Research |
INSAT | Indian National Satellite |
IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
IODE | International Oceanographic Data Exchange |
IOCCG | International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group |
IOOS | Integrated Ocean Observing System |
IOS | Division of Integrative Organismal Systems |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IPRC | International Pacific Research Center |
IR | InfraRed |
ISAT | International Science and Technology Fund |
ISOS | International Southern Ocean Studies |
ITCZ | InterTropical Convergence Zone |
ITF | Indonesian Through Flow |
IWP | Ice Water Path |
JASL | Joint Archive for Sea Level |
JAXA | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
JCDAS | JMA Climate Data Assimilation System |
JCLI | Journal of Climate |
JCOMM | Joint WMO/IOC technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology |
JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
JGR | Journal of Geophysical Research |
JISAO | Joint Institue for the Study of Atmoshere and Ocean |
JMA | Japanese Meteorological Agency |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
JPO | Journal of Physical Oceanography |
JRA | Japanese Reanalysis |
KAUST | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
KFM | Kelp Forest Monitoring |
LAC | Local Area Coverage |
LTM | Long Term Mean |
LWP | Liquid Water Path |
MAO | Marine and Aviation Operations |
MARACOOS | Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System |
MCB | Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences |
MCI | Maximum Chlorophyll Index |
MDNR | Maine Department of Marine Resources |
MEaSUREs | Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments |
MEDAR | Mediterranean Data Archeology and Rescue |
MEDS | Marine Environmental Data Service |
MERSEA | Marine EnviRonment and Security for the European Area |
METEOSAT | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite |
METOFFICE | Meteorological Office |
MHI | Main Hawaiian Islands |
MMRP | Marine Mammal Research Program |
MNSG | Minnesota Sea Grant |
MOBS | Marine Optical Buoy System |
MOBY | MArine Optical BouY |
MOCE | Marine Optical Characterization Experiment |
MOCNESS | Multiple Opening/Closing Net & Environmental Sensing System |
MODAS | Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System |
MODB | Mediterranean Oceanic Data Base |
MODISA | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Aqua |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MOHSST | Meteorological Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature |
MOODS | Master Oceanographic Observations Data Set |
MOP | Meteosat Operational Programme |
MOPITT | Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere |
MPA | Marine Protected Area |
MPSOC | Multi-Purpose Stellite Operations Center |
MSAS | Marine Spill Analysis System |
MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |
MSFCMA | Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act |
MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
MSL | Mean Sea Level |
MSR | Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
MSS | MultiSpectral Scanner |
MSTF | Marine Science and Technology Foundation |
MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
MTPE | Mission to Planet Earth |
MUR | Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution |
NAAPS | Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System |
NABE | North Atlantic Bloom Experiment |
NAMDI | National Marine Data Inventory |
NANOOS | Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems |
NAM | North Americal Model |
NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administratio |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
NAVGEM | Navy Global Environmental Model |
NAVOCEANO | Naval Oceanographic Office |
NAVO | Naval Oceanography |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCCCS | Northern California Coastal Circulation Study |
NCCOS | National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science |
NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
NCDDC | National Coastal Data Development Center |
NCDS | NASA Climate Data System |
NCEI | National Centers for Environmental Information |
NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
NCODA | Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation |
NCOM | Navy Coastal Ocean Model |
NCRI | National Coral Reef Institute |
NCRIS | National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy |
NDBC | National Data Buoy Center |
NDBO | National Data Buoy Office |
NDMC | National Drought Mitigation Center |
NDSI | Normalized Difference Snow Index |
NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
NEC | NorthEast Consortium |
NECC | North Equatorial CounterCurrent |
NEFSC | NorthEast Fisheries Science Center |
NEGOA | NorthEast Gulf of Alaska |
NEP | North East Pacific |
NERACOOS | Northeastern Regional Association Ocean Observing Systems |
NERC | Natural Environment Research Council |
NERRS | National Estuarine Reserve Research System |
NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service |
NetCDF | Network Common Data Format |
NEXRAD | NEXt Generation Weather RADar |
NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center |
NGWLMS | Next Generation Water Level Measurement System |
NHC | National Hurricane Center |
NIEHS | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
NIH | National Institutes of Health |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NIWA | National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research |
NJSOS | New Jersey Shelf Observing System |
NMAO | NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations |
NMC | National Meteorological Center |
NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
NMS | National Marine Sanctuaries |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NODC | National Oceanographic Data Center |
NOGAPS | Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System |
NOMAD | Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device |
NOP | National Oceanic Program |
NOPP | National Ocean Partnership Program |
NOS | National Ocean Service |
NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System |
NPOES | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite |
NPP | National Polar-orbiting Partnership |
NPS | Naval Postgraduate School |
NRL | Naval Research Laboratory |
NROSS | Navy Remote Oceanographic Sensing System |
NRT | Near Real Time |
NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NTF | National Tidal Facility |
NSERC | National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada |
NSIDC | National Snow and Ice Data Center |
NSP | Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning |
NSSDAC | NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition |
NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center |
NSSL | National Severe Storms Laboratory |
NSTS | Nearshore Sediment Transport Study |
NTON | National Tide Observation Network |
NTU | Nephelometric Turbidity Units |
NWS | National Weather Service |
NVI | Normalized Vegetation Index |
NVODS | National Virtual Ocean Data System |
NWFSC | Northwest Fisheries Science Center |
NYHOPS | New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System |
OAR | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research |
OBIS | Ocean Biogeographic Information System |
OBPG | Ocean Biology Processing Group |
Obs4MIPs | Observations for Model Intercomparisons |
obs4MIPs | Observations for Model Intercomparisons |
OCB | Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program |
OCDD | Ocean Current Drifter Data |
OCE | Division of Ocean Sciences |
OCL | Ocean Climate Laboratory |
OCMP | Ocean-Coastal Management Program |
OCRM | Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management |
OCTS | Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner |
ODP | Ocean Drilling Program |
ODV | Ocean Data View |
OEP | Ocean Exploration Program |
OGCM | Oceanic General Circulation Model |
OHC | Office of Habitat Conservation |
OIA | Office of International Affairs |
OISE | Office of International Science and Engineering |
OISST | Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature |
OI | Optimum Interpolation |
OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
ONR | Office of Naval Research |
OOPC | Ocean Observation Panel for Climate |
OOSDP | Ocean Observing System Development Panel |
OPDB | Oceanographic Profile DataBase |
OPR | Office of Protected Resources |
ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
OSDPD | Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution |
OSF | Office of Sustainable Fisheries |
OSI SAF | Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility |
OSISAF | Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility |
OSI | Ocean and Sea Ice |
OSMC | Observing System Monitoring Center |
OSO | Office of Satellite Operations |
OSPO | Office of Satellite and Product Operations |
OST | Office of Science and Technology |
OSTI | Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure |
OSTIA | Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis |
OSU | Oregon State University |
OWG | Open Working Group |
PACHAB | Pacific Region Harmful Algal Blooom |
PacIOOS | Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System |
PAR | Photosynthetically Available Radiation |
PCMDI | Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison |
PDO | Pacific Decadal Oscillation |
PDSI | Palmer Drought Severity Index |
PEQUOD | Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics |
PFEG | Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group |
PFEL | Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory |
PFRP | Pelagic Fisheries Research Program |
PHOD | Physical Oceanography Division |
PhOD | Physical Oceanography Division |
PIFSC | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center |
PIRATA | Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic |
PIRO | Pacific Islands Regional Office |
PLR | Division of Polar Programs |
PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory |
PODAAC | Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center |
PODG | Physical Ocean Data Group |
POES | Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite |
POL | Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory |
POM | Princeton Ocean Model |
POMSS | Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite System |
POO | Platforms of Opportunity |
PORTS | Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems |
PSD | Physical Sciences Division |
PSS | Practical Salinity Scale |
PSMSL | Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level |
PSU | Practical Salinity Unit |
PTWC | Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre |
QA | Quality Assurance |
QC | Quality Control |
RAMA | Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction |
RAMSSA | Regional Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis |
RDAC | Regional Data Assembly Centres |
REMSS | Remote Sensing Systems |
RF | Radio Frequency |
ROMS | Regional Ocean Modeling System |
Roms | Regional Ocean Modeling System |
ROV | Remotely Operated Vessel |
RQDS | Research Quality Data Set |
RSL | Relative Sea Level |
RSMAS | Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science |
RTOFS | Real-Time Ocean Forecast System |
SAFT | Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique |
SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation |
SAL | Satellite Altimetry Laboratory |
SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar |
SCAR | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
SCOR | Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research |
scPDSI | Self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index |
SCS | South China Sea |
SCUD | Surface CUrrents from a Diagnostic model |
SCCOOS | Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System |
SCOR | Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research |
SEAMAP | Southeast Area Monitoring & Assessment Program |
SeaWiFS | Sea-Wide Field-of-View Sensor |
SECOORA | Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association |
SEFSC | Southeast Fisheries Science Center |
SERO | Southeast Regional Office |
SEVIRI | Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager |
SFERPM | South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction, and Modeling Program |
SFSU | San Francisco State University |
SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
SLAR | Side-Looking Airborne Radar |
SLOSH | Sea, Lake & Overland Surge from Hurricanes |
SLP | Sea Level Pressure |
SLR | Satellite Laser Ranging |
SMI | Standard Mapped Image |
SNSF | Swiss National Science Foundation |
SODA | Simple Ocean Data Assimilation |
SOEST | School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology |
SOFAR | Sound Fixing and Ranging |
SOI | Schmidt Ocean Institute |
SOLO | Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer |
SOSLC | Southern Ocean Sea Level Centre |
SPCZ | South Pacific Convergence Zone |
SPURS | Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study |
SQU | Sultan Qaboos University |
SSES | Single Sensor Error Statistics |
SSFC | Severe Storms Forecast Center |
SSH | Sea Surface Height |
SSP | Sub-Surface Pressure |
SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
SSTA | Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly |
SSTOP | Sea Surface Topography |
STD | Salinity-Temperature-Depth profiler |
STWS | Storm Tide Warning Service |
SWAN | Simulating WAves Nearshore model |
SWFSC | Southwest Fisheries Science Center |
SWH | Significant Wave Height |
TAO | Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean |
TGBM | Tide Gauge Bench Mark |
TIROS | Television Infrared Observation Satellite |
TMI | TRMM Microwave Imager |
TOGA | Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere |
TOPEX | Topography Experiment |
TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
TPFO | TOPEX/POSEIDON Follow-On |
TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |
TUD | Technische Universiteit Delft |
UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
UCONN | University of Connecticut |
UCSD | University of California, San Deigo |
UH | University of Hawaii |
UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
UHSLC | University of Hawaii Sea Level Center |
UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorology Office |
UMe | University of Maine |
UNCED | United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
UNOLS | University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System |
US | United States |
USCRN | United States Climate Reference Network |
USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
USDOC | United States Department of Commerce |
USDOD | United States Department of Defense |
USDOE | United States Department of Energy |
USF | University of South Florida |
USFWS | United States Fish & Wildlife Service |
USGS | United States Geological Survey |
USHCN | United States Historical Climatological Network |
USTEC | United States Total Electron Content |
USWC | United States West Coast |
UUC | Unmanned Underwater Vehicle |
UV | UltraViolet |
VHF | Very High Frequency |
VHRR | Very High Resolution Radiometer |
VI | Vegetation Index |
VIRR | Visible and Infrared Radiometer |
VIRS | Visible InfraRed Scanner |
VIRSR | Visible InfraRed Scanning Radiometer |
WCN | West Coast Node |
WCRN | West Coast Regional Node |
WCRO | West Coast Regional Office |
WMC | World Meteorological Center |
WOD | World Ocean Database |
WRF | Weather Research and Forecasting Model |
VIIRSN | Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite/Suomi-NPP |
VIIRS-N | Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite/Suomi-NPP |
VIIRS | Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite |
VOS | Voluntary Observing Ships |
VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
VPR | Video Plankton Recorder |
WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
WDC | World Data Centre |
WEPOCS | Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study |
WESTRAX | Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment |
WFO | Weather Forecast Office |
WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
WMO | World Meteorological Organisation |
WOA05 | World Ocean Atlas 2005 |
WOA09 | World Ocean Atlas 2009 |
WOA13 | World Ocean Atlas 2013 |
WOA17 | World Ocean Atlas 2017 |
WOA | World Ocean Atlas |
WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
WOD | World Ocean Database |
WPO | West Pacific Oscillation |
WRCC | Western Regional Climate Center |
WRRC | Water Resources Research Center |
XBT | Expendible Bathythermograph |
XCTD | eXpendable Conductivity-Temperature-Depth profiler |
X-SAR | X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar |
YOTO | Year Of The Ocean |