Ocean Acronyms

AAHIS	Advance Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer
AATSR	Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer
ACC	Antarctic Circumpolar Current
ACCE	Atlantic Circulation and Climate Experiment
ACCLAIM	Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements
ACCP	Atlantic Climate Change Program
ACM	Acoustic Current Meter
ADAMMS	Archive Data and Metadata Management System
ADCP	Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
ADEOS	Advanced Earth Observing System
AEROCE	Atmosphere/Ocean Chemistry Experiment
AGU	American Geophysical Union
AIMS	Australian Institute of Marine Science
AMO	Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
AMT	Atlantic Meridional Transect
AODC	Australian Oceanographic Data Center
AOGCM	Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
AOV	Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
ARIES	Autosampling and Recording Instrumental Environmental Sampler
ASI	Austral Summer Institute
ASOS	Automated Surface Observing System
AtlantNIRO	Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography
ATSR	Along Track Scanning Radiometer
AVHRR	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AWI	Alfred-Wegener Institute
BATS	Bermuda Atlantic Time series Study
BBSR	Bermuda Biological Station for Research
BCLME	Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem
BIO	Bedford Institute of Oceanography
BIOMAPER	Bio-Optical Multifrequency Acoustical and Physical Environmental Recorder
BIONESS	Bedford Institute of Oceanography Net and Environmental Sampling
BIOS	Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences
BODC	British Oceanographic Data Centre
BSH	Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie
CalCOFI	California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
CalVET	California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Vertical Egg Tow
CAMP	California Monitoring Program
CBD	Convention on Biological Diversity
CCAMLR	Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CCS	California Current System
CEO	Centre for Earth Observation
CEOS	Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
ChloroGIN	Chlorophyll Globally Integrated Network
CLIVAR	Climate Variability and predictability
COCAS	Coordination of Carbon Observing System
CODATA	ICSU Interdisciplinary Scientific Committee on Data for Science and Technology
CofE	Centre of Excellence
CoML	Census of Marine Life
CONA	Comité Oceanográfico Nacional (Chile)
CONAE	Argentinean National Commission of Space Activities
COOP	Coastal Ocean Observation System
CoP	Community of Practice
COPAS	Center for Oceanographic Research in the eastern South Pacific
CPR	Continuous Plankton Recorder
CPUE	Catch Per Unit Effort
CSA	Canadian Space Agency
CSIR	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CSR	Cruise Summary Report
CTD	Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
CZCP	Coastal Zone Community of Practice
DBCP	Data Buoy Cooperation Panel
DEOS	Dynamics of Earth Ocean Systems
DevCoCast	GEONETCast applications for and by Developing Countries
DIVERSITAS	An international programme of biodiversity science
DOD	Deutsches Ozeanographisches Datenzentrum
EAF	Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
EAM	Ecosystem Approach to Management
EBONE	European Biodiversity Observation Network
EC	European Commission
ECOOP	European Coastal Sea Operational observing and forecasting system
EEZ	Exclusive Economic Zone
EMODNET	European Marine Observation and Data Network
EMSO	European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory
Envisat	Environmental satellite mission of the European Space Agency
EO	Earth Observations
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency (US)
EROS	Earth Resources Observing Satellite
ERS	European Remote-sensing Satellite
ESA	European Space Agency
ESEAS	European Sea-Level Service
ESONET	European Seafloor Observatory Network
ESSP	Earth System Science Partnership
EU	European Union
EUMETCast	EUMETSAT Broadcast System for Environmental Data
EUMETSAT	European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EurOcean	European Centr for Information on Marine Science and Technology
EUROGOOS	European Global Observing System
EuroSITES	European Ocean Observatory Network
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FP7	European Union 7th Framework Programme
GBA	Global Biodiversity Assessment
GBIF	Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GBRDS	Global Biodiversity Resources Discovery System
GCI	GEOSS Common Infrastructure
GCOS	Global Climate Observation System
GCRMN	Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network
GEF	Global Environment Facility
GEO	Group on Earth Observations
GEOBENE	Global Earth Observation Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging
GEO-BON	GEO Biodiversity Observation Network
GEOHAB	Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping
GEONET	GPS Earth Observation Network System (Japan)
GEONETCast	A near real time, global network of satellite-based data dissemination systems
GEOSS	Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GEOTOPS	GEO Training Opportunity Networks
GIS	Geographic Information System
GLOBEC	Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics project
GLOSS	Global Sea Level Observing System
GMA	Global Marine Assessment
GMES	Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
GODAE	Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GOOS	Global Ocean Observing System
GOS	Global Observing System
GOSAT	Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite
GPS	Global Positioning System
GRA	GOOS Regional Alliance
GTOS	Global Terrestrial Observation System
HARON	Hydrological Applications and Run-Off Network
HOTO	Health Of The Oceans
IBI-ROOS	Iberia-Biscay-Ireland Regional Operational Oceanographic System
IBM	Individual Based Model
IBMN	International Biodiversity Monitoring Network
IBOY	International Biodiversity Observation Year
ICES	International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
ICID	International Cruise Information Database
ICNAF	International Commission for Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
ICSU	International Council for Science
IEO	Instituto Español de Oceanografía
IFM-GEOMAR	Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel
IFREMER	Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la MER
IGBP	International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGCO	Integrated Global Carbon Observation
IGOS	Integrated Global Observing Strategy
IHO	International Hydrographic Organization
ILTER	International Long Term Ecological Research network
IMarEST	Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
IMBER	Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research
INCOIS	Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
INSU	L'Institut National des Sceinces de l'Univers du CNRS
IOC	Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IOCCG	International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
IOCCP	International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project
IODE	International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange
IODP	Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IORGC	Institute of Observational Research for Global Change
IPCC	Interngovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPY	International Polar Year
IRSA	Institute of Remote Sensing Applications
IUBS	International Union of Biological Sciences
IUCN	International Union for the Conservation of Nature
IUGG	International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IUTWS	Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System
JAMSTEC	Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology
JASON	Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network
JCOMM	Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meterology
JCOMMOPS	JCOMM in-situ Observing Platform Support Centre
JGOFS	Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
J-PICO	Joint Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations
JRC	Joint Research Centre (EC)
KORDI	Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute
LME	Large Marine Ecosystem
LMR	Living Marine Resources
MarBEF	Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
MA-RE	Marine Research Institute (Cape Town)
MARIS	Marine Information Service
MDG	Millennium Development Goals
MedGOOS	Mediterranean Global Ocean Observing System
MERSEA	Marine Environment and Security for the European Area
MIA	Marine Information Alliance
MPA	Marine Protected Area
NAO	North Atlantic Oscillation
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
N&I	News and Information Group
NEPTUNE	North-east Pacific Time-series Undersea Network Experiments
NERC	Natural Environment Research Council
NESDIS	National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NF	Nippon Foundation
NIOZ	Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
NMFS	National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOCS	National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
NODC	National Oceanographic Data Centre
NPGO	Nroth Pacific Gyre Oscillation
OBIS	Ocean Biogeographic Information System
OCCM	Ocean Carbon Cycle Model
OceanSITES	Ocean Sustained Interdisciplinary Time series Environment
OCO	Orbiting Carbon Observatory
OECD	Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OFEG	Ocean Facilities Exchange Group
OGC	Open Geospatial Consortium
OGCM	Ocean General Circulation Model
OOI	Ocean Observatories Initiative
OOPC	Ocean Observations Panel for Climate
OPC	Optical Plankton Counter
OSSE	Observing System Simulation Experiment
NOCS	National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton
PAGES	Past Global Changes
PDO	Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PICO	Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations
PML	Plymouth Marine Laboratory
POGO	Partnership for the Observation of the Global Oceans
POL	Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
POLCOMS	Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System
QZSS	Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
RAC	Regional Advisory Councils
RADARSAT	Satellite observing system (Canada)
RAMP	Rapid Assessment of Marine Pollution
ROMS	Regional Ocean Modelling System
ROV	Remotely Operated Vehicle
SAFARI	Societal Applications in Fisheries Aquaculture using Remotely-Sensed Imagery
SAHFOS	Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
SAR	Synthetic Aperture Radar
SBA	Societal Benefit Area
SCAR	Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCCOOS	Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
SCOR	Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SeaDataNet	Pan-European infrastructure for Ocean and Marine Data Management
SEAPODYM	Spatial Environmental Population Dynamics Model
SeaWiFS	Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
SEREAD	Scientific Educational Resources and Experiene Associated with the Deployment of Argo profiling floats in the South Pacific Ocean
SHOA	Servicio Hidrográfico y Oceanográfica de la Armada
SIO	Scripps Institute of Oceanography
SIPPER	Shadowed Image Particle Profiling Evaluation Recorder
SOI	Southern Oscillation Index
SOLAS	Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
SOOS	Southern Ocean Observing System
SOT	Ship Observations Team
SRDL	Satellite Relay Data Logger
TEMA	Training, Education and Mutual Assistance
THC	Thermohaline Circulation
UCT	University of Cape Town
UN	United Nations
UNCED	United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNCLOS	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
UNOLS	University-National Oceanographic Laboratory Systems
VENUS	Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea
VLIZ	Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
VPR	Video Plankton Recorder
WCRP	World Climate Research Programme
WHO	World Heath Organization
WHOI	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WMO	World Meterological Organization
WOCE	World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WSSD	World Summit on Sustainable Development

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