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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