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| Acronym | Meaning | Source |
|---|---|---|
| A/R | Accounts Receivable module | COAST |
| AAHIS | Advanced Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging Spectrometer | |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment | EOS |
| AAPA | American Association of Port Authorities | |
| AARI | Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (St. Petersburg Russia) | |
| AATSR | Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer | EOS |
| ABBA | Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm | |
| ABE | Autonomous Benthic Explorer | |
| ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager | |
| ABS | Advanced Baseline Sounder | |
| ACB | Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay | |
| ACC | Anthropogenic Climate Change | CLIVAR |
| ACCE | Atlantic Circulation and Climate Experiment | |
| ACCESS | Accelerated Coastal Community Environmental Science Service | |
| ACCLAIM | Antarctic Circumpolar Current Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurements | |
| ACCP | Atlantic Climate Change Program | NOAA |
| ACE | Antarctic Current Experiment | |
| ACE | Antarctic Cyclone Experiment | |
| ACE | Army Corp of Engineers | COE |
| ACM | Acoustic Current Meter | |
| ACR | Active Cavity Radiometer | EOS |
| ACRIM | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor | EOS |
| ACS | American Chemical Society | |
| ADACS | Attitude Determination and Control Subsystem | |
| ADAMMS | Archive Data and Metadata Management System | NODC |
| ADC | Affiliated Data Center | EOS |
| ADCP | Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler | NODC |
| ADE | ARGO Data Explorer | ARGO |
| ADE | Array Drive Electronics | |
| ADEOS | Advanced Earth Observing System | EOS |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing Support Division (currently ISMD) | NODC |
| ADR | Analog to Digital Recorder (sea level) | |
| ADS | Archive and Distribution Segment | NPP |
| ADS | Archive and Distribution System | NODC |
| AE | Auto-Estimator | |
| AELDS | Advanced Earth Location Data System | |
| AEM | Applications Explore Mission | TOPEX |
| AES | Atmospheric Environment Service (Canada) | EOS |
| AESOP | Automated Electronic System for Ocean Pollution | |
| AFCCC | Air Force Combat Climatology Center | |
| AFGWC | Air Force Global Weather Central | |
| AFI | Air Freezing Index | |
| AFOS | Automation of Field Operations & Services | NWS |
| AGC | Automatic gain control | |
| AGS | Ascent Guidance Software | |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union | |
| AIAA | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics | EOS |
| AID | Agency for International Development | |
| AIDJEX | Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment | |
| AIM | Application Implementation Methods | COAST |
| AIMS | Australian Institute of Marine Science | |
| AINA | Arctic Institute of North America | |
| AIP | AMSU Information Processor | |
| AIRS | Atmospheric Infrared Sounder | EOS |
| AKIN | Acoustic Institute of the Russian Academy of Science (Moscow Russia) | |
| AKM | Apogee Kick Motor | |
| ALACE | Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer | |
| ALEXIS | Array of Low Energy X-Ray Imaging Sensors | EOS |
| ALT | Altimeter | |
| AM | Amplitude Modulation | |
| AMAG | Antarctic Mapping Advisory Group | |
| AMERIEZ | Antarctic Marine Ecosystems Research in the Ice Edge Zone (OSU chemical oceanography data set) | |
| AMI | Active Microwave Instrument | NESDIS |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society | |
| AMS | Archive Management System | NODC |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer | |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit | EOS |
| AMSU-A | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-A | EOS |
| AMSU-B | Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B | EOS |
| AMT | Atlantic Meridional Transect Programme (UK) | |
| AMTS | Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder | EOS |
| ANDAS | Automated Near-real-time Data Acquiring System | |
| ANICA | Atmospheric Nutrient Input to Coastal Areas (NOAA/ARL) | NOAA |
| ANSERC | Academy of Natural Sciences Environmental Research Center | |
| ANTARES | ANTArctic RESearch | |
| ANWR | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | |
| AO | Announcement of Opportunity | EOS |
| AODC | Australian Oceanographic Data Center | |
| AOML | Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory | NOAA |
| AOSIS | Alliance of Small Island States | |
| AOV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle | |
| APES | Autonomous Pinniped Environmental Samplers | |
| APEX | Arctic Polynya Experiment | |
| APEX | Atlantische Passatwind Experiment | |
| API | Application Programming Interface | |
| APPRISE | Association of Primary Production and Recruitment in Subarctic Ecosystems | |
| APT | Automatic Picture Transmission | EOS |
| ARA | Atmospheric Radiation Analysis | EOS |
| ARCSS | Arctic Systems Science | |
| ARGO | The Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography | |
| ARGOS | Argos Data Collection and Position Location System | EOS |
| ARL | Air Resources Laboratory | NOAA |
| ARLINDO | Arus Lintas Indonen (meaning throughflow in Bahasa Indonesia) | |
| ARMSAT | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Satellite | EOS |
| ARP | Antarctic Research Program (coordinated by SCAR) | SCAR |
| ARSLOE | Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment (NODC/F181) | NODC |
| ARTS | Annual Records of Tropical Systems | |
| ASADA | Automated Smoke and Aerosol Detection Algorithm | |
| ASAR | Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar | EOS |
| ASC | Association of Systematics Collections | |
| ASCA | Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics | |
| ASCAT | Advanced SCATterometer | EOS |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers | |
| ASCII | American Standard Coded Information Interchange | |
| ASDOC | American Samoa Department of Commerce | |
| ASE | Airbourne support equipment | |
| ASF | Alaska SAR Facility | NOAA |
| ASMD | Atlas of Surface Marine Data | NODC |
| ASOS | Automated Surface Observing System | |
| ASP | Amnesiac Shellfish Poisoning (domoic acid) | |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer | EOS |
| AT | Air Temperature | |
| ATDB | Accession Tracking Data Base | NODC |
| ATES | Alcatel Espace Systems | EOS |
| ATEX | Atlantic Tradewind Experiment | |
| AtlantNIRO | Atlantic Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography | |
| ATLAS | Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science | EOS |
| ATLAS | Autonomous Temperature Line Acquisition System | |
| ATLID | Atmospheric Lidar | |
| ATMOS | Atmospheric Trace Molecules Observed by Spectroscopy | EOS |
| ATMS | Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder | |
| ATN | Advanced TIROS-N | NESDIS |
| ATOC | Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (MMRP) | MMRP |
| ATOVS | Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounding | NESDIS |
| ATS | Applications Technology Satellite | |
| ATSR-M | Along-Track Scanning Radiometer & Microwave Sounder | |
| AUV | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle | |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer | NESDIS |
| AVHRR/3 | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, Version 3 | NESDIS |
| AVISO | (French Ocean Data System) | |
| AVNIR | Advanced Visible & Near-Infrared Radiometer | NESDIS |
| AWG | Administrative Working Group | IPOMS |
| AWI | Alfred-Wegener-Institute | |
| AWIPS | Automated Weather Interactive Processing System | NWS |
| AXBT | Airbourne eXpendable BathyThermograph | |
| BAA | Business Area Architecture | COAST |
| BADGER | Bay Area Digital GeoResource (Southern CA) | |
| BALTEX | BALTic sea EXperiment | |
| BAR | Brief Access Record | NODC |
| BAT | Blue Angel Tools | NESDIS |
| BATHY | Bathythermograph | |
| BATS | Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study | |
| BB | BlackBody | NESDIS |
| BBSR | Bermuda Biological Station for Research | |
| BCA | Battery Charge Assembly | |
| BCD | Binary Coded Decimal | |
| BCF | Bureau of Commercial Fisheries | |
| BDIRC | Bay Delta Internet Resource Center (Southern CA) | |
| BEQUALM | Biological Effects Quality Assurance in Monitoring Programmes | |
| BERL | Benedict Estuarine Research Laboratory (now ANSERC) | |
| BESEX | BEring Sea EXpedition | |
| BHO | British Hydrographic Office | |
| BIO | Bedford Institute of Oceanography | |
| BIRS | Biological Information Retrieval System | NODC |
| BLM | Bureau of Land Management | US/DOI |
| BMNS | Bishop Museum of Natural Sciences | |
| BMP | Baltic Monitoring Programme (EC) | EC |
| BMPs | Best Management Practices | |
| BNDO | Bureau National des Donnees Oceaniques (France) | |
| BODC | British Oceanographic Data Center | |
| BOFS | Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study | |
| BoM | Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) | |
| BOMEX | Barbados Oceanographic & Meteorological Experiment | |
| BPI | Bits Per Inch | |
| bps | bits per second | |
| BRAN | Boulder Research and Adminstrative Network | |
| BRDF | Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function | EOS |
| BRGM | Geophysical Survey Data Centre (France) | |
| BRU | Battery Reconditioning Unit | |
| BSF | Build Sustainable Fisheries (NOAA initiative) | NOAA |
| BSMP | Beaufort Sea Monitoring Program | MMS/OCSEAP |
| BT | Bathythermograph | NODC |
| BTX | Beacon Transmitter | |
| BUFR | Binary Universal Format for Records | |
| C | Celsius | |
| C&DH | Command & Data Handling | |
| C&T | Communications and tracking | |
| CAC | Climate Analysis Center | NWS |
| CalCOFI | CALifornia COoperative Fisheries Investigation | NODC |
| CALJET | CALfonia landfalling JETs experiment | NODC |
| CAMMP | Coastal and Marine Management Program | NODC |
| CAMP | California Monitoring Program | |
| CANOPUS | Canadian Auroral Network for the Open Program Unified Study | |
| CARDEEP | CARbon dioxide and DEEPwater formation | |
| CARDS | Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set | |
| CARIACO | CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean project (USF/IMaRS) | USF |
| CARICOMP | CARIbbean COastal Marine Productivity program | NODC |
| CARMABI | CARibbean MArine Biological Institute | |
| CARNET | Croatian Academic Network | |
| CBF | Chesapeake Bay Foundation | |
| CBMP | Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program | CBP |
| CBO | Chesapeake Bay Office | NOAA |
| CBP | Chesapeake Bay Program | |
| CCALMR | Center for Coastal and Land Margin Research | |
| C-CAP | Coastal Change Analysis Project | NOAA |
| CCAR | Colorado Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| CCC | Caribbean Conservation Corporation | |
| CCC | Coral Cay Conservation | CORIS |
| CCCCS | Central California Coastal Circulation Study | |
| CCCO | Committee on Climate Changes and the Ocean | IOC |
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device | EOS |
| CCDH | Command, Communications and Data Handling | |
| CCEH | Center for Coastal Ecosystem Health (changed to CSC) | NOS |
| CCF | Central Computer Facility | |
| CCI | Commission for Climatology | |
| CCMA | Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment | NOAA |
| CCMP | Comprehensive Conservation & Management Plan | EPA |
| CCR | Cloud Cover Radiometer | |
| CCRS | Canadian Center for Remote Sensing | EOS |
| CCS | California Current System | TOPEX |
| CCS | Command and Control Subsystems | |
| CCSDS | Consultative Committee for the Space Data System | |
| CCT | Computer Compatible Tape | NESDIS |
| CDA | Command and Data Acquisition station | NESDIS |
| CDAS | Climate Data Assimilation System (NMC) | NMC |
| CDB | Coefficient Data Base | NESDIS |
| CDC | Climate Diagnostic Center | |
| CDCP | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
| CDDF | Central Data Distribution Facility | |
| CDDIS | Crustal Dynamics Data Information System | EOS |
| CDHF | Central Data Handling Facility | |
| CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center | |
| CDIU | COARE Data Information Unit (Data Catalog) | COARE |
| CDMS | Cryospheric Data Management System | EOS |
| CDRI | Climate Data Research Institute (NCDC & UNC-A) | NCDC |
| CDRI | Compressed Data Record | TOPEX |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk with Read-Only Memory | |
| CDS | Computerized Documentation System | |
| CEC | Commission of the European Communities | |
| CEDRS | Coastal Engineering Data Retrieval System | COE |
| CEER | Center for Energy and Environment Research | |
| CEES | Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences | NSF |
| CEFS | Coastal and Estuarine Forecast Systems | |
| CEMES | Centre d'Etudes de la Meteorologie Spatiale | |
| CEMSCS | Central Environmental Satellite Computer System | |
| CENR | Committee on Environment and Natural Resources research | NSTC |
| CEONet | Canadian Earth Observation Network | NCDDC |
| CEOS/WGD | Committee on Earth Observing Satellites/Working Group on Data | EOS |
| CEP | Caribbean Environment Programme | UNEP |
| CEPEX | Central Equatorial Pacific EXperiment | |
| CEPEX | Controlled Ecosystem Pollution EXperiment | |
| CERES | California Environmental Resources Evaluation System | |
| CERES | Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System | EOS |
| CERESS | Clouds & the Earths Radiant Energy System | |
| CERSAT | Centre ERS d'Archivage et de Traitement | IFREMER |
| CFC | ChloroFlouroCarbon | |
| CFP | ciguatera fish poisoning | |
| cg | Center of gravity | |
| CGC | Climate and Global Change | |
| CGDI | Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure | |
| CGDS | Compressed earth Gridded Data Sets | CZCS |
| CGDT | CZCS Gridded Data Tape | CZCS |
| CGMS | Coordination Group for Meteorlogical Satellites | |
| CGMS | Coordination of Geostationary Meteorological Satellites | |
| CH | CoastWatch Coastal Hazards Program | CoastWatch |
| CHAMP | Coral Health and Monitoring Program | CORIS |
| CICAR | Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean & Adjacent Regions | |
| CICEET | Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology | NOS, UNH |
| CICOR | Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research | |
| CIESIN | Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network | EOS |
| CIM | Cooperative Investigations in the Mediterranean | |
| CINECA | Cooperative Investigations of the Northern part of the Eastern Central Atlantic | |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer | NODC |
| CIRA | Cooperative Institute for Research the Atmosphere | |
| CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (NGDC/Univ Colo.) | NGDC |
| CISNet | Coastal Intensive Site Network | CORIS |
| CIU | Control Interface Unit | |
| CLAES | Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer | EOS |
| CLASS | Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System | NESDIS,COAST |
| CLEO | Coral Literature, Education and Outreach | CORIS |
| CliC | Climate and Cryosphere | |
| CLIMAP | Climate:Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction | NGDC |
| CLIVAR | CLImate VARiability and Predictability | WCRP |
| CM | Configuration Management | COAST |
| cm | centimeters | |
| CMA | China Meteorological Administration | |
| C-MAN | Coastal Marine Automated Networks | NOAA,NWS |
| CMD | Continuously Managed Database | IOC/WMO |
| CMDL | Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory | |
| CME | Coronal Mass Ejections | |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model | COAST |
| CMP | Climate Database Modernization Program | |
| CMP | Continuously Managed Database | |
| CMPR | Centre for Marine Research (Rovinj) | |
| CMPT | CLASS Project Management Team | |
| CMRC | Caribbean Marine Research Center | NURP |
| CMRZ | Centre for Marine Research (Zagreb) | |
| CMS | Center for Marine Science | |
| CNES | Centre National dEtudes Spatiales | NESDIS,EOS |
| CNR | National Research Council (Italy) | |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | EOS |
| COADS | Cooperative Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set | |
| COAP | Center for Ocean Analysis & Prediction (NOAA/NOS, Monterrey) | NOS |
| COARE | TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment | EOS |
| COAST | Customer Order Account Software acquisition Team (originally) | COAST |
| COAST | Customer Order Account System Tracking | COAST |
| COB | Contract Operations Branch (LISD) | NODC |
| COBLAMED | Cooperative Black and Mediterranean Seas Study (NATO) | NATO |
| CODAR | COastal raDAR or Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar | |
| CODAS | Common Oceanographic Data Analysis System (ADCP) | NODC |
| CODATA | Committee on Data for Science and Technology | |
| CODE | Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment | NODC |
| CODMAC | Committee on Data Management, Archiving, and Computing | EOS |
| CODT | Coastal Ocean Data Team | NODC |
| CODWG | Coastal Ocean Data Working Group | NODC |
| COE | US Corps of Engineers | |
| COFS | Coastal Ocean Forecasting System | |
| COHIS | COastal Hazards Information System | NOS/OCRM |
| COL | Coastal Ocean Laboratory (now known as Marine Data Stewardship Division) | NODC |
| COLA | Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies | |
| COLAP | Coastal Land-Sea-Air Processes | |
| COMET | Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training | |
| COMPASS | Combined Ocean and Marine Analysis & Scheduling System | |
| COMPS | Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System | USF |
| COMPS | Customer Order Management Processing System | NESDIS |
| CoOp | Coastal Ocean Processes | |
| CO-OPS | Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services | NOS |
| COP | NOAAs Coastal Ocean Program | NOS |
| COPDAR | Coastal Ocean Processes Data Archeology and Rescue program | |
| CORAL | Coral Reef ALliance | |
| CORE | Coastal and Ocean Resource Economics | NOS, CORIS |
| CORE | Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Engineering | |
| CORIE | COumbia RIver Estuary | |
| CoRIS | COral Reef Information System | NODC |
| CORS | Continually Operating Reference Stations | |
| COSDT | Coastal Ocean Satellite Data Team | NODC |
| COSPAR | (World Space Congress) Committee on Space Research | EOS |
| COST | Customer Order Servicing and Tracking system | NCDC |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf products | |
| CPC | Climate Prediction Center | NWS |
| CPC | Controls Power Converter | |
| CPD | Coastal Programs Division | NOS/OCRM |
| CPLOT | SEASAT data plot program | |
| CPORS | Cooperative Project in Oceanic Remote Sensing | NOAA |
| CPP | Cloud Photopolarimeter | EOS |
| CPR | COAST Progress Review (NeS/COAST) | COAST |
| CPR | Continuous Plankton Recorder | |
| CRAB | Coastal Research Amphibious Buggy | COE |
| CRAM | Institute for Scientific & Technological Research Applied to the Sea (Italy) | |
| CRAMP | Cooperative Black and Mediterranean Seas Study | |
| CRAMP | Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program | CORIS |
| CRCF | Coral Reef Conservation Fund | |
| CRCST | Calibrated Radiance, Pigment, Diffuse Attenuation Coefficient & Temperature Tape | CZCS |
| CREDDP | Columbia River Estuary Data Development Program | |
| CREST | Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce | |
| CRETM/LMER | Columbia River Estuary Turbidity Maximum/Land Margin Ecosystem | |
| CREWS | Coral Reef Early Warning System | CORIS |
| CRI | Coral Reef Initiative | CORIS |
| CRIDMS | NOAA Coral Reef Data and Information Management System | |
| CRMC | Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council | |
| CRMN | Coral Reef Monitoring Network | |
| CRMP | Comprehensive Resource Management Plan | MS DMR,NCDDC |
| CRMS,CNMI | Coastal Resource Management for Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Island | |
| CRN | Climate Reference Network | |
| CRP | Command Request Profile | |
| CRP | Conference Room Pilot | COAST |
| CRPT | COMPS Replacement (Project?) Team | COAST |
| CRRF | Coral Reef Research Foundation | CORIS |
| CRS | CoastWatch Regional Sites | |
| CRT | Calibrated Radiance Tape | |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | |
| CRTF | Coral Reef Task Force | CORIS |
| CRW | Coral Reef Watch | CORIS |
| CRYSYS | CRYospheric SYStem | EOS |
| CSA | Canadian Space Agency | EOS |
| CSALT | Caribbean Sheets & Layer Transect | |
| CSAWS | Coastal Species Alien Warning System | |
| CSC | Coastal Services Center (NOAA/NOS, formerly CCEH) | NOS |
| CSC | Computer Sciences Corporation | COAST |
| CSCOR | Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (COP) | NOAA |
| CSGDM | Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata | FGDC |
| CSI | Coastal Storms Initiative | |
| CSIC | Institute of Marine Sciences (Spain) | |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization | |
| CSKAR | Cooperative Study of the Kuroshio & Adjacent Regions | |
| CSPR | Centre for Sea Protection (Rijeka) | |
| CSR | Cruise Summary Report | IOC/WMO |
| CSR | Customer Service Representative | COAST |
| CSSTE-AP | Center for Space Science & Technology Education in Asia & the Pacific | |
| CTAB | SEASAT data tabulation program | |
| CTD | Conductivity-Temperature-Depth | NODC |
| CTS | Customer Tracking System (TSDB) | NODC |
| CU | Control Unit | |
| CUDB | Continuously Updated Data Base | |
| CUEA | Coastal Upwelling Ecosystems Analysis | |
| CVS | Concurrent Versions System | COAST |
| CW | CoastWatch | NESDIS,NODC |
| CWPPRA | Coastal Wetlands Planning Act (the Breaux Act, LA) | |
| CWTG | Coastal Water Temperature Guide | NODC |
| CZCS | Coastal Zone Color Scanner | |
| CZMA | Coastal Zone Management Act | NOS/OCRM |
| CZMP | Coastal Zone Management Program | NOS |
| D/A | Digital/Analog | |
| D3 | Data Documentation Database system | |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center | EOS |
| DAC | Data Assembly Centers | WOCE |
| DACS | Data Acquisition and Control Subsystems | NESDIS |
| DADC | Data Archive and Distribution Center | COARE |
| DADG | Data Acquisition & Documentation Group | NODC |
| DADS | Data Archive and Distribution System | EOS |
| DAG | Data Access Group (DBMD) | NODC |
| DAO | Data Assimilation Office | NASA/GSFC |
| DARN | Dual Auroral Radar Network | |
| DAS | Direct Access System | EOS |
| DAU | Decryption Authentication Unit | |
| DB | Direct Broadcast | EOS |
| dB | decibels | |
| DBAG | Data Base Advisory Group | NODC |
| DBMD | Data Base Management Division | NODC |
| dBW | decibels referenced to a watt | |
| DC | Direct Current | |
| DCP | Data Collection Platform | |
| DCS | Data Collection System | EOS |
| DCS-2 | Data Collection System, Version 2 | |
| DDF | Data Documentation Form | |
| DDHF | Digital Data Handling Facility | |
| DDL | Direct Downlink | EOS |
| DEDSL | Data Entry Dictionalry Specification Language | NASA |
| DEMIS | Dynamic Estuary Management Information System (Oregon) | |
| DEOS | Delft Institute for Earth-Oriented Space Research | |
| DEP | Data Exchange Principles | IEOS |
| DEP | Department of Environmental Protection | |
| DFO | Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans | |
| DGMF | Digital Geospatial Metadata Format | |
| DHIS | Hydrographic Institute (Split) | |
| DHS | Data Handling Subsystem | |
| DIAS | Data Inventory and Access System | NODC |
| DIF | Directory Interchange Format | |
| DINDB | Data INventory DataBase | |
| DIU | Data Information Unit | WOCE |
| DM | Data Management | |
| DMA | Defense Mapping Agency | |
| DMAC | Data Management Advisory Council | NODC |
| DMC | Data Management Committee | WOCE |
| DMD | Digital Muirhead Display | |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program | NOAA |
| DMR | Department of Marine Resources | |
| DNR | Department of Natural Resources | |
| DO | Dissolved Oxygen | |
| DOC | Department of Commerce | |
| DOC | Dissolved Organic Carbon | |
| DOD | Digital Optical Disk | |
| DOD | Department of Defense | |
| DODS | Distributed Ocean Data System | |
| DODT | Deep Ocean Data Team | NODC |
| DOE | Department of Energy | |
| DOI | Department of the Interior | |
| DOM | Dissolved Organic Matter | NODC |
| DOMES | Deep Ocean Mining and Environmental Study | NODC |
| DOMO | Deep Ocean Mining Operations | NODC |
| DOMSAT | Domestic Satellite | |
| DORIS | Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite | TOPEX,EOS |
| DOS | Department of State | |
| DP | Direct Playback | EOS |
| DPC | Data Processing Centre | IOC/WMO |
| DPC | Data Products Committee | WOCE |
| DPD | Data Collection System/Search and Rescue Processor Diplexer | |
| DPG | Data Processing Group | NODC |
| DPSS | Data Processing and Service Subsystem | |
| DPU | Data Processing Unit | |
| DRSS | Data Relay Satellite System | EOS |
| DRU | Data Recovery Units | |
| DSAC | Data Systems Advisory Council | |
| DSB | Direct Sounder Broadcast | EOS |
| DSDG | Data Synthesis & Dissemination Group | NODC |
| DSDP | Deep Sea Drilling Project | |
| DSP | Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (okadaic acid) | |
| DSRV | Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles | DOD/USN |
| DTD | Document Type Declaration | |
| DTM | Digital Terrain Mapping | |
| DTNP | Dry Tortugas National Park | |
| DTP | Desk Top Publishing | |
| DTR | Digital Tape Recorders | |
| DVNIGMI | Far-East Research Institute of HydroMeteorological Information (Vladivostok) | |
| DWBC | Deep Western Boundary Current | TOPEX |
| DWR | Department of Water Resources | |
| DWS | Doppler Wind Sounder | |
| EAC | East Australian Current | TOPEX |
| EASTROLANT | ?? | NODC |
| EASTROPAC | EAStern TROpical PACific cooperative survey | NODC |
| EBC | Eastern Boundary Currents | TOPEX |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code | |
| EC | Environment Committee | HELCOM |
| EC | European Community | EOS |
| ECMWF | European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting | |
| ECO | Earth Communications Office | CORIS |
| EcOHAB | Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms | NODC |
| ECS | Electronic Catalog System | |
| ECS | EOSDIS Core System | EOS |
| ECS | Equatorial current System | TOPEX |
| ECSN | European Climate Support Network | |
| EDBD | Environmental DataBase Directory | NODC |
| EDC | Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center | USGS |
| EDCS | SEDRIS Environmental Data Coding Specification | |
| EDIS | Environmental Data and Information Service (now NESDIS) | NESDIS |
| EDMED | European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets | |
| EDOS | EOS Data and Operations System | EOS |
| EDR | Ephemeris Data Record | TOPEX |
| EDRTS | Experimental Data Relay & Tracking Satellite | |
| EDS | Equatorial Dynamics Study | |
| EEC | European Economic Community | |
| EEGLE | Episodic Events-Great Lakes Experiment | |
| EER | External Engineering Review | EOS |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone | NODC |
| EFH | Essential Fish Habitat | NODC |
| EGMEX | Eastern Gulf of Mexico | |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement | |
| EIS | Environmental Information Services | |
| ELM | Electronics Module | |
| ELMR | Estuarine Living Marine Resources | |
| ELOISE | European Land Ocean Interaction Studies | |
| ELT | Emergency Locator Transmitters | |
| ELV | Expendable Launch Vehicle | EOS |
| EMAP/NEP | Environmental Monitoring & Prediction/National Estuary Programs | EPA |
| ENDEZ | Environmental Data Index | |
| ENEA | National Agency for New Technology, Energy & Environment (Italy) | |
| ENODC | Egyptian National Oceanographic Data Centre | NODC |
| ENSO | El Nino Southern Oscillation | |
| ENVISAT | Environmental Satellite | EOS |
| EO/JWG | Earth Observations Joint Working Group | EOS |
| EOC | EOS Operatians Center | EOS |
| EOF | End Of File | NESDIS |
| EO-ICWG | Earth Observations International Coordination working Group | EOS |
| EOS | Earth Observing System | EOS |
| EOS-AERO | EOS Aerosol Mission | EOS |
| EOS-ALT | EOS Altimetry Mission | EOS |
| EOS-AM | EOS Morning Crossing (Ascending) Mission | EOS |
| EOSAT | Earth Observation Satellite Company | EOS |
| EOS-CHEM | EOS Chemistry Mission | EOS |
| EOSDIS | Earth Observing System Data Information System | EOS |
| EOSP | Earth Observing Scanning Polarimeter | EOS |
| EOS-PM | EOS Afternoon Crossing (Descending) Mission | EOS |
| EP | Earth Probe | EOS |
| EPA | US Environmental Protection Agency | EPA |
| EPA/ORD | EPA/Office of Research and Development | EPA |
| EPIRB | Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacons | NESDIS |
| EPOC | Eastern Pacific Oceanic Conference | NODC |
| EPOCS | Equatorial Pacific Ocean Climate Studies | |
| EPOP | European Polar Orbiting Platform | EOS |
| EPOPE | Etude des processus dans l'Ocean Pacifique Equatorial | JGOFS |
| EQUALANT | Equatorial Atlantic (ICITA) | |
| ERAISA | Environmental Risk Assessment Integrative Systems Approach | |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment | NESDIS,EOS |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite | EOS |
| ERD | Easily Recoverable Data | |
| ERIC | Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones | |
| ERL | Environmental Research Laboratory | |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center | USGS |
| EROS | European River Ocean Systems | |
| ERS | Earth Remote-sensing Satellite | EOS |
| ERTS-1 | Earth Resources Technology Satellite-1 | EOS |
| ESA | Earth Sensor Assembly | |
| ESA | European Space Agency | EOS |
| ESD | Office of Education and Sustainable Development | NOAA |
| ESDIM | Environmental Services Data & Information Management | NESDIS |
| ESIP | Earth Sciences Information Partners | |
| ESM | Earth System Monitor | NODC |
| ESM | Equipment Support Module | |
| ESMR | Electronically Scanning Microwave Radiometer | |
| ESRI | Environmental Systems Research Institute | |
| ESSC | Earth System Sciences Committee | EOS |
| ETI | Expert center for Taxonomic Identification | UNESCO |
| ETS | Engineering Test Satellite | |
| ETSR | ExtraTerrestrial Solar spectral Irradiance | |
| EU | Electronic Unit | |
| EU | Equivalent Unit | COAST |
| EUL | End User Layer | COAST |
| EUMELI | EUtrophica, MEsotrophic and oLIgotrophic | JGOFS |
| EUMETSAT | EUropean organization for the exploration of METteorological SATellites | EOS |
| EURASLIC | European Association of Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres | |
| eV | electron Volts | |
| EVM | Earn Value Management method | COAST |
| EVOS | EXXON Valdez Oil Spill | |
| EWG | Environmental Working Group | |
| FACTS | Florida Atlantic Coastal Transport Study (MMS) | MMS |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions | |
| FAR | False Alarm Rate | NOAA,NWS |
| FARC | Federal Archive and Records Center | |
| FCCSET | Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology | EOS |
| FDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration | |
| FDRAKE | First Dynamic Response & Kinematics Experiment | IDOE |
| FEI | Finnish Environment Institute | |
| FGDC | Federal Geographic Data Committee | |
| FGGE | First GARP Global Experiment | NESDIS,NODC |
| FIFE | First ISLSCP Field Experiment | EOS |
| FIN | FOCI (MacIntosh) Interactive Network (~IDIDAS) | |
| FINS | Fish Information Service | CORIS |
| FIO | Florida Institute of Oceanography | CORIS |
| FIRE | First ISCCP Regional Experiment | EOS |
| FIT | Florida Institute of Technology | NODC |
| FIU | Florida International University | NODC |
| FKNMS | Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary | CORIS |
| FLICC | Federal Library and Information Center Committee | |
| FLOOD | Fleet Observations of Oceanographic Data | |
| FLTSATCOM | FleeT SATellite COMmunications | |
| FM | Frequency Modulation | |
| FMP | Fishery Management Plan | |
| FMRI | Florida Marine Research Institute | NODC |
| FMT | FGDC Metadata Team | NODC |
| FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorological and Oceanographic Center (formerly FNOC) | DOD |
| FNOC | Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center | NODC,DOD |
| FOCAL | Programme Francais Ocean & Climate dans l'Atlantique Equatorial | |
| FOCI | Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations/PMEL | NOAA |
| FODMS | Front Office Data Management System | NODC |
| FORTE | Fast On-Orbit Recording of Transient Events | EOS |
| FOV | Field-of-View | NESDIS,EOS |
| FOY | FGGE Operational Year | |
| FPSF | Frost Protect Shallow Foundation (ASCE) | |
| FRF | Field Research Facility | COE |
| FSAT | Foreign Satellite Data Acquisition Team (foreign = non-NOAA) | NESDIS |
| FSCS | Fisheries Scientific Computing System | NMFS |
| FSS | Flight Support System | |
| FST | Field Support Terminal | EOS |
| FTE | Full Time Employee | |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol | |
| FW | Filter Wheel | |
| FY | Fiscal Year | |
| FY | Feng-Yun satellite (China) | |
| GAA | GOES Active Archive | NESDIS,COAST |
| GAC | Global Area Coverage | NESDIS |
| GADR | Global Argo Data Repository | |
| GALE | Genesis of Atlantic Lows Experiment | NODC |
| GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Program | WMO/ICSU |
| GARS | Gulf of Alaska Recirculation Study | |
| GARS | German Antarctic Receiving Station | |
| GAS | General Applications System | |
| GATE | GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment | NODC |
| GBMB | Green Bay Mass Balance Study | |
| GBR | Great Barrier Reef | |
| GCC | Global Change Category | EOS |
| GCDIS | Global Change Data and Information System | CEES,EOS |
| GCFI | Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute | U. MIAMI |
| GCGC | Gulf Coast Geospatial Center | U. So. MS |
| GCM | General Circulation Model | |
| GCM | Global Climate Monitoring | |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory | NASA |
| GCMP | Guam Coastal Management Program | |
| GCOS | Global Climate Observing System | |
| GCRIO | Global Change Research Information Office | |
| GCRL | Gulf Coast Research Laboratory | U+C1006. So. MS |
| GCRMN | Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network | CORIS |
| GCRP | Global Change Research Program | |
| GDL | NGDCs Geomagnetic Data Library | NGDC |
| GDR | Geophysical Data Record | GEOSAT,TOPEX |
| GEBCO | General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean | |
| GELDS | Grid and Earth Location Data System | NESDIS |
| GEM | Gulf Ecosystem Monitoring | |
| GEMS | Global Environmental Monitoring System | |
| GEO | Geostationary Earth Observation | EOS |
| GEOMAC | Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Center | |
| GEOS | Geodetic Satellite (U.S.) | NESDIS |
| GEOS-3 | Geodynamic Experimental Ocean Satellite | NESDIS |
| GEOSAT | GEOdetic SATellite | NODC |
| GEOSECS | Geochemical Ocean Section Study | IDOE |
| GERG | Geochemical and Environmental Research Group | TAMU |
| GES DAAC | Goddard Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center | NASA |
| GETADE | IODE Group of Experts on Technical Aspects of Data Management | NODC |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment | EOS |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory | NODC |
| GFO | GEOSAT Follow-on | NODC |
| GGI | GPS Geoscience Instrument | |
| GHCN | Global Historical Climatology Network | |
| GHER | GeoHydrodynamics & Environment Research Laboratory (Belgium) | |
| GHRSST-PP | GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project | |
| Ghz | GigaHertz | |
| GILS | Government Information Locator Service (USGS) | USGS |
| GIMMS | Global Inventory, Mapping and Monitoring System | NASA/GSFC |
| GIPME | Global Investigation of Pollution in the Marine Environment | |
| GIPSY | General Information Processing System | NODC |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems | |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies | NASA |
| GL | General Ledger module | COAST |
| GLAS | Geoscience Laser Altimeter System | EOS |
| GLC | Great Lakes Commission | |
| GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA) | NOAA |
| GLFC | Great Lakes Fisheries Commission | |
| GLI | Global Imager | EOS |
| GLIMS | Global Land Ice Measurements from Space | |
| GLIS | Geographic Land Information System | USGS,EOS |
| GLL | Galileo | EOS |
| GLNPO | Great Lakes National Program Office | EPA |
| GLOBE | Global Land One-kilometer Base Elevation | |
| GLOBEC | GLOBal oceans ECosystems dynamics research | IOC/SCOR |
| GLORIA | Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic | |
| GLOSS | Global sea Level Observing System | |
| GLRS | Geodynamics Laser Ranging System | EOS |
| GMEI | Gulf of Mexico Estuarine Inventory | |
| GMS | Geostationary Meteorological Satellite | EOS |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time (Zulu or Coordinated Universal Time) | |
| GNIS | Geographic Names Information System | |
| GOALS | Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System | CLIVAR |
| GODAE | Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment | NODC |
| GODAR | Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue project | NODC |
| GODB | Global Ocean DataBase | NODC |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite | NESDIS, EOS |
| GOFS | Global Ocean Flux Study | NODC |
| GOIN | US-Japan Global Observation Information Network | NODC |
| GOLD | Global On-Line Data catalogue system (NODS) | NODC |
| GOMI | Global Ozone Monitoring Instrument | EOS |
| GoMOOS | Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System | |
| GOMOS | Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars | EOS |
| GOMP | Gulf of Mexico Project | |
| GOMR | Global Ozone Monitoring Radiometer | EOS |
| GOMS | Geostationary Operational Meteorological Satellite | |
| GOODBase | Global Ocean Observation Data Base | NODC |
| GOOS | Global Ocean Observing System (IOC) | IOC,CORIS |
| GOSSTCOMP | Global Operational Sea Surfaace Temperature Computation | |
| GOTS | Global Ocean Temperature & Salinity | NODC |
| GOWON | Gulf Offshore Weather Observing Network (F192) | NODC |
| GPCC | Global Precipitation Climatology Centre | |
| GPDMS | GeoPhysical Data Management System | |
| GPRA | Government Performance and Results Act | NOAA |
| GPS | Global Positioning Satellite | |
| GPS | Global Positioning System | |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center | NASA |
| GSMFC | Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission | |
| GTOS | Global Terrestrial Observing System | |
| GTS | Global Telecommunications System | |
| GTSPP | Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program | NODC |
| GTSPP | Global Temperature-Salinity Pilot Project | NODC |
| GUACA | Global Upper Air Climatic Atlas | NCDC |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface | |
| GVI | Global Vegetation Index | |
| GWPF | Global Water Partnership Forum | |
| h/w | hardware | NODC |
| HAB | Harmful Algal Bloom | |
| HAB DMS | Harmful Algal Bloom Data Management System | NODC |
| HABMAPS | HAB Mapping System | CSC |
| HABSOS | Harmful Algal Blooms Observing System | NOAA |
| HAEP | Hawaiian Association of environmental Professionals | |
| HALOE | Halogen Occultation Experiment | |
| HBS | Hawaii Biological Survey | CORIS |
| HCHB | Herbert C. Hoover Building | |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format | |
| HEBBLE | High Energy Benthic Boundary Experiment | |
| HELCOM | HELsinki COMmission | |
| HEPAD | High Energy Proton-Alpha Detector | |
| HEPNET | High Energy Physics Network | |
| HI | Human Interactions | EOS |
| HI | Hydrographic Institute of Portugal | |
| HIMB | Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology/Univ. of HI | U. HAWAII |
| HIMSS | High Resolution Microwave Spectrometer Sounder | |
| HIRDLS | High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder | EOS |
| HIRIS | HIgh Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | EOS |
| HIRS | HIgh-Resolution infrared Sounder | NESDIS |
| HIRS/3 | HIgh Resolution infrared Radiation Sounder/3 (equivalent for /2 also) | NESDIS |
| HIS | High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder | EOS |
| HMS | (Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm) | |
| HOTS | Hawaiian Ocean Time Series | NODC |
| HPCC | High Performance Computing & Communications | |
| HRDI | High Resolution Doppler Imager | |
| HRPT | High Resolution Picture Transmission | NESDIS, EOS |
| HSEI | Historical Significant Events Imagery | |
| HSRI | Hawaii Spill Response Center | |
| HSSTD | Historical Sea Surface Temperature Data project (WMO) | WMO |
| http | HyperText Transmission Protocol | |
| HURL | Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory | NOAA,NURP |
| HV | High Voltage | |
| Hz | Hertz | |
| IAGLR | International Association of Great Lakes Research | |
| IALA | International Association of Lighthouse Authorities | |
| IAMSLIC | International Association of Aquatic & Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers | NODC |
| IAPC | International Association for Pollution Control | |
| IAPH | International Association of Ports and Harbors | |
| IAPSO | International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans | |
| IASC | International Argo Steering Committee | |
| IASF | International Atlantic Salmon Foundation | |
| IASI | Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer | EOS |
| IATTC | Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission | |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union | EOS |
| IBCAO | International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean | |
| IBSS | Institute of Biology of Southern Seas (Ukraine) | |
| ICC | Instrument Control Center | EOS |
| ICES | International Council for the Exploration of the Sea | |
| ICF | Instrument Control Facility | EOS |
| ICITA | International Cooperative Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic | |
| ICLARM | International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management | NODC, CORIS |
| ICM | Integrated Coastal Management | |
| ICNAF | International Commission for the NW Atlantic Fisheries | NODC |
| ICOD | Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Insular Coastal Dynamics | |
| ICON | Innovative Coastal-Ocean Observing Network | |
| ICRAN | International Coral Reef Action Network | UNEP,CORIS |
| ICRI | International Coral Reef Initiatives | CORIS |
| ICSEM | International Conference for the Scientific Exploration of the Mediterranean | |
| ICSI | International Commission on Snow & Ice | |
| ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions | EOS |
| ICW | InterCoastal Waterway | |
| IDARS | InterActive Data Access and Retrieval System | NODC |
| IDIDAS | Interactive Digital Image Display & Analysis System | |
| IDL | Interactive Data Language | |
| IDM | Ion Drift Meter | |
| IDOE | International Decade of Ocean Exploration | NODC |
| IEDO | Spanish Inventory of Oceanographic Datasets | |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | NODC |
| IEF | Inventory Exchange Format | |
| IELV | Intermediate Expendable Launch Vehicle | EOS |
| IEO | Spanish Institute of Oceanography | |
| IEOS | International Earth Observing System | EOS |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation Service | TOPEX |
| IES | Inverted Echo Sounders | |
| IES/PGs | Inverted Echo Sounders with Pressure Gauges | |
| IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force | |
| IFFA | Interactive Flash Flood Analyser | |
| IFOV | Instantaneous Field-of-View | NESDIS,EOS |
| IFREMER | Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (France) | NODC |
| IFYGL | International Field Year for the Great Lakes | |
| IGBP | International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (ICSU) | EOS |
| IGCP | International Geological Correlation Program (Joint UNESCO-IUGS program) | UNESCO/IUGS |
| IGDR | Interim Geophysical Data Record | TOPEX |
| IGFOV | Instantaneous Geometric Field-of-View | |
| IGOS | Integrated Global Observing Strategy | |
| IGOSS | Inter-Governmental Oceanographic Station System | |
| IGOSS | Integrated Global Oceanographic Services System | |
| IGRF | International Geomagnetic Reference Field | |
| IGS | Institute of Geological Sciences (Ukraine) | |
| IGU | International Geophysical Union | |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year | |
| IHO DCDB | International Hydrographic Organization Data Center for Digital Bathymetry | |
| IICWG | International Ice Chartng Working Group | |
| IIOE | International Indian Ocean Expedition | |
| IIPS | Interactive Information and Processing Systems | |
| IJC | International Joint Commission | |
| IJPS | Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Satellite program | |
| IJPS AAS | Initial Joint Polar System Archive and Access System | |
| ILABS | Image Library and Browse System | |
| ILAS | Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer | EOS |
| ILT | Image Location Tape | |
| IMAFS | Interactive Marine Analysis and Forecast System | |
| IMAGES | IMAGE map System | |
| IMaRS | Institute for Marine Remote Sensing | USF |
| IMC | International Meteorological Centre (Bombay) | |
| IMCS | Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences | Rutgers,NOAA |
| IMG | Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases | EOS |
| IMGMAP | Image Mapping | |
| IMI | Irish Marine Institute | |
| IMN | Integrated Monitoring Network | CORIS |
| IMOU | International Memorandum of Understanding | |
| IMP | Interplanetary Monitoring Platform | |
| IMP | Instrument Mounting Platform | |
| IMS | Information Management System | EOSDIS |
| IMS | Institute of Marine Sciences (Univ. Alaska) | U. ALASKA |
| IMS | Interactive Multi-sensor Snow and ice mapping system | |
| IMS | International Marine Science newsletter | |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit | |
| in | inch | |
| INDEX | Indian Ocean Experiment | |
| INO | Institute for Naval Oceanography | |
| INODC | Indian National Oceanographic Data Center | |
| INPE | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espacias (Brazil,National Institute of Space Research) | |
| INSAT | Indian National Satellite | |
| IO | Inventory Organization | COAST |
| IOBC | Indian Ocean Biological Centre (Cochin) | |
| IOC | Initial Operating Capability | |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission | |
| IOCCG | International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group | |
| IODE | International Oceanographic Data Exchange | IOC |
| IOFS | Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries (Split) | |
| IOI | International Ocean Institute | |
| IOLR | Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research | |
| IOOS | Integrated Ocean Observing System | |
| IORAN | Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Science (Moscow, Russia) | |
| IP | Internet Protocol | |
| IPA | International Permafrost Association | |
| IPB | Interactive Processing Branch | NESDIS |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | EOS |
| IPD | Information Processing Division | |
| IPEI | Ionospheric Plasma and Electrodynamics Instrument | |
| IPIMAR | Institute of Marine Research (Portugal) | |
| IPO | Integrated Program Office | |
| IPO | International Project Office | WOCE |
| IPOC | International Partner Operations Center | EOS |
| IPOD | International Program of Ocean Drilling ( was DSDP) | |
| IPOMS | International Polar-Orbiting Meteorological Satellite Group | |
| IPPT | Integrated Products and Processes Team | NODC |
| IPR | Intermediate Progress Review | |
| IPS | Information Processing System | |
| IPSec | Internet Protocol Security architecture | |
| IR | InfraRed | NESDIS |
| IRBZ | Institute Rugjer Boskovic, Zagreb | |
| IROAS | Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) | |
| IRTS | Infrared Temperature Sounder | EOS |
| ISAMS | Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder | EOS |
| ISAS | Infrared Spectrometer for Atmospheric Sounding | |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project | NESDIS,EOS |
| ISIS | International Satellite for Ionosphere Studies | |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project | EOS |
| ISM | Information Systems and Management Division | NODC |
| ISMD | Information Systems and Management Division (formerly ADP) | NODC |
| ISMEX | Indo-Soviet Monsoon Experiment | |
| ISO | International Standard Organization | |
| ISOS | International Southern Ocean Studies | IDOE |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider | |
| ISPRS | International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | |
| ISRS | International Society for Reef Studies | CORIS |
| ISTP | International Solar-Terrestrial Physics | |
| IT | Information Technology | |
| ITAT | Information Technology Advisory Team | NESIDS |
| ITAVSM | Ispettorato Telecomunicazioni ed Assistenza al Volo Servizio Meteorologico (Italy) | |
| ITCZ | InterTropical Convergence Zone | |
| ITIR | Intermediate Thermal Infrared Radiometer | EOS |
| ITIS | Interagency Taxonomy Information System | |
| ITOS | Improved TIROS Operational Satellite | NESDIS |
| ITRF | International Terrestrial Reference Frame | |
| ITT-A/CD | International Telephone and Telegraph - Aerospace/Communications Division | |
| IUE | International Ultraviolet Explorer spacecraft | |
| IUGS | International Union of Geological Sciences | |
| IVHS | Intelligent Vehicle-Highway System | |
| IWG | Investigator Working Group | EOS |
| IWGDMGC | International Working Group on Data Mgt & Global Change | EOS |
| IWRA | International Water Resources Association | |
| IWSOE | International Weddell Sea Oceanographic Expedition (1968-1970) | |
| IYO | International Year of the Ocean (1998) | UN\IOC |
| JAFOOS | Joint Australian Facility for Ocean Observing Systems | |
| JAMSTEC | Japan Marine Science and Technology Center | |
| JASADCP | Joint Archive for Shipboard ADCP | |
| JASIN | Joint Air-Sea INteraction experiment | |
| JASL | Joint Archive for Sea Level | |
| JASMINE | Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Interaction Experiment | |
| JAWF | Joint Agricultural Weather Facility | |
| JCRMOD | Joint Center for Research in the Management of Ocean Data | |
| JEDA | Joint Environmental Data Analysis Center | SIO |
| JEOS | Japanese Earth Observing System | EOS |
| JERS | Japanese Earth Remote-sensing Satellite | |
| JERS | Japan's Earth Resources Satellite | EOS |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study | |
| JGR | Journal of Geophysical Research | |
| JIC | Joint Ice Center | |
| JISETA | Joint Investigation of the SouthEastern Tropical Atlantic | |
| JMA | Japanese Meteorological Agency | |
| JMCDM | Joint METOC Conceptual Data Model | |
| JODC | Japan Oceanographic Data Center | |
| JOI | Joint Oceanographic Institutions | |
| JOIDES | Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling | |
| JONSDAP | Joint Oceanographic North Sea Data Acquisition (JONSIS) | |
| JONSIS | Joint North Sea Information System | |
| JONSWAP | Joint North Sea Wave Analysis Project | |
| JOPI | Java Ocean Profile Interface | NODC |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | |
| JPOP | Japanese Polar-Orbiting Platform | EOS |
| JPWG | Joint Program Working Group | GOIN |
| JSC | NASA Johnson Space Center | NASA/JSC |
| JSTA | Japan Science & Technology Agency | |
| JSTC | Joint Scientific and Technical Committee | |
| KDC | Key Distribution Center | |
| KEEP | Kuroshio Edge Exchanage Processes study (JGOFS/Taiwan) | JGOFS |
| KEER | Kuroshio Extension Regional Experiment | TOPEX |
| keV | kilo electron volts | |
| kg | kilograms | |
| km | kilometers | |
| KNODC | Kenya National Oceanographic Data Center | |
| KODC | Korean Oceanographic Data Center | |
| KOMPSAT | (Korean earth-observing satellite) | |
| KORDI | Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute | |
| LAC | Local Area Coverage | NESDIS, EOS |
| LAGEOS | Laser Geodynamics Satellite (Italy. Launched by NASA to aid ADEOS measurements) | NASA/ADEOS |
| Landsat | Land Remote-Sensing Satellite | NESDIS,EOS |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| LaRC | Langley Research Center | NASA |
| LARC | Lighter Amphibious Resupply Cargo | COE |
| LAS | Live Access Server | |
| LATEX | Louisiana/Texas Shelf Study or Physical Oceanography Pgm | TAMU |
| LAWS | Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder | |
| LBR | Low Bit Rate, Fast Delivery | |
| LBR-FD | Low Bit Rate | |
| LCARS | Louisiana Coastal Area Restoration Study | |
| LCD | Local Climate Daily | NCDC |
| LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | |
| LDGO | Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory | |
| LDNR | Louisiana Department of Natural Resources | |
| LEO | Long-term Ecosystem Observatory | NURP,Rutgers |
| LEPOR | Long-term and Expanded Program of Oceanic exploration and Research (IOC) | IOC |
| LERTS | Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches en Teledetedion Spatiale | EOS |
| LFM | Limited-area Fine Mesh - NMC model for weekly mean surface wind drift vectors | |
| LIDAR | Light Detection and Ranging | EOS |
| LIDQA | Landsat Image Data Quality and Analysis | EOS |
| LIE | Line Islands Experiment (GARP) | GARP |
| LIMS | Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere | EOS |
| LIS | Library Information Services | |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging Sensor | EOS |
| LISD | Library and Information Services Division | NODC |
| LITE | Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment | EOS |
| LLMB | Lake Michigan Mass Balance | |
| LMD | Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique | EOS |
| LO | Liaison Officer | NODC |
| LO | Line Office | NOAA |
| LOI | Letter of Intent | |
| LOICZ | Land-Ocean Interaction in the Coastal Zone | |
| LOIS | Land-Ocean Interaction Study | NERC |
| LOV | Level Of Effort | COAST |
| LRA | Laser Retroreflector Assembly | EOS |
| LRPT | Low-Resolution Picture Transmission | NESDIS,EOS |
| LS | Library Services | NODC |
| LSA | Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry | NODC |
| LSB | Least Significant Bit | NESDIS |
| LST | Local Solar Time | NESDIS |
| LTA | Long Term Archive | COAST |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research programs | NSF |
| LTMP | Long Term Monitoring Program | |
| LUMCON | Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium | |
| LVPS | Low Voltage Power Supply | |
| LVS | Launch Vehicle System | |
| mab | meters above bottom | |
| MAB | Mid-Atlantic Bight Center | NOAA,NURP |
| MABPOM | Mid-Atlantic Bight Physical Oceanography & Meteorology | |
| MAFLA | Mississippi/Alabama/Florida Area Environmental Study | |
| MAP | Mediterranean Action Plan | UNEP |
| MARMAP | Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment & Prediction | |
| MARPOLMON-P | Marine Pollution Monitoring Program - Petroleum | |
| MARSIS | Marine Remove-Sensing Information System | |
| MASAR | MMS/Mid-Atlantic Slope and Rise Experiment | |
| MAST | MArine Science and Technology | |
| mb | millibars | |
| MBARI | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute | |
| MBL | Marine Biological Laboratory | WHOI |
| Mbps | Megabits per second | |
| MBSS | Maryland Biological Stream Survey | |
| MBT | Mechanical Bathythermograph | |
| MC | Marine Climate cruise (Israel) | |
| MCCC | Mission Control and Computing Center | |
| MCEER | Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research | |
| MCP | Meteorological Communications Package | EOS |
| MCSST | Multi Channel Sea Surface Temperature algorithm | NESDIS |
| MDB | MetaStar Metadata Data Base | BAT,NESDIS,FGDC |
| MDC | Marine Data Centre | |
| MDMWG | Marine Data Management Working Group | ICES |
| MECCAS II | Microbial Exchanges and Coupling in Coastal Atlantic Systems | |
| MEDALPEX | Mediterranean Alpine Experiment | |
| MEDAR | Mediterranean Data Archaeology | IOC/WMO |
| MEDAS | Mediterranean Environmental Database of the Adriatic Sea | |
| MEDATLAS | Mediterranean Atlas | IOC/WMO |
| MEDI | Marine Environment Data Information referral system | |
| MEDNET | Mediterranean Automated Environmental Monitoring Network | |
| MEDPOL | Mediterranean Pollution and Research Programme | |
| MEDS | Marine Environmental Data Service (Canada) | |
| MEGIS | Marine Ecosystem Geographic Information System | |
| MEL | Master Environmental Library | |
| MEL | Module Enhancers and Liaisons | COAST |
| MELV | Medium Expendable Launch Vehicle | EOS |
| MEPED | Medium Energy Proton and Electron Detector | |
| MERIS | MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer | EOS |
| MERMAid | Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid | NCDDC |
| MERTS | Marine Environmental Research and Training Station | |
| MESA | Marine Ecosystems Analysis (NY Bight & Puget Sound) | |
| MESSR | Multispectrum Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer | EOS |
| METEOSAT | Meteorological Satellite (European) | |
| METOP | Europe's METeorological Operational Program | EOS |
| METSAT | METeorological SATellite | |
| MeV | Million-electron vVolt | |
| MFPS | Multi-Frequency Acoustic Plankton Survey | |
| MGG | Marine Geology and Geophysics division | NGDC |
| MGS | Marine Geophysical Survey | |
| MGU | Moscow State University | |
| MHI | Marine Hydrophysical Institute (Ukraine) | |
| MHS | Microwave Humidity Sounder | EOS |
| MILOC | Military Oceanographic Survey | |
| MIMR | Multi-frequency Imaging Microwave Radiometer | EOS |
| MIPAS | Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding | EOS |
| MIRC | Marine Information Research Center | |
| MIRP | Manipulated Information Rate Processor | |
| MISR | Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer | EOS |
| MISWG | Mapping and Information Synthesis Group (CTRF) | |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| MITI | Ministry of International Trade and Industry | EOS |
| MIZEX | Marginal Sea Ice Zone Experiment | |
| MIZPAC | Marginal Sea Ice Zone Pacific Program (MMS) | MMS |
| MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder | EOS |
| MMBI | Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences) | |
| MMCS | Marine Meteorological Centre (Split) | |
| MMIPS | Man/Machine Interactive Processing System | |
| MMM | Maximum Monthly Mean | |
| MMRP | Marine Mammal Research Program | |
| MMS | Multimission Modular Spacecraft | |
| MMS | Minerals Management Service (formerly BLM) | MMS |
| MOA | Memorandum of Agreement | |
| 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 (Belgium) | |
| MODE | Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment | IDOE |
| MODIS-N | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer - Nadir | EOS |
| MODIS-T | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer - Tilt | EOS |
| MOHSST | Meteorological Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature | |
| MONEX | Monsoon Experiment (Indian Ocean) | |
| MONSOON | ...........(related to MONEX, INDEX) | |
| MOODS | Master Oceanographic Observations Data Set | |
| MOP | Meteosat Operational Programme | EOS |
| MOPITT | Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere | EOS |
| MOS | Marine Observation Satellite | EOS |
| MOS | Mission Operations System | |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding | |
| MPA | Marine Protected Area | |
| mps | meters per second | |
| MPSOC | Multi-Purpose Stellite Operations Center | |
| mr | milliradians | |
| MSAS | Marine Spill Analysis System | |
| MSB | Most Significant Bit | NESDIS |
| MSET | Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology | |
| MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center | NASA |
| MSFCMA | Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act | |
| MSIA | Marine Scientific Information Association (Ukraine) | |
| MSL | Mean Sea Level | |
| MSPPS | Microwave Surface and Hydrological Product System | |
| MSR | Microwave Scanning Radiometer | EOS |
| MSRC | Marine Spill Response Corporation | |
| MSS | MultiSpectral Scanner | EOS |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit | NESDIS,EOS |
| MTN | Main Telecommunication Network | IOC/WMO |
| MTPE | Mission to Planet Earth | NASA,EOS |
| MTS | Microwave Temperature Sounder | EOS |
| MTS | Marine Transportation System | NOAA |
| MTS | Marine Technology Society | |
| MU | Microwave Unit | EOS |
| MULDARS | Multi-disciplinary Data Acquisition & Retrieval System | NODC |
| MUT | Multi-Unit Tasking | |
| N/A | Not Available or Not Applicable | |
| NABE | North Atlantic Bloom Experiment | JGOFS |
| NACOA | National Advisory Committee on Oceans | |
| NACOA | North Atlantic Current | TOPEX |
| NAFAX | National Facimile Network | |
| NAISC | North American Industry Standard Classification | |
| NAMDI | National Marine Data Inventory | NODC |
| NAMFAX | National Meteorological facsimile Network | |
| NAML | National Association of Marine Laboratories | |
| NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation | |
| NARA | National Archive and Records Administration | NESDIS |
| NARB | NOAA-Network Advisory Board | NOAA |
| NAS | National Academy of Sciences | |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA |
| NASCOM | NASA COMmunications Network | NASA |
| NASDA | National Space Development Agency | |
| NATS | North Atlantic Tracer Section program | |
| NAVOCEANO | NAVal OCEANographic Office | DOD |
| NBII | National Biological Information Infrastructure | NCDDC |
| NBIS | Northern Biosphere Information System | EOS |
| NBS | National Biological Service | USGS |
| NCAAS | NOAA's CoastWatch Active Access System | NESDIS,NODC |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research | |
| NCC | Network Control Center | |
| NCC | Norwegian Coastal Current | TOPEX |
| NCCCS | Northern California Coastal Circulation Study | |
| NCCF | NOAA Central Computer Facility | NOAA |
| NCCOS | National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science | |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center | NESDIS |
| NCDDC | National Coastal Data Development Center | NODC |
| NCDS | NASA Climate Data System | NASA,EOS |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction | NOAA |
| NCIRT | NOAA Computer Incident Response Team | NOAA |
| NCRI | National Coral Reef Institute | |
| NDADS | NASA Data Archive and Distribution System | NASA |
| NDBC | NOAAs National Data Buoy Center | NOAA |
| NDBO | National Data Buoy Office | NWS |
| NDC | National Data Centre | |
| NDMC | National Drought Mitigation Center | |
| NDSI | Normalized Difference Snow Index | |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index | NESDIS |
| NEADW | NorthEast Atlantic Deep Water | |
| NEAPACC | Northeast Atlantic Palaeoceanography and Climate Change | |
| NEARSS | NorthEast Area Remote Sensing System | |
| NECC | North Equatorial CounterCurrent | TOPEX |
| NECOP | Nutrient-Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity | |
| NEdN | Noise Equivalent Differential Radiance | NESDIS |
| NEDRES | National Environmental Data Referral Service | NESDIS |
| NEdT | Noise Equivalent Differential Temperature | NESDIS |
| NEFSC | Northeast Fisheries Science Center | NMFS |
| NEGOA | NorthEast Gulf of Alaska | |
| NEGOM | Northeast Gulf of Mexico projecT | MMS |
| NEMI | National Environmental Monitoring InitiativE | NSTC |
| NeMO | New Millennium Observatory | U. Wash. |
| NEMP | North East Monitoring Program | |
| NEMS | Netscape Enterprise Messaging System. | |
| NEPA | National Environmental Protection Act | |
| NERC | Natural Environment Research Council | EOS |
| NERD | Not Easily Recoverable Data | |
| NERRS | National Estuarine Reserve Research System | NOS/OCRM |
| NERSC | Nansen Environmental & Remote Sensing Center | |
| NeS | NESDIS e-Commerce System | COAST |
| NESC | New England Seamount Chain | TOPEX |
| NESDD | NOAA Environmental Services Data Directory | NOAA |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, & Information Service | NOAA |
| NET | Nimbus Experiment Team | NASA\CZCS |
| NET | Noise Equivalent delta Temperatures | |
| NetCDF | Network Common Data Format (Unidata) | |
| NEXRAD | NEXt Generation Weather RADar | NWS |
| NFA | NOAA Finance and Administration | NOAA |
| NFWF | National Fish and Wildlife Federation | |
| NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center | NESDIS |
| NGI | Next Generation Internet | |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization | |
| NGS | National Geodetic Survey | NOS |
| NGVD | National Geodetic Vertical Datum | |
| NH | Northern Hemisphere | |
| NHC | NOAA National Hurricane Center | NWS |
| NIC | Network Information Center | |
| NIEHS | National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences | |
| NIFC | National Interagency Fire Center | |
| NIOF | National Institute of Oceanography & Fisheries (Egypt) | |
| NIS | Non-indigenous species | |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| NLSST | Non-Linear Sea Surface Temperature algorithm | NESDIS |
| nm | nanometers | |
| NMAO | NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations | NOAA |
| NMC | National Meteorological Center | NWS |
| NMDIS | National Marine Data and Information Services (Japan) | |
| NMEA | National Marine Educators Association | |
| NMPIS | National Marine Pollution Information System | |
| NMS | National Marine Sanctuaries | |
| NNAC | Norwegian North Atlantic Current | TOPEX |
| NNDC | NOAA National Data Centers | NESDIS,COAST |
| NNDC | NOAA's National Data Centers | NESDIS |
| NNIT | NOAA NPOESS Implementation Team | NESDIS |
| NNODS | NOAA/NOS Ocean Data System | NOS |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | NOAA |
| NOAADIR | NOAA DIRectory | NOAA |
| NOAALINK | NOAA Library and Information Network Catalog | NODC |
| NOARL | Naval Oceanographic and Atmospheric Research Laboratory | DOD |
| NOC | Network Operations Center | NODC |
| NOCN | NOAA Ocean Communications Network | NOAA |
| NODAR | NODC's Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue project | NODC |
| NODC | National Oceanographic Data Center | NESDIS |
| NODS | NASA Ocean Data System | NASA, EOS |
| NOHRSC | National Operational Hydrographic Remote Sensing Center | |
| NOMAD | Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device (buoy) | DOD |
| NOMES | New England Offshore Mining Experiment | |
| NOP | National Oceanic Program | |
| NOPP | National Ocean Partnership Program | NOPP |
| NORAD | North American Air Defense Command | NESDIS |
| NORLC | National Ocean Research Leadership Council (part of NOPP) | NOPP |
| NORPAC | cooperative survey of the NORthern PACific | |
| NORPAX | North Pacific Experiment | IDOE |
| NOS | National Ocean Service | NOAA |
| NOSAMS | National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry | WHOI |
| NOSC | Naval Ocean Systems Center | DOD |
| NOSIE | Ocean Science Information Exchange | NODC |
| NOST | NASA Science Office of Standards and Technology | NASA |
| NPOES | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite | NESDIS |
| NPOESS | National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System | NESDIS |
| NPOP | Navigation Product Advisory Panel | NESDIS |
| NPP | NPOESS Preparatory Project | NESDIS |
| NRA | NASA Research Announcement | NASA.EOS |
| NRAP | NOAA Rotational Assignment Program | NOAA |
| NRC | National Research Council | |
| NRCS | Natural Resources Conservation Service | |
| NRDA | Natural Resources Damage Assessment | |
| NREN | National Research and Education Network | |
| NRI | National Resources Inventory (USDA Soil Conservation Service) | USDA |
| NRL | US Naval Research Laboratory | DOD |
| NROSS | Navy Remote Oceanographic Sensing System | |
| NS&T | National Status & Trends | |
| NSC | National Security Council | |
| NSCATT | NASA Scatterometer (ADEOS) | NASA\ADEOS |
| NSDI | National Spatial Data Infrastructure | |
| NSF | National Science Foundation | NSF |
| NSCIG | National States Geographic Information Council | NCDDC |
| NSIDC | National Snow & Ice Data Center | NESDIS |
| NSN | NASA Space Network | NASA,EOS |
| NSORS | National Satellite Ocean Remote Sensing | |
| NSP | neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (brevetoxins) | |
| NSpC | National Space Council | EOS |
| NSPD | National Space Policy Directive | EOS |
| NSSDAC | NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition | NOAA |
| NSSDC | National Space Science Data Center | |
| NSSL | National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK) | NOAA |
| NSTC | National Science and Technology Council | |
| NSTL | National Space Technology Laboratories | TOPEX |
| NSTS | Nearshore Sediment Transport Study | NODC |
| NSWC | US Naval surface Warfare Center | DOD |
| NTON | National Tide Observation Network | |
| NURC | National Undersea Research Center | UCONN,CORIS |
| NURP | National Undersea Research Program | NOAA,CORIS |
| NVDS | NOAA (or National)Virtual Data System | NODC |
| NVI | Normalized Vegetation Index | NCDC\SDSD |
| NVODS | National Virtual Ocean Data System | |
| NWFSC | NOAA/NMFS/Northwest Fisheries Science Center | NMFS |
| NWI | National Wetlands Inventory | USF&WS |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction | EOS |
| NWS | National Weather Service | NOAA |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System | |
| OAMAC | Oceanic and Atmospheric Management Advisory Committee | |
| OAR | Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research | NOAA |
| OCDD | Ocean Current Drifter Data (CD-ROM set) | NODC |
| OCEAN | Ocean Climate Environmental Analysis News | |
| OceanIC | The Ocean Information Center | |
| OCEANPC | Ocean Personal Computer project | IOC/WMO |
| OCIO | Office of the Chief Information Officer | NOAA |
| OCL | NODCs Ocean Climate Laboratory | NODC |
| OCL | Ocean Climate Laboratory | NODC |
| OCLC | On-line Computer Library Center | |
| OCMP | Ocean-Coastal Management Program (Oregon) | |
| OCNMAP | OceaN MAP system (CoastWatch) | CoastWatch |
| OCNMS | Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary | |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition | |
| OCRM | NOAA/NOS Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management | NOS |
| OCS | Outer Continental Shelf | |
| OCSEAP | Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program | |
| OCTS | Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner (ADEOS) | NASA\ADEOS |
| ODAS | Ocean Data Acquisition Systems | |
| ODB | Orbit Determination Beacon | EOS |
| ODC | Ocean Data Centre | EOS |
| ODP | Ocean Drilling Program | |
| ODV | Ocean Data View | |
| OGC | Office of General Counsel | |
| OGP | Office of Global Programs | |
| OIA | Office of Integrative Activities (NSF; formerly OSTI) | NSF |
| OIA | Office of International Affairs | NOAA |
| OICAA | Oceanic Institute Center for Applied Aquaculture | |
| OIS | Oceanographic Information System | |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation | |
| OLS | OnLine Store | COAST |
| OLS | Operational Line Scanner (DMSP) | DMSP,EOS |
| OM | Order Management module | COAST |
| OMEX | Ocean Margin Exchange | |
| OMS | Orbital Maneuvering System | |
| ONR | Office of Naval Research | DOD |
| ONRL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| OOD | Operational Orbit Determination | |
| OOPC | Ocean Observation Panel for Climate | |
| OOPS | Operational Ozone Product system | |
| OOSDP | Ocean Observing System Development Panel | CCCO-JSC |
| OOV | On-Orbit Verification | |
| OPA | Office of Public Affairs | NOAA |
| OPC | Ocean Products Center | |
| OPDB | Oceanographic Profile DataBase | NODC |
| OPDIN | Ocean Pollution Data & Information Network | |
| OPOP | Ocean Product Advisory Panel | |
| OPTOMA | Ocean Prediction Thru Observation Modeling & Analysis | |
| OPUS | Organization of Persistent Upwelling Structures | |
| ORA | Office of Research and Applications | NESDIS |
| ORAD | Office of Research and Applications Division (was ORA) | NOAA |
| ORCA | Office of Ocean Resources Conservation and Assessment | NOS |
| ORCAS | Ocean Response Coastal Analysis System | URI/NOPP |
| ORD | Office of Research and Development | EPA |
| ORHAB | Olympic Regional Harmful Algal Bloom | |
| ORLC | Ocean Research Leadership Council | NOPP |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| ORV | Oceanographic Research Vessel | |
| OSA | Outer Soundings Array | |
| OSC | Orbital Sciences Corporation | |
| OSCAR | On-line Satellite Catalog Access & Request system | NCDC |
| OSD | Office of Systems Development | NESDIS |
| OSDPD | Office of Satellite Data Processing & Distribution | NESDIS |
| OSEI | Operational Significant Event Imagery | |
| OSMI | Ocean Scanning Multispectral Imager | |
| OSNLR | Ocean Science in relation to Non-Living Resources | |
| OSO | Office of Satellite Operations | |
| OSSA | Office of Space Science and Applications | |
| OSTI | Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure | NSF |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy | EOS |
| OSU | Oregon State University | |
| OT&E | Operational Test & Evaluation | COAST |
| OTEC | Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion | |
| OWS | Ocean Weather Station | |
| P/N | Pseudo Noise | NESDIS |
| PACHAB | Pacific Region Harmful Algal Blooom | |
| PAGES | Past Changes in Climate | |
| PAM | Pluggable Authentication Module | |
| PAM-D | Payload Assist Module | |
| PARKA | Pacific Acoustic Research Kaneohe-Alaska | |
| PB | PlayBack | |
| PCS | Peru Current System | TOPEX |
| Portable Document Format | ||
| PDS | Planetary Data System | |
| PEQUOD | Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics program | |
| PFEL | Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory | NMFS |
| PGS | Product Generation System | EOS |
| PHD | Pulse Height Discriminators | |
| PI | Principal Investigator | |
| PICWG | Pfisteria Interagency Coordination Working Group | |
| PIPOR | Program for International Polar Ocean Research | |
| PIRATA | Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic | |
| PIREP | Pilot Report | |
| PL | Public Law | EOS |
| PLDS | Pilot Land Data System | EOS |
| PLLO | Phase Locked Loop Oscillators | |
| PM | Phase Modulated | |
| PM | Project Manager | |
| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory | NOAA |
| PMESH | Project on Modeling Earth System History | Penn. State |
| PMR | Pressure-Modulated Radiometer | EOS |
| PMT | Photo Multiplier Tube | |
| PN | Pseudo Noise | |
| PNCERS | Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecosystem Regional Study | NOAA\COP |
| PNEDC | Programme National dEtude de la Dynamique du Climat | JGOFS |
| PNRBC | Pacific Northwest River Basins Commission | |
| POCC | Payload Operations Control Center | |
| POD | Precision Orbit Determination | |
| PODG | Physical Ocean Data Group (DBMD) | NODC |
| PODS | Pilot Ocean Data System | |
| PODTG | Precision Orbit Determination Task Group | |
| POEM | Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean | |
| POEM | Polar Orbit Earth Observations Mission | EOS |
| POES | Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites | NESDIS,EOS |
| POGR | Piston Operated Grab Respirometer | |
| POL | Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory | |
| POLDER | Polarization and Directionality of the Earth's Reflectance | EOS |
| POLES | Polar Exchange at the Sea Surface | EOS |
| POLEX | POLar EXperiment | GARP |
| POLEX-SOUTH | POLar EXperiment in the SOUTHern Ocean | |
| POLYMODE | combination of USSR POLYGON project & US MODE | |
| POMSS | Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite System | |
| POO | Platforms of Opportunity | |
| POOP | Process Oriented Observation Program | |
| POP | Product Advisory Panel | |
| PORTS | Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems | NOS |
| PPI | Office of Program Planning and Integration | NOAA |
| PPMV | Parts Per Million by Volume | |
| PPOP | Precipitation Product Advisory Panel | |
| PPR | Photopolarimeter Radiometer | EOS |
| PR | Precipitation Radar | EOS |
| PRAREE | Precise Range and Range Rate Equipment--Extended | TOPEX,EOS |
| PRF | Pulse Repetition Frequency | |
| PRIME | Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment | JGOFS |
| PRIMO | International Research Programme in the Western Mediterranean | |
| PRISM | Parameter Regression on Independent Slopes Model | OSU |
| PRMS | Pressurized Rescue Module System | |
| PROBES | Processes & Resources of the Bering Sea Shelf | |
| PROFS | Program for Regional Observing & Forecasting Services | |
| PROM | Programmable Read Only Memory | |
| PROTEUS | PROfile TElemetry of Upper ocean currents | PMEL |
| PRT | Platinum Resistance Thermometers | |
| PSA | Pacific Science Association | |
| PSB | OSDPD Product Systems Branch | |
| PSE | Power Supply Electronics | |
| PSERP | Puget Sound Environmental Research Program | |
| PSI | Planning Systems Incorporated | |
| PSMSL | Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level | |
| PSNER | Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration | |
| PSNERIS | Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Partnership Information System | |
| PSP | Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (saxitoxins and its congeners) | |
| PSS | Practical Salinity Scale | |
| PSS | Priority Sounding Station | PMEL/COARE |
| PSU | Practical Salinity Unit | |
| PU | Processing Unit | EOS |
| PVL | Parameter Value Language | |
| QA | Quality Assurance | |
| QAT | Quality Assurance Team | NODC |
| QC | Quality Control | |
| QCP | Quality Control Package | IOC/WMO |
| QUIPS | Quality Improvement Profile System | |
| RA | Radar Altimeter | EOS |
| RAC/SPA | Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas | UNEP |
| RACER | Research on Antarctic Coastal Ecosystem Rates | |
| RADARSAT | Radar Satellite (Canada) | EOS |
| RAFOS | Ranging And Fixing Of Sound | |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks | |
| RAM | Random Access Memory | |
| RAMP | RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping Project | RADARSAT |
| RAMP | Rapid Assessment of Management Parameters | |
| RAS | Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| RBAC | Role Based Access Control | |
| RBPGS | Radiation Budget Product Generation | |
| RCC | Regional Climate Centers | NOAA |
| RCE | Reaction Control Equipment | |
| RDBMS | Relational Data Base Management System | |
| REINAS | Real-time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System | |
| REX | Northwest Atlantic Regional Energetics Experiment | TOPEX |
| RF | Radio Frequency | EOS |
| RFI | Radio Frequency Interference | |
| RIDGE | Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment | |
| RIHMI | Russian Institute of HydroMeteorological Information | |
| RIS | Retroreflector in Space | ADEOS,EOS |
| RLB | Regional Libraries Branch (LISD) | NODC |
| RMBC | Regional Marine Biological Centre (Singapore) | |
| rms | Root Mean Square | |
| RMSD | Root Mean Square Difference | |
| RNN | Regional NOCN Nodes | |
| RNO | National Monitoring Network (France) | |
| RNODC | Responsible National Oceanographic Data Center | |
| RNODC | Russian National Oceanographic Data Centre | |
| RODC | Regional Oceanographic Data Center | |
| ROM | Read Only Memory | |
| ROME | Role of Organics in the Marine Environment | |
| ROPME | Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment | |
| ROSCOP | Report of Observations/Samples Collected by Oceanographic Programs | |
| ROV | Remotely Operated Vessel | |
| ROWS | Radar Ocean Wave Spectrometer | SWADE |
| rpm | Revolutions Per Minute | EOS |
| RSHMI | Russian State Hydrometeorological Institute - St. Petersburg, Russia | |
| RSI | RadarSat International | |
| RSMAS | Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science | U. MIAMI |
| RSS | Reaction Support Structure | |
| RTC | Regional Telecommunication Hub | IOC/WMO |
| RTOVS | Revised TIROS Operational Vertical Sounding | |
| RWA | Reaction Wheel Assemblies | |
| S&R | Search and Rescue | EOS |
| S/N | Signal to Noise ratio | NESDIS |
| s/w | software | NODC |
| S3 | Satellite Surface Stress | |
| S-3 | Small Scientific Satellite | |
| SA | Solar Array | |
| SA | System Architecture | |
| SAA | Satellite Active Archive | NESDIS,COAST |
| SABRE | South Atlantic Bight Recruitment Experiment | |
| SAD | Solar Array Drive | |
| SADC | Southern African Development Community | US AID |
| SAFIRE | Spectroscopy of the Atmosphere using Far Emissions | EOS |
| SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment | EOS |
| SAHFOS | Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science | |
| SAIC | Science Applications International Corporation | |
| SAILARS | Semi-Autonomous Intervention, Launch and Recovery System | |
| SAL | NOAA/NODC Satellite Altimetry Laboratory | |
| SAM | Sensing with Active Microwaves | |
| SAM II | Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement experiment (CZCS) | |
| SAMDP | Satellite and Mission Design Program | |
| SAMPEX | Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer | |
| SAMPs | Special Area Management Plans | NOS/OCRM |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder | CZCS,EOS |
| SANTA CLAuS | Studies in ANTarcticA: Coupled Linkages Among micro(u)organismS | U. HAWAII |
| SAO | Systems Acquisitions Office | |
| SAPB | Satellite Activities Progress Briefing | NESDIS |
| SAR | Search And Rescue | NESDIS |
| SAR | Synthetic Aperture Radar | NESDIS,EOS |
| SARCOM | SAR Communications - steering group for implementation of SAR data in NOAA & Navy | NOAA,DOD |
| SARP-2 | Search and Rescue Processor | |
| SARR | SAR Repeater | |
| SARS | Satellite Archive & Retrieval System | NESDIS |
| SARSAT | Search And Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking | NESDIS |
| SASS | SeaSat-A Scatterometer System | NESDIS |
| SATCU | Solar Array Telemetry Commutator Unit | |
| SAV | Submerged Aquatic Vegetation | |
| SAVE | South Atlantic Ventilation Experiment | |
| SBTA | Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technology Advice | |
| SBUV/2 | Solar Backscatter Ultra Violet Spectral Radiometer, MOD2 | NESDIS,EOS |
| SCAR | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research | |
| SCARAB | SCAnner for the RAdiation Budget | EOS |
| SCF | Satellite Control Facility | DOD\USAF |
| SCF | Science Computing Facility | EOS |
| SCIAMACHY | Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography | EOS |
| SCMS | Somali Current Monitoring System | |
| SCOC | Sediment Community Oxygen Consumption | |
| S-CODE | Super Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment | |
| SCOPE | Special Committee On Problems of the Environment | |
| SCOPE | Southern COastal Plains Expedition | |
| SCOR | Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research | |
| SCSI | Small Computer System Interface | |
| SCUDS | Surface CUrrent Data Summary | |
| SDE | Spatial Database Engine | ESRI |
| SDS | Science Data Segment | |
| SDS | Scientific Data Stewardship | NESDIS |
| SDSD | Satellite Data Service Division | NESDIS,NCDC |
| SDTS | Spatial Data Transfer Standard | |
| SeaBASS | SeaWiFS Bio-optical Archive and Storage System | |
| SEA-COOS | Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Systems | |
| SEADAC | Socio-Economic Data and Applications Center | EOS |
| SEAKEYS | Sustained Ecological Research Related to Management of the Florida Keys Seascape | FIO,CORIS |
| SEAMAP | Southeast Area Monitoring & Assessment Program | |
| SEAS | Shipboard Environmental data Acquisition System | NOS |
| SEASAT | Sea Satellite | NESDIS,EOS |
| SeaWiFS | Sea-Wide Field-of-View Sensor | NESDIS,EOS |
| SEBSCC | Southeast Bering Sea Carrying Capacity Regional Ecosystem Study | |
| SEC | Space Environment Center | NOAA |
| SEC | Sun-Earth Connection | |
| sec | seconds | |
| SEDRIS | Source for Environmental Representation and Interchange | |
| SEFSC | Southeast Fisheries Science Center | NMFS |
| SEG | Solid Earth Geophysics division | NGDC |
| SEI | Software Engineering Institute | |
| SELV | Small Expendable Launch Vehicle | EOS |
| SEM | SouthEastern Mediterranean countries | |
| SEM | Space Environment Monitor | NESDIS,EOS |
| SEM-2 | Space Environment Monitor Version 2 | |
| SEQUAL | Seasonal Response of the Equatorial Atlantic | |
| SESAME | Severe Environmental Storms and Mesoscale Experiment | |
| SET | Systems Engineering Team | COAST |
| SFA | Survey, Feedback, Action | NOAA |
| SFCG | Space Frequency Coordination Group | |
| SFDU | Standard Formatted Data Units | |
| SFERPM | South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction, and Modeling Program | NOAA,CORIS |
| SFOMC | South Florida Ocean Measurement Center | |
| SFSS | Satellite Field Service Station | |
| SFTF | South Florida Test Facility | DOD/USN |
| S-GCOS | Space-Based Global Change Observation System | EOS |
| SGLS | Space-Ground Link Systems | |
| SGRMAP | Stretched GRidded products MAP | |
| SHC | Sustain Healthy Coasts (NOAA initiative) | NOAA |
| SHF | Super High Frequency | |
| SHIPS | Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme | |
| SHOM | Service Hydographique et Oceanographique de la Marine (France) | |
| SI | Solar Influences | EOS |
| SIGCAT | Special Interest Group for CD-ROM Applications and Technology | |
| SIO | Scripps Institute of Oceanography | |
| SIP | Shelter In Place | |
| SIR-A,B,C | Shuttle Imaging Radar (A, B or C) | NASA,EOS |
| SIS | Sensor Insertion System (US Army COE) | |
| SISMER | Marine Scientific Information Systems (France) | |
| SLAR | Side-Looking Airborne Radar | |
| SLEUTH | System for Locating Eruptive Underwater Turbidity & Hydrography | |
| SLOSH | Sea, Lake & Overland Surge from Hurricanes | |
| SLP | Sea Level Pressure | |
| SLR | Satellite Laser Ranging | TOPEX,EOS |
| SM | Sensor Module | |
| SMC | System Management Center | EOS |
| SME | Subject Matter Expert | COAST |
| SMILE | Shelf Mixed Layer Experiment | |
| SMMR | Scanning Multi-frequency (or Multi-channel) Microwave Radiometer | NESDIS,EOS |
| SMMS | Spatial Metadata Management System | NCDDC |
| SMP | Symmetric MultiProcessing | |
| SMP | Synthesis and Modeling Program | JGOFS |
| SMS | Synchronous meteorological Satellite | |
| SNP | Secured Network Gateway | |
| SNR | Signal-to-Noise Ratio | EOS |
| SO | Southern Oscillation | |
| SOC | Satellite Operations Center | NOAA |
| SOC | Southern Ocean Center | |
| SOCC | Satellite Operation Control Center | NESDIS |
| SOE | Sequence of Events | |
| SOEST | School of Ocean Earth Science and Technology/Univ. of HI | U. HAWAII |
| SOFAR | Sound Fixing and Ranging | |
| SOHO | Solar and Heliospheric Observatory | |
| SOLSTICE | Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment | EOS |
| SONIC | SPAN Ocean Network Information Center | |
| SONS | Spills of National Significance | |
| SOOP | Ship of Opportunity Program | |
| SOOPIP | Ship-of-Opportunity Program Implementation Panel | IOC/WMO |
| SOP | Standard Operating Proceedure | NODC |
| SOW | Statement of Work | |
| SPAMR | Statistics Page And Management Reports team | NODC |
| SPAN | Space Physics Analysis Network (terminated. Later referred to as NSI-DECnet) | |
| SPAS | Solar Patrol & Alert Service | |
| SPAT | Sensor Performance and Analysis Team | |
| SPCZ | South Pacific Convergence Zone | |
| SPIDR | Space Physics Interactive Data Resource | NGDC,COAST |
| SPLASH | Special Program to List the Amplitudes of Surges from Hurricanes | |
| SPMT | Service Permanent des Marees Terrestres (Permanent Service on Earth Tides)(Brussels) | |
| SPN | Shared Processing Network | |
| SPOT | Satellite Pour lObservation de la Terre | |
| SPOT | Systeme pour l'Observation de la Terre | EOS |
| SPRB | Satellite Progress Review Board | |
| SPS | Sensor Performance Summaries | |
| SPSRB | Satellite Products and Services Review Board | |
| SR | Scanning Radiometer | NESDIS |
| SRA | Scanning Radar Altimeter | SWADE |
| SRA | SAR Receiver Antenna | |
| SRB | Solid Rocket Boosters | |
| SRL | Shuttle Research Laboratory | EOS |
| SRV | Submerged Rooted Vegetation | |
| SSALT | Solid-State ALTimeter | EOS |
| SSBUV | Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet | EOS |
| SSBUV | Space Studies Board | EOS |
| SSD | Satelite Services Division | NESDIS |
| SSD | Solid State Detectors | |
| SSDOO | Space Science Data Operations Office | NASA/GSFC |
| SSEC | Space Science and Engineering Center | NESDIS,EOS |
| SSEOP | Space Shuttle Earth Observations Project | |
| SSFC | Severe Storms Forecast Center (Kansas City, MO) | NWS |
| SSIPS | Satellite SST Image Processing System | |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager | DMSP,EOS |
| SSM/T | Special Sensor Microwave/Temperature | DMSP,EOS |
| SSMC | Silver Spring Metro Center | NOAA |
| SSME | Space Shuttle Main Engines | NASA |
| SSMIS | Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder | |
| SSP | Scientific Services and Product Development | NODC |
| SSRIMFO | Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries & Oceanography | |
| SSS | Sea Surface Salinity | |
| SSST | Sequential Sampling Sediment Trap | |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature | |
| SSTA | Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly | |
| SSU | Stratospheric Sounding Unit | NESDIS,EOS |
| SSV | Space Shuttle Vehicle | |
| STA | Science & Technology Agency (Japan) | EOS |
| STACS | Subtropical Atlantic Climate Study | |
| STCC | South Tropical Counter Current | TOPEX |
| STD | Salinity-Temperature-Depth profiler | |
| STDN | Spacecraft Tracking and Data Network | |
| STIKSCAT | Six Stick fan-beam Scatterometer | EOS |
| STMR | Scanning (TOPEX) Microwave Radiometer | TOPEX |
| STP | NGDCs Solar-Terrestrial Physics division | |
| STScI | Space Telescope Science Institute | |
| SUSCOS | Subcommittee on U.S. Coastal Ocean Science | |
| SUW | Sub-tropical Underwater | |
| SWADE | Surface Wave Dynamics Experiment | |
| SWAR | Short Wave Absorbed Radiation | |
| SWFSC | Southwest Fisheries Science CenteR | NMFS |
| SWG | Science Working Group | EOS |
| SWG | Standards Working Group | |
| SWIR | Short Wavelength Infrared | EOS |
| SWIRLS | Stratospheric Wind Infrared Limb Sounder | |
| SXI | Solar X-Ray Imager | |
| T/P | TOPEX/POSEIDON (altimeter satellite) | TOPEX |
| T/V | Thermal/Vacuum | |
| TABS | Texas Automated Buoy System | TAMU/GERG,CSC |
| TAEM | Terman Approach Energy Management | |
| TAG | Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse | |
| TAMU | Texas A&M University | TAMU |
| TAO | Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean array (buoys) | NDBC (orig. PMEL) |
| TAPS | Trans-Alaska Pipeline Study | |
| TAR | Third Assessment Report | |
| TBD | to be determined | |
| TBM | Terabit Memory | NESDIS |
| TBUS | TIROS Bulletin United States | NESDIS |
| TBW | to be written | |
| TCE | Thermal Control Electronics | |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol | |
| TCS | Thermal Control Systems | |
| TDIF | TOPEX Data Information Facility | TOPEX |
| TDRS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite | |
| TDRSS | Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System | NASA,EOS |
| TDS | TOPEX Data System | TOPEX |
| TECU | Total Electric Content Unit | |
| TED | Total Energy Detector | |
| TED | Turtle Excluder Device | NMFS |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer | EOS |
| TESAC | Temperature, Salinity and Current | JODC |
| THIR | Temperature-Humidity Infrared Radiometer | CZCS |
| TIA | Technical Implementation Agreement | |
| TIP | TIROS Information Processor | NESDIS |
| TIROS | Television Infrared Observation Satellite | NESDIS,EOS |
| TIWE | Tropical Instability Wave Experiment | |
| TM | Thematic Mapper (Landsat) | NESDIS,EOS |
| TMAP | Thermal Modeling and Analysis Project | PMEL |
| TMR | TOPEX Microwave Sounder | TOPEX |
| TOA | Top of Atmosphere | |
| TOC | Total Organic Carbon | |
| TOGA | Tropical Ocean/Global Atmosphere | NESDIS,NODC |
| TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer | |
| TOMS-EP | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe | |
| TOP | The Ocean Project (an aquarium, zoo & science museum consortium) | |
| TOPEX | ocean TOPography EXperiment | |
| TOS | The Oceanography Society | |
| TOS | TIROS Operational Satellite | NESDIS |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Satellite | NESDIS |
| TRACKOB | Report of Marine Surface Observations Along A Ship's Track | IOC/WMO |
| TRANSPAC | Thermal Structure Monitoring Program in the Pacific | |
| TRED | Taxonomic Resources and Expertise Directory | |
| TRMM | Technical Reference Manual | |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission | |
| TRR | Test Readiness Reviw | |
| TSDB | Time Series DataBase | NODC |
| TSN | Taxonomic Serial Number | NODC |
| TSS | Total Suspended Solids | |
| TTL | Transistor-Transistor Logic | |
| TTO | Transient Tracers in the Ocean | |
| TU | Transport Units | |
| TUD | Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology) | |
| TWAIN | Technology Without An Interesting Name | |
| TWG | Technical Working Group | IPOMS |
| UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite | |
| UAT | User Acceptance TEsting | COAST |
| UBT | Universal Bathythermograph | |
| UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research | |
| UCONN | University of Connecticut | |
| UCSD | University of California, San Deigo | |
| UEF | User Ephemeris File | |
| UFAS | User Feedback and Survey | NODC |
| UG | Underwater Grasses | |
| UH/WRRC | Univ. of Hawaii Water Resources Research Center | |
| UHF | Ultra High Frequency | |
| UHI | University of Hawaii | U. HAWAII |
| UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office | |
| UkrSCES | Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea | |
| UNCED | UN Conference on Environment & Development | UN |
| UNCW | University of North Carolina - Wilmington | NURP |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme | UN |
| UNEP | United Nations Environmental Programme | UN |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | UN |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change | UN |
| UNH | University of New Hampshire | UNH |
| UNIOC | United Nations Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Project | |
| UNOLS | University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System | |
| UOT | Upper Ocean Thermal | WOCE |
| URI/GSO | University of Rhode Island/Graduate School of Oceanography | URI/GSO |
| USACE | US Army Corps of Engineers | COE |
| USAID | US Agency for International Development | US AID |
| USCRN | US Climate Reference Network | NOAA |
| USDA | US Department of Agriculture | USDA |
| USF | University of South Florida | USF |
| USF&WS | US Fish & Wildlife Service (US/DOI) | USF&WS |
| USG | User Services Group | NODC |
| USGCRP | US Global Change Research Program | CEES,EOS |
| USGS | US Geological Survey | |
| USHCN | US Historical Climatological Network | |
| USM | University of Southern Mississippi | |
| USO | Ultra Stable Oscillator | |
| UTC | coordinated Universal Time Code (Zulu or Greenwich Mean Time) | |
| UUV | Unmanned Underwater Vehicle | |
| UV | UltraViolet | |
| UVI | UltraViolet Imager | |
| VAHB | Vandenberg Air Force Base | DOD |
| VCO | Voltage Controlled Oscillator | |
| VCP | Voluntary Co-operation Programme | |
| VCTC | Velocity, Conductivity, Temperature, Density | TOPEX |
| VHF | Very High Frequency | |
| VHRR | Very High Resolution Radiometer | NESDIS |
| VI | Vegetation Index | NESDIS |
| VIRR | Visible and Infrared Radiometer | NESDIS |
| VIRS | Visible InfraRed Scanner | NESDIS,EOS |
| VIRSR | Visible InfraRed Scanning Radiometer | EOS |
| VIS | Visible | NESDIS,EOS |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry | TOPEX |
| VNIR | Visible and Near -InfraRed | EOS |
| VNIRO | Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography | |
| VOS | Voluntary Observing Ships program | NOAA |
| VPD | Vacuum Photo Diode | |
| VPN | Virtual Private Networking | |
| VPR | Video Plankton Recorder | |
| VRA | VHF real-time antenna | |
| VTC | Video TeleConference | |
| VTIR | Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer | EOS |
| VTPR | Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer | |
| VTX | VHF real-time transmitter | |
| WAMEX | West African Monsoon Experiment | |
| WBD | World Biodiversity Database | |
| WBDCS | Wide Band Data Collection System | |
| WBS | Work Breakdown Structure | COAST |
| WCMC | World Conservation Monitoring Centre | UN,CORIS |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Program | EOS |
| WDC-A | World Data Center-A | NODC |
| WDC-A,B,C | World Data Center - A,B or C | |
| WDOE | Washington State Department of Ecology | |
| WEFAX | Weather Facsimile | NOAA |
| WEPOCS | Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study | |
| WESTRAX | Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment | |
| WFF | Wallops Flight Facility | NESDIS,EOS |
| WFO | Weather Forecast Office | NWS |
| WGMS | World Glacier Monitoring Service | |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | NODC |
| WIT | Web Information Team | NODC |
| WMCC | Western Maine Coastal Current | |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization | NODC |
| WOA | World Ocean Atlas | NODC |
| WOA94 | World Ocean Atlas 1994 | NODC |
| WOAF | World Ocean Atlas Figures | NODC |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment | WOCE,NODC |
| WOD | World Ocean Database | NODC |
| WOD-98 | World Ocean Database 1998 | NODC |
| WORM | Write Once, Read Many | |
| WPO | West Pacific Oscillation | |
| WR | Western Range | |
| WRCC | Western Regional Climate Center | NWS |
| WRRC | Water Resources Research Center | U. HAWAII |
| WSMC | Western Space and Missle Center | EOS |
| WSSD | World Summit on Sustainable Development | |
| WWB | World Weather Building | NOAA |
| WWD | West Wind Drift | TOPEX |
| WWW | World-Wide Web | |
| wx | Weather | |
| XBT | eXpendable Bathythermograph | NODC |
| XCTD | eXpendable Conductivity-Temperature-Depth profiler | NODC |
| XIE | X-ray Imaging Experiment | |
| XML | eXtensible Markup Language | |
| X-SAR | X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar | EOS |
| XSU | Cross-Strap Unit | |
| XTE | X-ray Timing Explorer | |
| Y2K | Year 2000 | |
| YOTO | Year Of The Ocean | |
| YugNIRO | Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries & Oceanography | |
| Z | Zulu (Coordinated Universal Time or Greenwich Mean Time) | |
| ZPOP | oZone Product Advisory Panel | NESDIS |
(Last updated 27 February 2004 by Mary Hollinger)
Please send Additions or Comments to Mary Hollinger or Daphne Johnson
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