AABW |
Antarctic Bottom Water |
AAIW |
Antarctic Intermediate
Water |
ACC |
Antarctic Circumpolar
Current |
ACCE |
Atlantic Climate Change
Experiment |
ACCP |
Atlantic Climate Change
Program (US) |
ACW |
Antarctic Circumpolar
Wave |
ADCP |
Acoustic Doppler Current
Profiler |
ADEOS |
ADvanced Earth Observing
Satellite (Japanese NASDA satellite) |
AIMS |
Analysis, Interpretation
Modelling and Synthesis (Phase of WOCE) |
AIRS |
Atmospheric InfraRed
Sounder |
AJAX |
1980s survey of Southern
Oceans |
ALACE |
Autonomous LAgrangian
Circulation Explorer |
AMI |
Advanced Microwave
Instrument |
AMIP |
Atmospheric Model Intercomparison
Project |
AMS |
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
AMSR |
Advanced Microwave
Scanning Radiometer |
AO |
Arctic Oscillation |
AOML |
Atlantic Oceanographic
& Meterological Laboratory (NOAA, USA) |
Argo |
Operational profiling
float programme (CLIVAR-GODAE) |
ARGOS |
Satellite location
and data transmission system |
ASUKA |
Affiliated Surveys
of the Kuroshio off Cape Ashizuri |
AVHRR |
Along-track Very High
Resolution Radiometer (on ERS satellites) |
AXBT |
Air-dropped expendable
bathythermograph |
BODC |
British Oceanographic
Data Centre (UK) |
BSH |
Bundesamt fuer Seeschiffahrt
und Hydrographie (Germany) |
BW |
Bottom water |
CBDW |
Canadian Basin Deep
Water |
CCCO |
Committee on Climate
Change and the Ocean |
CDW |
Circumpolar Deep
Water |
CDIAC |
Carbon Dioxide Information
Analysis Center (US Department of Energy) |
CFC |
Chloro-fluoro carbon |
CGFZ |
Charlie Gibbs Fracture
Zone |
CLIVAR |
Climate
Variability and Predictability study (a part of WCRP) |
CMDAC |
Current
Meter Data Assembly Center (WOCE) |
CME |
Community Modelling
Experiment/Effort (USA) |
CMIP |
Coupled Model Intercomparison
Project |
COADS |
Comprehensive
Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
COAPS |
Center
for Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction Studies (USA) |
COARE |
Coupled
Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
COG |
Committee on Oceanography
and GARP |
CP |
Core Project (WOCE) |
CRC |
Climate Research Committee |
CRM |
Certified Reference
Manual |
CSM |
Climate System Model |
CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) |
CTD |
Conductivity-Temperature-Depth
(profiler) |
CUEA |
Coastal Upwelling Experiment-A |
DAC |
Data Assembly Centre
(WOCE) |
DBCP |
Data Buoy Cooperation
Panel |
DBE |
Deep Basin Experiment
(WOCE) |
DIU |
Data Information Unit |
DKRZ |
Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
(German Climate Computing Centre ) |
DMSP |
Defense Meteorological
Space Program |
DOE |
Department of Energy
(US) |
DPC |
Data Products Committee |
DQE |
Data Quality |
DSOW |
Denmark Strait Overflow
Water |
DWBC |
Deep Western Boundary
Current |
DYNAMO |
Dynamics
of North Atlantic Models (EU Project) |
EACC |
East African Coast
Current |
EAZO |
Energetically Active
Zones of the Ocean |
EBDW |
Eurasian Basin Deep
Water |
ECCO |
Estimation of the Circulation
and Climate of the Ocean |
ECMWF |
European
Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts |
EEZ |
Exclusive Economic
Zone |
EIC |
Equatorial Intermediate
Current |
ENSO |
El-Niño - Southern
Oscillation |
ENVISAT |
ESA Satellite |
EPR |
East Pacific Rise |
ERBE |
Earth Radiation Budget
Experiment |
ERS-1, ERS-2 |
European Remote
Sensing Satellites |
ESA |
European Space Agency |
EU |
European Union |
EUC |
Equatorial Undercurrent |
FGGE |
First GARP Global Experiment |
FRAM |
Fine Resolution Antarctic
Model (UK) |
FSU |
Florida State University
(USA) |
GARP |
Global Atmospheric
Research Programme |
GATE |
GARP Atlantic Tropical
Experiment |
GCOS |
Global Climate Observing
System |
GCM |
General Circulation
Model |
GCOM |
Global Change Observation
Mission |
GDP |
Global Drifter Programme |
GEBCO |
General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans |
GEOSAT |
Altimeter
Satellite |
GEOSECS |
GEochemical
Ocean SECtions Study |
GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory (USA) |
GLOBEC |
Global
Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics (SCOR-IOC) |
GM |
Gent- McWilliams
/ Garrett and Munk prescription |
GOALS |
Global
Ocean Atmosphere Land System (CLIVAR component) |
GOCE |
Gravity Field and Steady-State
Ocean Circulation Explorer (Proposed satellite) |
GODAE |
Global
Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GOOS) |
GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing
System |
GPCP |
Global Precipitation
Climatology Project |
GPS |
Global Positioning
System |
GRACE |
Gravity
Recovery and Climate Experiment (Proposed satellite) |
GSDW |
Greenland Sea Deep
Water |
GTS |
Global Telecommunication
System |
GTSPP |
Global Temperature-Salinity
Pilot Project |
HEM |
Horizontal Electric
Field Meter |
HOPE |
Hamburg Ocean Primitive
Equation Model |
IAPSO |
International Association
of Physical Sciences of the Ocean |
IB |
Inverted Barometer |
ICSU |
International Council
for Science |
|
[Formerly: International
Council for Scientific Unions] |
IDOE |
International Decade
of Ocean Exploration |
IES |
Inverted Echo Sounder |
IFREMER |
Institut
Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer |
IGBP |
International Geosphere-Biosphere
Programme (ICSU) |
IGOS |
Integrated Global
Observing Strategy |
IGOSS |
Integrated Global Observing
Services System |
IGY |
International Geophysical
Year |
IMET |
Improved Meteorological
Measurements system (USA) |
IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission |
IODE |
International Oceanographic
Data and Information Exchange (IOC) |
IOSDL |
Institute of Oceanographic
Sciences Deacon Laboratory (UK) |
IOSTMW |
Indian
Ocean Subtropical mode water |
IPO |
International Planning/Project
Office |
IPCC |
Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change |
ISCCP |
International Satellite
Cloud Climatology Project |
ISO |
Intra Seasonal Oscillation |
ISOS |
International Southern
Ocean Studies |
ISW |
Ice Shelf Water |
ITF |
Indonesian Through
Flow |
IW |
Intermediate Water |
IWP |
Intergovernmental WOCE
Panel |
JMA |
Japan Meteorological
Agency |
JCOMM |
Joint
IOC-WMO Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology |
JDIMP |
Joint Data and Information
Management Panel |
JGM |
Joint Gravity Model |
JGOFS |
Joint Global Ocean
Flux Study (IGBP) |
JOC |
Joint Organising Committee |
JODC |
Japan Oceanographic
Data Centre |
JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(USA) |
JSC |
Joint Scientific Committee |
KAPEX |
Cape
of Good Hope Experiment |
LADCP |
Lowered
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
LCDW |
Lower Circumpolar Deep
Water |
LCPW |
Lower Central Pacific
Water |
LDEO |
Lamont -Doherty Earth
Observatory (USA) |
LEIC |
Lower Equatorial
Intermediate Current |
LGM |
Last glacial maximum |
LH |
Latent heat |
LIW |
Levantine Intermediate
Water |
LMD |
Laboratoire de Meteorologie
Dynamique (France) |
LODYC
Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (France) |
LR |
Longwave radiation |
LSG |
Large Scale Geostrophic |
LSW |
Labrador Sea Water |
MARVOR |
French
hybrid float of RAFOS and ALACE technology |
MEDOC |
Mediterranean
Ocean Convection (Experiment) |
MEDS |
Marine Environment
Data System (Canada) |
METOP |
Meteorology
Operational Platform |
MMW |
Madeira Mode Water |
MOC |
Meridional Overturning
Circulation |
MODE |
Mid-Ocean Dynamics
Experiment |
MOI |
Monsoon Index |
MOM |
Modular ocean model |
MOW |
Modified Atlantic Water |
MPI |
Max-Planck- Institut
fuer Meteorologie (Germany) |
NABE |
North Atlantic Bloom
Experiment |
NAC |
North Atlantic Current |
NADW |
North Atlantic Deep
Water |
NAO |
North Atlantic Oscillation |
NAS |
North Atlantic Study |
NASA |
National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (USA) |
NASDA |
National
Space Development Agency (Japan) |
NASTMW North
Atlantic SubTropical Mode Water |
NATRE |
North
Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment |
NBC |
North Brazil Current |
NBUC |
North Brazil Undercurrent |
NCAR |
National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA |
NCEP |
National Center for
Environmental Prediction (NOAA) |
NEADW |
North
East Atlantic Deep Water |
NE(C)C |
North
Equatorial (Counter) Current |
NEG |
Numerical Experimentation
Group |
NEUC |
Northern Equatorial
Undercurrent |
NGCC |
New Guinea Coastal
Current |
NGDC |
National Geophysical
Data Center (USA) |
NH |
Northern Hemisphere |
NICC |
North Intermediate
Counter Current |
NMC |
National Meterological
Center |
NOAA |
National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration (USA) |
NODC |
National Oceanographic
Data Center (USA) |
NOSAMS |
National
Oceanographic Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (USA) |
NPCMW |
North
Pacific Central mode water |
NPIW |
North Pacific Intermediate
Water |
NPSTMW |
North
Pacific subtropical mode water |
NSCAT |
Scatterometer
satellite |
NSCC |
Northern Subsurface
Countercurrent |
NSDW |
Norwegian Sea Deep
Water |
NSF |
National Science Foundation
(USA) |
NWP |
Numerical Weather
Prediction |
OASIS |
Ocean, Atmosphere,
Sea, Ice, Soil software |
OCCAM |
Ocean
and Climate Coupled Atmospheric Model |
ODAS |
Ocean Data Acquisition
System (Moored buoy) |
OGCM |
Ocean General Circulation
model |
OOPC |
Ocean Observations
Panel for Climate |
OOSDP |
Ocean
Observing System Development Panel (replaced by OOPC) |
OPA |
Ocean model of Laboratoire
d'Oceanologie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris |
OPA/ARPEGE |
OPA coupled to
the atmospheric model of Meteo France/European Centre for Medium Range Weather
Forecasts |
OPYC |
Ocean isopycnic model |
P |
Precipitation |
P-ALACE |
Profiling
- Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer |
PCM5/PCM9 |
Pacific Current
Meter array (5)(9) |
PDO |
Pacific Decadal Oscillation |
PE |
Primitive Equation
or Potential Energy |
PEQUOD |
Pacific
Equatorial Dynamics programme |
PF |
Polar Front |
PI |
Principal Investigator |
PIRATA |
Pilot
Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic |
PNA |
Pacific-North American |
POCM |
Parallel Ocean Circulation
Model (US) |
POLYGON |
USSR mesoscale
experiment |
POLYMODE |
1970s US-USSR
mesoscale experiment |
POMS |
Pilot Ocean Monitoring
Study |
PR |
Precipitation radar |
PSMSL |
Permanent
Service for Mean Sea-Level (UK) |
PV |
Potential vorticity |
PW |
Petawatts |
QBO |
Quasi-Biennial Oscillation |
QC |
Quality Control |
QG |
Quasi- Geostrophic |
RAFOS |
Reverse
of SOFAR |
RSBW |
Ross Sea Bottom Water |
RV |
Research Vessel |
SA |
Selective Availability |
SAC |
Special Analysis Centre |
SACW |
South Atlantic Central
Water |
SADCP |
Shipboard
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
SAESTMW |
South Atlantic
Eastern Subtropical mode water |
SAF |
Subantarctic Front |
SAFDE |
Subantarctic Flux and
Dynamics Experiment |
SAMW |
Subantarctic Mode Water |
SASTMW |
South
Atlantic Subtropical mode water |
SAVE |
South Atlantic Ventilation
Experiment |
SC(S) |
Somali Current (system) |
SCC |
Surface Counter Current |
SCOR |
Scientific Committee
on Oceanic Research (ICSU) |
SEC |
South Equatorial Current |
SEIC |
South Equatorial
Intermediate Current |
SEISAMW |
Southeast
Indian Subantarctic Mode Water |
SEUC |
Southern Equatorial
Undercurrent |
SH |
Southern Hemisphere |
SICC |
South Intermediate
Counter Current |
SIO |
Scripps Institute of
Oceanography (USA) |
SLP |
Sea Level Pressure |
SMMR |
Scanning Multichannel
Microwave Radiometer |
SMWG |
Synthesis and Modelling
WG (WOCE) |
SOC |
Southampton Oceanography
Centre |
SOFAR |
Sound
Fixing and Ranging |
SO(I) |
Southern Oscillation
(Index) |
SOOP |
Ship-of-Opportunity
Programme |
SPESTMW |
South Pacific
Eastern Subtropical Mode Water |
SPMW |
Subpolar Mode Water |
SPSTMW |
South
Pacific Subtropical Mode Water |
SR |
Shortwave radiation |
SSCC |
Southern Subsurface
Countercurrent |
SSG |
Scientific Steering
Group |
SSH |
Sea Surface Height |
SSM/I |
Special sensor microwave/imager |
SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
SSS |
Sea Surface Salinity |
SSW |
Standard Sea Water |
STMW |
Subtropical Mode Water |
STP |
Standard Temperature
and Pressure |
STR |
Software Test Report |
STUW |
SubTropical UnderWater |
Sv |
Sverdrup (Unit of current
transport 106m3s-1 |
SVP |
Surface Velocity Programme
(of TOGA and WOCE) (replaced by GDP) drifter |
SVP-B |
SVP 'barometer' drifter |
SYNOP |
Synoptic Ocean Prediction
(US National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research programme) |
TAO |
Tropical Atmosphere
Ocean Array |
TAS |
Tropical Atlantic Study |
THC |
Thermohaline circulation |
TIROS |
Television Infrared
Observation Satellite |
TOGA |
Tropical Ocean and
Global Atmosphere (WCRP) |
T/P |
TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite |
TMI |
The Microwave Imager |
TRM |
Temporal-Residual-Mean |
TRMM |
Tropical rainfall measuring
mission |
T-S or T/S |
Temperature/Salinity |
TTO |
Transient Tracers in
the Ocean (Experiment) |
TWXXPPC |
TOGA-WOCE
XBT/XCTD Planning Committee |
UCDW |
Upper Circumpolar Deep
Water |
UDEL |
University of Delaware
(USA) |
UH |
University of Hawaii
(USA) |
UNESCO |
United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, |
UOP |
Upper Ocean Panel (CLIVAR) |
VOS |
Voluntary Observing
Ship (WMO) |
WCRP |
World Climate Research
Programme |
WDC |
World Data Centre,
(USA) |
WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute (USA) |
WHP |
WOCE Hydrographic
Programme |
WHPO |
WOCE Hydrographic Programme
Office |
WJ |
Wyrtki jets |
WMO |
World Meteorological
Organization (UN) |
WMDW Western Mediterranean
Deep Water |
WOCE |
World Ocean Circulation
Experiment (component of WCRP) |
WSBW |
Weddell Sea Bottom
Water |
WSDW |
Weddell Sea Deep Water |
WWW |
World Wide Web (Internet) |
XBT |
Expendable Bathythermograph |
XCTD |
Expendable conductivity
and temperature profiler |