World Ocean Circulation Experiment Global Data Resource 3.0
DVD Disk 2
| Inventories |
| WOCE Bibliography |
| Data Information Unit |
| Data Sets |
| Bathymetry |
| Satellite Sea Level |
| Satellite Sea Surface Temperature |
| Satellite Surface Winds |
| Sea Level - Delayed Mode |
| Sea Level - Fast Return |
| eWOCE |
| Search Tool |
| Global Data History |
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Data Sets on WOCE Data DVD Disk 1:
Current Meters Drifters Sub Surface Floats Air-Sea Fluxes Hydrography Profiling Floats Sea Surface Salinity Shipboard ADCP Surface Meteorology Upper Ocean Thermal |
List of Acronyms, abbreviations and terms
| 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 |