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Acronym | Meaning | Source |
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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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