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