acronym fullName
AASP Australian Antarctic Sciences Program
AATSR Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer
ABOM Australia Bureau of Meteorology
ACCLAIM Antarctic Circumpolar Currents Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurement
ACECRC Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
ADCIRC ADvanced CIRCulation
adcirc ADvanced CIRCulation
AFSC Alaska Fisheries Science Center
AI Agouron Institute
AIMS Australian Institute of Marine Science
AKRO Alaska Regional Office
ALACE Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer
AMIP Atmosphere Model Intercomparison Project
AMSR-2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on JAXA's GCOM-W1
AMSRE Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS
AMSR-E Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS
AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
ANDAS Automated Near-real-time Data Acquiring System
ANT Antarctic Sciences
AOD Aerosol Optical Depth
AODC Australian Oceanographic Data Center
AOML Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory
AOOS Alaska Ocean Observing System
AOU Apparent Oxygen Utilization
APDRC Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center
ARC Arctic Sciences
ARGO Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography
AR3 Third Assessment Report
AR4 Fourth Assessment Report
AR5 Fifth Assessment Report
AR6 Sixth Assessment Report
ARL Air Resources Laboratory
ARRM Asynchronous Regional Regression Model
ARSLOE Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment
ARW Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting Model
ASCAT Advanced SCATterometer
ASMD Atlas of Surface Marine Data
ASTEP Astrobiology Science & Technology for Exploring Planets
ATDB Accession Tracking Data Base
ATES Alcatel Espace Systems
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AVISO Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Data in Oceanography
AVNIR Advanced Visible & Near-Infrared Radiometer
AWI Alfred Wegener Instituite for Polar and Marine Research
AWIPS Automated Weather Interactive Processing System
AXBT Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph
BCO-DMO Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
BIRS Biological Information Retrieval System
BODC British Oceanographic Data Centre
BOEM Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
BoM Bureau of Meteorology
BOM Bureau of Meteorology
C-DEBI Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations
CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
CAMMP Coastal and Marine Management Program
CAMS Climate Anomaly Monitoring System
CaRA Caribbean Regional Association
CariCOOS Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System
CARDEEP CARbon dioxide and DEEPwater formation
CARDS Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set
CASG California Sea Grant
CBMP Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program
CCMA Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment
CCRS Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
CCSP Climate Change Science Program
CDAS Climate Data Assimilation System
CDFW California Department of Fish and Wildlife
CDOM Colored Dissolved Organic Matter
CDRI Climate Data Research Institute
CEMES Centre d'Etudes de la Meteorologie Spatiale
CeNCOOS Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System
CEONet Canadian Earth Observation Network
CERSAT Centre ERS d'Archivage et de Traitment
CF Climate and Forecast
CFC ChloroFlouroCarbon
CGDI Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
CHLA Chlorophyll-a
CIGAR Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean & Adjacent Regions
CIMAR Centro de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental
CIMT Center for Integrated Marine Technology
CINECA Cooperative Investigations of the Northern part of the Eastern Central Atlantic
CIOSS Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies
CIRA Cooperative Institute for Research the Atmosphere
CIRES Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
CLASS Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
CLIMAP Climate: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction
CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability programme
CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites
C-MAN Coastal Marine Automated Networks
CMAN Coastal Marine Automated Networks
CMC Canadian Meteorological Centre
CMD Continuously Managed Database
CMIP Climate Model Intercomparison Project
CMIP4 Climate Model Intercomparison Project 4
CMIP5 Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5
CMIP6 Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6
CMOR Climate Model Output Rewriter
CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
CNMI Commonwealth of the Northen Mariana Islands
CNR National Research Council
COADS Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
COADS1 Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set 1
COAP Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction
COAPS Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
COAS College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
COAWST Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport
COCMP Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program
CODAR Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar
CODAS Common Oceanographic Data Analysis System
COGOW Climatology of Global Ocean Winds
CONICYT National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT), Chile
CONUS Contiguous United States
COOA Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis
CPC Climate Prediction Center
CPO Climate Program Office
CPR Continuous Plankton Recorder
CRM Coastal Relief Model
CRMN Coral Reef Monitoring Network
CRU Climatic Research Unit
CRW Coral Reef Watch
CSCOR COP Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CTD Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
CWCGOM CoastWatch Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
CW CoastWatch
DATARING Data Acquisition for Tidal Applications for the Remote Interrogation of Network Gauges
DCDB Data Center for Digital Bathymetry
DEB Division of Environmental Biology
DFO Department of Fisheries and Oceans
DOC Department of Commerce
DOD Department of Defense
DOE Department of Energy
DMI Danish Meteorological Institute
DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DSTL Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst
DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
ECDA Ensemble Coupled Data Assimilation
ECDC European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
ECMCA European Commission Marie Curie Actions Program
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
ECOMSED Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Model with Sediment Transport
EGMEX Eastern Gulf of Mexico
ENSO El Nino - Southern Oscillation
ENVISAT ENVironmental SATellite
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ERS European Remote Sensing Satellite
ESDIM Environmental Science Data and Information Management
ESPRESSO Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
ESPreSSO Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
Espresso Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
ESRL Earth System Research Laboratory
EU European Union
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
EUREF European REference Frame
FAGS Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services
FLH Fluorescence Line Height
FCCC Framework Convention on Climate Change
FMRC Forecast Model Run Collection
FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
FOCI Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations
FONACIT Fondo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación of Venezuela
FP7-ENV-2010 European Commission Seventh Framework Program
FRST Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
FSM Free Surface Mask
FWS Fish & Wildlife Service
GAC Global Area Coverage
GADR Global Argo Data Repository
GAMSSA Global Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis
GARFO Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GCOOS Gulf of Mexico Coastal Observing System
GDAC Global Data Assembly Centres
GEOS Geodetic Satellite
GEOSAT GEodetic and Oceanographic SATellite
GES DAAC Goddard Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center
GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GFO Geosat Follow-On
GHCN Global Historical Climatology Network
GHRSST Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GLCFS Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System
GLERL Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
GLOBEC GLOBal Ocean ECosystems Dynamics
GLOSS-ALT Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for ALTimetry calibrations
GLOSS-LTT Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for Long Term Trends studies
GLOSS-OC Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for ongoing Ocean Circulation monitoring
GLOSS Global Sea Level Observing System
GLOS Great Lakes Observing System
GMS Geostationary Meteorology Satellite
GOCE Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer
GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GODAR Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue
GODAS Global Ocean Data Assimilation System
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOFS Global Ocean Flux Study
GoMOOS Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System
GOM Gulf of Mexico
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GOSAMOR Global Ocean SAlinity MonitORing
GOTS Global Ocean Temperature & Salinity
GPCC Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
GPCP Global Precipitation Climatology Project
GPI GOES Precipitation Index
GPS Global Positioning System
GRCTellus Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Tellus
GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
GSHHS Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shorelines
GSMFC Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission
GTMBA Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing System
GTS Global Telecommunications System
GTSPP Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
HAB Harmful Algal Bloom
HadISST Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature
HadISST1 Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1
HadISST1.1 Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1.1
HadISST1.2 Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1.2
HFRadar High Frequency Radar
HFR High Frequency Radar
HF High Frequency
HIRAM HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model
HOTO Health Of The Oceans
HOTS Hawaiian Ocean Time Series
HRPT High Resolution Picture Transmission
HSSTD Historical Sea Surface Temperature Data project
HURL Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory
HYCOM HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model
IASNFS Intra-Americas Sea Nowcast/Forecast System
IATTC Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
ICER Division of Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research
ICOADS International Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
ICRAN International Coral Reef Action Network
IFREMER Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
IGBP International Geosphere Biosphere Programme
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy
IGOSS Integrated Global Ocean Services System
IHB International Hydrographic Bureau
IHO International Hydrographic Organisation
ILP International Lithosphere Programme
IMI Irish Marine Institute
IMOS Integrated Marine Observing System
INMARSAT International Maritime Satellite Organisation
INODC Indian National Oceanographic Data Center
INQUA International Union for Quaternary Research
INSAT Indian National Satellite
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IODE International Oceanographic Data Exchange
IOCCG International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System
IOS Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPRC International Pacific Research Center
IR InfraRed
ISAT International Science and Technology Fund
ISOS International Southern Ocean Studies
ITCZ InterTropical Convergence Zone
ITF Indonesian Through Flow
IWP Ice Water Path
JASL Joint Archive for Sea Level
JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
JCDAS JMA Climate Data Assimilation System
JCLI Journal of Climate
JCOMM Joint WMO/IOC technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JGR Journal of Geophysical Research
JISAO Joint Institue for the Study of Atmoshere and Ocean
JMA Japanese Meteorological Agency
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPO Journal of Physical Oceanography
JRA Japanese Reanalysis
KAUST King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
KFM Kelp Forest Monitoring
LAC Local Area Coverage
LTM Long Term Mean
LWP Liquid Water Path
MAO Marine and Aviation Operations
MARACOOS Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System
MCB Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
MCI Maximum Chlorophyll Index
MDNR Maine Department of Marine Resources
MEaSUREs Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments
MEDAR Mediterranean Data Archeology and Rescue
MEDS Marine Environmental Data Service
MERSEA Marine EnviRonment and Security for the European Area
METEOSAT Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
METOFFICE Meteorological Office
MHI Main Hawaiian Islands
MMRP Marine Mammal Research Program
MNSG Minnesota Sea Grant
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
MODISA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Aqua
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOHSST Meteorological Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
MOODS Master Oceanographic Observations Data Set
MOP Meteosat Operational Programme
MOPITT Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
MPA Marine Protected Area
MPSOC Multi-Purpose Stellite Operations Center
MSAS Marine Spill Analysis System
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center
MSFCMA Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
MSG Meteosat Second Generation
MSL Mean Sea Level
MSR Microwave Scanning Radiometer
MSS MultiSpectral Scanner
MSTF Marine Science and Technology Foundation
MSU Microwave Sounding Unit
MTPE Mission to Planet Earth
MUR Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution
NAAPS Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System
NABE North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
NAMDI National Marine Data Inventory
NANOOS Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems
NAM North Americal Model
NAO North Atlantic Oscillation
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administratio
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NAVGEM Navy Global Environmental Model
NAVOCEANO Naval Oceanographic Office
NAVO Naval Oceanography
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCCCS Northern California Coastal Circulation Study
NCCOS National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
NCDDC National Coastal Data Development Center
NCDS NASA Climate Data System
NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCODA Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation
NCOM Navy Coastal Ocean Model
NCRI National Coral Reef Institute
NCRIS National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
NDBC National Data Buoy Center
NDBO National Data Buoy Office
NDMC National Drought Mitigation Center
NDSI Normalized Difference Snow Index
NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
NEC NorthEast Consortium
NECC North Equatorial CounterCurrent
NEFSC NorthEast Fisheries Science Center
NEGOA NorthEast Gulf of Alaska
NEP North East Pacific
NERACOOS Northeastern Regional Association Ocean Observing Systems
NERC Natural Environment Research Council
NERRS National Estuarine Reserve Research System
NESDIS National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
NetCDF Network Common Data Format
NEXRAD NEXt Generation Weather RADar
NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
NGWLMS Next Generation Water Level Measurement System
NHC National Hurricane Center
NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIWA National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
NJSOS New Jersey Shelf Observing System
NMAO NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations
NMC National Meteorological Center
NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service
NMS National Marine Sanctuaries
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODC National Oceanographic Data Center
NOGAPS Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
NOMAD Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device
NOP National Oceanic Program
NOPP National Ocean Partnership Program
NOS National Ocean Service
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPOES National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
NPP National Polar-orbiting Partnership
NPS Naval Postgraduate School
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
NROSS Navy Remote Oceanographic Sensing System
NRT Near Real Time
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSF National Science Foundation
NTF National Tidal Facility
NSERC National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSP Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning
NSSDAC NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition
NSSDC National Space Science Data Center
NSSL National Severe Storms Laboratory
NSTS Nearshore Sediment Transport Study
NTON National Tide Observation Network
NTU Nephelometric Turbidity Units
NWS National Weather Service
NVI Normalized Vegetation Index
NVODS National Virtual Ocean Data System
NWFSC Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NYHOPS New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System
OAR Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
OBIS Ocean Biogeographic Information System
OBPG Ocean Biology Processing Group
Obs4MIPs Observations for Model Intercomparisons
obs4MIPs Observations for Model Intercomparisons
OCB Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program
OCDD Ocean Current Drifter Data
OCE Division of Ocean Sciences
OCL Ocean Climate Laboratory
OCMP Ocean-Coastal Management Program
OCRM Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
OCTS Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner
ODP Ocean Drilling Program
ODV Ocean Data View
OEP Ocean Exploration Program
OGCM Oceanic General Circulation Model
OHC Office of Habitat Conservation
OIA Office of International Affairs
OISE Office of International Science and Engineering
OISST Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature
OI Optimum Interpolation
OLR Outgoing Longwave Radiation
ONR Office of Naval Research
OOPC Ocean Observation Panel for Climate
OOSDP Ocean Observing System Development Panel
OPDB Oceanographic Profile DataBase
OPR Office of Protected Resources
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OSDPD Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution
OSF Office of Sustainable Fisheries
OSI SAF Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility
OSISAF Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility
OSI Ocean and Sea Ice
OSMC Observing System Monitoring Center
OSO Office of Satellite Operations
OSPO Office of Satellite and Product Operations
OST Office of Science and Technology
OSTI Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure
OSTIA Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis
OSU Oregon State University
OWG Open Working Group
PACHAB Pacific Region Harmful Algal Blooom
PacIOOS Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
PAR Photosynthetically Available Radiation
PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PDSI Palmer Drought Severity Index
PEQUOD Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics
PFEG Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group
PFEL Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
PFRP Pelagic Fisheries Research Program
PHOD Physical Oceanography Division
PhOD Physical Oceanography Division
PIFSC Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
PIRATA Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
PIRO Pacific Islands Regional Office
PLR Division of Polar Programs
PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PODAAC Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
PODG Physical Ocean Data Group
POES Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite
POL Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
POM Princeton Ocean Model
POMSS Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite System
POO Platforms of Opportunity
PORTS Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems
PSD Physical Sciences Division
PSS Practical Salinity Scale
PSMSL Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
PSU Practical Salinity Unit
PTWC Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre
QA Quality Assurance
QC Quality Control
RAMA Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction
RAMSSA Regional Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis
RDAC Regional Data Assembly Centres
REMSS Remote Sensing Systems
RF Radio Frequency
ROMS Regional Ocean Modeling System
Roms Regional Ocean Modeling System
ROV Remotely Operated Vessel
RQDS Research Quality Data Set
RSL Relative Sea Level
RSMAS Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
RTOFS Real-Time Ocean Forecast System
SAFT Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique
SAIC Science Applications International Corporation
SAL Satellite Altimetry Laboratory
SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
scPDSI Self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index
SCS South China Sea
SCUD Surface CUrrents from a Diagnostic model
SCCOOS Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SEAMAP Southeast Area Monitoring & Assessment Program
SeaWiFS Sea-Wide Field-of-View Sensor
SECOORA Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association
SEFSC Southeast Fisheries Science Center
SERO Southeast Regional Office
SEVIRI Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
SFERPM South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction, and Modeling Program
SFSU San Francisco State University
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar
SLOSH Sea, Lake & Overland Surge from Hurricanes
SLP Sea Level Pressure
SLR Satellite Laser Ranging
SMI Standard Mapped Image
SNSF Swiss National Science Foundation
SODA Simple Ocean Data Assimilation
SOEST School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
SOFAR Sound Fixing and Ranging
SOI Schmidt Ocean Institute
SOLO Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer
SOSLC Southern Ocean Sea Level Centre
SPCZ South Pacific Convergence Zone
SPURS Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
SQU Sultan Qaboos University
SSES Single Sensor Error Statistics
SSFC Severe Storms Forecast Center
SSH Sea Surface Height
SSP Sub-Surface Pressure
SST Sea Surface Temperature
SSTA Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
SSTOP Sea Surface Topography
STD Salinity-Temperature-Depth profiler
STWS Storm Tide Warning Service
SWAN Simulating WAves Nearshore model
SWFSC Southwest Fisheries Science Center
SWH Significant Wave Height
TAO Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean
TGBM Tide Gauge Bench Mark
TIROS Television Infrared Observation Satellite
TMI TRMM Microwave Imager
TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
TOPEX Topography Experiment
TOVS TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
TPFO TOPEX/POSEIDON Follow-On
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TUD Technische Universiteit Delft
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
UCONN University of Connecticut
UCSD University of California, San Deigo
UH University of Hawaii
UHF Ultra High Frequency
UHSLC University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
UKMO United Kingdom Meteorology Office
UMe University of Maine
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNOLS University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
US United States
USCRN United States Climate Reference Network
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USDOC United States Department of Commerce
USDOD United States Department of Defense
USDOE United States Department of Energy
USF University of South Florida
USFWS United States Fish & Wildlife Service
USGS United States Geological Survey
USHCN United States Historical Climatological Network
USTEC United States Total Electron Content
USWC United States West Coast
UUC Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
UV UltraViolet
VHF Very High Frequency
VHRR Very High Resolution Radiometer
VI Vegetation Index
VIRR Visible and Infrared Radiometer
VIRS Visible InfraRed Scanner
VIRSR Visible InfraRed Scanning Radiometer
WCN West Coast Node
WCRN West Coast Regional Node
WCRO West Coast Regional Office
WMC World Meteorological Center
WOD World Ocean Database
WRF Weather Research and Forecasting Model
VIIRSN Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite/Suomi-NPP
VIIRS-N Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite/Suomi-NPP
VIIRS Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite
VOS Voluntary Observing Ships
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VPR Video Plankton Recorder
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WDC World Data Centre
WEPOCS Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study
WESTRAX Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment
WFO Weather Forecast Office
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WMO World Meteorological Organisation
WOA05 World Ocean Atlas 2005
WOA09 World Ocean Atlas 2009
WOA13 World Ocean Atlas 2013
WOA17 World Ocean Atlas 2017
WOA World Ocean Atlas
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WOD World Ocean Database
WPO West Pacific Oscillation
WRCC Western Regional Climate Center
WRRC Water Resources Research Center
XBT Expendible Bathythermograph
XCTD eXpendable Conductivity-Temperature-Depth profiler
X-SAR X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
YOTO Year Of The Ocean