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| 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 |