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18: Appendix B- Ocean Science Abbreviations

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    A

    ADS atmospheric diving suit

    ALAMO Air-Launched Autonomous Micro-Observer

    Argo Array for Real-Time Geostrophic Oceanography

    ATOC Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate

    AUV autonomous underwater vehicle

    AVHRR Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometers

    C

    CalCOFI California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation

    CFC chlorofluorocarbon

    Conshelf Continental Shelf Station

    CTD conductivity-temperature-depth

    CZCS Coastal Zone Color Scanner instrument

    D

    DART Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami

    DISCOL DIS-turbance and re-COL-onization

    DSV deep submergence vehicle

    D-TAG digital acoustic recording tag

    G

    GDP global drifter program

    GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans

    GESAMP Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection

    GIS geographic information system

    GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite

    GPS global positioning system

    H

    H-D hypothetico-deductive

    HOV human-occupied vehicle

    HROV hybrid remotely operated vehicle

    I

    IFREMER French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

    IHO International Hydrographic Organization

    IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    J

    JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

    L

    LED light-emitting diode

    LUCA last universal common ancestor

    M

    M-AUE mini-autonomous underwater explorer

    MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

    MOSAiC Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate

    MUR-SSTs Multi-scale Ultra-high-Resolution sea surface temperatures

    N

    NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

    NASEM National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

    NDBC National Data Buoy Center

    NeXOS Next generation, Cost-effective, Compact, Multifunctional Web Enabled Ocean Sensor Systems

    NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    NRC National Research Council

    NSF National Science Foundation

    O

    OFP Ocean Flux Program

    OOI Ocean Observatories Initiative

    OMZ oxygen minimum zone

    P

    PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

    PSAT pop-up satellite archival tag

    PTEO Periodic Table of the Elements in the Ocean

    PAR photosynthetically available radiation

    R

    RO reverse osmosis

    ROV remotely operated vehicle

    S

    SAR synthetic aperture radar

    SAS synthetic aperture sonar

    SCICEX SCientific ICe EXercise

    SciComm science communication

    Seasat Seafaring Satellite

    SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor

    SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    SOFAR Sound Fixing and Ranging

    SOOP Ships of Opportunity Program

    SOSUS Sound Surveillance System

    SSS sea surface salinity

    SST sea surface temperature

    Stratollite a portmanteau of stratosphere and satellite

    SVP surface velocity program

    T

    TIROS Television Infrared Observation Satellite

    TOPEX Ocean Topography Experiment

    U

    UNOLS University–National Oceanographic Laboratory System

    USCG United States Coast Guard

    USGS United States Geological Survey

    USV uncrewed surface vessel

    UUV uncrewed underwater vehicles

    V

    VIIRS Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite

    W

    WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    X

    XBT expendable bathythermograph


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