| 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 |
| AI | Agouron Institute |
| AIMS | Australian Institute of Marine Science |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| OSDPD | Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| PIRATA | Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |