Appendix B: Ocean Science Abbreviations

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