This is a list of acronyms you may find across the site.
AER | Atmospheric and Environmental Research Ltd, USA |
BoM | Bureau of Meteorology, Australia |
C-NOOFS | Canada-Newfoundland Operational Ocean Forecasting System |
CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability |
CLS | Collecte Localisation Satellites, France |
CMEMS | Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service |
CNES | Centre National d'etudes Spatiales (CNES) is the French government space agency |
CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) |
COSS-TT | Coastal and Shelf Seas Task Team |
COSSTT | Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team |
CP | Coupled Prediction |
CP-TT | Coupled Prediction Task Team |
CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia |
DA | Data Assimilation |
DFO | Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
ECCO | Estimating the Circulation & Climate of the Ocean, USA |
ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
ESA | European Space Agency |
ET-OOFS | JCOMM Expert team on operational ocean forecasting systems |
EUMETSAT | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
FOAM | Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model, UK |
FSU | Florida State University, USA |
GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
GEO | Intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations |
GHRSST | Global High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
GODAE | Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment |
GOOS | Global Ocean Observing System |
GOVST | GODAE OceanView Science Team |
GSOP | CLIVAR Global Synthesis and Observations Panel |
GSSC | GOOS Scientific and Technical Committee |
HRCPTT | High Resolution Coupled Prediction Task Team |
HYCOM | HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
Ifremer | French institute for exploitation of the sea |
IGBP | International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
IGST | International GODAE Steering Team |
IMAREST | Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology, UK |
IMBER | Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research |
INCOIS | Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services |
INGV | Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia |
IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
IV-TT | Intercomparison and Validation Task Team |
IVTT | Intercomparison and Validation Task Team |
JCOMM | Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission on Oceanography and Marine Meteorology |
JMA | Japan Meteorological Agency |
JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA |
LEGOS | Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiales, France |
MEAP-TT | Marine Ecosystem Analysis and Prediction Task Team |
MEP-TT | Marine Ecosystem Prediction Task Team |
MEPTT | Marine Ecosystem and Predication Task Team |
MFS | Mediterranean Ocean Forecasting System |
MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MOVE/MRI.COM | Meteorological Research Institute multivariate ocean variational estimation System |
MRI | Meteorological Research Institute (Japan) |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
NERSC | Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway |
NMEFC | National Marine Environment Forecasting Center, China |
NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NOPP | US National Oceanographic Partnership Program |
NRL | US Naval Research Laboratory |
OGCM | Oceanic General Circulation Model |
OIS | Observation Impact Statement |
OOFS | Operational Ocean Forecasting System |
OOPC | Ocean Observations Panel for Climate |
OSE | Observing System Experiment |
OSETT | Observing System Evaluation Task Team |
OSEval-TT | Observing System Evaluation Task Team |
OSSE | Observing System Simulation Experiment |
OST | Ocean Surface Topography |
OSTST | Ocean Surface Topography Science Team |
PICO | Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations |
RSMAS | Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, USA |
RTOFS | Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (Atlantic), NCEP, USA |
SMRCP-TT | Short to Medium Range Coupled Prediction Task Team |
SOA | State Oceanic Administration, China |
SSS | Sea Surface Salinity |
SST | Sea surface temperature |
TOPAZ | Towards an Operational Prediction system forthe North Atlantic European coastal Zones |
TT | Task Team |
UCSD | University of California, San Diego |
UFBA | Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil) |
WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
WGNE | Working Group on Numerical Experimentation |
WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
Workshop-topic | 1.Observations 2.Parameterisation 3.Modelling 4.Data Assimilation |