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 |