Appendix D
Acronym List
ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
AGU American Geophysical Union
AMS Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
CHIRP Compressed High Intensity Radar Pulse
CODAR Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar
CORK Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit
CTD Conductivity, Temperature and Depth
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DOC Dissolved Organic Carbon
DONET Dense Oceanfloor Network System for Earthquakes and Tsunamis
DVL Doppler Velocity Log
EM Electromagnetic
ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
GC-GFAMS Gas Chromatography–Continuous-Flow Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems
GPS Global Positioning System
HF High Frequency
HOT Hawaii Ocean Time-series
HOV Human Operated Vehicle
IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IRIS Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
JOIDES Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging
MBARI Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
NAO North Atlantic Oscillation
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAVO The Naval Oceanographic Office
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NDSF National Deep Submergence Facility
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOP National Ocean Policy
NOPP National Oceanographic Partnership Program
NOSAMS National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
ODP Ocean Drilling Program
ONR Office of Naval Research
OSSE Observing System Simulation Experiments
PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PCB Polychlorinated Biphenyl
ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle
SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
SOST Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology
SST Sea Surface Temperatures
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNOLS University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
USCOP U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment