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Appendix B: Acronym List and Glossary
Pages 194-205

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... BTM Bermuda Testbed Mooring C-GODS Coastal Global Ocean Observing System CCSP Climate Change Science Program 194
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... CFI Canadian Foundation for Innovation CICEET Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Envi ronmental Technology CIS Central Irminger Sea CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability Programme CO2 Carbon Dioxide CoOP Coastal Ocean Processes Program COOP Coastal Ocean Observations Panel CORE Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education COSEE Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf CRAB Coastal Research Amphibious Buggy CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) CTD Conductivity, Temperature and Depth DAC Data and Communications (subsystem of IOOS)
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... 196 APPEND/X B GCOS Global Climate Observing System GEO Global Eulerian Observatory GHRSST GODAE High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics Programme GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment COOS Global Ocean Observing System GPS Global Positioning System GSN Global Seismic Network H20 Hawaii-2 Observatory MAW-2 Hawaii-2 Observatory's telecommunications cable HLA Horizontal Line Array HOT Hawaii Ocean Time-series program HOV Human Occupied Vehicle HUGO Hawaii Undersea Geo-Observatory IDEA Instrumentation Development for Environmental Activities IDEAL International Decade for East African Lakes IfMK Institut fur Meereskinde an der Universitat Kiel IFREMER Institut franc~ais de recherche pour ['exploitation de la mer IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme IOC International Ocean Commission ION International Ocean Network IOOS Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observing System IRIS Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology ISS Integrated Study Site ITAR International Traffic in Arms Regulations IUSS Integrated Undersea Surveillance System ~AMSTEC rapan Marine Science & Technology Center ~COMM roint Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux System JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory KERFIX Kerguelen Fixed Station (of the Kerguelen Islands Time Series Measurement Programme) KNOT Kyodo North Pacific Ocean Time-Series Station LDEO Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory LEO-15 Long-term Ecosystem Observatory (at 15 Meters Depth)
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... ODP Ocean Drilling Program OGP Office of Global Programs (at NOAA) OHP Ocean Hemisphere Project ONR Office of Naval Research OOI Ocean Observatories Initiative OOPC Ocean Observations Panel for Climate OOSDP Ocean Observation System Development Panel OROPC Ocean Research Observatories Program Center OSN Ocean Seismic Network OWS Ocean Weather Service (U.S.)
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... RIDGE Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiments RIN Remote Instrument Node ROADNet Real-time Observatories, Applications, and Data Management Network ROPOS Remotely Operated Platform for Ocean Science ROV Remotely Operated Vehicle RSM Regional Sediment Management RSMAS Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science SCOTS Scientific Cabled Observatories for Time-series SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center SECNAV Secretary of the Navy SEED Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data SIIMs Scientific Instrument Interface Modules SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography SOEST School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (University of Hawaii) SOLAS Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study SOSUS Sound Surveillance System SSBN Fleet ballistic missile submarine SWATH Small Water-plane Area Twin Hull TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Project TES Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere TRITON Triangle Trans-Ocean Buoy Network TSST Time-series Science Team UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNOLS University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System USACE United States Army Corps of Engineers USGS United States Geological Survey US JGOFS United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
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... Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) : a vehicle that can function without tethers, cables, or remote control, they have a multitude of applications in oceanography, environmental monitoring, and underwater resource studies.
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... : a physical measurement system that utilizes modular sensor technology to allow absolutely synchronous sampling of the conductivity, temperature, and pressure sensors. Data pull: in which a client acquires data from a source by requesting data.
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... Global Ocean Observing System (COOS) : a system to implement operational observation programs for the oceans and coastal areas.
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... Joint Global Ocean Flux Study SPOOFS) : an international and multidisciplinary program to assess and better understand the processes controlling regional-to-global and seasonal-to-interannual fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere, surface ocean, and ocean interior, and their sensitivity to climate changes.
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... : a panel established in 1990 to formulate a conceptual design of a long-term, systematic observing system to monitor, describe, and understand the physical and biogeochemical processes that determine ocean circulation and the effects of the ocean on seasonal to decadal climate changes as well as to provide the observations needed for climate predictions. Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC)
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... : an organization that aims to bring together major oceanographic institutions under a single umbrella. Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA)
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... XML does not replace HTML, rather, it is a complementary format. World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)


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