| BGC |
biogeochemistry |
| BoM |
Bureau of Meteorology |
| CEOS |
Committee on Earth of Observation Satellites |
| CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability |
| CLS |
Collecte Localisation Satellites |
| CMCC |
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici |
| CMEMS |
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service |
| CNES |
Centre National d'etudes Spatiales |
| CNRS |
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| COSS-TT |
Coastal Ocean and Shelf Seas Task Team |
| CP-TT |
Coupled Prediction Task Team |
| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| DA |
Data Assimilation |
| DFO |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
| DITTO |
Digital Twins of the Ocean |
| ECCO |
Estimating the Circulation & Climate of the Ocean |
| ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ETOOFS |
Expert Team for Operational Oceanography Forecasting Systems |
| EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| FOAM |
Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model, UK |
| FSU |
Florida State University |
| GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
| GEO |
Global Earth Observations |
| GHRSST |
Global High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature |
| OPST |
OceanPredict Science Team |
| GODAE |
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment |
| GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System |
| GSOP |
CLIVAR Global Synthesis and Observations Panel |
| HYCOM |
HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
| Ifremer |
French institute for the exploitation of the sea |
| 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 |
| JMA |
Japan Meteorological Agency |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory / NASA |
| LEGOS |
Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiales |
| Marine Life 2030 |
A Global Integrated Marine Biodiversity Information Management and Forecasting System for Sustainable Development and Conservation |
| MDT |
Mean Dynamic Topography |
| MEAP-TT |
Marine Ecosystem Analysis and Prediction 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 |
| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| OASIS |
An Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy |
| ObsCoDe |
GOOS Ocean Observing Co-Design |
| OGCM |
Oceanic General Circulation Model |
| OO |
Operational Oceanography |
| OOFS |
Operational Ocean Forecasting System |
| OOPC |
Ocean Observations Panel for Climate |
| OSE |
Observing System Experiment |
| OS-Eval 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 |
| REMO |
Oceanographic Modeling and Observation Network (Brazil) |
| RSMAS |
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science |
| RTOFS |
Real-Time Ocean Forecast System |
| SOA |
State Oceanic Administration, China |
| SSS |
Sea Surface Salinity |
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
| SSH |
Sea Surface Height |
| SLA |
Sea level Anomaly |
| SynObs |
Synergistic Observing Networks for Impactful and Relevant Ocean Predictions |
| TOPAZ |
Towards an Operational Prediction system for the North Atlantic European coastal Zones |
| TT |
Task Team |
| UCSC |
University of California, Santa Cruz |
| UFBA |
Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil) |
| WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
| WGNE |
Working Group on Numerical Experimentation |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organisation |