EBC-CCS - Acronyms

## LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

    ADEOS          Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
    AUV            Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
    AVHRR          Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer
    BML            Bodega Marine Laboratory
    CalCOFI        California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
    CCS            California Current System
    CICESE         Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y Educacio n Superior de Ensenada
    COADS          Comprehensive Ocean Atmospheric Data Set
    CODE           Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment
    CoOP           Coastal Ocean Processes
    CTD            Conductivity Temperature Depth
    CTZ            Coastal Transition Zone
    CZCS           Coastal Zone Color Scanner
    EBC            Eastern Boundary Current
    ENSO           El Niño/Southern Oscillation
    EOS            Earth Observing System
    ERS            European Remote Sensing
    FAO            Food and Agriculture Organization
    FORAGE         Fishery Oceanography Recruitment and Groundfish Ecology
    Geosat         Geodesy Satellite
    GFO            Geosat Follow-On
    GLOBEC         Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics
    GOES-NEXT      Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
    IR             Infrared Radiation
    JGOFS          Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
    LIDAR          Light Detection and Ranging Instrument
    MCC            Maximum Cross Correlation
    MERIS          Medium-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
    MODIS          Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer
    MODIS-N        MODIS nontilting version
    MODIS-T        MODIS with tilting view angle
    MPL            Marine Physical Laboratory
    NCAR           National Center for Atmospheric Research
    NMFS           National Marine Fisheries Service
    NOAA           National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    NSCAT          NASA Scatterometer
    NSF            National Science Foundation
    ONR            Office of Naval Research
    OPTOMA         Ocean Prediction Through Observation, Modeling and Analysis
    OSLR           Ocean Science in Relation to Living Resources
    PICES          Pacific Marine Science Organisation
    RFP            Request for Proposals
    ROV            Remotely Operated Vehicle
    SAR            Synthetic Aperture Radar Search and Rescue
    SARP           Sardine Anchovy Recruitment Project
    SeaWiFS        Sea-Viewing Wide Field Sensor
    SIO            Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    SST            Sea-Surface Temperature
    T-S            Temperature-Salinity
    TOPEX          Ocean Topography Experiment
    WOCE           World Ocean Circulation Experiment