| acronym
| fullName
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| AASP
| Australian Antarctic Sciences Program
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| AATSR
| Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer
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| ABOM
| Australia Bureau of Meteorology
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| ACCLAIM
| Antarctic Circumpolar Currents Levels by Altimetry and Island Measurement
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| ACECRC
| Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre
|
| ADCP
| Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
|
| ADCIRC
| ADvanced CIRCulation
|
| adcirc
| ADvanced CIRCulation
|
| AFSC
| Alaska Fisheries Science Center
|
| AI
| Agouron Institute
|
| AIMS
| Australian Institute of Marine Science
|
| AKRO
| Alaska Regional Office
|
| ALACE
| Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer
|
| AMIP
| Atmosphere Model Intercomparison Project
|
| AMSR-2
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on JAXA's GCOM-W1
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| AMSRE
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS
|
| AMSR-E
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on EOS
|
| AMSR
| Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
|
| ANDAS
| Automated Near-real-time Data Acquiring System
|
| ANT
| Antarctic Sciences
|
| AOD
| Aerosol Optical Depth
|
| AODC
| Australian Oceanographic Data Center
|
| AOML
| Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory
|
| AOOS
| Alaska Ocean Observing System
|
| AOU
| Apparent Oxygen Utilization
|
| APDRC
| Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center
|
| ARC
| Arctic Sciences
|
| ARGO
| Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography
|
| AR3
| Third Assessment Report
|
| AR4
| Fourth Assessment Report
|
| AR5
| Fifth Assessment Report
|
| AR6
| Sixth Assessment Report
|
| ARL
| Air Resources Laboratory
|
| ARRM
| Asynchronous Regional Regression Model
|
| ARSLOE
| Atlantic Remote Sensing Land/Ocean Experiment
|
| ARW
| Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting Model
|
| ASCAT
| Advanced SCATterometer
|
| ASMD
| Atlas of Surface Marine Data
|
| ASTEP
| Astrobiology Science & Technology for Exploring Planets
|
| ATDB
| Accession Tracking Data Base
|
| ATES
| Alcatel Espace Systems
|
| AVHRR
| Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
|
| AVISO
| Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Data in Oceanography
|
| AVNIR
| Advanced Visible & Near-Infrared Radiometer
|
| AWI
| Alfred Wegener Instituite for Polar and Marine Research
|
| AWIPS
| Automated Weather Interactive Processing System
|
| AXBT
| Airborne eXpendable BathyThermograph
|
| BCO-DMO
| Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
|
| BIRS
| Biological Information Retrieval System
|
| BODC
| British Oceanographic Data Centre
|
| BOEM
| Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
|
| BoM
| Bureau of Meteorology
|
| BOM
| Bureau of Meteorology
|
| C-DEBI
| Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations
|
| CalCOFI
| California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
|
| CAMMP
| Coastal and Marine Management Program
|
| CAMS
| Climate Anomaly Monitoring System
|
| CaRA
| Caribbean Regional Association
|
| CariCOOS
| Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System
|
| CARDEEP
| CARbon dioxide and DEEPwater formation
|
| CARDS
| Comprehensive Aerological Reference Data Set
|
| CASG
| California Sea Grant
|
| CBMP
| Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program
|
| CCMA
| Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment
|
| CCRS
| Canadian Center for Remote Sensing
|
| CCSP
| Climate Change Science Program
|
| CDAS
| Climate Data Assimilation System
|
| CDFW
| California Department of Fish and Wildlife
|
| CDOM
| Colored Dissolved Organic Matter
|
| CDRI
| Climate Data Research Institute
|
| CEMES
| Centre d'Etudes de la Meteorologie Spatiale
|
| CeNCOOS
| Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System
|
| CEONet
| Canadian Earth Observation Network
|
| CERSAT
| Centre ERS d'Archivage et de Traitment
|
| CF
| Climate and Forecast
|
| CFC
| ChloroFlouroCarbon
|
| CGDI
| Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
|
| CHLA
| Chlorophyll-a
|
| CIGAR
| Cooperative Investigations of the Caribbean & Adjacent Regions
|
| CIMAR
| Centro de Investigacao Marinha e Ambiental
|
| CIMT
| Center for Integrated Marine Technology
|
| CINECA
| Cooperative Investigations of the Northern part of the Eastern Central Atlantic
|
| CIOSS
| Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies
|
| CIRA
| Cooperative Institute for Research the Atmosphere
|
| CIRES
| Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
|
| CLASS
| Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System
|
| CLIMAP
| Climate: Long-range Investigation Mapping and Prediction
|
| CLIVAR
| Climate Variability and Predictability programme
|
| CLS
| Collecte Localisation Satellites
|
| C-MAN
| Coastal Marine Automated Networks
|
| CMAN
| Coastal Marine Automated Networks
|
| CMC
| Canadian Meteorological Centre
|
| CMD
| Continuously Managed Database
|
| CMIP
| Climate Model Intercomparison Project
|
| CMIP4
| Climate Model Intercomparison Project 4
|
| CMIP5
| Climate Model Intercomparison Project 5
|
| CMIP6
| Climate Model Intercomparison Project 6
|
| CMOR
| Climate Model Output Rewriter
|
| CNES
| Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales
|
| CNMI
| Commonwealth of the Northen Mariana Islands
|
| CNR
| National Research Council
|
| COADS
| Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
|
| COADS1
| Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set 1
|
| COAP
| Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction
|
| COAPS
| Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
|
| COAS
| College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
|
| COAWST
| Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport
|
| COCMP
| Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program
|
| CODAR
| Coastal Ocean Dynamics Applications Radar
|
| CODAS
| Common Oceanographic Data Analysis System
|
| COGOW
| Climatology of Global Ocean Winds
|
| CONICYT
| National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT), Chile
|
| CONUS
| Contiguous United States
|
| COOA
| Coastal Ocean Observing and Analysis
|
| CPC
| Climate Prediction Center
|
| CPO
| Climate Program Office
|
| CPR
| Continuous Plankton Recorder
|
| CRM
| Coastal Relief Model
|
| CRMN
| Coral Reef Monitoring Network
|
| CRU
| Climatic Research Unit
|
| CRW
| Coral Reef Watch
|
| CSCOR COP
| Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program
|
| CSIRO
| Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
|
| CTD
| Conductivity, Temperature, Depth
|
| CWCGOM
| CoastWatch Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
|
| CW
| CoastWatch
|
| DATARING
| Data Acquisition for Tidal Applications for the Remote Interrogation of Network Gauges
|
| DCDB
| Data Center for Digital Bathymetry
|
| DEB
| Division of Environmental Biology
|
| DFO
| Department of Fisheries and Oceans
|
| DOC
| Department of Commerce
|
| DOD
| Department of Defense
|
| DOE
| Department of Energy
|
| DMI
| Danish Meteorological Institute
|
| DMSP
| Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
|
| DSTL
| Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
|
| DWD
| Deutscher Wetterdienst
|
| DORIS
| Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
|
| ECDA
| Ensemble Coupled Data Assimilation
|
| ECDC
| European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
|
| ECMCA
| European Commission Marie Curie Actions Program
|
| ECMWF
| European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
|
| ECOMSED
| Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Model with Sediment Transport
|
| EGMEX
| Eastern Gulf of Mexico
|
| ENSO
| El Nino - Southern Oscillation
|
| ENVISAT
| ENVironmental SATellite
|
| EPA
| Environmental Protection Agency
|
| ERS
| European Remote Sensing Satellite
|
| ESDIM
| Environmental Science Data and Information Management
|
| ESPRESSO
| Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
|
| ESPreSSO
| Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
|
| Espresso
| Experimental System for Predicting Shelf and Slope Optics
|
| ESRL
| Earth System Research Laboratory
|
| EU
| European Union
|
| EUMETSAT
| European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
|
| EUREF
| European REference Frame
|
| FAGS
| Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services
|
| FLH
| Fluorescence Line Height
|
| FCCC
| Framework Convention on Climate Change
|
| FMRC
| Forecast Model Run Collection
|
| FNMOC
| Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
|
| FOCI
| Fisheries-Oceanography Cooperative Investigations
|
| FONACIT
| Fondo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación of Venezuela
|
| FP7-ENV-2010
| European Commission Seventh Framework Program
|
| FRST
| Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
|
| FSM
| Free Surface Mask
|
| FWS
| Fish & Wildlife Service
|
| GAC
| Global Area Coverage
|
| GADR
| Global Argo Data Repository
|
| GAMSSA
| Global Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis
|
| GARFO
| Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
|
| GCOS
| Global Climate Observing System
|
| GCOOS
| Gulf of Mexico Coastal Observing System
|
| GDAC
| Global Data Assembly Centres
|
| GEOS
| Geodetic Satellite
|
| GEOSAT
| GEodetic and Oceanographic SATellite
|
| GES DAAC
| Goddard Earth Sciences Distributed Active Archive Center
|
| GEWEX
| Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
|
| GFDL
| Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
|
| GFO
| Geosat Follow-On
|
| GHCN
| Global Historical Climatology Network
|
| GHRSST
| Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
|
| GISS
| Goddard Institute for Space Studies
|
| GLCFS
| Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System
|
| GLERL
| Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
|
| GLOBEC
| GLOBal Ocean ECosystems Dynamics
|
| GLOSS-ALT
| Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for ALTimetry calibrations
|
| GLOSS-LTT
| Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for Long Term Trends studies
|
| GLOSS-OC
| Global Sea Level Observing System subset used for ongoing Ocean Circulation monitoring
|
| GLOSS
| Global Sea Level Observing System
|
| GLOS
| Great Lakes Observing System
|
| GMS
| Geostationary Meteorology Satellite
|
| GOCE
| Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer
|
| GODAE
| Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
|
| GODAR
| Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue
|
| GODAS
| Global Ocean Data Assimilation System
|
| GOES
| Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
|
| GOFS
| Global Ocean Flux Study
|
| GoMOOS
| Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System
|
| GOM
| Gulf of Mexico
|
| GOOS
| Global Ocean Observing System
|
| GOSAMOR
| Global Ocean SAlinity MonitORing
|
| GOTS
| Global Ocean Temperature & Salinity
|
| GPCC
| Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
|
| GPCP
| Global Precipitation Climatology Project
|
| GPI
| GOES Precipitation Index
|
| GPS
| Global Positioning System
|
| GRCTellus
| Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Tellus
|
| GRACE
| Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
|
| GSFC
| Goddard Space Flight Center
|
| GSHHS
| Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shorelines
|
| GSMFC
| Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission
|
| GTMBA
| Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array
|
| GTOS
| Global Terrestrial Observing System
|
| GTS
| Global Telecommunications System
|
| GTSPP
| Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
|
| HAB
| Harmful Algal Bloom
|
| HadISST
| Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature
|
| HadISST1
| Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1
|
| HadISST1.1
| Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1.1
|
| HadISST1.2
| Hadley Centre Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature 1.2
|
| HFRadar
| High Frequency Radar
|
| HFR
| High Frequency Radar
|
| HF
| High Frequency
|
| HIRAM
| HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model
|
| HOTO
| Health Of The Oceans
|
| HOTS
| Hawaiian Ocean Time Series
|
| HRPT
| High Resolution Picture Transmission
|
| HSSTD
| Historical Sea Surface Temperature Data project
|
| HURL
| Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory
|
| HYCOM
| HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model
|
| IASNFS
| Intra-Americas Sea Nowcast/Forecast System
|
| IATTC
| Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
|
| ICER
| Division of Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research
|
| ICOADS
| International Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
|
| ICRAN
| International Coral Reef Action Network
|
| IFREMER
| Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
|
| IGBP
| International Geosphere Biosphere Programme
|
| IGOS
| Integrated Global Observing Strategy
|
| IGOSS
| Integrated Global Ocean Services System
|
| IHB
| International Hydrographic Bureau
|
| IHO
| International Hydrographic Organisation
|
| ILP
| International Lithosphere Programme
|
| IMI
| Irish Marine Institute
|
| IMOS
| Integrated Marine Observing System
|
| INMARSAT
| International Maritime Satellite Organisation
|
| INODC
| Indian National Oceanographic Data Center
|
| INQUA
| International Union for Quaternary Research
|
| INSAT
| Indian National Satellite
|
| IOC
| Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
|
| IODE
| International Oceanographic Data Exchange
|
| IOCCG
| International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group
|
| IOOS
| Integrated Ocean Observing System
|
| IOS
| Division of Integrative Organismal Systems
|
| IPCC
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
|
| IPRC
| International Pacific Research Center
|
| IR
| InfraRed
|
| ISAT
| International Science and Technology Fund
|
| ISOS
| International Southern Ocean Studies
|
| ITCZ
| InterTropical Convergence Zone
|
| ITF
| Indonesian Through Flow
|
| IWP
| Ice Water Path
|
| JASL
| Joint Archive for Sea Level
|
| JAXA
| Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
|
| JCDAS
| JMA Climate Data Assimilation System
|
| JCLI
| Journal of Climate
|
| JCOMM
| Joint WMO/IOC technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology
|
| JGOFS
| Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
|
| JGR
| Journal of Geophysical Research
|
| JISAO
| Joint Institue for the Study of Atmoshere and Ocean
|
| JMA
| Japanese Meteorological Agency
|
| JPL
| Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|
| JPO
| Journal of Physical Oceanography
|
| JRA
| Japanese Reanalysis
|
| KAUST
| King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
|
| KFM
| Kelp Forest Monitoring
|
| LAC
| Local Area Coverage
|
| LTM
| Long Term Mean
|
| LWP
| Liquid Water Path
|
| MAO
| Marine and Aviation Operations
|
| MARACOOS
| Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System
|
| MCB
| Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
|
| MCI
| Maximum Chlorophyll Index
|
| MDNR
| Maine Department of Marine Resources
|
| MEaSUREs
| Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments
|
| MEDAR
| Mediterranean Data Archeology and Rescue
|
| MEDS
| Marine Environmental Data Service
|
| MERSEA
| Marine EnviRonment and Security for the European Area
|
| METEOSAT
| Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
|
| METOFFICE
| Meteorological Office
|
| MHI
| Main Hawaiian Islands
|
| MMRP
| Marine Mammal Research Program
|
| MNSG
| Minnesota Sea Grant
|
| MOBS
| Marine Optical Buoy System
|
| MOBY
| MArine Optical BouY
|
| MOCE
| Marine Optical Characterization Experiment
|
| MOCNESS
| Multiple Opening/Closing Net & Environmental Sensing System
|
| MODAS
| Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System
|
| MODB
| Mediterranean Oceanic Data Base
|
| MODISA
| Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on Aqua
|
| MODIS
| Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
|
| MOHSST
| Meteorological Office Historical Sea Surface Temperature
|
| MOODS
| Master Oceanographic Observations Data Set
|
| MOP
| Meteosat Operational Programme
|
| MOPITT
| Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
|
| MPA
| Marine Protected Area
|
| MPSOC
| Multi-Purpose Stellite Operations Center
|
| MSAS
| Marine Spill Analysis System
|
| MSFC
| Marshall Space Flight Center
|
| MSFCMA
| Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
|
| MSG
| Meteosat Second Generation
|
| MSL
| Mean Sea Level
|
| MSR
| Microwave Scanning Radiometer
|
| MSS
| MultiSpectral Scanner
|
| MSTF
| Marine Science and Technology Foundation
|
| MSU
| Microwave Sounding Unit
|
| MTPE
| Mission to Planet Earth
|
| MUR
| Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution
|
| NAAPS
| Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System
|
| NABE
| North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
|
| NAMDI
| National Marine Data Inventory
|
| NANOOS
| Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems
|
| NAM
| North Americal Model
|
| NAO
| North Atlantic Oscillation
|
| NASA
| National Aeronautics and Space Administratio
|
| NATO
| North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
|
| NAVGEM
| Navy Global Environmental Model
|
| NAVOCEANO
| Naval Oceanographic Office
|
| NAVO
| Naval Oceanography
|
| NCAR
| National Center for Atmospheric Research
|
| NCCCS
| Northern California Coastal Circulation Study
|
| NCCOS
| National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
|
| NCDC
| National Climatic Data Center
|
| NCDDC
| National Coastal Data Development Center
|
| NCDS
| NASA Climate Data System
|
| NCEI
| National Centers for Environmental Information
|
| NCEP
| National Centers for Environmental Prediction
|
| NCODA
| Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation
|
| NCOM
| Navy Coastal Ocean Model
|
| NCRI
| National Coral Reef Institute
|
| NCRIS
| National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
|
| NDBC
| National Data Buoy Center
|
| NDBO
| National Data Buoy Office
|
| NDMC
| National Drought Mitigation Center
|
| NDSI
| Normalized Difference Snow Index
|
| NDVI
| Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
|
| NEC
| NorthEast Consortium
|
| NECC
| North Equatorial CounterCurrent
|
| NEFSC
| NorthEast Fisheries Science Center
|
| NEGOA
| NorthEast Gulf of Alaska
|
| NEP
| North East Pacific
|
| NERACOOS
| Northeastern Regional Association Ocean Observing Systems
|
| NERC
| Natural Environment Research Council
|
| NERRS
| National Estuarine Reserve Research System
|
| NESDIS
| National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
|
| NetCDF
| Network Common Data Format
|
| NEXRAD
| NEXt Generation Weather RADar
|
| NGDC
| National Geophysical Data Center
|
| NGWLMS
| Next Generation Water Level Measurement System
|
| NHC
| National Hurricane Center
|
| NIEHS
| National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
|
| NIH
| National Institutes of Health
|
| NIST
| National Institute of Standards and Technology
|
| NIWA
| National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
|
| NJSOS
| New Jersey Shelf Observing System
|
| NMAO
| NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations
|
| NMC
| National Meteorological Center
|
| NMFS
| National Marine Fisheries Service
|
| NMS
| National Marine Sanctuaries
|
| NOAA
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|
| NODC
| National Oceanographic Data Center
|
| NOGAPS
| Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System
|
| NOMAD
| Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Automatic Device
|
| NOP
| National Oceanic Program
|
| NOPP
| National Ocean Partnership Program
|
| NOS
| National Ocean Service
|
| NPOESS
| National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
|
| NPOES
| National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite
|
| NPP
| National Polar-orbiting Partnership
|
| NPS
| Naval Postgraduate School
|
| NRL
| Naval Research Laboratory
|
| NROSS
| Navy Remote Oceanographic Sensing System
|
| NRT
| Near Real Time
|
| NSDI
| National Spatial Data Infrastructure
|
| NSF
| National Science Foundation
|
| NTF
| National Tidal Facility
|
| NSERC
| National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
|
| NSIDC
| National Snow and Ice Data Center
|
| NSP
| Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning
|
| NSSDAC
| NOAA Shipboard Sensor Data Acquisition
|
| NSSDC
| National Space Science Data Center
|
| NSSL
| National Severe Storms Laboratory
|
| NSTS
| Nearshore Sediment Transport Study
|
| NTON
| National Tide Observation Network
|
| NTU
| Nephelometric Turbidity Units
|
| NWS
| National Weather Service
|
| NVI
| Normalized Vegetation Index
|
| NVODS
| National Virtual Ocean Data System
|
| NWFSC
| Northwest Fisheries Science Center
|
| NYHOPS
| New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System
|
| OAR
| Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
|
| OBIS
| Ocean Biogeographic Information System
|
| OBPG
| Ocean Biology Processing Group
|
| Obs4MIPs
| Observations for Model Intercomparisons
|
| obs4MIPs
| Observations for Model Intercomparisons
|
| OCB
| Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program
|
| OCDD
| Ocean Current Drifter Data
|
| OCE
| Division of Ocean Sciences
|
| OCL
| Ocean Climate Laboratory
|
| OCMP
| Ocean-Coastal Management Program
|
| OCRM
| Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
|
| OCTS
| Ocean Color and Temperature Scanner
|
| ODP
| Ocean Drilling Program
|
| ODV
| Ocean Data View
|
| OEP
| Ocean Exploration Program
|
| OGCM
| Oceanic General Circulation Model
|
| OHC
| Office of Habitat Conservation
|
| OIA
| Office of International Affairs
|
| OISE
| Office of International Science and Engineering
|
| OISST
| Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature
|
| OI
| Optimum Interpolation
|
| OLR
| Outgoing Longwave Radiation
|
| ONR
| Office of Naval Research
|
| OOPC
| Ocean Observation Panel for Climate
|
| OOSDP
| Ocean Observing System Development Panel
|
| OPDB
| Oceanographic Profile DataBase
|
| OPR
| Office of Protected Resources
|
| ORNL
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory
|
| OSDPD
| Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution
|
| OSF
| Office of Sustainable Fisheries
|
| OSI SAF
| Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility
|
| OSISAF
| Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility
|
| OSI
| Ocean and Sea Ice
|
| OSMC
| Observing System Monitoring Center
|
| OSO
| Office of Satellite Operations
|
| OSPO
| Office of Satellite and Product Operations
|
| OST
| Office of Science and Technology
|
| OSTI
| Office of Science and Technology Infrastructure
|
| OSTIA
| Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis
|
| OSU
| Oregon State University
|
| OWG
| Open Working Group
|
| PACHAB
| Pacific Region Harmful Algal Blooom
|
| PacIOOS
| Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
|
| PAR
| Photosynthetically Available Radiation
|
| PCMDI
| Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
|
| PDO
| Pacific Decadal Oscillation
|
| PDSI
| Palmer Drought Severity Index
|
| PEQUOD
| Pacific Equatorial Ocean Dynamics
|
| PFEG
| Pacific Fisheries Environmental Group
|
| PFEL
| Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
|
| PFRP
| Pelagic Fisheries Research Program
|
| PHOD
| Physical Oceanography Division
|
| PhOD
| Physical Oceanography Division
|
| PIFSC
| Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
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| PIRATA
| Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
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| PIRO
| Pacific Islands Regional Office
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| PLR
| Division of Polar Programs
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| PMEL
| Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
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| PODAAC
| Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
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| PODG
| Physical Ocean Data Group
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| POES
| Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite
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| POL
| Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
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| POM
| Princeton Ocean Model
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| POMSS
| Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellite System
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| POO
| Platforms of Opportunity
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| PORTS
| Physical Oceanographic Real-Time Systems
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| PSD
| Physical Sciences Division
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| PSS
| Practical Salinity Scale
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| PSMSL
| Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
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| PSU
| Practical Salinity Unit
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| PTWC
| Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre
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| QA
| Quality Assurance
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| QC
| Quality Control
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| RAMA
| Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction
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| RAMSSA
| Regional Australian Multi-Sensor SST Analysis
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| RDAC
| Regional Data Assembly Centres
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| REMSS
| Remote Sensing Systems
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| RF
| Radio Frequency
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| ROMS
| Regional Ocean Modeling System
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| Roms
| Regional Ocean Modeling System
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| ROV
| Remotely Operated Vessel
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| RQDS
| Research Quality Data Set
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| RSL
| Relative Sea Level
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| RSMAS
| Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
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| RTOFS
| Real-Time Ocean Forecast System
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| SAFT
| Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique
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| SAIC
| Science Applications International Corporation
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| SAL
| Satellite Altimetry Laboratory
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| SAR
| Synthetic Aperture Radar
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| SCAR
| Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
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| SCOR
| Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
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| scPDSI
| Self-calibrated Palmer Drought Severity Index
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| SCS
| South China Sea
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| SCUD
| Surface CUrrents from a Diagnostic model
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| SCCOOS
| Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System
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| SCOR
| Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
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| SEAMAP
| Southeast Area Monitoring & Assessment Program
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| SeaWiFS
| Sea-Wide Field-of-View Sensor
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| SECOORA
| Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association
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| SEFSC
| Southeast Fisheries Science Center
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| SERO
| Southeast Regional Office
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| SEVIRI
| Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager
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| SFERPM
| South Florida Ecosystem Restoration, Prediction, and Modeling Program
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| SFSU
| San Francisco State University
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| SIO
| Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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| SLAR
| Side-Looking Airborne Radar
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| SLOSH
| Sea, Lake & Overland Surge from Hurricanes
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| SLP
| Sea Level Pressure
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| SLR
| Satellite Laser Ranging
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| SMI
| Standard Mapped Image
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| SNSF
| Swiss National Science Foundation
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| SODA
| Simple Ocean Data Assimilation
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| SOEST
| School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
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| SOFAR
| Sound Fixing and Ranging
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| SOI
| Schmidt Ocean Institute
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| SOLO
| Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangian Observer
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| SOSLC
| Southern Ocean Sea Level Centre
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| SPCZ
| South Pacific Convergence Zone
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| SPURS
| Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study
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| SQU
| Sultan Qaboos University
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| SSES
| Single Sensor Error Statistics
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| SSFC
| Severe Storms Forecast Center
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| SSH
| Sea Surface Height
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| SSP
| Sub-Surface Pressure
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| SST
| Sea Surface Temperature
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| SSTA
| Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
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| SSTOP
| Sea Surface Topography
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| STD
| Salinity-Temperature-Depth profiler
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| STWS
| Storm Tide Warning Service
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| SWAN
| Simulating WAves Nearshore model
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| SWFSC
| Southwest Fisheries Science Center
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| SWH
| Significant Wave Height
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| TAO
| Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean
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| TGBM
| Tide Gauge Bench Mark
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| TIROS
| Television Infrared Observation Satellite
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| TMI
| TRMM Microwave Imager
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| TOGA
| Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
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| TOPEX
| Topography Experiment
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| TOVS
| TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder
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| TPFO
| TOPEX/POSEIDON Follow-On
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| TRMM
| Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
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| TUD
| Technische Universiteit Delft
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| UCAR
| University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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| UCONN
| University of Connecticut
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| UCSD
| University of California, San Deigo
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| UH
| University of Hawaii
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| UHF
| Ultra High Frequency
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| UHSLC
| University of Hawaii Sea Level Center
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| UKMO
| United Kingdom Meteorology Office
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| UMe
| University of Maine
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| UNCED
| United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
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| UNDP
| United Nations Development Programme
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| UNEP
| United Nations Environment Programme
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| UNESCO
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
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| UNOLS
| University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
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| US
| United States
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| USCRN
| United States Climate Reference Network
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| USDA
| United States Department of Agriculture
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| USDOC
| United States Department of Commerce
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| USDOD
| United States Department of Defense
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| USDOE
| United States Department of Energy
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| USF
| University of South Florida
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| USFWS
| United States Fish & Wildlife Service
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| USGS
| United States Geological Survey
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| USHCN
| United States Historical Climatological Network
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| USTEC
| United States Total Electron Content
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| USWC
| United States West Coast
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| UUC
| Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
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| UV
| UltraViolet
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| VHF
| Very High Frequency
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| VHRR
| Very High Resolution Radiometer
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| VI
| Vegetation Index
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| VIRR
| Visible and Infrared Radiometer
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| VIRS
| Visible InfraRed Scanner
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| VIRSR
| Visible InfraRed Scanning Radiometer
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| WCN
| West Coast Node
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| WCRN
| West Coast Regional Node
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| WCRO
| West Coast Regional Office
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| WMC
| World Meteorological Center
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| WOD
| World Ocean Database
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| WRF
| Weather Research and Forecasting Model
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| VIIRSN
| Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite/Suomi-NPP
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| VIIRS-N
| Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite/Suomi-NPP
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| VIIRS
| Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite
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| VOS
| Voluntary Observing Ships
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| VLBI
| Very Long Baseline Interferometry
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| VPR
| Video Plankton Recorder
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| WCRP
| World Climate Research Programme
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| WDC
| World Data Centre
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| WEPOCS
| Western Equatorial Pacific Ocean Circulation Study
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| WESTRAX
| Western Tropical Atlantic Experiment
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| WFO
| Weather Forecast Office
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| WHOI
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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| WMO
| World Meteorological Organisation
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| WOA05
| World Ocean Atlas 2005
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| WOA09
| World Ocean Atlas 2009
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| WOA13
| World Ocean Atlas 2013
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| WOA17
| World Ocean Atlas 2017
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| WOA
| World Ocean Atlas
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| WOCE
| World Ocean Circulation Experiment
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| WOD
| World Ocean Database
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| WPO
| West Pacific Oscillation
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| WRCC
| Western Regional Climate Center
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| WRRC
| Water Resources Research Center
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| XBT
| Expendible Bathythermograph
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| XCTD
| eXpendable Conductivity-Temperature-Depth profiler
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| X-SAR
| X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar
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| YOTO
| Year Of The Ocean
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