Understanding and Predicting the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current: Critical Gaps and Recommendations (2018)
Chapter: Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations
APPENDIX D
Acronyms and Abbreviations
| 4DVar |
four-dimensional variation |
| ADCP |
acoustic Doppler current profiler |
| ANN |
artificial neural network |
| ASV |
autonomous surface vehicle |
| AUV |
autonomous underwater vehicle |
| AVISO |
Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data |
| AXBT |
Airborne Expendable BathyThermograph |
| BOEM |
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management |
| BSEE |
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement |
| CARTHE |
Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon Environment |
| CICESE |
Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada |
| C-IMAGE |
Center for the Integrated Modeling and Analysis of the Gulf Ecosystem |
| CMEMS |
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service |
| CNES |
Centre National d’Études Spatiales |
| CPIES |
current pressure inverted echo sounder |
| DAC |
data assembly center |
| DEEP-C |
Deep Sea to Coast Connectivity in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico |
| DOI |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
| EEZ |
exclusive economic zone |
| EOF |
empirical orthogonal function |
| FFRDC |
Federally Funded R&D Centers |
| FVCOM |
Finite-Volume, primitive equation Community Ocean Model |
| GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
| GLAD |
Grand LAgrangian Deployment |
| GOMEX-PPP |
Gulf of Mexico Pilot Prediction Project |
| GoMRI |
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative |
| GRP |
Gulf Research Program |
| HF |
high frequency |
| HMI |
Horizon Marine, Inc. |
| HYCOM |
HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model |
| IOOS |
Integrated Ocean Observing System |
| ISOP |
Improved Synthetic Ocean Profile |
| LC |
Loop Current |
| LCE |
Loop Current eddy |
| LCS |
Loop Current System |
| MITgcm |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology General Circulation Model |
| MMS |
Minerals Management Service |
| MODAS |
Modular Ocean Data Assimilation System |
| MOM |
Modular Ocean Model |
| MSEAS |
Multidisciplinary Simulation, Estimation, and Assimilation Systems |
| NAVOCEANO |
Naval Oceanographic Office |
| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction |
| NCODA |
Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation |
| NCOM |
Navy Coastal Ocean Model |
| NDBC |
National Data Buoy Center |
| NLOM |
Navy Layered Ocean Model |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NRL |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| NTL |
Notice to Lessees and Operators |
| ONR |
Office of Naval Research |
| OSSE |
Observing System Simulation Experiment |
| PI |
principal investigator |
| PIES |
pressure-recording inverted echo sounder |
| POM |
Princeton Ocean Model |
| ROMS |
Regional Ocean Modeling System |
| ROV |
remotely operated vehicle |
| SSH |
sea surface height |
| SST |
sea surface temperature |
| SUNTAN |
Stanford Unstructured Nonhydrostatic Terrain-following Adaptive Navier-Stokes Simulator |
| SWOT |
Surface Water and Ocean Topography |
| TRW |
topographic Rossby wave |
| T/S |
temperature/salinity |
| UARC |
University Affiliated Research Center |
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