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JGOFS
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (IGBP)
JMA
Japan Meteorological Agency
JOC
Joint Organising Committee
JODC
Japan Oceanographic Data Centre
JPL
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA)
JSC
Joint Scientific Committee
KAPEX
Cape of Good Hope Experiment
LADCP
Lowered Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler
LCDW
Lower Circumpolar Deep Water
LCPW
Lower Central Pacific Water
LDEO
Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory (USA)
LEIC
Lower Equatorial Intermediate Current
LGM
Last Glacial Maximum
LH
Latent heat
LIW
Levantine Intermediate Water
LMD
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (France)
LODYC
Laboratoire d’Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie (France)
LSG
Large Scale Geostrophic
LSW
Labrador Sea Water
MARVOR
French hybrid float of RAFOS and ALACE technology
MAW
Modified Atlantic Water
MEDOC
Mediterranean Ocean Convection (Experiment)
MEDS
Marine Environment Data System (Canada)
METOP
Meteorology Operational Platform
MISR
Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer
MMW
Madeira Mode Water
MOC
Meridional Overturning Circulation
MODE
Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment
MODIS
Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MOI
Monsoon Index
MOM
Modular Ocean Model
MPI
Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Germany)
MSU
Microwave Sounding Unit
NABE
North Atlantic Bloom Experiment
NAC
North Atlantic Current
NADW
North Atlantic Deep Water
NAO
North Atlantic Oscillation
NAS
North Atlantic Study
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
NASDA
National Space Development Agency (Japan)
NASTMW
North Atlantic SubTropical Mode Water
NATRE
North Atlantic Tracer Release Experiment
NBC
North Brazil Current
NBUC
North Brazil Undercurrent
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
NCEP
National Center for Environmental Prediction (NOAA)
NDBC
National Data Buoy Center (USA)
NE(C)C
North Equatorial (Counter) Current
NEADW
North East Atlantic Deep Water
NEG
Numerical Experimentation Group
NEUC
Northern Equatorial Undercurrent
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