ACRONYMS, ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS
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NGCC
New Guinea Coastal Current
NGDC
National Geophysical Data Center (USA)
NH
Northern Hemisphere
NICC
North Intermediate Counter Current
NMC
National Meterological Center
NOAA
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
NODC
National Oceanographic Data Center (USA)
NOSAMS
National Oceanographic Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (USA)
NPCMW
North Pacific Central Mode Water
NPIW
North Pacific Intermediate Water
NPSTMW
North Pacific SubTropical Mode Water
NSCAT
Scatterometer Sensor on ADEOS satellite
NSCC
Northern Subsurface Counter Current
NSDW
Norwegian Sea Deep Water
NSF
National Science Foundation (USA)
NWP
Numerical Weather Prediction
OASIS
Ocean, Atmosphere, Sea, Ice, Soil
(Software for coupling components of climate models)
OCCAM
Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling project (UK)
ODAS
Ocean Data Acquisition System (moored buoy)
OGCM
Ocean General Circulation Model
OOPC
Ocean Observations Panel for Climate
OOSDP
Ocean Observing System Development Panel (replaced by OOPC)
OPA
Ocean model of Laboratoire d’Océanologie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris
OPA/ARPEGE OPA coupled to the atmospheric model of Meteo France/European Centre for Medium
Range Weather Forecasts
OPYC
Ocean isopycnic model
P
Precipitation
P-ALACE
Profiling-Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer
PDO
Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PE
Primitive Equation or Potential Energy
PEQUOD
Pacific Equatorial Dynamics programme
PF
Polar Front
PI
Principal Investigator
PIES
Pressure and Inverted Echo Sounder
PIRATA
Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
PNA
Pacific-North American (Mode of climate variability)
POCM
Parallel Ocean Circulation Model (US)
POLYGON
USSR mesoscale experiment
POLYMODE
1970s US-USSR mesoscale experiment
POM
Princeton Ocean Model
POMS
Pilot Ocean Monitoring Study
POP
Parallel Ocean Program
PR
Precipitation Radar
PSMSL
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (UK)
PV
Potential Vorticity
PW
Petawatts
QBO
Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
QC
Quality Control
QG
Quasi-Geostrophic
RAFOS
Type of float. RAFOS is reverse of SOFAR