UNESCO Acronyms
A web tool for searching the world of UNESCO acronyms. |
UN-Oceans
An interagency coordination mechanism on ocean and coastal issues within the UN system |
UN Ocean Atlas
The UN Atlas of the Oceans is an Internet portal providing information relevant to the sustainable development of the oceans. |
UN Climate Change
Gateway to UN system activities on Climate Change |
AMIS
African Marine Information System: an EU program to provide the Users with an appropriate set of bio-physical information, of importance to conduct water quality assessment and resource monitoring in the coastal and marine waters. |
ANTARES
ANTARES is a South American network with the main goals of studying long-term changes in coastal ecosystems, to distinguish those due to natural variability from those due to external perturbations. |
AoA
Assessment of Assessments |
ArcticROOS
Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System |
Argo Net
Argo home site. Argo is the global array of temperature/salinity profiling floats. |
Bilko
Bilko is a complete system
for learning and teaching remote sensing image analysis skills. |
Biodiversity/BIOMAR
Implementing and networking a large scale, long term Marine Biodiversity research in Europe |
CEOS
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
CGMS
Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites |
Chloro-GIN
Chlorophyll Global Integrated Network project aims to promote in situ measurement of chlorophyll in combination with satellite derived estimates. |
CLIVAR
Climate Variability and Predictability, a program of WCRP |
CMIP
Coupled Model Intercomparion Project A WCRP programme to facilitate standard experimental protocol for studying the output of coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) |
CoML
Census of Marine Life |
Coriolis
A system for operational oceanography is under development in France to monitor and forecast the ocean behavior. |
COOP
Coastal Ocean Observations Panel works on behalf of the GOOS Steering Committee to develop strategy and implementation plans for
the coastal module of GOOS. |
CPPS
Permanent Commission for the South Pacific |
DIVERSITAS
International Programme of Biodiversity Science |
ENHANS
Extreme Natural Hazards and Societal Implications. While we cannot prevent natural phenomena such as earthquake and cyclones, we can limit their consequences (UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, 17 May 2009). |
ESEOO
Establecimiento de un Sistema Español de Oceanografía Operacional, ESEOO
Spanish Ocean observation and modeling system, |
Euro Argo
The Euro-Argo array is the European component of a world wide in situ global ocean observing system, based on autonomous profiling floats. The Argo objective is to develop a global array of floats (spaced 300 km apart, on average) throughout the ice- |
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization, a UN sponsor of GOOS and GTOS |
GCOS
Global Climate Observing System was established in 1992 to ensure that the observations and information needed to address climate-related issues are obtained and made available to all potential users. |
FOSS
Free & Open Source Software Portal
The UNESCO Free Software Portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the Free Software/Open Source Technology movement. |
GEF
Global Environment Facility
Funding arm of the UNFCCC |
GEONETCAST
global network of satellite based data dissemination systems |
GEO
Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is leading a worldwide effort to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) |
GEOSS
Global Earth Observing System of Systems |
GESAMP
Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) is an advisory body that advises the UN system on the scientific aspects of marine environmental protection. |
GHRSST
Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP) provides a new generation of global coverage high-resolution (mode. |
GIGAS
GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES an Action in Support (GIGAS) promotes the coherent and interoperable development of the GMES, INSPIRE and GEOSS initiatives through their concerted adoption of standards, protocols, and open architectures. |
GLOSS
GLOBAL SEA LEVEL OBSERVING SYSTEM |
GODAE
Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment |
GMES
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security is a joint initiative of the European Union and the European Space Agency (ESA). It represents a concerted attempt to bring environmental and security data and information providers together with users, |
GOOS
Global Ocean Observing System |
GO-SHIP
Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program established in 2007 by the IOCCP and CLIVAR to develop a strategy for a sustained global repeat hydrography program |
GOSIC
Global Observing Systems Information Center
GOSIC provides access to data, metadata and information, and overviews of the structure and programs for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and the Global |
GRAND
GOOS Regional Alliances Network Development |
GRASP
GOOS Regional Alliance for South Pacific |
GRID Arendal
UNEP/GRID Arendal communicates environmental information to policy-makers. It is a source of climate information and wonderful graphics for maps and charts on climate issues. |
GSOP
Global Synthesis and Observations Panel, CLIVAR, WCRP panel. |
GTOS
Global Terrestrial Observing System is a programme for observations, modeling, and analysis of terrestrial ecosystems to support sustainable development.
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HIOOS
Hawaii Islands Ocean Observing System is a component of the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), one of eleven regional observing programs in the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) |
IAMAS
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences |
IAPSO
International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans |
ICES
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
ICES acts as a meeting point for a community of more than 1600 marine scientists from 20 countries around the North Atlantic. |
ICSU
International Council for Science plans and coordinates interdisciplinary research to address major issues of relevance to both science and society. |
IGBP
International Geosphere Biosphere Program is a research programme that studies the phenomenon of Global Change. |
IGOS-P
Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership |
IMBER
Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research Group aims to investigate the sensitivity of marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems to global change, on time scales ranging from years to decades. |
IMOS
Integrated Marine Observing System. Assembly of data systems around Australia. |
INOCAR
Instituto Oceanografico de la Armada, Ecuador |
IOC
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
IODE
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) was established in 1961 to enhance marine research, exploitation and development by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data and information between participating Member States a |
IOOS
Integrated Ocean Observing System The Ocean.US system which seeks to organize the USA OOS through open ocean efforts which integrate with GOOS and GEOSS, and coastal efforts through the NFRA |
IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Nobel Prize winning organization which is providing the scientific framework for international agreements on mitigating climate change. |
IPY
International Polar Year 2007-08 |
ISABP
International South Atlantic Buoy Program |
ITIC
International Tsunami Information Center |
IUGG
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) is the international organization dedicated to advancing, promoting, and communicating knowledge of the Earth system, its space environment, and the dynamical processes causing change. |
IYOR
ICRI International Year of the Reef 2008 is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, and to motivate people to take action to protect them. |
JCOMM
Joint WMO-IOC Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology |
JCOMM ETOOFS
JCOMM Expert Team on Operational Ocean Forecasting Systems |
JCOMMOPS
JCOMM In-Situ Observing Platform Support Center |
Methan Gas Hydrates
Global Outlook on Methane Gas Hydrates seeks to bridge the gap between the science, research and development activities on this source of natural gas. A UNEP, GRID-Arendal programme. |
MIA
Marine Information Alliance is a partnering of the public and private sector with the objective of realising the societal and business benefits of sustained observation, monitoring and forecasting of the marine environment. |
MMOP (WMO)
WMO's Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Programme (MMOP) regulates, coordinates and facilitates the sustained provision of global and regional coverage observational data, products and services for the maritime user |
MOVAR
MOnitoramento da VAriabilidade Regional do transporte de calor na camada superficial do oceano Atlântico Sul entre o Rio de Janeiro (RJ) e a Ilha de Trindade (ES) |
NFRA
National Federation of Regional Associations for Coastal and Ocean Observing
A USA association which forms the coastal module for the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) |
OBIS
Ocean Biogeographic Information System |
OceanPortal
OceanPortal is a high-level directory of Ocean Data and Information related web sites. |
OceanSITES
OceanSITES is a worldwide system of long-term, deepwater reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters. |
Ocean United
Ocean United was initiated by POGO as an informal discussion forum to help the ocean community to speak with a common voice within GEO and now serves many outreach functions for GOOS. |
OOI
Ocean Observatories Initiative is an NSF funded infrastructure of research science-driven sensor systems focused on discoveries enabled by new technologies. |
OOPC
Ocean Observations Panel for Climate is a scientific expert advisory group charged with making recommendations for a sustained global ocean observing system for climate in support of the goals of its sponsors. |
OSTIA
Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis uses satellite data provided by the GHRSST project, together with in-situ observations to determine the sea surface temperature. |
OTN
Ocean Tracking Network. A world wide screen of acoustic nets used to track acoustically tagged animals. |
PACOOS
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System is the US component of the PI-GOOS |
PICES
The North Pacific Marine Science Organization, an intergovernmental scientific organization, was established in 1992 to promote and coordinate marine research in the northern North Pacific and adjacent seas. Its present members are Canada, Japan, Peo |
PICO
Panel for Integrated Coastal Observastions
Discussions are underway regarding the potential formulation of a Joint-Panel for Integrated Coastal Observations (J-PICO), with resolution expected in the foreseeable future. |
PIGOOS
Pacific Islands GOOS
is a regional initiative to develop capacity in operational oceanography in the Pacific region. |
PIRATA
Pilot Research Moored Array in the Atlantic |
POGO
Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans |
RFB
Regional Fisheries Bodies. This is a link to the FAO site which lists information about all RFBs (~50). |
RSP
UNEP Regional Seas Programmes. The Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans cover issues ranging from chemical wastes and coastal development to the conservation of marine animals and ecosystems... |
SAON
Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks. A group studying how Arctic observing and data and information management activities will be coordinated and sustained over the long-term? |
SCAR
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, an inter-disciplinary committee of ICSU. SCAR is charged with the initiating, developing and coordinating high quality international scientific research in the Antarctic. |
SCOR
Scientific Committee on Ocean Research activities focus on promoting international cooperation in planning and conducting oceanographic research, and solving methodological and conceptual problems that hinder research. |
SeaDataNet
Sea Data Net project (2006-2011) is constructing a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. |
SEPRISE
Sustained, Efficient Production of Required information Services. Federated data server for EuroGOOS data. |
SGGOOS
ICES/IOC Steering Group on GOOS |
SOPAC
is the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission. |
TEOS-10
Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater 2010 |
Tsunami
IOC Tsunami Warning System Web Page |
UNEP
United Nations Environment Progamme, environment for development. |
UNESCO Climate
UNESCO Climate Programs |
UNFCCC
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change |
WCRP
World Climate Research Program identifies knowledge gaps, prioritizes needs and leads world-class research into climate variability and climate change to meet end-user requirements and policy needs.
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WESTPAC
IOC Regional Secretariat for the Western Pacific |
WIGOS IODE
WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems IODE Pilot Project |
WIGOS homepage
WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) is a concept for a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable system of observing systems. |
WMO
World Meteorological Organization is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans, the climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources. |
