ACC	Antarctic Circumpolar Current
ACW	Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
Argo	A non-acronymous global array of profiling floats for climate research
AUV	Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
BATS	Bermuda Atlantic Time Series
CaTS	Caribbean Time-series Study
CARIACO	CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean
CCSP	Carbon Cycle Science Plan
CFC	Chloro Fluoro Carbon
CLIVAR	CLImate VARiability and prediction program
CTD	Conductivity Temperature Depth recorder
DIC, DOC	Dissolved Inorganic/Organic Carbon
DOM/POM	Dissolved/Particulate Organic Matter
ECOHAB	ECOlogy of Harmful Algal Blooms
EDOCC	Ecological Determinants of Oceanic Carbon Cycle
ENSO	El Niño Southern Oscillation
ESTOC	European Station for Time-series in the Ocean, Canary Islands
FOCUS	Future of Ocean Chemistry in the U.S.
GCM	Global Circulation Model
GLOBEC	GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics
GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOOS	Global Ocean Observing System
HFS	Halo Fluoro Carbon
HOT	Hawaii Ocean Time-series
IRONEX	IRON EXperiments
JGOFS	Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
MEMS	Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
NAO	North Atlantic Oscillation
NAS	National Academy of Sciences
OCTET	Ocean Carbon Transport, Exchanges and Transformations
OEUVRE	Ocean Ecology: Understanding and Vision for REsearch
PDO	Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PIC/POC	Particulate Inorganic/Organic Carbon
RIDGE	Ridge InterDisciplinary Global Experiment
SeaWiFS	Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
SOLAS	Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
SMP	Synthesis and Modeling Project (JGOFS)
SST	Sea Surface Temperature
TAO/TRITON	Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean/ TRIangle Trans-Ocean buoy Network
TOPEX	Ocean TOPography EXperiment
TTO	Transient Tracers in the Oceans
VOS	Volunteer Observing Ships
WOCE	World Ocean Circulation Experiment