Integrated Ocean Observing System Abbreviations and Acronyms

1. Netc
   Naval Education & Training Command
2. USMC
   United States Marine Corporation
3. MARAD
   Maritime Administration (National Defense Reserve Fleet)
4. NAVOCEANO
   Naval Oceanographic Office
5. NESDIS
   National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
6. NEXRAD
   Next-Generation Radar
7. 3DVAR
   Three‐Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation
8. AATAMS
   Australian Animal Tagging and Monitoring System
9. ACOMO
   Australian Coastal and Ocean Modeling and Observing
10. ACORK
    Advanced Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit
11. ACTN
    Atlantic Coastal Telemetry Network
12. ADCIRC
    Advanced Circulation Model
13. AMAPPS
    Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species
14. ANDRILL
    Antarctic Geological Drilling
15. ANZIC
    Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium
16. APLACON
    Alternative Platform Conference
17. ARDAS
    Acoustic Receiver Data Acquisition System
18. C-MAN
    Coastal Marine Automated Network
19. CALCOFI
    NOAA Fisheries California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
20. CAPES 
    Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel

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