ACRONYMS

Table 1: Acronyms of Organizations, Manufacturers, Products

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION	URL-email
CNR	Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche	www.cnr.it
ISMAR	Istituto di Scienze Marine	www.bo.ismar.cnr.it
ISSIA	Ist.Studi Sist.Intelligenti per l'Automazione	www.issia.cnr.it
ISAC	Ist.Scienze Atmosferiche	www.isac.cnr.it
IBF	Istituto di Biofisica	www.ibf.cnr.it
ENEA	Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie, Energia e Ambiente	www.enea.it
MFSTEP	Mediterranean Forecast.System Toward Environ.Pred.	www.bo.ingv.it/mfstep/
MERSEA	Marine Environ. and Security for the European Area	strand1.mersea.eu.org
ODAS-Italia1	Oceanographic data acquisition System Italia 1	www.odas.ge.issia.cnr.it
MAW	Modified Atlantic Water	stommel.tamu.edu
LIW	levantine Intermediate Water	stommel.tamu.edu
NAO	North Atlantic Oscillation	www.met.rdg.ac.uk/cag/NAO
LDR	Longwave Downward Radiation	www.science.gmu.edu/
PIR	Precision Infrared radiometers
PSP	Precision Spectral Pyranometers
SBP	Sub Bottom Profiling
RESON	Reson	www.reson.it
COMM-TEC	Communication Technology	www.comm-tec.com
UNESCO	United Nations Scient. and cultural org.	www.unesco.org
IOC	Intergov.Oceanogr.Comm. of UNESCO	www.ioc.org
IHO	Int. Hydrographic Organization	www.iho.org
SEG	Soc. of Exploration Geophysicists	www.seg.org
GNU,GPL	GNU is not Unix,General Pub. License	www.gnu.org
GMT	Generic Mapping Tool	gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt
GEBCO	General Bathym.Chart Oceans	GEBCO
MBES	MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER SYSTEM
GPS-DGPS-RTK	Global Positioning System	samadhi.jpl.nasa.gov
DTM	Digital Terrain Model