List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 



AOR Area Of Responsibility 



AXBT Air-deployed expendable BathyThermograph 



BAPS iceBerg Analysis and Prediction System 



CALIB Compact Air Launched Ice Beacon 



CAMSLANT Communications Area Master Station atLANTic 



CCG Canadian Coast Guard 



CIS Canadian Ice Service 



DFO Department of Fisheries and Oceans 



EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone 



FLAR Forward-looking Airborne Radar 



GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security 



GS Gulf Stream 



GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center 



HF High Frequency 



HMCS Her Majesty's Canadian Ship 



IIP International Ice Patrol 



INMARSAT INternational MARitime SATellite (also Inmarsat) 



IRD Ice Reconnaissance Detachment 



LAKI Limit of All Known Ice 



LC Labrador Current 



LDEO Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory 



MANICE MANual of standard procedures for observing and reporting ICE conditions 



MODIS MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer 



MSS5000 Marine Surveillance System 5000 



MA/ Motor Vessel 



NAC North Atlantic Current 



NAO North Atlantic Oscillation 



NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration 



NIC National Ice Center 



NSSI Normalized Season Severity Index 



NTIS National Technical Information Service 



RADAR Radio Detection And Ranging (also radar) 



RMS Royal Mail Steamer 



SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea 



SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar 



SST Sea Surface Temperature 



WEFAX WEather FAX 



WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment 



WWW World Wide Web 



