Abbreviations and Acronyms 



AOR Area of Responsibility 



AXBT Air-deployed expendable BathyThermograph 



BAPS iceBerg Analysis and Prediction System 



CAMSLANT Communications Area Master Station atLANTic 



CCG Canadian Coast Guard 



CIS Canadian Ice Service 



DDH callsign for Hamburg Germany 



DDK callsign for Pinneberg Germany 



FLAR Forward-Looking Airborne Radar 



GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security 



HF High Frequency 



HMCS Her Majesty's Canadian Ship 



IIP International Ice Patrol 



INMARSAT INternational MARitime SATellite (also Inmarsat) 



IRD Ice Reconnaissance Detachment 



KT Knot 



LAKI Limit of All Known Ice 



M Meter 



MB Millibar 



MCTS Marine Communications and Traffic Service 



M/V Motor Vessel 



NAO North Atlantic Oscillation 



NIC National Ice Center 



NIK callsign for CAMSLANT 



NM Nautical Mile 



NMF callsign for USCG Communications Station Boston 



NTIS National Technical Information Service 



PAL Provincial Aerospace Limited 



RADAR Radio Detection And Ranging (also radar) 



RMS Royal Mail Steamer 



SOLAS Safety Of Life At Sea 



SLAR Side-Looking Airborne Radar 



VON callsign for MCTS St. John's 



WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment 



