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uncentered statistics

Statistics that retain information on the spatially-averaged changes in the fields being compared, i.e. the spatial-mean components are not subtracted so as to compare only the anomalies about the means as would be the case with centered statistics.

UNCLOS

Acronym for United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, which took place in Montego Bay in 1982.

UNESCO

Acronym for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, a UN organization founded in 1945 to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication. See the UNESCO Web page.

University National Oceanographic Laboratory Systems (UNOLS)

An organization of 57 academic institutions and national laboratories involved in oceanographic research and joined for the purpose of coordinating ship schedules and research facilities. The original UNOLS charter was written in 1972. See the UNOLS Web site.

UNOLS

Acronym for University National Oceanographic Laboratory System.

UOR

Abbreviation for Undulating Oceanographic Recorder. See Aiken and Bellan (1990).

UOTC

Abbreviation for Upper Ocean Thermal Center.

Upper Ocean Thermal Center (UOTC)

A data center charged with the collection, dissemination, and use of volunteer observing ship (VOS) XBT data for the Atlantic Ocean to satisfy WOCE objectives in the upper part of the water column. See the UOTC Web site.

upwelling

See Smith (1995) and Summerhayes et al. (1995).

USIPS

Abbreviation for Under Sea Ice and Pelagic Survey, a project whose goal is to use the Autosub AUV to investigate the physical and biological environment of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZE), and to assess the potential of AUVs for improving acoustic estimates of the biomass of fisheries resources.

[http://www.marlab.ac.uk/USIPS/USIPS.htm]

UWM/COADS

This is a data set that contains raw and objectively analyzed fields of surface marine anomalies of fluxes of heat, momentum and fresh water along with several other parameters. It was produced at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by A. M. da Silva and C. C. Young. These monthly fields were derived from the COADS data set and are available in an electronic archive along with some documentation.