ABBREVIATION REGION BAFF Baffin Bay ARCT Arctic waters NASPG North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre NPSPG North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre NAC North Atlantic Current NS Northern Seas (Greenland, Barents and Norway seas) NASTG North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre NPSTG North Pacific Subtropical Gyre KURIO Kuroshio current ASEW Atlantic Subequatorial Waters PSEW Pacific Subequatorial Waters SPSTG South Pacific Subtropical Gyre SASTG South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre SISTG South Indian Subtropical Gyre IEQ Indian Equatorial waters IOMZ Indian Oxygen Minimum Zones (Arabian Sea and Bengal Bay) AUSW Australian waters ARCH Archipelagos waters MOONS Monsoon zone SCS South China Sea WMS & EMS Western & Eastern Mediterranean Sea BKS Black Sea RDS Red Sea STZ Subtropical Zone (in Southern Ocean) SAZ Subantarctic Zone PFZ Polar Frontal Zone (in Southern Ocean) ASZ_SIZ Antarctic Southern Zone and Seasonal Ice