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AES | Atmospheric Environment Service |
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AGAGE | Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
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| ALE | Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment
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| AmeriFlux | Eddy Covariance Flux Network in North, Central, and South America
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| ASRC | Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
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| BGC | biogeochemical cycle
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| BIOME-BGC | global biome model-biogeochemical cycle
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| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory
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| BOREAS | Boreal Ecosystems Atmosphere Study
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| CARINA | CARbon In the North Atlantic program
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| CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
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| CIRES | Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
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| CMDL | Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
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| CMP | computer model package
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| CO | carbon monoxide
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| CO2 | carbon dioxide
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| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
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| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Center
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| DLT | digital linear tape
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| DMHB | Data Management Handbook
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| DB | database
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| DOE | Department of Energy
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| EDGAR | Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research
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| ERULF | Energy Research Undergraduate Laboratory Fellowship
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| ESD | Environmental Sciences Division
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| FACE | Free-Air CO2 Enrichment
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| FTP | File Transfer Protocol
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| fCO2 | fugacity of carbon dioxide
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| FRM/FEM | Federal Reference Methods/ Federal Equivalent Methods
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| FY | fiscal year
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| GAGE | Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
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| GAW | Global Atmosphere Watch
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| GHCN | Global Historical Climatology Network
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| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA)
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| GLODAP | Global Ocean Data Analysis Project
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| GPP | gross primary production
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| GTS | Global Telecommunications Systems
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| HCN | Historical Climatology Network
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| ICRCCM | Intercomparison of Radiation Codes in Climate Models
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| IfMK | Institute for Marine Sciences
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| IG | Institute of Geography (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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| INSTAAR | Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
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| IOW | Institut für Ostseeforschung
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| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
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| LAI | leaf area index
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| MAPS | Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites
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| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| MODIS | moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer
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| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement
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| NARSTO | (formerly) North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
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| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research
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| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center
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| NDP | numeric data package
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| NEP | Net Ecosystem Production
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| NMOC | non-methane organic compound
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| NO2 | nitrogen dioxide
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| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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| NOPP | National Oceanographic Partnership Program
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| NPP | Net Primary Production
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| NSF | National Science Foundation
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| OACES | Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study
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| ORISE | Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
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| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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| PAMS | Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations
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| pCO2 | partial pressure carbon dioxide
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| PDF | portable document format
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| PI | principal investigator
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| PICES | North Pacific Marine Science Organization
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| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
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| ppmv | parts per million by volume
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| QPHB | Quality Planning Handbook
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| QSMP | Quality Systems Management Plan
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| QSSC | Quality Systems Science Center
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| RAID | redundant array of independent disks
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| RFP | request for proposal
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| SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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| SOMMA | Single-Operator Multiparameter Metabolic Analyzer
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| STC | Society for Technical Communications
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| SUNY | State University of New York
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| TALK | total alkalinity
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| TCO2 | total carbon dioxide
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| TECO | Terrestrial Ecological and Global Change
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| UC | University of California
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| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture
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| VOC | volatile organic compound
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| WDC | World Data Center
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| WHP | WOCE Hydrographic Program
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| WMO | World Meteorological Organization
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| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment
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| YOTO | Year of the Ocean
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