AT total alkalinity
BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und
Technologie
(German Ministry for Education, Science, Research and
Technology)
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
CMDL Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation
CT total dissolved inorganic carbon (synonyms: DIC, TCO2)
CTD conductivity-temperature-depth probe
DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
fCO2 fugacity of CO2
GMT Greenwich mean time
GPS global positioning system
IfMK Institut für Meereskunde Kiel (Institute of Marine Research
at the University of Kiel)
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Council
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
MRI Meteorological Research Institute
NBI Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics
NDIR nondispersive infrared
NDP numeric data package
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OU Okayama University
pCO2 partial pressure of CO2
pH pH value
PSS Practical Salinity Scale
RF Reedereigemeinschaft Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH
R/V Research Vessel
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SOMMA single-operator multiparameter metabolic analyzer
UP&MC Universit Pierre et Marie Curie
UTC universal time coordinated
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WMO World Meteorological Organization
XBT expendable bathythermograph
xCO2 mole fraction of CO2
akozyr 03/03/1999,modified 02/12/01