| 14C | radiocarbon |
| ADCP | acoustic Doppler current profiler |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center |
| CEAB | El Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes |
| CFC | chlorofluorocarbon |
| CO2 | carbon dioxide |
| CRM | certified reference material |
| CTD | conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor |
| DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
| emf | electromotive force |
| FCMLP | Facultad de Ciencias del Mar |
| fCO2 | fugacity of CO2 |
| FTP | file transfer protocol |
| GC | gas chromatography |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GO | General Oceanics |
| GPS | global positioning system |
| IEO | Instituto Español de Oceanografía |
| IIM | Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas |
| IPO | WOCE International Program Office |
| IR | infrared |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| NBIS | Neil Brown Instruments Systems |
| NDP | numeric data package |
| nm | nautical mile |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| PSS | practical salinity scale |
| QA | quality assurance |
| RSMAS | Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science |
| RTD | resistive temperature device |
| R/V | research vessel |
| SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| TALK | total alkalinity |
| TCO2 | total carbon dioxide |
| UPC | Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña |
| URL | universal resource locator |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Program |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| WHPO | WOCE Hydrographic Program Office |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
akozyr 06/2000