Acronyms

ADCP	-	acoustic Doppler current profiler
ASCII	-	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CDIAC	-	Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CFC	-	chlorofluorocarbon
CGC	-	Climate and Global Change
CO2	-	carbon dioxide
COARE	-	Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
CRM	-	certified reference material
CTD	-	conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor
DOE	-	U.S. Department of Energy
FTP	-	file transfer protocol
GMT	-	Greenwich Mean Time
GO	-	General Oceanics
IAPSO	-	International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean
NBIS	-	Neil Brown Instruments Systems
NDP	-	numeric data package
nm	-	nautical mile
NOAA	-	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PSS	-	practical salinity scale
pCO2	-	partial pressure of CO2
PSS	-	Practical Salinity Scale
QA	-	quality assurance
R/V	-	research vessel
SIO	-	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SOMMA	-	Single-Operator Multiparameter Metabolic Analyzer
SOP	-	standard operating procedure
TALK	-	total alkalinity
TCO2	-	total carbon dioxide
TOGA	-	Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
UH	-	University of Hawaii
USF	-	University of South Florida
UW	-	University of Washington
WHOI	-	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHPO	-	WOCE Hydrographic Program Office
WOCE	-	World Ocean Circulation Experiment



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