| 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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