Acronyms and Other Abbreviations

AGAGE	Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
ALEA	tmospheric Lifetime Experiment
AmeriFlux	American CO2 Flux Network
AOML	Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
CDIAC	Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CCl4	carbon tetrachloride
CFCl3	chlorofluorocarbon
CF2Cl2	chlorofluorocarbon
CF2ClCFCl2	chlorofluorocarbon
CH4	methane
CH3CCl3	methyl chloroform
CHCl3	chloroform
CMDL	Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
CSIRO	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
CTD	conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor
CVI	Coastal Vulnerability Index
DB	database
DOE	U.S. Department of Energy
DRI	Desert Research Institute
EML	Environmental Measurements Laboratory
FACE	Free-Air CO2 Exposure
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
fCO2	fugacity of carbon dioxide
FY	fiscal year
GAGE	Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
GIS	geographic information system
GISS	NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
HCN	Historical Climatology Network
INSTAAR	Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
LDGO	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
MAPS	Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellites
NARSTO	North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCDC	National Climatic Data Center
NDP	numeric data package
NEP	Net Ecosystem Production
N2	Onitrous oxide
OBER	Office of Biological and Environmental Research (DOE)
ORNL	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
pCO2	partial pressure carbon dioxide
PDF	portable document format
PMEL	Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
QA/QC	quality assurance/quality control
QSSC	Quality Systems Science Center
QSMP	Quality Systems Management Plan
RANDAB	Radionuclide Database
RIHMI	All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information
SIO	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
STC	Society for Technical Communications
TALK	total alkalinity
TCO2	total carbon dioxide
TRACDAB	Trace Gas Database
UN	United Nations
UNR	University of Nevada-Reno
USIA	U.S. Information Agency
WDC-A	World Data Center-A
WHOI	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WOCE	World Ocean Circulation Experiment
YOTO	Year of the Ocean