| AOML | Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory |
| AOU | apparent oxygen utilization |
| AWI | Alfred-Wegener-Institut fürPolar und Meeresforschung |
| BATS | Bermuda Atlantic Time-SeriesStation |
| BIO | Bedford Institute of Oceanography |
| BSH | Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrtund Hydrographie |
| CDIAC | Carbon Dioxide InformationAnalysis Center |
| CFC | chlorofluorocarbon |
| CRM | certified reference material |
| CSIC | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas |
| CTD | conductivity-temperature-depth sensor |
| DIC | total dissolved inorganic carbon |
| DOE | U.S. Department of Energy |
| fCO2 | fugacity of carbon dioxide |
| GCC | global carbon cycle |
| IEO | Instituto Español de Oceanographía |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IR | infrared |
| LDEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| LODYC | Laboratoire d′Océanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie |
| LPO | Laboratoire de Physique des Océans |
| MLR | multiple-parameter linear regression |
| NBS | National Bureau of Standards |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OACES | Ocean-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange Study |
| ODV | Ocean Data View |
| ORSTOM | Institut Français de la Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération |
| PMEL | Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory |
| RSMAS | Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science |
| SIO | Scripps Institute of Oceanography |
| SOC | Southampton Oceanography Centre |
| SOMMA | single-operator multiparameter metabolic analyzer |
| TAlk | total alkalinity |
| UEA | University of East Anglia |
| US JGOFS | U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| WHP | World Hydrographic Program |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
tracz 6/4/2003