ABBREVIATIONS

AT     total alkalinity
BMBF   Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und
       Technologie
       (German Ministry for Education, Science, Research and
       Technology)
BNL    Brookhaven National Laboratory
CMDL   Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
CSIRO  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
       Organisation
CT     total dissolved inorganic carbon (synonyms: DIC, TCO2)
CTD    conductivity-temperature-depth probe
DFG    Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
DOE    U.S. Department of Energy
fCO2   fugacity of CO2
GMT    Greenwich mean time
GPS    global positioning system
IfMK   Institut für Meereskunde Kiel (Institute of Marine Research
       at the University of Kiel)
IOC    Intergovernmental Oceanographic Council
JGOFS  Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
MRI    Meteorological Research Institute
NBI    Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics
NDIR   nondispersive infrared
NDP    numeric data package
NOAA   National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OU     Okayama University
pCO2   partial pressure of CO2
pH     pH value
PSS    Practical Salinity Scale
RF     Reedereigemeinschaft Forschungsschiffahrt GmbH
R/V    Research Vessel
SCOR   Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SIO    Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SOMMA  single-operator multiparameter metabolic analyzer
UP&MC  Universit  Pierre et Marie Curie
UTC    universal time coordinated
WHOI   Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WMO    World Meteorological Organization
XBT    expendable bathythermograph
xCO2   mole fraction of CO2

akozyr 03/03/1999,modified 02/12/01