Abbreviations


     14C       radiocarbon
     ADCP      acoustic Doppler current profiler
     AMS       accelerator mass spectrometry
     ASCII     American Standard Code for Information Interchange
     BNL       Brookhaven National Laboratory
     CDIAC     Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
     CFC       chlorofluorocarbon
     CMDL      Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory
     CO2       carbon dioxide
     CPU       central processing unit
     CRM       certified reference material
     CTD       conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor
     DOE       U.S. Department of Energy
     emf       electromotive force
     fCO2      fugacity of CO2 
     FTP       file transfer protocol
     GASCAL    gas loop titration efficiency
     GEOSECS   Geochemical Ocean Sections Study 
     GMT       Greenwich Mean Time
     IR        infrared
     LV        large volume
     NDP       numeric data package
     NIST      National Institute of Standards and Technology
     nm        nautical mile
     NOAA      National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
     NOSAMS    National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
     OSU       Oregon State University
     pCO2      partial pressure of CO2
     PRT       platinum resistance thermometer
     PSS       practical salinity scale                         
     PU        Princeton University
     QA/QC     quality assurance/quality control
     R/V       research vessel
     SD        standard deviation
     SIO       Scripps Institute of Oceanography
     SOMMA     single-operator multiparameter metabolic analyzer
     SV        small volume
     TALK      total alkalinity
     TCO2      total carbon dioxide
     TE        titration efficiency
     UH        University of Hawaii
     URL       universal resource locator
     UW        University of Washington
     WHOI      Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
     WHP       WOCE Hydrographic Program
     WOCE      World Ocean Circulation Experiment
     xCO2      mole fraction of CO2 
     


akozyr 07/24/1999