ACRONYM Definition
A/D analog to digital
ADCP acoustic Doppler current profiler
BAH Biologische Anstalt Helgoland
BOD biological oxygen demand
BMFT Ministry of Research and Technology (Germany)
BNL Brookhaven National Laboratory
14C radiocarbon
CALFAC calibration factor
CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CFC chlorofluorocarbon
CH4 methane
CO2 carbon dioxide
CTD conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor
CRM certified reference material
d.f. degrees of freedom
DFG German Research Foundation
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DHN Diretoria Hidrografia eNavegacao, Brazil
DFG German Research Foundation
DVS Data collection and distribution system
DWD/SWA German Weather Service / Sea Weather Office
fCO2 fugacity of carbon dioxide
FID flame ionization detector
FTP file transfer protocol
GC gas chromatograph
GMT Greenwich mean time
GSV gas sampling valve
H3 Tritium
He Helium
IAPSO International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean
IAPK Institute of Applied Physics of the University of Kiel
IfMK Institute fuer Meereskunde Universitat Kiel
IO input/output
IOS Institute of Oceanographic Science, Wormley, UK
JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
N2 gaseous nitrogen
nm nautical mile
NDP numeric data package
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
ONR Office of Naval Research
OSU Oregon State University
pc personal computer
pCO2 partial pressure of CO2
PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
PSS Practical Salinity Scale
PU Princeton University
QC-QA quality control and quality assurance
QA quality assurance
R/V research vessel
RSMAS Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SIS Sensoren Instrumente Systeme
SOMMA single-operator multi-parameter metabolic analyzer
TALK total alkalinity
TCO2 total carbon dioxide
TD to deliver
VFC voltage to frequency converter
WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHP WOCE Hydrographic Program
WHPO WOCE Hydrographic Program Office
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
UBT Universitat Bremen, Fachbereich Tracer Oceanographie
UMZ University of Maiz
XBT expendable bathythermographs
XCP expendable current profiler
akozyr 03/20/2002