ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS


ACRONYM    	Definition

AMC		accelerator mass spectrometry
AOML		Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
CDIAC		Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CCHDO		CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office
CFC		chlorofluorocarbon
CLIVAR		Climate Variability (Program)
CO2		carbon dioxide
CRM		certified reference material 
CTD		conductivity, temperature, and depth 
DOC		dissolved organic carbon
ECD		electron capture detector
emf		electromotive force (of an electrochemical cell)
EXPOCODE	expedition code
GC		gas chromatograph
HCFC		hydrochlorofluorocarbon
HDPE		high density polyethylene
IAPSO		International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean
LCW		liquid-core waveguide
mCP		m-Cresol purple
MICA		multi-parameter inorganic carbon analyzer
NDP		numeric data package
NOAA		National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOSAMS		National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility
NSF		National Science Foundation
ODF		Oceanographic Data Facility
ODV		Ocean Data View 
PMEL		Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
RSMAS		Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
R/V		research vessel
SIO		Scripps Institution of Oceanography
SOMMA		single-operator multi-parameter metabolic analyzer
SST		sea surface temperature
SSW		standard seawater
STS		Shipboard Technical Support
TALK		total alkalinity
TCO2		total carbon dioxide or dissolved inorganic carbon
TN		total nitrogen (analyzer)
UCSB		University of California Santa Barbara
UH		University of Hawaii
UM		University of Miami
USF		University of South Florida
UW		University of Washington
WHP		WOCE Hydrographic Program
WOCE		World Ocean Circulation Experiment





akozyr 05/26/2009