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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
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