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Acronyms

14C  -  radiocarbon
ADCP  -  acoustic Doppler current profiler
ASCII  -  American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CDIAC  -  Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CEAB  -  El Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Blanes
CFC  -  chlorofluorocarbon
CO2  -  carbon dioxide
CRM  -  certified reference material
CTD  -  conductivity, temperature, and depth sensor
DOE  -  U.S. Department of Energy
emf  -  electromotive force
FCMLP  -  Facultad de Ciencias del Mar
fCO2  -  fugacity of CO2
FTP  -  file transfer protocol
GC  -  gas chromatography
GMT  -  Greenwich Mean Time
GO  -  General Oceanics
GPS  -  global positioning system
IEO  -  Instituto Español de Oceanografía
IIM  -  Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas
IPO  -  WOCE International Program Office
IR  -  infrared
JGOFS  -  Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
LDEO  -  Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
NBIS  -  Neil Brown Instruments Systems
NDP  -  numeric data package
nm  -  nautical mile
NOAA  -  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
PSS  -  practical salinity scale
QA  -  quality assurance
RSMAS  -  Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
RTD  -  resistive temperature device
R/V  -  research vessel
SIO  -  Scripps Institution of Oceanography
TALK  -  total alkalinity
TCO2  -  total carbon dioxide
UPC  -  Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña
URL  -  universal resource locator
WCRP  -  World Climate Research Program
WHOI  -  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHPO  -  WOCE Hydrographic Program Office
WOCE  -  World Ocean Circulation Experiment
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