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OCADSAccess DataNDP-090NDP-090 - Abbreviations and Acronyms

Abbreviations and Acronyms

ACRONYM Definition
AMC accelerator mass spectrometry
AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CCHDO CLIVAR/GO-SHIP 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
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