| Abbreviation |
Definition |
| ABS |
Acoustic Backscatter Sensor |
| ADCP |
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler |
| ADP |
Acoustic Doppler Profiler |
| ADV |
Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter |
| AP |
Acoustic Profiler |
| COAMPS® |
Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (see www.nrlmry.navy.mil/coamps-web/web/home) |
| CT |
Conductivity, Temperature Sensor |
| EPIC |
Data storage, retrieval, and management formats and tool
maintained by NOAA
(see www.pmel.noaa.gov/epic/). Initially began as
Equatorial Pacific Information Collection. |
| FLASH RAM |
Flash memory for data storage |
| GT |
Georgia Institute of Technology Savannah Campus (see www.gtrep.gatech.edu) |
| mab |
Meters above bottom |
| mbs |
Meters below surface |
| Matlab® |
Software marketed by The Math Works, Inc., Natick, MA
(see www.mathworks.com) |
| MicroCAT |
Instrument made by Sea-Bird for time-series measurements of temperature and salinity (see www.seabird.com) |
| NDBC |
National Data Buoy Center; part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see www.ndbc.noaa.gov) |
| NetCDF |
Network Common Data Form -- A data format and library of data access subroutines maintained
by Unidata (see
www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf) |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (see
www.noaa.gov) |
| NOS |
National Ocean Service (see www.nos.noaa.gov) |
| OBS |
Optical Backscatter Sensor |
| Paros |
Paroscientific, Inc. (see www.paroscientific.com) |
| PCADP |
Pulse-Coherent Acoustic Doppler Profiler |
| PCMCIA |
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association - A credit card sized memory card for laptop computers |
| PMEL |
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (see
www.pmel.noaa.gov) |
| RDI |
RD Instruments (see www.rdinstruments.com) |
| R/V |
Research Vessel |
| SEACAT |
Instrument made by Sea-Bird for time-series measurements of temperature and salinity
(see www.seabird.com) |
| SEASOFT |
Software created by Sea-Bird Electronics, Inc. for processing conductivity and temperature (see www.seabird.com) |
| TRBM |
Trawl-Resistant Bottom Mount |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (see
www.ucar.edu/ucar) |
| USC |
University of South Carolina (see www.sc.edu) |
| USCG |
United States Coast Guard (see www.uscg.mil) |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey (see
www.usgs.gov) |
| WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (see
www.whoi.edu) |
| WWW |
World Wide Web |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey