| ABS |
acoustic backscatter sensor |
| ADCP |
acoustic Doppler current profiler |
| ADP |
acoustic Doppler profiler |
| ADV |
acoustic Doppler velocimeter |
| ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| AST |
acoustic surface tracking |
| AWAC |
acoustic wave and current profiler |
| AQD |
Aquadopp current profiler |
| BASS |
benthic acoustic stress sensor |
| BBV |
best basic version |
| CF |
Climate and Forecast (conventions) |
| CMGP |
Coastal and Marine Geology Program |
| CTD |
conductivity-temperature-depth profiler |
| DOI |
Digital Object Identifier |
| ECO |
Environmental Characterization Optics |
| EPIC |
Equatorial Pacific Information Collection—Data storage, retrieval, and management formats and tool originated and maintained by NOAA |
| ESIP |
Federation of Earth Science Information Partners |
| FLASH RAM |
A type of constantly-powered nonvolatile memory that can be erased and reprogrammed in units of memory called blocks. |
| FTP |
file transfer protocol |
| GCMD |
Global Change Master Directory |
| GridFTP |
file transfer protocol for grid computing |
| HTTP |
hypertext transfer protocol |
| IDL |
Interactive Data Language |
| LED |
light-emitting diode |
| LISST |
laser in situ scattering and transmissometry |
| mab, hab |
meters above bottom, height above bottom (m) |
| MATLAB |
Software created by The MathWorks, Inc. |
| MAVS |
modular acoustic velocity sensor |
| MC |
MicroCAT—an instrument made by Sea-Bird for time-series measurements of temperature and salinity |
| netCDF |
Network Common Data Form—A data format and library of data access subroutines maintained by Unidata |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| OBS |
optical backscatter sensor |
| OPeNDAP |
Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol |
| PCADP |
pulse-coherent acoustic Doppler profiler |
| PMEL |
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory |
| PCMSC |
Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| PUV |
pressure and the U and V components of velocity |
| SC |
SeaCAT—an instrument made by Sea-Bird for time-series measurements of temperature and salinity |
| THREDDS |
Thematic Real-time Distributed Data Services |
| TRDI |
Teledyne RD Instruments |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| VACM |
vector-averaging current meter |
| VMCM |
vector-measuring current meter |
| WHCMSC |
Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center |
| WHOI |
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey