| ABS |
acoustic backscatter sensor |
| ADCP |
acoustic Doppler current profiler |
| ADV |
acoustic Doppler velocimeter |
| AWAC |
Nortek acoustic wave and current profiler |
| CMAB |
centimeters above bottom |
| EPIC |
Data storage, retrieval and management formats and tool maintained by NOAA. |
| Flobee |
high-resolution flow tripod (see figure 2) |
| LISST |
Laser In Situ Suspended Scattering and Transmissometry |
| mab |
meters above bottom |
| NDBC |
National Data Buoy Center; part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NetCDF |
Network Common Data Form -- A data format and library of data access subroutines maintained by Unidata |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NPS |
National Park Service |
| OBS |
optical backscatter sensor |
| Paros |
Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor |
| PCADP |
pulse-coherent acoustic Doppler profiler |
| PUV |
A method for measuring directional and nondirectional wave properties from below the surface. The abbreviation also represents the three quantities measured: pressure, and the two components (horizontal and axial) of the wave’s orbital velocity, U and V, respectively. |
| RAM |
random-access memory |
| TRDI |
Teledyne RD Instruments |
| RV |
Research Vessel |
| SEABOSS |
SEABed Observation and Sampling System |
| SBE |
Sea-Bird Electronics |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| USC |
University of South Carolina |
| USGS |
U. S. Geological Survey |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey