Abbreviations |
| ABS |
acoustic backscatter sensor |
| ADCP |
acoustic Doppler current profiler |
| ADV |
acoustic Doppler velocimeter |
| AquadoppHR |
high-resolution pulse-coherent Aquadopp current profiler |
| AST |
acoustic surface tracking |
| AWAC |
Nortek acoustic wave and current profiler |
| CMAB |
centimeters above bottom |
| CTD |
conductivity/temperature/depth sensor |
| EPIC |
Equatorial Pacific Information Collection data storage, retrieval, and management standards and tools maintained by NOAA |
| Flobee |
high-resolution flow tripod |
| LED |
light-emitting diode |
| lidar |
light detection and ranging |
| LISST |
Laser In Situ Suspended Scattering and Transmissometry |
| 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 |
| PCADP |
pulse-coherent acoustic Doppler profiler |
| PUV |
pressure, and horizontal and axial wave orbital velocity |
| RAM |
random-access memory |
| TRDI |
Teledyne RD Instruments |
| RV |
Research Vessel |
| SBE |
Sea-Bird Electronics |
| UCAR |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| USGS |
U. S. Geological Survey |
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey