APPENDIX A 



Abbreviations and Acronyms 



A — 1. Absolute temperature scale; same as Kelvin 

 temperature scale. 

 2. (or A) Angstrom. 



AA — Approximate absolute temperature scale. 



ACIM — .4xis-6'rossing /nterval il/eter (Sonar 

 signal analyzer Q-iX) . 



ADA — British Action Data Automation System. 



ADF — Automatic /direction Finding. 



ADP — Automatic Z'ata Processing. 



AGM — (Auxiliary (General iJ/issile) Designation 

 for U.S. Na^^ missile range instrumentation 

 ships. 



AGOR — (Auxiliary <yeneral (9ceanographic Re- 

 search) Designation for U.S. Navy oceano- 

 graphic research ships. 



AGS — (Auxiliary (General ^S'urvey) Designation 

 for U.S. Na\'y hyclrographic survey ships. 



AGSC — Auxiliary (General ^Vurvey 6'oastal. Des- 

 ignation for U.S. Navy small coastal hydro- 

 graphic survey ships. 



AGSS — (Auxiliary 6^enera] /Submarine) An ex- 

 perimental deep-diving submarine. 



AMOS — Acoustic il/eteorological 6'ceanographic 

 yS'urvey. 



AMR — Atlantic yJ/issile Range. 



AN/AQS-10— A variable depth sonar (VDS) 

 presently in use in the fleet. 



AN/ASQ-12 — A helicopter sonar. 



AN/B0R-2B — A cylindrical or conformal passive 

 array of submarine hydrophones. 



AN/BQN-3 — A submarine secure depth sounder. 



AN/BR-28 — A cylindrical or conformal passive 

 array of submarine hydrophones. 



ANIP — Army-A'^aA'y /nstrumentation Program. 



AN/SQQ-14 — A mine location and classification 

 sonar. 



AN/SQS-20 — A scanning sonar. 



AN/SQS-23 — A sonar j^resently in use by surface 

 ships. 



AN/SQS-26 — A new, large, high-powered, low- 

 frequency sonar. 



AN/UQC-1 — An underwater telephone. 



AOS — Ami:)hibious t'bjective 'S'tudies. 



AOU — Apparent Oxygen. Z7tilization. 



ARLIS — An abbreviation for Arctic Research 

 Laboratory /ce *S'tation, AELIS is a term used 

 to designate remote scientific stations established 

 on the Arctic Ocean by the Arctic Research Lab- 

 oratory of Barrow, Alaska. 



ART — Airborne Radiation JTaermometer. 



ASDIC — (Anti-*S'ubmarine Z?evelopment /nvesti- 

 gation 6'ommittee) British echo-ranging equip- 

 ment. 



ASODDS— ASWEPS AS'ubmarine C>ceanographic 

 Z>igital Z>ata »S'ystem. 



ASSESS— (Analytical <S;tudies of <S'urface Effects 

 of /Submerged »S'ubmarines) A submarine detec- 

 tion method not dependent on acoustic phenom- 

 ena. 



ASW — Antisubmarine TFarfare. 



ASWEPS — (Antisubmarine TFarfare L'nviron- 

 mental Prediction xS'ystem) A research effort to 

 develop methods of forecasting changes in the 

 oceanographic environment. 



AUTEC — A project to develop and install the At- 

 lantic Z7nderwater T'est and ^'valuation Center 

 which is located in the Tongue of the Ocean with 

 installations ashore on Andros Island in the 

 Bahamas. 



EC — 5athyconductograph. 



BC chart — Rottom Contour chart. 



Bev — Billion-electron-volts. 



BOD — Riological Oxygen Z>emand. 



BPF — Rottom Pressure Pluctuation. 



B T — B a t hy ;'her mogr aph. 



B.T.U^ Btu— Rritish Thermal Unit. 



c — curie. 



C — Celsius temperature scale; formerly centigrade 

 temperature scale. 



cal — Calorie ; small calorie. 



Cal — Large calorie ; kilogram-calorie. 



CANLANTNAV — Consecutively numbered radio 

 message originated by the Canadian Na\-y, Hali- 

 fax, Nova Scotia, to disseminate urgent infor- 

 mation affecting navigation in the northwest 

 portion of the North Atlantic Ocean. 



CANPACNAV — Consecutively numbered radio 

 message originated by the Canadian Na\'y, Vic- 

 toria, B.C., to disseminate urgent information 

 affecting navigation in the water off the Cana- 

 dian Pacific coast. 



CBASF — Current Ribliography for Aquatic ^Sci- 

 ences and Risheries. (UN Food & Agriculture 

 Organization) 



CGC— Coast Cuard Cutter. 



CGOU — Coast C^uard Cceanographic Cnit. 



cgs — Centimeter-^ram-second. 



CI— Chlorinity. 



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