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@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ Title: R Functions to Model CDOM Spectra
 Version: 0.1.0
 Date: 2016-02-22
 Authors@R: person("Philippe", "Massicotte", email = "pm@bios.au.dk", role = c("aut", "cre"))
-Description: Wrapper functions to model and extract various quantitative
-    information from CDOM absorption spectra.
+Description: Wrapper functions to model and extract various quantitative information from absorption spectra of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM)
 BugReports: https://github.com/PMassicotte/cdom/issues
 URL: https://github.com/PMassicotte/cdom
 License: GPL (>= 2)