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| AABW | Antarctic Bottom Water |
| AAO | Antarctic Oscillation |
| ABL | Atmospheric Boundary Layer |
| ACC | Antarctic Circumpolar Current |
| ACE | Aerosol Characterisation Experiment |
| ACRIM | Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor |
| ACSYS | Arctic Climate System Study |
| ACW | Antarctic Circumpolar Wave |
| AEROCE | Atmosphere Ocean Chemistry Experiment |
| AGAGE | Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
| AGCM | Atmospheric General Circulation Model |
| AGWP | Absolute Global Warming Potential |
| AMIP | Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Networks |
| AO | Arctic Oscillation |
| AOGCM | Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model |
| ARESE | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Enhanced Shortwave Experiment |
| ARGO | Part of the Integrated Global Observation Strategy |
| ARM | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement |
| ARPEGE/OPA | Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle/Océan Parallélisé |
| ASHOE/MAESA | Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment/Measurement for Assessing the Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| AWI | Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany) |
| BAHC | Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle |
| BC | Black Carbon |
| BERN2D | Two-dimensional Climate Model of University of Bern |
| BIOME 6000 | Global Palaeo-vegetation Mapping Project |
| BMRC | Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (Australia) |
| CART | Classification and Tree Analysis |
| CCA | Canonical Correlation Analysis |
| CCC(ma) | Canadian Centre for Climate (Modelling and Analysis) (Canada) |
| CCM | Community Climate Model |
| CCMLP | Carbon Cycle Model Linkage Project |
| CCN | Cloud Condensation Nuclei |
| CCSR | Centre for Climate System Research (Japan) |
| CERFACS | European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (France) |
| CIAP | Climate Impact Assessment Program |
| CLIMAP | Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping and Prediction |
| CLIMBER | Climate-Biosphere Model |
| CLIMPACTS | Integrated Model for Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on the New Zealand Environment |
| CMAP | CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation |
| CMDL | Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory of NOAA (USA) |
| CMIP | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
| CNRM | Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (France) |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) |
| COADS | Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set |
| COHMAP | Co-operative Holocene Mapping Project |
| COLA | Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (USA) |
| COSAM | Comparison of Large-scale Atmospheric Sulphate Aerosol Model |
| COSMIC | Country Specific Model for Intertemporal Climate |
| COWL | Cold Ocean Warm Land |
| CPC | Climate Prediction Center of NOAA (USA) |
| CRF | Cloud Radiative Forcing |
| CRU | Climatic Research Unit of UEA (UK) |
| CRYOSat | Cryosphere Satellite |
| CSG | Climate Scenario Generator |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) |
| CSM | Climate System Model |
| CTM | Chemistry Transport Model |
| DARLAM | CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research Limited Area Model |
| DDC | Data Distribution Centre of IPCC |
| DGVM | Dynamic Global Vegetation Model |
| DERF | Dynamical Extended Range Forecasting group of GFDL (USA) |
| DIC | Dissolved Inorganic Carbon |
| DJF | December, January, February |
| DKRZ | Deutsche KlimaRechenZentrum (Germany) |
| DMS | Dimethylsulfide |
| DMSP | Defense Meteorological Satellite Program |
| DNM | Department of Numerical Mathematics (Russia) |
| DOC | Dissolved Organic Carbon |
| DOE | Department of Energy (USA) |
| DORIS | Determination d’Orbite et Radiopositionnement Intégrés par Satellite |
| DRF | Direct Radiative Forcing |
| DTR | Diurnal Temperature Range |
| DYNAMO | Dynamics of North Atlantic Models |
| EBM | Energy Balance Model |
| ECHAM | ECMWF/MPI AGCM |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting |
| ECS | Effective Climate Sensitivity |
| EDGAR | Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research |
| EISMINT | European Ice Sheet Modelling initiative |
| EMDI | Ecosystem Model/Data Intercomparison |
| EMIC | Earth system Models of Intermediate Complexity |
| ENSO | El Niño-Southern Oscillation |
| EOF | Empirical Orthogonal Function |
| EOS | Earth Observing System |
| ERA | ECMWF Reanalysis |
| ERB | Earth Radiation Budget |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ESCAPE | Evaluation of Strategies to Address Climate Change by Adapting to and Preventing Emissions |
| ESMR | Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer |
| EURECA | European Retrievable Carrier |
| FACE | Free Air Carbon-dioxide Enrichment |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN) |
| FCCC | Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| FDH | Fixed Dynamical Heating |
| FF | Fossil Fuel |
| FPAR | Plant-absorbed Fraction of Incoming Photosynthetically Active Radiation |
| FSU | Former Soviet Union |
| GASP | Global Assimilation and Prediction |
| GCIP | GEWEX Continental-scale International Program |
| GCM | General Circulation Model |
| GCOS | Global Climate Observing System |
| GCR | Galactic Cosmic Ray |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GEBA | Global Energy Balance Archive |
| GEIA | Global Emissions Inventory Activity |
| GEISA | Gestion et Etude des Informations Spectroscopiques Atmosphériques |
| GEWEX | Global Energy and Water cycle Experiment |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (USA) |
| GHCN | Global Historical Climate Network |
| GHG | Greenhouse Gas |
| GIM | Global Integration and Modelling |
| GISP | Greenland Ice Sheet Project |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies (USA) |
| GISST | Global Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature |
| GLOSS | Global Sea Level Observing System |
| GOALS | Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System |
| GPCP | Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
| GPP | Gross Primary Production |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
| GRIP | Greenland Ice Core Project |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center (USA) |
| GSWP | Global Soil Wetness Project |
| GUAN | GCOS Upper Air Network |
| GWP | Global Warming Potential |
| HadCM | Hadley Centre Coupled Model |
| HIRETYCS | High Resolution Ten-Year Climate Simulations |
| HITRAN | High Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption Database |
| HLM | High Latitude Mode |
| HNLC | High Nutrient-Low Chlorophyll |
| HRBM | High Resolution Biosphere Model |
| IAHS | International Association of Hydrological Science |
| IAP | Institute of Atmospheric Physics (China) |
| IASB | Institut d’Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (Belgium) |
| IBIS | Integrated Biosphere Simulator |
| ICESat | Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite |
| ICSI | International Commission on Snow and Ice |
| ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions |
| IGAC | International Global Atmospheric Chemistry |
| IGBP | International Geosphere Biosphere Programme |
| IGCR | Institute for Global Change Research (Japan) |
| IHDP | International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change |
| IMAGE | Integrated Model to Assess the Global Environment |
| IN | Ice Nuclei |
| INDOEX | Indian Ocean Experiment |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPO | Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation |
| IPSL-CM | Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Vegetation Model |
| ISAM | Integrated Science Assessment Model |
| ISCCP | International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project |
| ITCZ | Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone |
| IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| JJA | June, July, August |
| JMA | Japan Meteorological Agency (Japan) |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA (USA) |
| KNMI | Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Netherlands) |
| LAI | Leaf Area Index |
| LASG | State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modelling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (China) |
| LBA | Large-scale Biosphere-atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia |
| LGGE | Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement (France) |
| LGM | Last Glacial Maximum |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) |
| LMD | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (France) |
| LOSU | Level of Scientific Understanding |
| LPJ | Land-Potsdam-Jena Terrestrial Carbon Model |
| LSAT | Land Surface Air Temperature |
| LSG | Large-Scale Geostrophic Ocean Model |
| LSP | Land Surface Parameterisation |
| LT | Lifetime |
| LWP | Liquid Water Path |
| MAGICC | Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change |
| MAM | March, April, May |
| MARS | Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines |
| MGO | Main Geophysical Observatory (Russia) |
| MJO | Madden-Julian Oscillation |
| ML | Mixed Layer |
| MLOPEX | Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment |
| MODIS | Moderate Resoluting Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| MOGUNTIA | Model of the General Universal Tracer Transport in the Atmosphere |
| MOM | Modular Ocean Model |
| MOZART | Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers |
| MPI | Max-Plank Institute for Meteorology (Germany) |
| MRI | Meteorological Research Institute (Japan) |
| MSLP | Mean Sea Level Pressure |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit |
| NADW | North Atlantic Deep Water |
| NAO | North Atlantic Oscillation |
| NARE | North Atlantic Regional Experiment |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) |
| NBP | Net Biome Production |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA) |
| NCC | National Climate Centre (China) |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center of NOAA (USA) |
| NCEP | National Centers for Environmental Prediction of NOAA (USA) |
| NDVI | Normalised Difference Vegetation Index |
| NEP | Net Ecosystem Production |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service of NOAA (USA) |
| NIC | National Ice Center of NOAA (USA) |
| NIED | National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (Japan) |
| NIES | National Institute for Environmental Studies (Japan) |
| NMAT | Night Marine Air Temperature |
| NMHC | Non-Methane Hydrocarbon |
| NOAA | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA) |
| NPP | Net Primary Production |
| NPZD | Nutrients, Phytoplankton, Zooplankton and Detritus |
| NRC | National Research Council (USA) |
| NRL | Naval Research Laboratory (USA) |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| OC | Organic Carbon |
| OCMIP | Ocean Carbon-cycle Model Intercomparison Project |
| OCS | Organic Carbonyl Sulphide |
| OGCM | Ocean General Circulation Model |
| OLR | Outgoing Long-wave Radiation |
| OPYC | Ocean Isopycnal GCM |
| OxComp | Tropospheric Oxidant Model Comparison |
| PC | Principal Component |
| PCM | Parallel Climate Model |
| Probability Density Function | |
| PDO | Pacific Decadal Oscillation |
| PEM | Pacific Exploratory Missions |
| PFT | Plant Functional Type |
| PGR | Post-Glacial Rebound |
| PhotoComp | Ozone Photochemistry Model Comparison |
| PICASSO | Pathfinder Instruments for Cloud and Aerosol Spaceborne Observations |
| PIK | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Germany) |
| PILPS | Project for the Intercomparison of Land-surface Parameterisation Schemes |
| PIUB | Physics Institute University of Bern (Switzerland) |
| PMIP | Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison Project |
| PNA | Pacific-North American |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (USA) |
| POC | Particulate Organic Carbon |
| POLDER | Polarisation and Directionality of the Earth’s Reflectances |
| POPCORN | Photo-Oxidant Formation by Plant Emitted Compounds and OH Radicals in North-eastern Germany |
| PSMSL | Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level |
| PT | Perturbation Lifetime |
| QBO | Quasi-Biennial Oscillation |
| RAMS | Regional Atmospheric Modelling System |
| RCM | Regional Climate Model |
| RIHMI | Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information |
| SAGE | Stratospheric Aerosol & Gas Experiment |
| SAR | IPCC Second Assessment Report |
| SAT | Surface Air Temperature |
| SBUV | Solar Backscatter Ultra Violet |
| SCAR-B | Smoke Cloud and Radiation-Brazil |
| SCE | Snow Cover Extent |
| SCENGEN | Scenario Generator |
| SCSWP | Small-scale Severe Weather Phenomena |
| SDD | Statistical-Dynamical Downscaling |
| SDGVM | Sheffield Dynamic Global Vegetation Model |
| SEFDH | Seasonally Evolving Fixed Dynamical Heating |
| SHEBA | Surface Heat Balance of the Arctic Ocean |
| SHI | State Hydrological Institute (Russia) |
| SIMIP | Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project |
| SIO | Scripps Institution of Oceanography (USA) |
| SLP | Sea Level Pressure |
| SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
| SOA | Secondary Organic Aerosol |
| SOC | Southampton Oceanography Centre (UK) |
| SOHO | Solar Heliospheric Observatory |
| SOI | Southern Oscillation Index |
| SOLSTICE | Solar Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment |
| SON | September, October, November |
| SONEX | Subsonic Assessment Program Ozone and Nitrogen Oxide Experiment |
| SOS | Southern Oxidant Study |
| SPADE | Stratospheric Photochemistry, Aerosols, and Dynamics Expedition |
| SPARC | Stratospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate |
| SPCZ | South Pacific Convergence Zone |
| SRES | IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios |
| SSM/T-2 | Special Sensor Microwave Water Vapour Sounder |
| SSM/I | Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| SSU | Stratospheric Sounding Unit |
| STRAT | Stratospheric Tracers of Atmospheric Transport |
| SUCCESS | Subsonic Aircraft Contrail and Cloud Effects Special Study |
| SUNGEN | State University of New York at Albany/NCAR Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems |
| SUSIM | Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor |
| TAR | IPCC Third Assessment Report |
| TARFOX | Tropospheric Aerosol Radiative Forcing Observational Experiment |
| TBFRA | Temperate and Boreal Forest Resource Assessment |
| TBO | Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation |
| TCR | Transient Climate Response |
| TEM | Terrestrial Ecosystem Model |
| TEMPUS | Sea Surface Temperature Evolution Mapping Project based on Alkenone Stratigraphy |
| THC | Thermohaline Circulation |
| TMR | TOPEX Microwave Radiometer |
| TOA | Top of the Atmosphere |
| TOMS | Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
| TOPEX/POSEIDON | US/French Ocean Topography Satellite Altimeter Experiment |
| TOVS | Television Infrared Observation Satellite Operational Vertical Sounder |
| TPI | Trans Polar Index |
| TRIFFID | Top-down Representation of Interactive Foliage and Flora Including Dynamics |
| TSI | Total Solar Irradiance |
| UARS | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| UCAM | University of Cambridge (UK) |
| UCI | University of California at Irvine (USA) |
| UD/EB | Upwelling Diffusion-Energy Balance |
| UEA | University of East Anglia (UK) |
| UGAMP | University Global Atmospheric Modelling Project |
| UIO | Universitetet I Oslo (Norway) |
| UIUC | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) |
| UKHI | United Kingdom High-resolution climate model |
| UKMO | United Kingdom Met Office (UK) |
| UKTR | United Kingdom Transient climate experiment |
| ULAQ | Università degli studi dell’Aquila (Italy) |
| UM | Unified Model |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNESCO | United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| USSR | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| UTH | Upper Tropospheric Humidity |
| UV | Ultraviolet radiation |
| UVic | University of Victoria (Canada) |
| VIRGO | Variability of Solar Irradiance and Gravity Oscillations |
| VLM | Vertical Land Movement |
| VOC | Volatile Organic Compounds |
| WAIS | West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| WASA | Waves and Storms in the North Atlantic |
| WAVAS | Water Vapour Assessment |
| WBCs | Western Boundary Currents |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
| WMGGs | Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
| WP | Western Pacific |
| WRE | Wigley, Richels and Edmonds |
| YONU | Yonsei University (Korea) |
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