List of Abbreviations and Acronyms related to Climate Research

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A

A.K.A.	also known as
ABL	Atmospheric Boundary Layer
ACPC	Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate Initiative (iLEAPS/GEWEX/IGAC)
AGPI	Adjusted GOES Precipitation Index
AGU	American Geophysical Union
AMMA	African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Project
AMS	American Meteorological Society
AMSR	Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
AMSR-E	EOS Advanced Scanning Microwave Radiometer
AMSU-A(B)	Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A(B)
AMY	Asian Monsoon Years
AOGS	Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
APN	Asia Pacific Network
AR4	IPCC Assessment Report 4, due in 2012
AR5	IPCC Assessment Report 5, due in 2013
ASTER	Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
AVHRR	Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

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B

BACC	BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin
BALTEX	Baltic Sea Experiment
BSRN	Baseline Surface Radiation Network
BSSSC	Baltic Sea States Subregional Co-operation

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C

CALIPSO	Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
CAMS	Climate Anomaly Monitoring System
CAS	Chinese Academy of Sciences
CAS (WMO)	WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences
CEOP	Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project (previously Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period)
CEOS	Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CFS	Climate Forecast System
CFSR	NCEP-NOAA CFS Reanalysis
CGMS	Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
CIEHLYC	Community for spatial and hydrological information in Latin America and the Caribbean
CLiC	Climate and Cryosphere Project (WCRP Core Project)
CLIVAR	Climate Variability and Predictability Project (WCRP Core Project)
CMAP	CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation
CMIP	Climate Model Intercomparison Project
CMORPH	CPC Morphing technique
CONAE	Comision Nacional De Actividades Espaciales (Argeninean National Space Agency)
CORDEX	Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment
CPC	NWS Climate Prediction Center
CPPA	Climate Prediction Program for the Americas
CPTEC	Weather Forecast and Climate Studies Centre (of INPE, Brazil)
CRU	Climate Research Unit
CSE	Continental Scale Experiment
CST	Convective Stratiform Technique

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D

DAAC	Distributed Active Archive Centers
DFR	Dual Frequency Radar
DIAS	Dynamic Information Architecture System
DMSP	Defense Meteorological Satellite Program
DMWG	Data Management Working Group
DOC	Department of Commerce, USA
DOD	Department of Defense, USA
DOE	Department of Energy, USA
DPR	Dual Frequency Precipitation Radar
DRI	Drought Research Initiative
DWD	Deutscher Wetterdienst

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E

ECMWF	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
ECR	Early Career Researcher
ECS	Early Career Scientist
EDR	Environmental Data Record
ENSO	EL Niño - Southern Oscillation
EOF	Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOS	NASA Earth Observing System
EPS	EUMETSAT Polar System
ERA-I	ECMWF Interim Reanalysis
ESA	European Space Agency
ESF	European Science Foundation
ESP	Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
ESSP	Earth System Science Partnership
EUMETSAT	European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
Ev-K2-CNR	Everest-K2 National Research Council

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F

FAME	Framework for Atmospheric Model Enhancement
FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
FNMOC	Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center

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G

GABLS	GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study
GACP	Global Aerosol Climatology Project
GASS	Global Atmospheric System Studies
GAW	Global Atmosphere Watch
GCIP	GEWEX Continental Scale International Project
GCOS	Global Climate Observing System
GCPC	Global Precipitation Climatology Project
GCSS	GEWEX Cloud System Study
GEO	Group on Earth Observations
GEOSS	Global Earth Observing System of Systems
GEWEX	Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (WCRP Core Project)
GFCS	Global Framework fo Climate Service
GFS	Global Forecast System
GHCN	Global Historical Climate Network
GHP	Gewex Hydrological Panel (previously GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel)
GHz	Giga Hertz
GLACE	Global Land Atmospheric Coupling Experiment
GLASS	Global Land Atmosphere System Study
GLDAS	Global Land Data Assimilation System
GMI	GPM Microwave Imager
GMPP	GEWEX Modeling and Prediction Panel
GOES	Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GPCC	Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
GPCP	Global precipitation Climatology Project
GPI	GOES Precipitation Index
GPM	Global Precipitation Measurement
GPROF	Goddard Profiling Algorithm
GRACE	Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
GRP	GEWEX Radiation Panel
GSFC	Goddard Space Flight Center
GSWP3	Global Soil Wetness Project 3
GTS	Global Telecommunications System
GWSP	Global Water System Project (ESSP Joint Project)

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H

HAP	Hydrological Application Project
HE	High Elevation Working Group
HELCOM	Helsinki Commission – Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission
HEPEX	Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment
HIRS	High resolution Infrared Sounder
HKKH	Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalaya region
HyMeX	HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment

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I

IAHS	International Association of Hydrological Sciences
IAI	Inter Americas Institute
ICSU	International Council of Scientific Unions
ICTP	International Centre for Theoretical Physics
IFFA	Interactive Flash Flood Analyzer
IGAC	International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
IGBP	International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGFA	International Group of Funding Agencies
IGOS-P	Integrated Global Observing Strategy – Partnership
IGPO	International GEWEX Project Office
IGWCO	Integrated Global Water Cycle Observations Community of Practice
IHDP	International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change
IHP	International Hydrology Programme
IJPS	Initial Joint Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellite System
ILAMB	International Land Model Benchmarking
iLEAPS	Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmospheric Processes Study
INARCH	The international Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology
INPE	Brazilian Institute for Space Research
IOC	International Oceanographic Commission
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPO	tri-agency Integrated Program Office of DoC, DoD, and NASA
IPWG	International Precipitation Working Group
IR	Infrared
IRDR	Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
IRDR	Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
IRI	International Research Institute
ISC	International Science Council
ISCCP	International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
ISMWG	International Soil Moisture Working Group
ITCZ	Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
IWP	Ice Water Path

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J

JAMSTEC	Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
JAXA	Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency
JMA	Japan Meteorological Agency
JPS	Joint Planning Staff (for WCRP)
JRA-25	Japanese Meteorological Agency 25 year reanalysis
JSC	WMO/ICSU/IOC Joint Scientific Committee (for WCRP)

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K

KLM	see NOAA KLM

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L

LBA	Large-scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
LEO	Low Earth Orbit (also, a satellite in LEO)
LIS	Lightning Imaging Sensor
LMWG	Land Model Working Group
LOCO	LOcal COupled Modelling Working Group in GLASS
LPB	La Plata Basin

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M

MAC	Multi-model Analysis for CEOP
MAGS	Mackenzie GEWEX Study
MAHASRI	Monsoon Asian Hydro-Atmospheric Science Research and prediction Initiative
MDB	Murray Darling Basin
MERRA	Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications
METEOSAT	EUMETSAT geostationary platform
MIP	Model intercomparison Project
MJO	Madden-Julian Oscillation
MM5	NCAR/PSU Mesoscale Model Version 5
MODIS	EOS MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MS	Multi-Satellite
MSG	Microgravity Science Glovebox
MTSAT	Multi-functional Transport Satellite
MVIRI	Meteosat Visible and InfraRed Imager

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N

NAME	North American Monsoon Experiment
NAS	National Academy of Sciences
NASA	National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
NAWP	North American Water Program
NCAR	National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
NCDC	National Climatic Data Center, USA
NCEP	National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA
NEESPI	Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative
NESDIS	National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, USA
NGO	Non Governmental Organization
NHMS	National Hydro-Meteorological Service
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (agency and satellite), USA
NOAA KLM	NOAA-15 (K), -16(L) and -17 (M) satellites
NPOESS	National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System, USA
NRC	National Research Counsel
NWP	Numerical Weather Prediction
NWS	National Weather Service, USA

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O

OLR	Outgoing Longwave Radiation
OPI	Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) Precipitation Index
ORA	NOAA Office of Research and Applications
OSC	Open Science Conference

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P

PBL	Planetary Boundary Layer
PDF	Probability Density Function
PEHRPP	Pilot Evaluation of High Resolution Precipitation Products
PERSIANN	Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information using Artificial Neural Networks
PILDAS	Project for the Intercomparison of Land Data Assimilation Systems
PMW	Passive Microwave
PR	TRMM Precipitation Radar
PSPDC	Polar Satellite Precipitation Data Center
PSU	Pennsylvania State University

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R

RHP	Regional Hydroclimate Project

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S

S2S	Sub seasonal to Seasonal
SAC	Science Advisory Committee
SAF	Satellite Application Facility
SAG	Scientific Advisory Group
SATREPS	Science And Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable development
SCOPE-CM	Sustained, Co-Ordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite Data for Climate Monitoring
SEVIRI	Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager
SG	Satellite Gauge
SMAP	Soil Moisture Active Passive
SMOS	Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity
SPARC	Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (WCRP Core Project)
SRB	Saskatchewan River Basin
SRS	Southern Research Station
SSC	Science Steering Committee
SSG	Scientific Steering Group
SSM/I	Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
SSM/IS	Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Sounder
SST	Sea Surface Temperature
SSU	Stratospheric Sounding Unit
START	SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training
STC	Science and Technology Corporation

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T

Tb	Brightness temperature
THORPEX	The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment
TIROS	Television Infrared Observation Satellite
TMI	TRMM Microwave Imager
TOVS	Television-Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder
TRACE	Terrestrial Regional North American hydroClimate Experiment
TRMM	Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

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U

UIC	User Interface Committee (Group on Earth Observations)
UN	United Nations
UNEP	United Nations Environmental Programme
UNESCO	United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNFCCC	United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
USAID	U.S. Agency for International Development

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V

VAR	Variable Rain rate precipitation algorithm
VIRS	TRMM Visible and InfraRed Scanner
VIS	Visible
VISSR	Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer

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W

WACMOS	Water Cycle Multimission Observation Strategy (ESA Programme)
WATCH	EU Integrated Project on Water and Global Change
WCRP	World Climate Research Programme
WDAC	WCRP Data Advisory Council
WG	Working Group
WGCM	Working Group on Coupled Modeling
WGNE	The Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE)
WGSIP	Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WOAP	WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel
WWRP	World Weather Research Program

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Y

YESS	Young Earth Systems Society
YHS	Young Hydrologic Society
YOTC	Year Of Tropical Convection

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Z

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