List of Abbreviations and Acronyms related to Climate Research
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| A.K.A. | also known as
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| 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 |
| AR5 | IPCC Assessment Report 5 |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer |
| AVHRR | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
| BACC | BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin |
| BALTEX | Baltic Sea Experiment |
| BOM | Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) |
| BSRN | Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
| BSSSC | Baltic Sea States Subregional Co-operation |
| 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 |
| CEH | Center for Ecology & Hydrology |
| CEOP | Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project (previously Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period) |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
| CESM | Community Earth System Model |
| 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) |
| CLM | Community Land Model |
| CMAP | CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation |
| CMIP | Climate Model Intercomparison Project |
| CMORPH | CPC Morphing technique |
| COLA | The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies |
| 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 |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CWEX | Climate Water Energy Exchanges |
| CST | Convective Stratiform Technique |
| DAAC | Distributed Active Archive Centers |
| DFR | Dual Frequency Radar |
| DIAS | Dynamic Information Architecture System |
| DLR | German Aerospace Center |
| 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 (German Weather Service) |
| EC | Environment Canada - Environnement Canada |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ECR | Early Career Researcher |
| ECS | Early Career Scientist |
| ECV | Essential Climate Variables |
| EDR | Environmental Data Record |
| EMC | Environmental Modeling Center (NOAA) |
| 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 |
| FAME | Framework for Atmospheric Model Enhancement |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN |
| FIFE | First ISLSCP (International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project) Field Experiment |
| FNMOC | Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center |
| 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 |
| GFDL | Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA) |
| GFS | Global Forecast System |
| GHCN | Global Historical Climate Network |
| GHP | Gewex Hydrological Panel (previously GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel) |
| GHz | Giga Hertz |
| GISS | Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA) |
| GLACE | Global Land Atmospheric Coupling Experiment |
| GLASS | Global Land Atmosphere System Study |
| GLDAS | Global Land Data Assimilation System |
| GLEAM | Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model |
| 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 |
| GSWP | Global Soil Wetness Project |
| GSWP3 | Global Soil Wetness Project 3 |
| GTS | Global Telecommunications System |
| GWSP | Global Water System Project (ESSP Joint Project) |
| 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 |
| HWS | Hydrology and Watershed Systems |
| HyMeX | HYdrological cycle in the Mediterranean Experiment |
| 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 |
| ILSTSS2S | Impact of Initialized Land Temperature and Snowpack on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction (renamed to LS4P) |
| 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 |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project |
| ISMN | International Soil Moisture Network |
| ISMWG | International Soil Moisture Working Group |
| ITCZ | Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone |
| IWCG | Interagency Integrated Water Cycle Group, USA |
| IWP | Ice Water Path |
| JAMSTEC | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology | ||
| JAXA | Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency | ||
| JMA | Japan Meteorological Agency | ||
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) | JPS | Joint Planning Staff (for WCRP) |
| JRA-25 | Japanese Meteorological Agency 25 year reanalysis | ||
| JSC | WMO/ICSU/IOC Joint Scientific Committee (for WCRP) |
| KLM | see NOAA KLM |
| KNMI | Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory (DOE) |
| LBA | Large-scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia |
| LBNL | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (DOE) |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit (also, a satellite in LEO) |
| LIS | Lightning Imaging Sensor |
| LLNL | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (DOE) |
| LMWG | Land Model Working Group |
| LOCO | LOcal COupled Modelling Working Group in GLASS |
| LPB | La Plata Basin |
| LS4P | Land Surface 4 Prediction (formerly known as ILSTSS2S) |
| LST | Land Surface Temperature |
| 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 |
| MFSC | Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA) |
| 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 |
| MSWEP | Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation |
| MTSAT | Multi-functional Transport Satellite |
| MVIRI | Meteosat Visible and InfraRed Imager |
| 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 |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| OPI | Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) Precipitation Index |
| ORA | NOAA Office of Research and Applications |
| ORNL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE) |
| OSC | Open Science Conference |
| PBL | Planetary Boundary Layer |
| 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 |
| PNNL | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE) |
| PR | TRMM Precipitation Radar |
| PSPDC | Polar Satellite Precipitation Data Center |
| PSU | Pennsylvania State University |
| RAINSS | Resilience, Adaptation, Information, and Social Sciences (a US Interagency Integrated Water Cycle Group (IWCG) integrative activity) |
| RHP | Regional Hydroclimate Project |
| 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 |
| SGLI | Second-generation Global Imager |
| 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 |
| Tb | Brightness temperature |
| THORPEX | The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment |
| TIRA | Task Team for Intercomparison of Reanalyses |
| 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 |
| UIC | User Interface Committee (Group on Earth Observations) |
| UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorology Office |
| 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 |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USGRCP | United States Global Change Research Program |
| USGS | United States Geological Survey |
| VAR | Variable Rain rate precipitation algorithm |
| VIRS | TRMM Visible and InfraRed Scanner |
| VIS | Visible |
| VISSR | Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer |
| 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 |
| WFDEI | WATCH Forcing Data ERA-Interim |
| 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 |
| YESS | Young Earth Systems Society |
| YHS | Young Hydrologic Society |
| YOTC | Year Of Tropical Convection |
