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| A.K.A. |
also known as
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| ABL |
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
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| ACPC |
Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate Initiative (iLEAPS/GEWEX/IGAC)
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| AGPI |
Adjusted GOES Precipitation Index
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| AGU |
American Geophysical Union
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| AMMA |
African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Project
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| AMS |
American Meteorological Society
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| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer
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| AMSR-E |
EOS Advanced Scanning Microwave Radiometer
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| AMSU-A(B) |
Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit A(B)
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| AMY |
Asian Monsoon Years
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| AOGS |
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
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| APN |
Asia Pacific Network
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| AR4 |
IPCC Assessment Report 4, due in 2012
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| AR5 |
IPCC Assessment Report 5, due in 2013
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| ASTER |
Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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| AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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| CALIPSO |
Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation
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| CAMS |
Climate Anomaly Monitoring System
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| CAS |
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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| CAS (WMO) |
WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences
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| CEOP |
Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project (previously Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period)
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| CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
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| CFS |
Climate Forecast System
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| CFSR |
NCEP-NOAA CFS Reanalysis
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| CGMS |
Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites
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| CIEHLYC |
Community for spatial and hydrological information in Latin America and the Caribbean
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| CLiC |
Climate and Cryosphere Project (WCRP Core Project)
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| CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability Project (WCRP Core Project)
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| CMAP |
CPC Merged Analysis of Precipitation
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| CMIP |
Climate Model Intercomparison Project
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| CMORPH |
CPC Morphing technique
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| CONAE |
Comision Nacional De Actividades Espaciales (Argeninean National Space Agency)
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| CORDEX |
Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment
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| CPC |
NWS Climate Prediction Center
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| CPPA |
Climate Prediction Program for the Americas
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| CPTEC |
Weather Forecast and Climate Studies Centre (of INPE, Brazil)
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| CRU |
Climate Research Unit
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| CSE |
Continental Scale Experiment
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| CST |
Convective Stratiform Technique
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| ECMWF |
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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| ECR |
Early Career Researcher
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| ECS |
Early Career Scientist
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| EDR |
Environmental Data Record
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| ENSO |
EL Niño - Southern Oscillation
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| EOF |
Empirical Orthogonal Function
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| EOS |
NASA Earth Observing System
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| EPS |
EUMETSAT Polar System
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| ERA-I |
ECMWF Interim Reanalysis
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| ESA |
European Space Agency
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| ESF |
European Science Foundation
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| ESP |
Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
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| ESSP |
Earth System Science Partnership
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| EUMETSAT |
European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
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| Ev-K2-CNR |
Everest-K2 National Research Council
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| GABLS |
GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study
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| GACP |
Global Aerosol Climatology Project
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| GCIP |
GEWEX Continental Scale International Project
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| GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System
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| GCPC |
Global Precipitation Climatology Project
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| GCSS |
GEWEX Cloud System Study
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| GEO |
Group on Earth Observations
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| GEOSS |
Global Earth Observing System of Systems
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| GEWEX |
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (WCRP Core Project)
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| GFS |
Global Forecast System
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| GHCN |
Global Historical Climate Network
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| GHP |
Gewex Hydrological Panel (previously GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel)
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| GHz |
Giga Hertz
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| GLACE |
Global Land Atmospheric Coupling Experiment
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| GLASS |
Global Land Atmosphere System Study
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| GLDAS |
Global Land Data Assimilation System
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| GMI |
GPM Microwave Imager
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| GMPP |
GEWEX Modeling and Prediction Panel
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| GOES |
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
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| GPCC |
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
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| GPCP |
Global precipitation Climatology Project
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| GPI |
GOES Precipitation Index
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| GPM |
Global Precipitation Mission
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| GPROF |
Goddard Profiling Algorithm
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| GRACE |
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
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| GRP |
GEWEX Radiation Panel
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| GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center
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| GSWP3 |
Global Soil Wetness Project 3
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| GTS |
Global Telecommunications System
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| GWSP |
Global Water System Project (ESSP Joint Project)
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| IAHS |
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
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| IAI |
Inter Americas Institute
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| ICSU |
International Council of Scientific Unions
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| IFFA |
Interactive Flash Flood Analyzer
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| IGAC |
International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
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| IGBP |
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
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| IGFA |
International Group of Funding Agencies
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| IGOS-P |
Integrated Global Observing Strategy – Partnership
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| IGPO |
International GEWEX Project Office
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| IGWCO |
Integrated Global Water Cycle Observations Community of Practice
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| IHDP |
International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change
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| IHP |
International Hydrology Programme
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| IJPS |
Initial Joint Polar-Orbiting Operational Satellite System
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| ILAMB |
International Land Model Benchmarking
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| iLEAPS |
Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmospheric Processes Study
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| INARCH |
The international Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology
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| INPE |
Brazilian Institute for Space Research
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| IOC |
International Oceanographic Commission
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| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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| IPO |
tri-agency Integrated Program Office of DoC, DoD, and NASA
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| IPWG |
International Precipitation Working Group
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| IR |
Infrared
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| IRDR |
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
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| IRI |
International Research Institute
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| ISCCP |
International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
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| ISMWG |
International Soil Moisture Working Group
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| ITCZ |
Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone
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| IWP |
Ice Water Path
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| MAC |
Multi-model Analysis for CEOP
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| MAGS |
Mackenzie GEWEX Study
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| MAHASRI |
Monsoon Asian Hydro-Atmospheric Science Research and prediction Initiative
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| MDB |
Murray Darling Basin
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| MERRA |
Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications
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| METEOSAT |
EUMETSAT geostationary platform
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| MIP |
Model intercomparison Project
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| MJO |
Madden-Julian Oscillation
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| MM5 |
NCAR/PSU Mesoscale Model Version 5
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| MODIS |
EOS MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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| MS |
Multi-Satellite
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| MSG |
Microgravity Science Glovebox
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| MTSAT |
Multi-functional Transport Satellite
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| MVIRI |
Meteosat Visible and InfraRed Imager
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| NAME |
North American Monsoon Experiment
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| NAS |
National Academy of Sciences
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| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA
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| NAWP |
North American Water Program
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| NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
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| NCDC |
National Climatic Data Center, USA
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| NCEP |
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA
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| NEESPI |
Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative
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| NESDIS |
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service, USA
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| NGO |
Non Governmental Organization
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| NHMS |
National Hydro-Meteorological Service
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| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (agency and satellite), USA
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| NOAA KLM |
NOAA-15 (K), -16(L) and -17 (M) satellites
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| NPOESS |
National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System, USA
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| NRC |
National Research Counsel
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| NWP |
Numerical Weather Prediction
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| NWS |
National Weather Service, USA
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| SAC |
Science Advisory Committee
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| SAF |
Satellite Application Facility
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| SAG |
Scientific Advisory Group
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| SATREPS |
Science And Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable development
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| SCOPE-CM |
Sustained, Co-Ordinated Processing of Environmental Satellite Data for Climate Monitoring
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| SEVIRI |
Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager
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| SG |
Satellite Gauge
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| SMAP |
Soil Moisture Active Passive
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| SMOS |
Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity
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| SPARC |
Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate (WCRP Core Project)
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| SRB |
Saskatchewan River Basin
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| SRS |
Southern Research Station
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| SSC |
Science Steering Committee
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| SSG |
Scientific Steering Group
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| SSM/I |
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
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| SSM/IS |
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Sounder
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| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature
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| SSU |
Stratospheric Sounding Unit
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| START |
SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training
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| STC |
Science and Technology Corporation
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| WACMOS |
Water Cycle Multimission Observation Strategy (ESA Programme)
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| WATCH |
EU Integrated Project on Water and Global Change
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| WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme
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| WDAC |
WCRP Data Advisory Council
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| WG |
Working Group
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| WGCM |
Working Group on Coupled Modeling
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| WGNE |
The Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), jointly established by the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) and the WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), which is responsible for WWRP and GAW
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| WGSIP |
Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
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| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization
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| WOAP |
WCRP Observation and Assimilation Panel
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| WWRP |
World Weather Research Programm
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