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ACC * Anthropogenic Climate Change (CLIVAR)

ACE * Aerosol Characterisation Experiment

ACSYS * Arctic Climate System Study

ADEOS/NSCAT * Advanced Earth Observing Satellite/NASA Scatterometer

AGCM * Atmospheric General Circulation Model

AGORA * Assessment of the global ocean circulation with data assimilation systems for climate studies

AIMS * Analysis, Interpretation, Modelling, and Synthesis (WOCE)

AMIP * Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project

ARGO * Array for Real-time Geostrophic Oceanography

AVHRR * Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

BADC * British Atmospheric Data Centre

BP * Before Present

BSH * Bundesanstalt fuer Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie

CAS * Commission of Atmospheric Sciences

CATCH * Couplage Atmosphere Tropicale et Cycle Hydrologique (ORSTOM)

CEA * Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique

CEO * Centre for Earth Observation

CEOS * Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

CERFACS * Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique

CFC * Chlorofluorocarbon

CFR * Centre des Faibles Radioactivites (laboratoire mixte CNRS-CEA)

CGAM * Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling

CGI * Common Gateway Interface

CLAUS * Cloud Archive User Service

CLIVAR * Climate Variability and Predictability programme (WCRP)

CMIP * Coupled Model Intercomparison Project

CNES * Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales

CNR * Centro Nationale delle Ricerche

CNRM * Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques

CNRS * Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

COAPEC * Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Processes and their Effect on Climate

COARE * Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA)

CRM * Cloud Resolving Models

CTD * Conductivity Temperature Depth instrument

DARE * Data Rescue

DecCen * Decadal-to-Centennial Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)

DFG * Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

DKRZ * Deutches Klimarechenzentrum (German Climate Computing Centre)

DMI * Danish Meteorological Institute

EC * European Commission

ECCN * European Climate Computing Network

ECMWF * European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts

ECSN * European Climate Support Network

EEA * European Environment Agency

ENSIP * ENSO Simulation Intercomparison Project

ENSO * El Niño / Southern Oscillation

ERA * ECMWF ReAnalysis

ERA40 * 40-year ECMWF Reanalysis

ERACC * An Enhanced Resolution Modelling Study on Anthropogenic Climate Change

ERBE * Earth Radiation Budget Experiment

ERS * European Remote Sensing Satellite

ESTOC * Estación de Series Temporales Oceánicas de Canarias

EU * European Union

EUCREM * European Cloud-Resolving Modelling

EWSE * European Wide Service Exchange

FANGIO * Feedback Analysis of GCMs and in Observations

FASTEX IOP * Fronts and Atlantic Storm Track Experiment - Intensive Observation Period

GAIM * Global Analysis, Interpretation, Modelling

GAME * GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment

GCCS * GEWEX Cloud System Study

GCM * General Circulation Model

GCOS * Global Climate Observing System

GEWEX * Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

GIN Sea * Greenland/Iceland/Norwegian Sea

GKSS * GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht

GOALS * Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System (CLIVAR)

GODAE * Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment

GOOS * Global Ocean Observing System

GPS * Global Positioning System

GTOS * Global Terrestrial Observing Sysm

IAG * Institut d'Astronomie et de Géophysique G. Lemaître

ICSU * International Council of Scientific Unions

IGAC * International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project

IGBP * International Geosphere Biosphere Programme

IMAGES * International Marine Aspects of Global Change (with IGBP/PAGES)

IMGA * Istituto Metodologie Geofisiche Ambientali

IOC * Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

IPCC * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

JASON * satellite, follow-on to TOPEX/POSEIDON

JCMM * Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology

KNMI * Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

LGM * Last Glacial Maximum

LMCE * Laboratoire de Modelisation du Climat et de l'Environnement

LMD * Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique

LODYC * Laboratoire d'Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie

LSCE *Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement

MARVOR * French Subsurface Float, contraction from old Breton Language: "MARCH" (horse) and "VOR" (sea)

MERCATOR * French operational ocean prediction project.

MERCURE * Modelling European Regional Climate Understanding and Reducing Errors

MILLENNIA * Numerical Simulation and Analysis of Climate Variability on Decadal and Centennial Time Scales

MJO * Madden-Julian Oscillation

MOC * Meridional Overturning Circulation

MPIM * Max-Planck Institut fuer Meteorologie

MRF * Meteorological Research Flight

NAO * North Atlantic Oscillation

NASA * National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR * National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCEP * National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NEG * Numerical Experimentation Group

NOAA * National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NSCAT * NASA Scatterometer

NWP * Numerical Weather Prediction

ODA * Ocean Data Assimilation

OGCM * Ocean General Circulation Model

ORSTOM * L'Institut Francais de Recherche Scientific pour le Développement en Cooperation

PAGES * Past Global Changes (IGBP)

PDF * Probability Density Function

PEP * Pole Equator Pole programme

PIRATA * Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic

PMIP * Palaeoclimate Model Intercomparison Project

PNA * Pacific North American

POTENTIALS * Project On Tendency Evaluations using New Techniques to Improve Atmospheric Long-term Simulations

PROVOR * follow-up of MARVOR

PROVOST * European Project on Prediction of Climate Variations on Seasonal to Interannual Time Scales

QBO * Quasi Biennial Oscillation

QUARCC * Quantifying Uncertainty in the Attribution of Recent Climate Change

SCM * Single Column Models

SFB * Sonderforschungsbereich

SHIVA * Studies of the Hydrology, Influence and Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon

SIDDACLICH * Simulation, Diagnosis and Detection of the Anthropogenic Climate Change

SINDICATE * Study of the Indirect and Direct Influences on Climate of Anthropogenic Trace Gas Emissions

SINTEX * Scale Interaction Experiment

SOI * Southern Oscillation Index

SPARC * Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (WCRP)

SSMI * Special Sensor Microwave Imager

SST * Sea Surface Temperature

SSS * Sea Surface Salinity

STC * Subtropical Cell

STOEC * Storm Track Upper Ocean Interaction and the Impact on European Climate

STOIC * Study of Tropical Oceans in Coupled Models

STOWASUS-2100 * Regional STOrm, WAve and SUrge Scenarios for the 2100 Century

TAO array * Tropical Atmosphere Ocean moored buoy array

TBO * Tropical Biennial Oscillation

TOGA * Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere programme (WCRP)

TOPEX/POSEIDON * Ocean Topography Experiment (NASA/CNES Satellite Programme)

TPI * Trans-Polar Index

UGAMP * United Kingdom Universities Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme

UKMO * United Kingdom Meteorological Office

UMIST * University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

UNEP * United Nations Environment Programme

VAMOS * Variability of the American Monsoon Systems

VOS * Voluntary Observing Ships

WAMP * West African Monsoon Project

WCRP * World Climate Research Programme

WGCM * Working Group on Coupled Models

WGNE * Working Group on Numerical Experimentation

WMO * World Meteorological Organisation

WOCE * World Ocean Circulation Experiment

WWB * Westerly Wind Bursts

WWW * World Weather Watch

WWW * World Wide Web

XBT * Expendable Bathythermograph

XCTD * Expendable Conductivity-Temperature-Depth Instrument