Advancing the Science of Climate Change (2010)
Chapter: Appendix G: Acronyms and Initialisms
APPENDIX G
Acronyms and Initialisms
AEF America’s Energy Future
AERONET Aerosol Robotic Network
ARM Atmosphere Radiation Measurement
CCS carbon capture and storage
CCSP Climate Change Science Program
CCTP climate change technology program
CDM Clean Development Mechanism
COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
CDR carbon dioxide removal
C-ROADS Climate Rapid Overview and Decision-support Simulator
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
EGS enhanced geothermal system
ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation
EOS Earth Observing System
EPA U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
ESSP Earth System Science Partnership
EUMETSAT European meteorological satellite program
FACE free air CO2 enrichment
GCRA Global Change Research Act
GHG greenhouse gas
ICESat Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
IGERT Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
IGFA International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research
IHDP International Human Dimensions Program
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IUBS International Union of Biological Science
IWRM Integrated Water Resources Management
JI Joint Implementation
MEA Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
MPAs marine protected areas
NAPAs National Adaptation Programmes of Action
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NIC National Intelligence Council
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NPP net primary productivity
NRC National Research Council
OCO Orbiting Carbon Observatory
OMB Office of Management and Budget
PIER Public Interest Energy Research
PSAC President’s Science Advisory Committee
QDR Quadrennial Defense Review
R&D research and development
REDD Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation
RISA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments
SARP Sector Applications Research Program
SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
SRM solar radiation management
START System for Analysis, Research and Training
TAO Tropical-Atmosphere Ocean
UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
