Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security (2012)
Chapter: Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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"Appendix E: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/13449.
| ADPC | Asian Disaster Preparedness Center | |
| AOT | aerosol optical thickness | |
| BC | black carbon | |
| CALIOP | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization | |
| CALIPSO | Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation | |
| CRED | Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters | |
| DEMs | digital elevation models | |
| DTM | digital terrain model | |
| EF | environmental flow | |
| EHP | elevated heat pump | |
| ELA | equilibrium line altitude | |
| EPS | expressed population signal | |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization | |
| FUGs | forest user groups | |
| GAR | Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction | |
| GHG | greenhouse gas | |
| GLIDE | GLobal IDEntifier | |
| GLOF | glacial lake outburst flood | |
| GRACE | Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment | |
| GRanD | Global Reservoir and Dam | |
| GRUMP | Global Rural Urban Mapping Project | |
| HKH | Hindu Kush-Himalayan | |
| ICIMOD | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development | |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | |
| LIA | Little Ice Age | |
| LLOF | landslide lake outburst food | |
| masl | meters above sea level | |
| MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | |
| MSU | Microwave Sounding Unit | |
| NATHAN | Natural Hazards Assessment Network | |
| NDSI | Normalized Difference Snow Index | |
| NGO | nongovernmental organization | |
| NRC | National Research Council | |
| OCHA | Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs | |
| OMI | ozone measuring instrument | |
| POP | persistent organic pollutant | |
| SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | |
| SST | sea surface temperature | |
| TP | Tibetan Plateau | |
| WGMS | World Glacier Monitoring Service | |
| WUAs | water user associations |
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