Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change: A Science Strategy (1998)
Chapter: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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Acronyms And Abbreviations
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ACSYS |
Arctic Climate System Study |
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ACW |
Antarctic Circumpolar Wave |
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CFC |
Chlorofluorocarbon |
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CGCM |
Coupled general-circulation model |
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CLIMAP |
Climate Mapping Project |
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CLIVAR |
Climate Variability and Predictability Programme (WCRP) |
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CMDL |
Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA) |
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COWL |
Cool ocean-warm land pattern |
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CTD |
Conductivity-Temperature-Depth instrument |
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Dec-cen |
Decade-to-century-scale |
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DU |
Dobson unit (of ozone amount) |
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EOF |
Empirical orthogonal function |
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ENSO |
E1 Niño/Southern Oscillation |
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GCM |
General-circulation model |
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GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
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GEWEX |
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
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GLOSS |
Global Sea Level Observing System |
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GOALS |
Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Program |
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GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System |
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GSA |
Great Salinity Anomaly |
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GSDW |
Greenland Sea Deep Water |
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Gt |
Gigaton (1015 grams) |
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GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System |
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IGY |
International Geophysical Year |
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IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
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ITCZ |
Intertropical Convergence Zone |
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LSW |
Labrador Sea Water |
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MARVOR |
A multi-cycle RAFOS float |
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masl |
meters above sea level |
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NAO |
North Atlantic Oscillation |
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NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
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NPP |
Net primary productivity |
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OCS |
Carbonyl sulfide |
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PAGES |
Past Global Changes core project |
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PALACE |
Profiling Autonomous Lagrangian Circulation Explorer |
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PDO |
Pacific (inter)Decadal Oscillation |
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PDSI |
Palmer drought severity index |
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PNA |
Pacific-North American pattern |
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RAFOS |
Floating measurement device utilizing the Sound Fixing and Ranging (SOFAR) channel |
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SAGE |
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment |
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SAM I & II |
Stratospheric Aerosol Measurement experiments I & II |
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SPMW |
Subpolar Mode Water |
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SLP |
Sea-level pressure |
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SMMR |
Satellite Multifrequency Microwave Radiometer |
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SOI |
Southern Oscillation Index |
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SPARC |
Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate |
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SSM/I |
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager |
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SST |
Sea surface temperature |
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Sv |
Sverdrup (106 m3/s) |
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THC |
Thermohaline circulation |
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TOGA |
Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere program |
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TOMS |
Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer |
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UV-B |
Ultraviolet B radiation |
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XBT |
Expendable bathythermograph |
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XCTD |
Expendable conductivity-temperature-depth instrument |
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WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
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WOCE |
World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
