Acronyms Glossary
- ACSYS
- Arctic Climate System Study
- AMIP
- Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
- ARPEGE
- Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle:
Research Project on Small and Large Scales - BMRC
- Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre
- CCC
- Canadian Centre for Climate Research
- CCSR
- Center for Climate System Research
- CHAMMP
- Computer Hardware, Advanced Mathematics and Model Physics
- CLIMAP
- Climate, Long-Range Investigation, Mapping and Prediction
- CLW
- Cloud Liquid Water
- CNRM
- Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
- COLA
- Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
- CSIRO
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
- CSU
- Colorado State University
- DERF
- Dynamical Extended-Range Forecasting
- DKRZ
- Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
- DNM
- Department of Numerical Mathematics
- DOE
- Department of Energy
- DOM
- Discrete Ordinate Method
- ECMWF
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
- ERBE
- Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
- FAO
- Food and Agriculture Organization
- FGGE
- First GARP Global Experiment
- FNOC
- Fleet Naval Oceanographic Center
- GARP
- Global Atmospheric Research Program
- GCIP
- GEWEX Continental-Scale International Project
- GEWEX
- Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
- GFDL
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- GISS
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- GLA
- Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres
- GSFC
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- IAP
- Institute of Atmospheric Physics
- ICSU
- International Council of Scientific Unions
- IPCC
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- ISBA
- Interactions Between Soil-Biosphere-Atmosphere
- JMA
- Japan Meteorological Agency
- LAI
- Leaf Area Index
- LLNL
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- LLNL/UCLA
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/University of California at Los Angeles
- LMD
- Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
- LWC
- Liquid Water Content
- MGO
- Main Geophysical Observatory
- MONEG
- Monsoon Numerical Experimentation Group
- MPP
- Massively Parallel Processing
- MPI
- Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
- MRI
- Meteorological Research Institute
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NCAR
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- NERSC
- National Energy Research Supercomputer Center
- NMC
- National Meteorological Center
- NOAA
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NRL
- Naval Research Laboratory
- NTU
- National Taiwan University
- PAR
- Photosynthetically Active Radiation
- PBL
- Planetary Boundary Layer
- PCMDI
- Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
- PILPS
- Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes
- RPN
- Recherche en Prévision Numérique
- SAI
- Stem Area Index
- SECHIBA
- Schématisation des Echanges Hydriques à l' Interface entre la Biosphère et l'Atmosphère
- SiB
- Simple Biosphere model
- SIOMP
- Sea Ice and Ocean Modelling Panel
- SUNYA
- State University of New York at Albany
- SUNYA/NCAR
- State University of New York at Albany/National Center for Atmospheric Research
- TKE
- Turbulence Kinetic Energy
- TOGA
- Tropical Ocean-Global Atmosphere
- UCLA
- University of California at Los Angeles
- UGAMP
- The UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
- UIUC
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- UKMO
- United Kingdom Meteorological Officen
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator
- WCRP
- World Climate Research Programme
- WGNE
- Working Group on Numerical Experimentation
- WMO
- World Meteorological Organizationn
- WWW
- World Wide Web
- YONU
- Yonsei University
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Last update October 8, 1996. For further information, contact: Tom Phillips ( phillips@tworks.llnl.gov)
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