Acronyms

Acronyms Glossary



General Acronym Directory


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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