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Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling Other Related Titles Estimating Climate Sensitivity: Report of a Workshop (2003) Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Estimating Climate Sensitivity: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003. Please select a format: Page 35   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. APPENDIX A ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS AMIP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project AOGCM atmospheric-ocean general circulation model BASC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate BC black carbon CCSP Climate Change Science Program CFC chlorofluorocarbon DOE Department of Energy ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation EPA Environmental Protection Agency GCM general circulation model GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory GHG greenhouse gas HadCM3 Hadley Centre’s Third-generation coupled ocean-atmospheric GCM IPCC/TAR Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Third Assessment Report ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Projects MAGICC Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-Gas Induced Climate Change MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NSF National Science Foundation PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison PDF probability density function ppmv parts per million by volume RF radiative forcing Seff effective climate sensitivity Seq equilibrium climate sensitivity Str transient climate sensitivity SCENGEN a global and regional climate SCENario GENerator S/N signal-to-noise ratio SPARC Stratospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate (WCRP) TCR transient climate response TOGA Tropical Oceans and Global Atmosphere Program TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program VOC volatile organic compound WCRP World Climate Research Program WMO World Meteorological Organizarion Page 35 Front Matter (R1-R10) Introduction (1-1) Opening Session (2-6) Approaches for Estimating Climate Sensitivity (7-10) Climate Feedbacks (11-16) Characterizing Uncertainty (17-20) Meeting the Needs of the User Community (21-23) Closing Session (24-32) References (33-34) Appendix A: Acronyms and Abbreviations (35-35) Appendix B: Workshop Agenda (36-37) Appendix C: Workshop Attendees (38-38) Appendix D: Invited Speakers' Biographical Information (39-42)

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