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