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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1998. Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change: A Science Strategy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6129.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1998. Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change: A Science Strategy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6129.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1998. Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change: A Science Strategy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6129.
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Suggested Citation:"Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1998. Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change: A Science Strategy. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6129.
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