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APPENDIX B
Pages 90-93

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... CASES Cooperative Atmosphere-Surface Exchange Study CASH Commercial Aircraft Sensing of Humidity CCM Community Climate Model CD-ROM Compact Disk, Read-Only Memory CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (NASA) CLAVR Clouds from the AVHRR CLIVAR Climate Variability and Prediction Program CMC Canadian Meteorological Centre CRM Cloud-resolving models CSA continental-scale area DAAC Data Acquisition and Archive Center (NASA)
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From page 91...
... GPS global positioning system GREDS GCIP Reference Data Set GTS Global Telecommunications System HAPEX Hydrologic-Atmospheric Pilot Experiment (France) IEOS International Earth Observing System IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme IGPO International GEWEX Project Office IOP intensive observational period IR infrared ISA intermediate-scale area ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ISLSCP International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
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... MOLTS Model Output Location Time Series MORDS Model Output Reduced Data Set MTPE Mission to Planet Earth (NASA) NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research NCDC National Climate Data Center (NOAA)
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... Geological Survey USWRP U.S. Weather Research Program VAD velocity azimuth display VORTEX Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment WCRP World Climate Research Programme WSR-88D Weather Surveillance Radar 1988-Doppler (see also NEXRAD)
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  • data assimilation
  • surface radiation
  • conservation service
  • land surface
  • radiation budget

  • global energy
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  • cycle experiment
  • international satellite
  • geographic database
  • environmental prediction
  • model output

  • recently changed
  • observation satellite
  • water cycle
  • surface parameterization
  • environmental satellite

  • resource conservation
  • global data
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  • asian monsoon


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