Appendix C
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AABW | Antarctic bottom water |
ACC | Antarctic Circumpolar Current |
ASL | Amundsen Sea Low |
CESM | Community Earth System Model |
CFC | chlorofluorocarbon |
CMIP5 | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 |
CO2 | carbon dioxide |
CP | El Niño Modoki |
EM | electromagnetic |
ENSO | El Niño–Southern Oscillation |
Envisat | Environmental satellite |
EP | Canonical El Niño |
ERA | European reanalysis |
ERS | European Remote Sensing |
ESMR | Electrically Scanning Microwave Radiometer |
GHG | greenhouse gas |
ICESat | Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite |
IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
MIZ | marginal ice zone |
MODIS | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MPAS | Model for Prediction Across Scales |
MSA | methanesulfonic acid |
MSLP | mean sea level pressure |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
PSA | Pacific South American |
SAM | Southern Annular Mode |
SOSE | Southern Ocean State Estimate |
SST | sea surface temperature |
UCDW | Upper Circumpolar Deep Water |
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