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APPENDIX C
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AIRS Advanced infrared sounder
AMIP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
AO Atlantic oscillation
ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Project (DOE)
AVHRR Advanced very high resolution radiometer
BOREAS Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
LEA Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
CART Cloud and Radiation Testbed
CON Cloud condensation nuclei
CERES Clouds and the Earth's radiant energy system
CFCs Chlorofluorocarbons
CLIVAR Climate variability and predictability (WCRP)
CMIP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project
CPT Climate Process Team
CRM Cloud-resolving model
DMS Dimethylsulphide
DMSP Dimethylsulfoniopropionate
DOE Department of Energy
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
ENSO E1 Nino-Southern Oscillation
EOS Earth Observing System
ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
FIFE First ISLSCP field experiment
GCM General Circulation Model
GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GIN Greenland, Iceland, and Norway
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GPCP Global Precipitation Climatology Project
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152 UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE FEEDBACKS
ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Pro gramme
IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
Environmental Change
IN Ice condensation nuclei
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IR Infrared
ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
ISLSCP International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
LBA Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia
LDAS Land Data Assimilation System
LTER Long Term Ecological Research program
MISR Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
MOC Meridional overturning circulation
MODIS Moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer
MSA Methanesulphonate
NACP North American Carbon Program
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC National Research Council
NSF National Science Foundation
NVaP NASA Water Vapor Project
NWP Numerical weather prediction
P-E Precipitation minus evaporation
PIRATA Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
SHEBA Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
SOLAS Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study
SST Sea surface temperature
TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean array
TAR IPCC Third Assessment Report
TOA Top of the atmosphere
ULS Upward-looking sonar
USCCSP U.S. Climate Change Science Plan
USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
W Ultraviolet
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
XBT Expendable Bathythermograph
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