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Page 141 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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Page 142 UV-B Ultraviolet B radiation XBT Expendable bathythermograph XCTD Expendable conductivity-temperature-depth instrument WCRP World Climate Research Programme WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment