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PAPERBACK price:$28.25 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere Other Related Titles Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change (2000) Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations." Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2000. Please select a format: Page 85   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Page 85 Appendix B— Acronyms and Abbreviations BASC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate COADS Comprehensive Ocean/Atmosphere Data Set CRC Climate Research Committee ENSO El Niño—Southern Oscillation GCM general circulation model GHz GigaHertz hPa hectoPascal IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change MSU Microwave Sounding Unit MSU 2LT lower to mid-tropospheric temperature derived from MSU channel 2 NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NRC National Research Council RMS root-mean-square SST sea surface temperature UKMO United Kingdom Meteorological Office UTC Coordinated Universal Time WMO World Meteorological Organization Page 85 Front Matter (R1-R16) Executive Summary (1-4) Part I: Overview and Conclusions (5-6) 1 Introduction (7-8) 2 Background (9-20) 3 Findings (21-23) 4 Recommendations (24-26) Part II: Technical Background (27-28) 5 Introduction (29-31) 6 Surface Temperature Observations (32-40) 7 MSU Observations (41-49) 8 Radiosonde Observations (50-57) 9 Trend Comparisons (58-71) References (72-80) Appendix A: Biographical Information on Panel Members (81-84) Appendix B: Acronyms and Abbreviations (85-86)

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