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Appendix C: List of Acronyms
AEROCHEM Project to study effect of aircraft emissions on ozone
AMIP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
BADC British Atmospheric Data Centre
BAHC Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle
CATCH An ocean experiment, North Atlantic, 1997
CD-ROM Compact Digital Read Only Memory
CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System
CLIVAR WCRP Study of Climate Variability and Predictability
COADS Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set
COARE Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment
DEMETER Development of a European Multi-model Ensemble System for Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
DKRZ Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
DUACS Developing Use of Altimetry for Climate Studies
DVD Digital Video Disk or Digital Versatile Disk
EASOE European Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Experiment
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
ENVISAT Environmental Satellite of ESA
EOF Empirical Orthogonal Function
ERA-40 A Forty-Year European Re-Analysis
ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
EUCREM European Cloud-Resolving Modelling Programme
EUMETSAT European organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
FETCH An ocean experiment, Mediterranean Sea, 1998
FGGE First GARP Global Experiment
GARP Global Atmosphere Research Programme
GATE GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEWEX Global Energy and Water cycle Experiment
GISST Global sea-Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set
GMS Geostationary Meteorological Satellite
GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
GOME Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
HIPOCAS Hindcast of Dynamic Processes of the Ocean and Coastal Areas of Europe
HIRS High-resolution Infrared Spectrometer
INTAS International Association for the Promotion of Co-operation with Scientists from the new Independent States of the Former Soviet Union
IORAS P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
KNMI Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
MAIA Monitoring Atlantic Inflow to the Arctic
MOZAIC Measurement of Ozone by Airbus in-Service Aircraft
MPIfM Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OSE Observing System Experiment
PIRATA Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic
PROVOST Prediction Of Climate Variations on Seasonal to Interannual Timsecales
ScaRaB Scanner for Radiation Budget
SEMAPHORE An ocean experiment, Azores, 1993
SESAME Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Mid-latitude Experiment
SHIVA Studies of the Hydrology, Influence and Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon
SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SOC Southampton Oceanography Centre
SODA Studies of Ozone Distributions based on Assimilated Satellite Measurements
SPARC Stratospheric Processes and their Rôle in Climate
SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave Imager
SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit
STOEC Storm-Track Upper Ocean Interactions and the impact on European Climate
TIROS Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite
TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
TOPOZ Towards the Prediction of Stratospheric Ozone
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
TOVS TIROS operational vertical sounder
UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UKMO United Kingdom Meteorological Office
UREADMY Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
VTPR Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
WASA Waves and Storms in the North Atlantic
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WMO World Meteorological organization
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