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Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate
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ADEOS Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
AMIP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (of the PCMDI)
AOPC Atmospheric Observation Panel (of GCOS)
CCC Canadian Centre for Climate, Canada
CCM Chemistry Climate Model
CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
CEPEX Central Equatorial Pacific Experiment
CFC chlorofluorocarbon
CIRA COSPAR International Reference Atmosphere
CLAES Cryogenic Limb Array Etalon Spectrometer (on UARS)
CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability Programme
CNRM Centre National de Recherche Meteorologique, France
COSPAR Committee on Space Research (ICSU)
CPC Climate Prediction Center (NOAA)
DIAL DIfferential Absorption Lidar
DU Dobson unit (ozone)
ECMWF European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecast
EIA Equatorial Ionization Anomaly
EOF Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOS Earth Observing System
EOSDIS The EOS Data and Information System
ESA European Space Agency
FDH Fixed Dynamical Heating
FUB Free University of Berlin, Germany
GAW Global Atmosphere Watch (of WMO)
GCM General circulation model
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEOS-DAS Goddard Earth Observing System - Data Assimilation System
GEWEX Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment (WCRP)
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, USA
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA
GPS Global Positionning System
GRIPS GCM Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC
GSFC NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
HALOE HALogen Occultation Experiment (on UARS)
HRDI High Resolution Doppler Imager
ICRCCM Intercomparison of Radiation Codes for Climate Models (WCRP)
ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (of IGBP)
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy (of CEOS)
ILAS Imroved Limb Absorption Spectrometer
INDOEX Indian Ocean Experiment
IOC International Ozone Commission
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IR infrared
ISCCP International Staellite Cloud Climatology Project
LaRC Langley Research Center, USA
LS lower stratosphere
MCTEX Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment (1995)
MIPAS Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding
MLS Microwave Limb Sounder (on UARS)
MOZAIC Measurement of OZone by Airbus In-service airCraft
MPI Max-Planck Institute for Metorology, Germany
MRI Meteorological Research Institute, Japan
MSU Microwave Sounding Unit
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA
NCEP National Center for Environmental Prediction, USA (formerly NMC)
NDSC Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change
NMC National Meteorological Center, USA (now NCEP)
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
NPOESS National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
NWS National Weather Service
PCMDI Programme for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (of the Environmental Science Division of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Health and Environmental research, part of the Gloabl Change Resarch Programme)
PMR Pressure Modulated Radiometer
PV potential vorticity
QBO quasi-biennial oscillation
SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
SBUV Solar Backscattered Ultraviolet
SPARC Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate
SSG SPARC scientific steering group
SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit
STE Stratosphere-troposphere exchange
STEP Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Project
STTA SPARC Stratospheric temperature Trends Assessment
TDL Tuneable Diode Laser
TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
UCLA University of California at Los Angeles, USA
UGAMP University Global Atmospheric Modelling Project, UK
UKMO United Kingdom Meteorological Office, UK
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UT upper troposphere
UV ultraviolet
UVA ultraviolet radiation between 320-400 nm
UVB ultraviolet radiation between 280-320 nm
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WGCM Working Group on Coupled Modelling (CLIVAR)
WMO World Meteorological Organisation
WVEE Water Vapour Exchange Experiment