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A


AAA	Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics
AABW	Antarctic Bottom Water
AAD	Australian Antarctic Division
AADC	Australian Antarctic Data Centre
AARI	Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute
ACC	Anthropogenic Climate Change
ACSYS	Arctic Climate System Study
ADD	Antarctic Digital Database
ADDS	Antarctic Data Directory System
ADEOS	Advanced Earth Observing Satellite
ADGRAV	Antarctic Digital Gravity Project
ADMAP	Antarctic Digital Magnetic Anomaly Project
AEON	Antarctic Environmental Officers Network
AFIM	Antarctic Flight Information Manual
AGDI	Antarctic Geographic Data Integration project
AGEANT	Age Growth and Evolution of Antarctica
AGO	Automatic Geophysical Observatory
AGONET	Antarctic Geospace Observatory Network
AGS	Antarctic Geodesy Symposium
AIROPS	Air Operations Working Group
AMAP	Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
AMD	Antarctic Master Directory
AMEN	Antarctic Managers' Electronic Network
ANARE	Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
ANDRILL	Antarctic Geological Drilling Consortium
AnSITP	Antarctic Ice Thickness Programme
ANTEC	Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics
ANTIME	Late Quaternary Antarctic Sedimentary Record of Ice Margin Evolution
ANTOSTRAT	Antarctic Off-shore Stratigraphy Programme
AnZone	Antarctic Zone
APE-GAIA	Airborne Polar expedition - Geophysica Aircraft in Antarctica
APIS	Antarctic Pack Ice Seals
ASIZP	Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone Project
ASMA	Antarctic Specially Managed Area
ASOC	Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
ASPA	Antarctic Specially Protected Area
ASPeCt	Antarctic Sea-Ice Processes and Climate
ATCM	Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
ATCP	Antarctic Treaty Consultative Party
ATOM	Antarctic Telecommunications Operations Manual
ATS	Antarctic Treaty System
AWI	Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung

B

BAMS	Bureau of the Australian Meteorological Service
BAS	British Antarctic Survey
BBS	Bird Biology Subcommittee (SCAR)
BEDMAP	Antarctic Bedrock Mapping Project
BIOMASS	Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks
BIOTAS	Biological Investigations of Terrestrial Antarctic Systems
BSRN	Baseline Surface Radiation Network

C


CAA	Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration
CALM	Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring
CARA	Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica
CARP	Canadian Antarctic Research Program
CCAMLR	Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CCAR	Canadian Committee on Antarctic Research
CCAS	Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals
CDB	Central Data Bank (for Antarctic Bird Banding)
CD-ROM	Compact Disc; Read Only Memory
CEE	Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation
CEMP	CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme
CEP	Committee for Environmental Protection
CGA	Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
CHAMP	Changing Mini-satellite Payload
CHINARE	Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition
CLIC	Climate and Cryosphere
CLIVAR	Climate Variability and Predictability Programme
CO	Carbon Monoxide
COGS	Collaborative Geoscience in the South Shetland Islands
COMNAP	Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes
CONAAN	Comisión Nacional de Asuntos Antárticos
CPC	Canadian Polar Commission
CRAMRA	Convention for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources Activities
CRC	Cooperative Research Centre
CS-;EASIZ	Coast and Shelf -; Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone

D

DBCP	Data Buoy Cooperation Panel
DCDB	Data Center on Digital Bathymetry
DecCen	Decadal to Centennial Climate Variability
DEM	Digital Elevation Model
DGPS	Digital Global Positioning System
DIF	Data Interchange Format
DNA	Deoxyribose-Nucleic Acid
DNA	Dirección Nacional del Antártico
DORIS	Doppler Orbitography Information System

E

EAM	Environmental Assessment Memoranda
EASIZ	Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone
ECG	Environmental Coordinating Group
ECMWF	European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
ECOPS	European Committee on Ocean Polar Sciences
EDAT	Education and Training Working Group
EIA	Environmental Impact Assessment
EISMINT	European Ice Sheet Modelling Initiative
ELINF	Electronic Information Working Group
EMRAC	Emergency Response and Contingency Planning Working Group
ENEA	Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia e l'Ambiente (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment)
ENMAN	Energy Management Working Group
ENSO	El Niño Southern Oscillation
EPICA	European Polar Ice Coring in Antarctica
ESF	European Science Foundation
EUG	European Union of Geosciences
EVOLANTA	Evolution in Antarctica
EXCOM	Executive Committee

F

FAO	Food and Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations)
FARO	Forum of Arctic Research Operators
FDSN	Federation of Digital Seismographic Networks
FIBEX	First International Biomass Experiment
FIDS	Falkland Island Dependency Survey
FIG	International Federation of Surveyors
FRISP	Fundamental Research in Ice Shelf Programme (formerly: Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Programme)
FROST	First Regional Observation of the Stratosphere

G

GAIM	Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modelling
GAME	GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment
GCOS	Global Climate Observing System
GCTE	Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems
GEBCO	General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean
GEF	Global Environmental Fund
GERG	Geochemical and Environmental Research Group
GEWEX	Global Energy and Water-Cycle Experiment
GGI	Geodesy and Geographic Information (Working Group)
GGTP	Global Geoscience Transects Project
GIANT	Geodetic Infrastructure for Antarctica
GIS	Geographical Information System
GISSL	Glaciers, Ice Sheets and Sea-Level
GLASS	Glaciology of the South Shetland Islands
GLOBEC	Global Oceans Ecosystems Dynamics Research
GLOCHANT	Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic
GLONASS	Global Navigation Satellite System
GLOSS	Global Sea Level Observing System
GMT	Greenwich Mean Time
GOALS	Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System
GOOS	Global Ocean Observing System
GOSEAC	Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation
GOSSOE	Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecology
GPS	Global Positioning System
GRACE	Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Mission
GRS	Geodetic Reference System
GTS	Global Telecommunications System

H

HC	Hydro Carbons
HDP	Human Dimensions Programme
HF	High Frequency
HQ	Headquarters
HSM	Historic Sites and Monuments

I

IAATO	International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators
IACS	International Association of Classification Societies
IAG15	International Association of Geodesy
IAG	International Association of Gravimetry
IAGA	International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
IAGP	International Antarctic Glaciological Project
IAI	Inter-American Institute
iAnZone	International (Coordination of Oceanographic Research within the) Antarctic Zone
IAPO	International Arctic Project Office (ACSYS)
IARPC	Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
IASC	International Arctic Science Committee
IBA	Important Bird Areas
IBEA	International Biomedical Expedition to Antarctica
ICAIR	International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research
ICAO	International Civil Aviation Organisation
ICAPP	Ice-core Circum-Arctic Palaeoclimate Programme
ICEFISH	International Collaborative Effort on Antarctic
ICESat	Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satlellite
ICPO	International CLIVAR Project Office
ICSU	International Council for Science (formerly International Council of Scientific Unions)
IEE	Initial Environmental Evaluation
IERS	Terrestrial Reference Frame
IFRTP	Institut Français pour la Recherche et la Technologie Polaires
IGAC	International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
IGBP	International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme
IGBP-DIS	IGBP-Data and Information System
IGCP	International Geological Correlation Program
IgeS	International Geoid Service
IGS	International Glaciological Society
IGS	International GPS Service
IGY	International Geophysical Year
IHDP	International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change
IHO	International Hydrographic Organization
ILAS	Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer
IMDG	International Maritime Dangerous Goods (Code)
IMO	International Maritime Organisation
INACH	Instituto Antártico Chileno
INFO	Information Paper
INFONET	Antarctic Information Officers Network
INMARSAT	Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization
IOC	Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IPA	International Permafrost Association
IPAB	International Programme for Antarctic Buoys
IPCC	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISAES	International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences
ISCCP	International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
ISMASS	Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level Programme
ITASE	International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition
ITEX	International Tundra Experiment
ITRF	International Terrestrial Reference Frame
IUBS	International Union of Biological Sciences
IUCH	International Union of Circumpolar Health
IUCN	World Conservation Union (International Union for the Conservation of Nature)
IUGG	International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
IUGS	International Union of Geological Sciences
IUPS	International Union of Physiological Sciences
IWC	International Whaling Commission

J

JARE	Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition
JCADM	Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
JGOFS	Joint Global Ocean Flux Study

K

KORDI

Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute

L

LOICZ

Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone programme

M

MAGS	Mackenzie GEWEX Study
MARPOL	International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
MEDS	Marine Environmental Data Service
MEPC	Marine Environment Protection Committee
MESH	Marine Earth System History
MINIATOM	Antarctic Communications Directory
MNAP	Manager of National Antarctic Programme
MOLIBA	Working Group to Monitor the Liability Annex
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding

N

NADC	National Antarctic Data Centre
NARE	Norwegian Antarctic Research Expedition
NASA	National Aeronautical and Space Administration
NERC	Natural Environment Research Council
NGDC	National Geophysical Data Center
NGO	Non-Governmental Organization
NIC	National Ice Center
NIPR	National Institute for Polar Research
NIWA	National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
NOAA	National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration
NPI	Norsk Polarinstitutt
NSF	National Science Foundation
NZAP	New Zealand Antarctic Programme

O

ODP	Ocean Drilling Programme
OPP	Office of Polar Programs

P

P&I Clubs	International Association of Protection and Indemnity Clubs
PA	Preliminary Assessment
PACA	Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
PAGES	Past Global Environmental Changes
PAH	Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons
PALE	Palaeoclimates of Arctic Lakes and Estuaries
PASC	Polar Atmospheric Snow Chemistry
PCSP	Polar Continental Shelf Project
PELICON	Project for Estimation of Long-Term Variability in Ice Concentration
PEP	Pole–Equator–Pole
PICE	Palaeoenvironments from Ice Cores
PIPOR	Programme for International Polar Oceans Research
PNRA	Italian National Antarctic Research Program
PRA	Principal Research Area
PRIC	Polar Research Institute of China
PROANTAR	Programa Antártico Brasileiro
PROANTEC	Programa Antártico Ecuatoriano
PVC	Poly-Vinyl Chloride

Q

R

RADARSAT	Radar Satellite
RAE	Russian Antarctic Expedition
RAMP	Radarsat Antarctic Mapping Project
RAPAL	Réunion de Administradores de Programas Antárticos Latinoamericanos
READER	Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research
RiSCC	Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Ecosystems
RNA	Ribose-Nucleic Acid
RRC	Regional Research Centre
RRN	Regional Research Network
RRS	Regional Research Site

S

SAER	State of the Antarctic Environment Report
SANAE	South African National Antarctic Expedition
SANAP	South African National Antarctic Program
SCALOP	Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations
SCAR	Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCAR	Society of Computer Applications in Radiology
SCOPE	Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
SCOR	Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SDLS	Seismic Data Library System
SES	Satellite Earth Station
SHEBA	Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean
SHIPOPS	Ship Operations Working Group
SISAG	Seventh International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology
SO-GLOBEC	Southern Ocean -; Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Research
SO-JGOFS	Southern Ocean -; Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
SPA	Specially Protected Area
SPAC	SCALOP Planning and Co-ordination Committee
SPECIAL	Space Processes and Electrical Changes Influencing Atmospheric Layers
SPOT	Système pour l'Observation de la Terre
SPRI	Scott Polar Research Institute
SPRS	Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
SRA	Specially Reserved Area
SSC	Scientific Steering Committee
SSSI	Site of Special Scientific Interest
STADM	Joint SCAR/COMNAP Group for Data Management
STAR	Solar Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research
START	System for Analysis, Research and Training
START-SC	START - Scientific Committee
STEP	Solar-Terrestrial Energy Program
SUPERDARN	Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
SWEDARP	Swedish Antarctic Research Program
SYMP	Symposium Working Group

T

TANGO	Tourism and Non Governmental Organisations Working Group
TESH	Terrestrial Earth System History
TEWG	Transitional Environmental Working Group
TOGA	Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere programme
TRAINET	Training Network
TRECAPE	Terrestrial Responses to Environmental Change in Antarctic and Peri-antarctic Ecosystems

U

UBA	German Environment Agency
UHF	Ultra High Frequency
UNCLOS	United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO	United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
USAP	United States Antarctic Program
UV	Ultra-Violet
UV-B	Ultra-violet B radiation

V

VELMAP	Ice sheet Velocity Mapping project for Antarctica
VHF	Very High Frequency
VISAG	Sixth International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology
VLBI	Very Long Baseline Interferometry
VORCORE	Core of the Antarctic Vortex (proposed balloon project)

W

WAIS	West Antarctic Ice Sheet
WAISCores	West Antarctic Ice Sheet Coring Programme
WCRP	World Climate Research Programme
WG	Working Group
WG-GGI	WG on Geodesy and Geographic Information
WG-HBM	Working Group on Human Biology and Medicine
WG-PACA	Working Group on Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
WG-SEG	Working Group on Solid-Earth Geophysics
WG-STAR	Working Group on Solar-Terrestrial and Astrophysical Research
WMO	World Meteorological Organization
WOCE	World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WWW	World Wide Web

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