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SCAR Bulletin No 133, April 1999

Appendix 1
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

ADDS Antarctic Data Directory System
AGO Automatic Geophysical Observatory
AMD Antarctic Master Directory
ANTEC Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics
ANTIME Antarctic Ice-Margin Evolution
APIS Antarctic Pack Ice Seals
ASPeCt Antarctic Sea-Ice Processes And Climate
ATCM Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
BAS British Antarctic Survey
BEDMAP Antarctic bedrock mapping project
BIOTAS Biological Investigations of Terrestrial Antarctic Systems
CCAMLR Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CD-ROM Compact Disc – Read Only Memory
CEP Committee on Environmental Protection
CGA Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
CLIC Climate and Cryosphere
COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes
DCDB Data Center on Digital Bathymetry
EASIZ Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone
EISMINT European Ice Sheet Modelling Initiative
ESF European Science Foundation
GAIM Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modelling
GEBCO General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean
GIANT Geodetic Infrastructure for Antarctica
GLOCHANT Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic
GMT Greenwich Mean Time
GOSEAC Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation
GPS Global Positioning System
GTS Global Telecommunications System
IASC International Arctic Science Committee
ICSU International Council for Science
IGBP International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme
IHO International Hydrographic Organisation
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IPAB International Programme for Antarctic Buoys
ISMASS Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea-Level
Itase International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition
ITRF International Terrestrial Reference Frame
IUGS International Union of Geological Sciences
IUPS International Union of Physiological Sciences
JCADM Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
NADC National Antarctic Data Centre
NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
Pages Past Global Environmental Changes
PICE Palaeoenvironments from Ice Cores
SAER State of the Antarctic Environment Report
SCALOP Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SO-GLOBEC Southern Ocean – Global Ecosystem Dynamics Study
SO-JGOFS Southern Ocean – Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
SPRI Scott Polar Research Institute
SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest
START System for Analysis, Research and Training
TRECAPE Terrestrial Responses to Environmental Change in Antarctic and Peri-antarctic Ecosystems
UN United Nations
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
US United States
VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WG Working Group
WG-GGI WG on Geodesy and Geographic Information
WG-PACA WG on Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
WMO World Meteorological Organization