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SCAR Bulletin 149, April 2003
Appendix 4
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
| AAA | Antarctic Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| ACE | Antarctic Climate Evolution |
| AEON | Antarctic Environmental Officers Network |
| AGEANT | Age, Growth and Evolution of Antarctica |
| AGU | American Geophysical Union |
| AMD | Antarctic Master Directory |
| ANTEC | Antarctic Neotectonics |
| ANTIME | Late Quaternary Antarctic Sedimentary Record of Ice Margin Evolution |
| APIS | Antarctic Pack Ice Seals Programme |
| APTIC | Antarctic Peninsula Tropospheric-Ionospheric Coupling |
| ASPeCt | Antarctic Sea-Ice Processes and Climate |
| ATAC | Antarctic Tropospheric Aerosols and Their Role in Climate |
| ATCM | Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting |
| ATSCM | Antarctic Treaty Special Consultative Meeting |
| CCAMLR | Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
| CCAS | Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals |
| CEP | Committee for Environmental Protection |
| CliC | Climate and Cryosphere |
| COMNAP | Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes |
| EASIZ | Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone |
| EGS | European Geophysical Society |
| EPB | European Polar Board |
| EPICA | European Polar Ice Coring in Antarctica |
| EVOLANTA | Evolutionary Biology of Antarctic Organisms |
| FCO | Foreign and Commonwealth Office (United Kingdom) |
| FRISP | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Project |
| GCMD | Global Change Master Directory |
| GIANT | Geodetic Infrastructure for Antarctica |
| GIP | Geographic Information Programme |
| GIWA | Global International Waters Assessment |
| GLASS | Glaciology of the South Shetland Islands |
| GLOCHANT | Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic |
| GOSEAC | Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation |
| IASC | International Arctic Science Committee |
| ICESTAR | Interhemispheric Conjugacy in Environmental, Solar-Terrestrial and Atmospheric Research |
| ICSU | International Council for Science |
| IDEA | Ice Divide of Eastern Antarctica |
| IEE | Initial Environmental Evaluation |
| IGBP | International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
| IGU | International Geographical Union |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year |
| IOC | Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| IPA | International Permafrost Association |
| IPY | International Polar Year |
| ISMASS | Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level |
| ITASE | International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition |
| IUBS | International Union of Biological Sciences |
| IUGG | International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics |
| IUGS | International Union of Geological Sciences |
| IUPS | International Union of Physiological Sciences |
| JCADM | SCAR-COMNAP Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management |
| MADREP | Middle Atmosphere Dynamics and Relativistic Electron Precipitation |
| NADC | National Antarctic Data Centre |
| PACA | Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere |
| PAG | Permafrost Action Group |
| PASTA | Plateau Astronomy Site Testing in Antarctica |
| PICE | Palaeoenvironments from Ice Cores |
| READER | Reference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research project |
| RiSCC | Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems |
| SAER | State of the Antarctic Environment Report |
| SALE | Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration |
| SCALOP | Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations |
| SCAR | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
| SCOR | Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research |
| SPPG | Scientific Programme Planning Group |
| SSG | Scientific Standing Group |
| STADM | Steering Committee for Antarctic Data Management |
| STEPS | Solar-Terrestrial Processes and Space Weather |
| TRAINET | Education and Training Network |
| VELMAP | Velocity Map |
| WAIS | West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Programme |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
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