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SCAR BULLETIN No. 152, January 2004

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

ACCESS Antarctic Circumpolar Climate and Ecosystem Study
ACE Antarctic Climate Evolution (see CACE below)
ACOS Antarctic Climate Observing System
AGCS Antarctica and the Global Climate System
AMD Antarctic Master Directory
ANDRILL Antarctic Geological Drilling Project
ANTEC Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neotectonics
ASPA Antarctic Specially Protected Area
ATCM Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
BAS British Antarctic Survey
CACE Cenozoic Antarctic Climate Evolution (see ACE above)
CCAMLR Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
CEE Comprehensive Environmental Evaluation
CEP Committee for Environmental Protection
CliC Climate and Cryosphere
COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes
COSPAR Committee on Space Research
EASIZ Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone
EBA Evolutionary Biology of Antarctica
ECO–CLIM Climate variability and anthropogenic forcing of Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystems
ENSO El Niño – Southern Oscillation
EVOLANTA Evolutionary Biology of Antarctic Organisms
GCMD Global Change Master Directory
GIWA Global International Waters Assessment
IAG International Association of Geomorphologists
IAMAS International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
IASC International Arctic Science Committee
ICESTAR Interhemispheric Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research
ICPM International Commission on Polar Meteorology
ICSU International Council for Science
IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
IPA International Permafrost Association
IPY International Polar Year
IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
JCADM Joint Committee on Antarctic Data Management
NASA National Aeronautical and Space Administration
RiSCC Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems
SAER State of the Antarctic Environment Report
SALE Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration
SALEGOS Subglacial Antarctic Lake Exploration Group of Specialists
SCALOP Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistics and Operations
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SC–ATS Standing Committee for the Antarctic Treaty System
SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
SCOSTEP Scientific Committee on Solar–Terrestrial Physics
SO–CIRCLE Southern Ocean – Climate Interactions, Resources and Carbon Links within the Earth System
SSG Standing Scientific Group
STADM Steering Committee for Antarctic Data Management
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
WMO World Meteorological Organization