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SCAR Report No. 13, November 1996
Appendix 1
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Report of bipolar meeting of GLOCHANT/IGBP-PAGES Task Group 2 on Palaeoenvironments from Ice Cores (PICE), 1995
- Report of GLOCHANT Task Group 3 on Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea-Level (ISMASS), 1995
- Report of GLOCHANT IV meeting, 1996
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5
- Appendix 6
- ACoPS Antarctic Coastal Polynya Study
- ACSYS Arctic Climate System Study
- ADOX Atlantic Deep Ocean Exchange
- AnITMP Antarctic Ice Thickness Monitoring Project
- AnZone International Coordination of Oceanographic Research within the Antarctic Zone
- APIS Antarctic Pack-Ice Seals programme
- ASPECT Antarctic Sea-Ice Processes, Ecosystems and Climate (GLOCHANT)
- ANTOSTRAT Antarctic Offshore Stratigraphy
- ATOC Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate
- AUV Automatic Underwater Vehicle
- AWI Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Germany)
- BAS British Antarctic Survey
- BIOMASS Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks
- BIOTAS Biological Investigations of Terrestrial Antarctic Systems
- CCAMLR Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (Antarctic Treaty System)
- CEMP CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme
- CG Coordinating Group (GLOCHANT)
- CG-1 Coordinating Group 1 on Data Management (GLOCHANT)
- CG-2 Coordinating Group 2 on Numerical Modelling (GLOCHANT)
- CLIVAR Climate Variability and Prediction Research (WCRP)
- CNRS National Centre for Scientific Research (France)
- COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programmes
- CS-EASIZ Coastal and Shelf Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone (GoSSOE)
- DIC Dissolved inorganic carbon
- DIS Data and Information System
- DOC Dissolved organic carbon
- ENSO El Niño - Southern Oscillation
- EPICA European Ice Coring in Antarctica
- FRISP Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf Programme
- FROST First Regional Observing Study of the Troposphere
- GAIM Global Analysis, Interpretation and Modelling (IGBP)
- GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
- GCOS Global Climate Observing System
- GCTE Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (IGBP)
- GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment
- GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics Research
- GLOCHANT Group of Specialists on Global Change and the Antarctic (SCAR)
- GLODAR Global Data Archive Rescue
- GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
- GoS Group of Specialists (SCAR)
- GoSSOE Group of Specialists on Southern Ocean Ecology (SCAR)
- GRIP Greenland Research Ice Core Project
- GSBRN Global Surface Baseline Radiation Network (GEWEX)
- GTS Global Telecommunication System
- IAG International Association for Geodesy
- IAMAP International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
- IAPSO International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean
- IASC International Arctic Science Committee
- ICAIR International Centre for Antarctic Information and Research (New Zealand)
- ICAP International Circum-polar Arctic Ice Drilling Project
- ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
- IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Programme (IGBP)
- IGBP-DIS IGBP - Data and Information System
- IGS International Glaciological Society
- IPAB International Programme for Antarctic Buoys
- IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (GEWEX)
- ISMASS Ice Sheet Mass balance
- ITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition
- IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
- JEISSO Joint Expeditions in the Indian Ocean Sector of the Southern Ocean
- JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (SCOR and IGBP)
- LOICZ Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (IGBP)
- MAST Marine Scientific Technology
- NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- NIPR National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
- NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
- PACA Working Group on Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere (SCAR)
- PAGES Past Global Environmental Changes Programme (IGBP)
- PASC Polar Air and Snow Chemistry Programme
- PASE Polar Air-Snow Experiment
- PIC Particulate inorganic carbon
- POC Particulate organic carbon
- PG Planning Group (GLOCHANT)
- PG-1 Planning Group 1 on Sea Ice (GLOCHANT)
- PG-2 Planning Group 2 on Global Palaeoenvironmental Records from the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Marine and Land Sediments (GLOCHANT)
- PG-3 Planning Group 3 on Antarctic Mass Balance and Sea Level (GLOCHANT)
- PG-4 Planning Group 4 on Trace Gases, Aerosol Particles, and UV Radiation in the Antarctic
- Atmosphere (GLOCHANT)
- PG-5 Planning Group 5 on Biogeochemical Cycles (GLOCHANT)
- RRC Regional Research Centre (START)
- RRN Regional Research Network (START)
- SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
- SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar
- SCALOP Standing Committee on Antarctic Logistic Operations
- SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
- SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU)
- SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
- SeaWIFS Sea Viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor
- SIEFS Sea Ice Ecology and Flux Study
- SO-GLOBEC Southern Ocean - GLOBEC
- SO-JGOFS Southern Ocean - JGOFS
- SPARC Stratospheric Processes and their Role in Climate (WCRP)
- START System for Analysis, Research and Training (IGBP)
- TOGA Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Experiment
- ULS Upward-Looking Sonar
- UV Ultraviolet Radiation
- WG Working Group
- WAIS West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative
- WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WCRP)
- WCRP World Climate Research Programme
- WMO World Meteorological Organization
- WWW World Wide Web
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