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Report on the Workshop on ‘Recent High Latitude Climate Change’, Fairbanks, Alaska, 6-8 December 2004

Annex 2

Acronyms

ACC Antarctic Cicumpolar Current
AO Arctic Oscillation
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
AWS Automated Weather Station
CAPS Circumpolar Arctic Permafrost System
CCM Community Climate Model
CDC NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
CDR Climate Data Records
CDW Circum-polar Deep Water
CliC Climate and Cryosphere programme (of WCRP and SCAR)
COPES Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth System
DA Dipole Anomaly
EDR environmental data record
EM Electromagentic
ENSO El Nino-Southern Oscillation
EOF Empirical Orthogonal Function
EOS Earth Observing Satellite
GCM Global Climate Model
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEOS Goddard Earth Observing System
GLIMS Global Land Ice Measurements from Space
GNEA  
IARC International Arctic Research Council
IGOS Integrated Global Observing Strategy
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change
IPY International Polar Year
ITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NAO North Atlantic Oscillation
NASA National Aeronautic and Space Administration
NC National Centres
NCEP National Centres for Environmental Prediction (USA)
NH Northern Hemisphere
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA)
NPI Norse Polar Institute
NPOESS National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System (USA)
NRC National Research Council (USA)
NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Centre (USA)
PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation
SAM Southern hemisphere Annular Mode
SAO Semi Annual Oscillation (around Antarctica)
SAT surface air temperature
SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
SCICEX Scientific Ice Expeditions (by US submarine under Arctic ice)
SH Southern Hemisphere
SIMBA Sea Ice Mass Budget of the Arctic
SOI Southern Oscillation index
SOM Self-Organising Maps
SLP sea level pressure
SST Sea Surface Temperature
UAF University of Alaska, Fairbanks
ULS upward looking sonar
WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment
WRCP World Climate Research Programme