Date: 2024-07-17 Page is: DBtxt003.php L0700-CL-climate-related-acronyms
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
This listing of acronyms gives some idea of how many elements there are within the field of climate science.
It would be interesting to grade powerful people within the modern socio-enviro-economic (and political) system on their knowedge of the science of climate change.
I got a very good education during my childhood and early adulthood with one of the important lessons learning being that there is always a lot more to learn. Sadly, many people never get to appreciate how much there is to learn over and beynd what they think they know.
Worse, in modern times, the manipulation of knowledge flows by people with power and influence has become the norm rather than the exception, and little has been done to hold to account the people and organizations that knowingly spread misinformation.
Peter Burgess
- AGCM Atmospheric General Circulation Model
- AIS Antarctic Ice Sheet
- AMO Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
- AMOC Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
- AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
- AO Arctic Oscillation
- AOD aerosol optical depth
- AR atmospheric river
- AW Atlantic Water
- BAMS Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
- BC black carbon
- BCE Before Common Era
- CAM5 Community Atmospheric Model, Version 5
- CAPE convective available potential energy
- CCN cloud condensation nuclei
- CCSM3 Community Climate System Model, Version 3
- CDR carbon dioxide removal
- CE Common Era
- CENRS Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Sustainability (National Science and Technology Council, White House)
- CESM-LE Community Earth System Model Large Ensemble Project
- CFCs chlorofluorocarbons
- CI climate intervention
- CMIP5 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Fifth Phase (also CMIP3 and CMIP6)
- CONUS contiguous United States
- CP Central Pacific
- CSSR Climate Science Special Report
- DIC dissolved inorganic carbon
- DJF December-January-February
- DoD SERDP SERDP U.S. Department of Defense, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
- DOE U.S. Department of Energy
- EAIS East Antarctic Ice Sheet
- ECS equilibrium climate sensitivity
- ENSO El Niño-Southern Oscillation
- EOF analysis empirical orthogonal function analysis
- EP Eastern Pacific
- ERF effective radiative forcing
- ESD empirical statistical downscaling
- ESDM empirical statistical downscaling model
- ESM Earth System Model
- ESS Earth system sensitivity
- ETC extratropical cyclone
- ETCCDI Expert Team on Climate Change Detection Indices
- GBI Greenland Blocking Index
- GCIS Global Change Information System
- GCM global climate model
- GeoMIP Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project
- GFDL HiRAM Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, global HIgh Resolution Atmospheric Model (NOAA)
- GHCN Global Historical Climatology Network (National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA)
- GHG greenhouse gas
- GMSL global mean sea level
- GMT global mean temperature
- GPS global positioning system
- GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
- GrIS Greenland Ice Sheet
- GWP global warming potential
- HadCM3 Hadley Centre Coupled Model, Version 3
- HadCRUT4 Hadley Centre Climatic Research Unit Gridded Surface Temperature Dataset 4
- HCFCs hydrochlorofluorocarbons
- HFCs hydrofluorocarbons
- HOT Hawai‘i Ocean Time-series
- HOT-DOGS Hawai‘i Ocean Time-series Data Organization & Graphical System
- HURDAT2 revised Atlantic Hurricane Database (National Hurricane Center, NOAA)
- IAM integrated assessment model
- IAV impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability
- INMCM Institute for Numerical Mathematics Climate Model
- IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IPCC AR5 Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC; also SPM – Summary for Policymakers, and WG1, WG2, WG3 – Working Groups 1-3
- IPO Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
- IVT integrated vapor transport
- JGOFS U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study
- JJA June-July-August
- JTWC Joint Typhoon Warning Center
- LCC land-cover changes
- LULCC land-use and land-cover change
- MAM March-April-May
- MSU Microwave Sounding Unit
- NAM Northern Annular Mode
- NAO North Atlantic Oscillation
- NARCCAP North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (World Meteorological Organization)
- NAS National Academy of Sciences
- NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NCA National Climate Assessment
- NCA3 Third National Climate Assessment
- NCA4 Fourth National Climate Assessment
- NCEI National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA)
- NDC nationally determined contribution
- NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NPI North Pacific Index
- NPO North Pacific oscillation
- NPP net primary production
- OMZs oxygen minimum zones
- OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy (White House)
- PCA principle component analysis
- PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation
- PDSI Palmer Drought Severity Index
- PETM Paleo-Eocene Thermal Maximum
- PFCs perfluorocarbons
- PGW pseudo-global warming
- PNA Pacific North American Pattern
- RCM regional climate models
- RCP Representative Concentration Pathway
- RF radiative forcing
- RFaci aerosol–cloud interaction (effect on RF)
- RFari aerosol–radiation interaction (effect on RF)
- RMSE root mean square error
- RSL relative sea level
- RSS remote sensing systems
- S06 surface-to-6 km layer
- SCE snow cover extent
- SGCR Subcommittee on Global Change Research (National Science and Technology Council, White House)
- SLCF short-lived climate forcer
- SLCP short-lived climate pollutant
- SLR sea level rise
- SOC soil organic carbon
- SRES IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
- SREX IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
- SRM solar radiation management
- SSC Science Steering Committee
- SSI solar spectral irradiance
- SSP Shared Socioeconomic Pathway
- SST sea surface temperature
- STAR Center for Satellite Applications and Research (NOAA)
- SWCRE shortwave cloud radiative effect (on radiative fluxes)
- LWCRE longwave cloud radiative effect (on radiative fluxes)
- TA total alkalinity
- TC tropical cyclone
- TCR transient climate response
- TCRE transient climate response to cumulative carbon emissions
- TOPEX/JASON1,2 Topography Experiment/Joint Altimetry Satellite Oceanography Network satellites (NASA)
- TSI total solar irradiance
- TTT temperature total troposphere
- UAH University of Alabama, Huntsville
- UHI urban heat island (effect)
- UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- USGCRP U.S. Global Change Research Program
- USGS U.S. Geological Survey
- UV ultraviolet
- VOCs volatile organic compounds
- WAIS West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- WCRP World Climate Research Programme
- WMGHG well-mixed greenhouse gas
- WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment (JGOFS)
- Abbreviations and Units
- C carbon
- CO carbon monoxide
- CH4 methane
- cm centimeters
- CO2 carbon dioxide
- °C degrees Celsius
- °F degrees Fahrenheit
- GtC gigatonnes of carbon
- hPA hectopascal
- H2S hydrogen sulfide
- H2SO4 sulfuric acid
- km kilometers
- m meters
- mm millimeters
- Mt megaton
- μatm microatmosphere
- N nitrogen
- N2O nitrous oxide
- NOx nitrogen oxides
- O2 molecular oxygen
- O3 ozone
- OH hydroxyl radical
- PgC petagrams of carbon
- ppb parts per billion
- ppm parts per million
- SF6 sulfur hexafluoride
- SO2 sulfur dioxide
- TgC teragrams of carbon
- W/m2 Watts per meter squared