ACRONYMS

AGCI Aspen Global Change Institute
ARM Atmospheric Radiation Measurement
AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
BATS Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme
BESIS Bering Sea Impacts Study
CCM Community Climate Model
CENR Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
DOE Department of Energy
DOI Department of Interior
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
ENSO El Niño/Southern Oscillation
ET Evapotranspiration
FAST Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Administration
FERC Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FFES Fossil Free Energy Scenario
FIFE First ISLCP Field Experiment
GCM General Circulation Model
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GHG Greenhouse Gas
GIS Geographic Information System
GCLP Global Change in Local Places
GLOBE Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
IBIS Integrated Biosphere Simulator
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
ISLCP International Satellite Land-surface Climatology Project
LAI Leaf Area Index
LAID Land-Atmosphere Interactions Dynamics
LES Large-Eddy Simulations
LESS Low-Emissions Supply System
LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging Instrument
LSP Land Surface Processes
LSX Land Surface Exchange
LWC Liquid Water Content
NACO National Assessment Coordination Office
NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NALT National Assessment Leadership Team
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAST National Assessment Synthesis Team
NAWG National Assessment Working Group
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NGO Non-governmental Organization
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPP Net Primary Productivity
NSF National Science Foundation
NSTC National Science and Technology Council
NWP Numerical Weather Prediction
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
PAR Photosynthetically Active Radiation
PFT Plant Functional Type
PILPS Project for Intercomparison of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes
PLAID Patchy Land-Atmosphere Interactions Dynamics
RAMS Regional Atmospheric Modeling System
SCM Single Column Model
SGCR Subcommittee on Global Change Research
SiB Simple Biosphere Model
SVATS Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer Schemes
TOGA-COARE Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Combined Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment
TNC Total Non-Structural Carbon
TREGRO Tree Growth Model
USDA U. S. Department of Agriculture
USGCRP United States Global Change Research Program
VEMAP Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project
WG Working Group (of IPCC)
WGNE Working Group on Numerical Experimentation

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