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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