AMIP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project
 
 

ARPEGE Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle: Research Project on Small and Large Scales
 
 

BMRC Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre
 
 

CAC Climate Analysis Center
 
 

CCC Canadian Centre for Climate Research
 
 

CCCMA Canadian Centre for Climate Research Modeling and Analysis
 
 

CCM Community Climate Model
 
 

CCSR Center for Climate System Research
 
 

CFC Chlorofluorocarbon
 
 

CFL Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy
 
 

CLIMAP Climate, Long-Range Investigation, Mapping and Prediction
 
 

CLW Cloud Liquid Water
 
 

CNRM Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
 
 

COLA Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
 
 

CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
 
 

CWP Cloud Water Path
 
 

DERF Dynamical Extended-Range Forecasting
 
 

DKRZ Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum
 
 

DOM Discrete Ordinate Method
 
 

DSM Direction des Sciences de la Matière
 
 

ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
 
 

ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
 
 

FGGE First GARP Global Experiment
 
 

GCM Global Climate Model
 
 

GENESIS Global ENvironmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems
 
 

GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
 
 

GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
 
 

ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions
 
 

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
 
 

ISBA Interactions Between Soil-Biosphere-Atmosphere
 
 

LAI Leaf Area Index
 
 

LGM Last Glacial Maximum
 
 

LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 
 

LMCE Laboratoire de Modélisation du Climat et de l´Environnement
 
 

LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
 
 

LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l´Environnement
 
 

LSM Land Surface Model
 
 

LSX Land Surface Transfert Scheme
 
 

LWC Liquid Water Content
 
 

LWP Liquid Water Path
 
 

MLAM MultiLevel Atmospheric Model
 
 

MPI Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie
 
 

MRI Meteorological Research Institute
 
 

MSU Moscow State University
 
 

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
 
 

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
 
 

NGDC National Geophysical Data Center
 
 

NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies
 
 

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 
 

OSU Oregon State University
 
 

PAR Photosynthetically Active Radiation
 
 

PBL Planetary Boundary Layer
 
 

PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison
 
 

PILPS Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes
 
 

PMIP Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project
 
 

RAS Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert
 
 

SAI Stem Area Index
 
 

SECHIBA Schématisation des Echanges Hydriques à l' Interface entre la Biosphère et l'Atmosphère
 
 

SiB Simple Biosphere model
 
 

SLT Semi-Lagrangian Transport
 
 

SST Sea Surface Temperature
 
 

SUNYA State University of New York at Albany
 
 

SVAT Soil Vegetation Atmosphere Transfert
 
 

TKE Turbulence Kinetic Energy
 
 

TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
 
 

TVD Total Variation Diminishing
 
 

UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
 
 

UGAMP The UK Universities' Global Atmospheric Modelling Programme
 
 

UIUC University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
 

UKMO United Kingdom Meteorological Officen
 
 

URL Uniform Resource Locator
 
 

WCRP World Climate Research Programme
 
 

WGNE Working Group on Numerical Experimentation
 
 

WMO World Meteorological Organizationn
 
 

WWW World Wide Web
 
 

YONU Yonsei University