Greenland / United States / United Kingdom / India / South America / /
Event
FDA Phase / Environmental Issue / Natural Disaster / /
Facility
Imaging Spectro-Radiometer MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology MJO Madden / August JMA Japan Meteorological Agency JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory / March NH Northern Hemisphere ORC Oceanic Reservoir Correction NIWA National Institute of Water / GISTEMP Goddard Institute / Gridded Daily Temperatures Data Set HadISST INMCM4 Institute / Glacial Ocean Surface MRI Meteorological Research Institute / Radiation Interactions GISS Goddard Institute of Space Studies ERS European Remote Sensing / UV Ultraviolet SWCRE Shortwave Cloud Radiative Effect UVic University of Victoria SWE Snow Water Equivalent SWH Significant Wave Height VasClimO Variability Analyses / Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change MAM MLOST Merged Land / ESTOC European Station / I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager UCI University of California / HITRAN High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption JIMAR Joint Institute / /
Hamburg Ocean / Sensitivity COADS Comprehensive Ocean / Satellite HOT Hawaii Ocean / Sea Surface Temperature EDGAR Emission Database / /
OperatingSystem
Poseidon / /
Organization
Cambridge University / National Institute of Water / Institute of Technology MJO Madden / MIT / Centre for Sustainability / Earth System Model CPC Climate Prediction Center / CWC Cumulative Warming Commitment DCESS Danish Center for Earth System Science DIC Dissolved Inorganic Carbon DJF / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Center AeroCom Aerosol Model Intercomparison BCC-CSM Beijing Climate Center / Goddard Institute / Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling / Massachusetts Institute of Technology / University of California / Irvine / Relative Humidity SIO Scripps Institution / CNRM Centre National / Experiment SON September / October and November RICH Radiosonde Innovation Composite Homogenization AIV SBA RMIB Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium RMS Root Mean Square RMSE Root Mean Square Error RO Radio Occultation RSCA Relative Snow-Covered Area RSL Relative Sea Level RSS Remote Sensing System RX5day/RX1day Annual Maximum / Huntsville SSI Spectral Solar Irradiance UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager UCI University / United Nations / Atmospheric General Circulation Model BOM Bureau / DOE Department of Energy / Radiation Interactions GISS Goddard Institute / Aircraft and Satellites CCSR Centre for Climate System / NCAR National Center / Ocean Heat Content STAR Center for Satellite Applications / University of Alabama / Hadley Centre / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations / Irvine SSR Surface Solar Radiation UHI Urban Heat Island SSS Sea Surface Salinity UNADW Upper North Atlantic Deep Water SST Sea Surface Temperature UNEP United Nations Environment Programme SSU Stratospheric Sounding Unit / HITRAN High-Resolution Transmission Molecular Absorption JIMAR Joint Institute for Marine / Atmospheric Research JJA June / July and August JMA Japan Meteorological Agency JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory / UV Ultraviolet SWCRE Shortwave Cloud Radiative Effect UVic University of Victoria SWE Snow Water Equivalent SWH Significant Wave Height VasClimO Variability Analyses of Surface Climate Observations SWR Solar Shortwave Radiation VEGAS Terrestrial Vegetation / Meteorological Research Institute of Japan Meteorological Agency MSL Mean Sea Level MAT Marine Air Temperatures MSSS Mean Square Skill Score MBT Mechanical Bathythermograph MSU Microwave Sounding Unit MCA Medieval Climate Anomaly Mt Megatonnes MDA Mineral Dust Aerosol MT Mid-Tropospheric MDT Mean Dynamic Topography MTCO Mean Temperature of the Coldest Month MEA Millennium Ecosystem Assessment MTWA Mean Temperature / European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts CO32 / /
Person
Hadley Centre Gridded / Palmer Drought / HOPE-G CMDL / Ecosystem Simulator / Pierre Simon Laplace / Clio-Agism Model / Hadley Centre Climatic / Nadir Overpass / Y. Xia / V / Hadley Centre Interpolated / Multi-Model Ensemble / Nutrient Cycling (Model) / /
Position
Antarctic Intermediate Water ARTIST / Productivity GCM General / General / Model for Energy / Model / Model for Interdisciplinary Research / Representative / Reforecast CGCM Coupled General / / /
Product
CMIP5 / PMIP3 / /
ProvinceOrState
Alabama / California / /
RadioStation
WCRP / /
Region
East Asia / North Greenland / /
Technology
SOA / Radiation / Remote Sensing / S/N / GPS / Remote Sensing System / Fluid Dynamics / Microwave / ESA / 2 RAOBCORE Radiosone Observation Correction using Reanalyses SSM/I Bootstrap Algorithm / Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MRI / PDF / Along Track Scanning Radiometer ATSR Along Track Scanning Radiometer ABA AMSR Bootstrap Algorithm / Condensation / Spectroscopy / Simulation / /
AIV Annex IV: Acronyms This annex should be cited as: IPCC, 2013: Annex IV: Acronyms. In: Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group