{"id":2087,"date":"2009-11-27T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T02:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?page_id=2087"},"modified":"2017-04-11T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:21:08","slug":"acronym-index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/acronym-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Acronym index"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"2087\">\n<p>Due to popular demand (and thanks to Steve Fish), here is a list of commonly used acronyms on this site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ACC= Anthropogenic Climate Change<\/li>\n<li>AGU= American Geophysical Union<\/li>\n<li>AGW= Anthropogenic Global Warming or (less often) Atmospheric Gravity Waves<\/li>\n<li>AMO=Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation<\/li>\n<li>AMS= American Meteorological Society<\/li>\n<li>AO= Arctic oscillation (very similar to NAO)<\/li>\n<li>AOGCM= Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model<\/li>\n<li>APS= American Physical Society<\/li>\n<li>AR4= Fourth Assessment Report (IPCC)<\/li>\n<li>AR5= Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC) (due 2013)<\/li>\n<li>Argo float= Ocean temperature measuring device<\/li>\n<li>AVE= Atmospheric Vortex Engine<\/li>\n<li>BAU= Business As Usual<\/li>\n<li>BEST= Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project<\/li>\n<li>CCD= Carbonate Compensation Depth = depth at which carbonates dissolve in the ocean<\/li>\n<li>CCN= Cloud Condensation Nuclei<\/li>\n<li>CCS= Carbon Capture Storage<\/li>\n<li>CET= Central England Temperature<\/li>\n<li>CFR= Climate Field Reconstruction<\/li>\n<li>CME= Coronal Mass Ejections<\/li>\n<li>CRF= Cosmic Ray Flux<\/li>\n<li>CTD= Conductivity\/Temperature\/Depth. Probe for measuring ocean conditions<\/li>\n<li>CWC= Cloud (liquid) Water Content<\/li>\n<li>DTR= Diurnal Temperature Range<\/li>\n<li>ECS= Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (Charney sensitivity)<\/li>\n<li>EMR= Electromagnetic Radiation<\/li>\n<li>ENSO= El Ni\u00f1o-Southern Oscillation<\/li>\n<li>EROI= Energy Return on Investment<\/li>\n<li>ESS= Earth System Sensitivity = Whole system response to radiative forcing<\/li>\n<li>FOI= Freedom of Information Act<\/li>\n<li>GCM= Global Circulation\/Climate Model (AOGCM)<\/li>\n<li>GCR= Galactic Cosmic Rays<\/li>\n<li>GFD= Geophysical Fluid Dynamics<\/li>\n<li>GFDL= Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (NOAA)<\/li>\n<li>GHE= Greenhouse Effect<\/li>\n<li>GHG= Greenhouse Gas<\/li>\n<li>GIS= Greenland Ice Sheet<\/li>\n<li>GISS= Goddard Institute for Space Studies (part of NASA)<\/li>\n<li>GISTEMP= <a href=\"http:\/\/data.giss.nasa.gov\/gistemp\">GISS Surface Temperature Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GMST= Global Mean Surface Temperature (anomaly)<\/li>\n<li>GRL= Geophysical Research Letters (an AGU journal)<\/li>\n<li>GWP= Global Warming Potential<\/li>\n<li>HEV= Hybrid Electric Vehicle<\/li>\n<li>ICE= Internal Combustion Engine<\/li>\n<li>IERS= International Earth Rotation &#038; Reference Systems Service<\/li>\n<li>IJOC= International Journal of Climatology<\/li>\n<li>IOC= Intergovernmental Oceanographic commission<\/li>\n<li>IPCC= Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/li>\n<li>ISO= Intra-Seasonal Oscillation (synonymous with MJO)<\/li>\n<li>ISW= Ice Shelf Water<\/li>\n<li>ITCZ= Intertropical Convergence Zone<\/li>\n<li>JGR= Journal of Geophysical Research (an AGU journal)<\/li>\n<li>LGM= Last Glacial Maximum (about 20,000 years ago)<\/li>\n<li>LIA= Little Ice Age<\/li>\n<li>LTE= Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium<\/li>\n<li>LW= Longwave (infra-red radiation)<\/li>\n<li>MCA= Medieval Climate Anomaly<\/li>\n<li>MDR= Main Development Region (for Atlantic hurricanes)<\/li>\n<li>MJO= Madden-Julian Oscillation (or Intra-Seasonal Oscillation)<\/li>\n<li>MOC= Meridional Overturning Circulation (ocean)<\/li>\n<li>MWP= Medieval Warm Period (MCA is probably more apt)<\/li>\n<li>NAO= North Atlantic Oscillation<\/li>\n<li>NH= Northern Hemisphere<\/li>\n<li>OHC= Oceanic Heat Content<\/li>\n<li>OLR= (also OLW) Outgoing Longwave Radiation<\/li>\n<li>PCA= Principal Component Analysis <\/li>\n<li>PDF= Probability Density Function<\/li>\n<li>PDO= Pacific Decadal Oscillation<\/li>\n<li>PETM= Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum<\/li>\n<li>PHEV= Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle<\/li>\n<li>PNAS=Proceeding of the National Academies of Science (a journal)<\/li>\n<li>RCS= Regional Curve Standardization (method for processing tree ring data from different trees)<\/li>\n<li>RH= Relative Humidity<\/li>\n<li>RMS= Royal Meteorological Society (or Root Mean Square) <\/li>\n<li>SAM= Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode (positive= wind belt around Antarctic stronger= colder)<\/li>\n<li>SAR= Second Assessment Report (IPCC)<\/li>\n<li>SLR= Sea level rise<\/li>\n<li>SOI= Southern Oscillation Index (see ENSO)<\/li>\n<li>SPE= Solar Proton Event<\/li>\n<li>SPM= Summary for Policy Makers (usually with respect to IPCC reports)<\/li>\n<li>SRM= Solar Radiation Management<\/li>\n<li>SSM= Standard Solar Model<\/li>\n<li>SST= Sea Surface Temperature<\/li>\n<li>STP= Standard Temperature and Pressure (a reference for physical properties)<\/li>\n<li>SW= Shortwave (solar) radiation <\/li>\n<li>TAR= Third Assessment Report (of the IPCC)<\/li>\n<li>TC= Tropical Cyclone (any hurricane)<\/li>\n<li>TCR= Transient Climate Response<\/li>\n<li>THC= Thermohaline Circulation (that driven by temp and salinity effects)<\/li>\n<li>TOA= Top-of-the-atmosphere<\/li>\n<li>TSI= Total Solar Irradiance<\/li>\n<li>WAIS= West Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/li>\n<li>WMO= World Meteorological Organization<\/li>\n<li>XBT= eXpendable Bathy-Thermograph (deep ocean temperature measuring devices)<\/li>\n<ul>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 2087 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to popular demand (and thanks to Steve Fish), here is a list of commonly used acronyms on this site: ACC= Anthropogenic Climate Change AGU= American Geophysical Union AGW= Anthropogenic Global Warming or (less often) Atmospheric Gravity Waves AMO=Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation AMS= American Meteorological Society AO= Arctic oscillation (very similar to NAO) AOGCM= Atmosphere-Ocean General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2087","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2087"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20367,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2087\/revisions\/20367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}