Global Warming – Deep Insights
AAAS American Academy of Arts and Sciences
AAS American Astronomical Society
AASC American Association of State Climatologists
AC Arctic Council
ACIA Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
AGU American Geophysical Union
AMB Australian Meteorological Bureau
AMS American Meteorological Society
AR4 IPCC Working Group 1 report: The Physical Basis of Climate Change
BAMS Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
BOM-A Bureau of Meteorology, aka Australian Meteorological Bureau
CA Climate Audit website operated by Steve McIntyre
CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center (Oak Ridge, TN)
CCSP Climate Change Science Program
CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
CIRES Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
CLOUD Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets
CPC Climate Prediction Center
CRU Climate Research Unit
ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites
GAW Global Atmosphere Watch
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GECC UK Global Environmental Change Committee
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
GFSC Goddard Space Flight Center not to be confused with GISS
GHCC Global Hydrology & Climate Center
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
GOS Global Observing System
GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing System
IASC International Arctic Science Committee
ICECAP International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project
ICSU International Council for Science
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
MBL Marine Biological Laboratory (aka Woods Hole)
METHC Met Office Hadley Centre
NAMMA NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCDC National Climatic Data Center
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NHC National Hurricane Center
NSF National Science Foundation
NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center
NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
NRC National Research Council
NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service
NWS National Weather Service
RC Real Climate website, operated by NASA GISS
RMetS Royal Meteorological Society
RSS Remote Sensing Systems – satellite data company
SAR Second Assessment Report IPCC 1995
SPPI Science and Public Policy Institute
TAR Third Assessment Report IPCC 2001
TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
UAH University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science Department
UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
USGCRP US Global Change Research Program
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UW University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences
WGMS World Glacier Monitoring Service
WMO World Meteorological Organisation












