Appendix IV: Acronyms
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group II: Appendix 4
February 3, 2011, 12:00 am
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Acronyms
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- [CO2] Concentration of carbon dioxide
A
- AAO - Antarctic Oscillation
- ABM - Agent-based models
- AC - Air-conditioning
- ACIA - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
- AEJ - African Easterly Jet
- AEZ - Agro-ecological zone
- AGCM - Atmospheric General Circulation Model
- AGO - Australian Greenhouse Office
- AIACC - Assessments of Impacts andAdaptations to Climate Change in Multiple Regions and Sectors
- AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- AO - Arctic Oscillation
- AOGCM - Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models
- APF - Adaptation Policy Framework
- AR4 - Fourth Assessment Report
- Aus - Australia
- AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
B
- BAU - Business-as-usual scenario
- BSATs - Brazilian semi-arid tropics
C
- CAA - Canadian Arctic archipelago
- CAPRADE - ComitéAndino para la Prevención y Atención de Desastres (Andean Committee for Disaster Prevention andAssistance)
- CBA - Cost-benefit analysis
- CBD - Convention on Biological Diversity
- CC - Climate change
- CCAMLR - Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
- CCD - (United Nations) Convention to Combat Desertification
- CCIAV - Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
- CCN - Cloud condensation nuclei
- CDF - Conditional damage function
- CDM - Clean Development Mechanism
- CEE - Central and Eastern Europe
- CFP - Common Fisheries Policy
- CGE - Computable general equilibrium (model)
- CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network
- CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
- CMAQ - Community multiscale air quality (model)
- COP - Conference of the Parties (to the UNFCCC)
- CPPS - Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur (Permanent Commission of the South Pacific)
- CRID - Centro Regional de Información sobre Desastres (Regional Disaster Information Centre – LatinAmerica and the Caribbean)
- CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
D
- DAC - Development Assistance Committee
- DAI - Dangerous anthropogenic interference
- DALY - Disability adjusted life year
- DDC - Data Distribution Centre (of the IPCC)
- Defra - Department for Environment, Food and RuralAffairs (of the UK Government)
- DGVM - Dynamic global vegetation model
- DIC - Dissolved inorganic carbon
- DJF - December, January, February
- DMS - Dimethyl sulphide
- DOC - Dissolved organic carbon
- DPSIR - Drivers-pressures-state-impacts-response
- DWC - Dialogue onWater and Climate
E
- ECCP - European Climate Change Programme
- ECLAC - Economic Commission for LatinAmerica and the Caribbean
- EF - Ecological footprint
- EIA - Environmental Impact Assessment
- EMIC - Earth-system model of intermediate complexity
- ENSO - El Niño-Southern Oscillation
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
- EPOC - Environment Policy Committee
- EPPA - Anthropogenic emission prediction and policy analysis
- EPPA-HHL - The EPPA high-emissions scenario
- EPPA-LLH - The EPPA low-emissions scenario
- ET - Evapotranspiration
- EU - European Union
- EU15 - The 15 countries in the European Union before the expansion on 1 May 2004
- EU25 - The 25 countries in the European Union after the expansion on 1 May 2004, but prior to 1 January 2007
- EWS - Early-warning systems
F
- FACE - Free-air carbon dioxide enrichment
- FAO - Food andAgriculture Organization
- FFF - Food, fibre and forestry
- FFFF - Food, fibre, forestry and fishery
G
- GBR - Great Barrier Reef
- GCM - General Circulation Model
- GDP - Gross domestic product
- GEF - Global Environment Facility
- GEOSS - Global Earth Observation System of Systems
- GHG - Greenhouse gas(es)
- GIMMS - Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies
- GIS - Geographic information system
- GISS - Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- GLOF - Glacial lake outburst flood
- GMAT - Global mean annual temperature
- GMT - Global mean temperature
- GNP - Gross national product
- GPP - Gross primary production
- GPS - Global Positioning System
- GWP - GlobalWater Partnership
H
- HABs - Harmful algal blooms
- HANPP - Human appropriation of net primary productivity
- HIV - Human immunodeficiency virus
- HPS - Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
- HYV - High-yield varieties
I
- IAM - Integrated assessment model
- IAS - Invasive alien species
- ICLIPS - IntegratedAssessment of Climate Protection Strategies
- ICM - Integrated coastal management
- ICZM - Integrated coastal zone management
- IFRCRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- IGBP - International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
- IHDP - International Human Dimensions Programme
- IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- INAP - Integrated National Pilot Adaptation Plan
- IOCARIBE-GOOS - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Regional Sub-Commission for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions Global Ocean Observing System
- IOD - Indian Ocean Dipole
- IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IPO -- Inter-decadal Pacific Oscillation
- IRRI - International Rice Research Institute
- ITCZ - Intertropical Convergence Zone
- ITTO - International Tropical Timber Organization
- IUCN - International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union)
J
- JFM - January, February, March
- JJA - June, July,August
L
- LA - Latin America
- LAI - Leaf-area index
- LBA - Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (experiment)
- LDC - Less/Least Developed Countries
- LGA - Local government authority (Chapter 11)
- LGM - Last Glacial Maximum
- LGP - Length of growing period
- LIA - Little IceAge
- LPJ - Lund-Potsdam-Jena (model)
- LULUCF - Land use, land-use change and forestry
M
- M&E - Monitoring and evaluation
- MA - Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- MACC - Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean
- MAMJ - March, April, May, June
- MARA/ARMA - Mapping Malaria Risk inAfrica/Atlas du Risque de la Malaria enAfrique
- MASL - Metres above sea level
- MDB - Murray-Darling Basin
- MDGs - Millennium Development Goals
- MEA - Multilateral environmental agreement
- MER - Market exchange rates
- MJO - Madden-Julian Oscillation
- MOC - Meridional overturning circulation
- MTE - Mediterranean-type ecosystems
N
- NAH - North Atlantic Sub-tropical High
- NAO - North Atlantic Oscillation
- NAPA - National Adaptation Programme of Action
- NBP - Net biome productivity
- NC - National Communication
- NCAR PCM - National Center for Atmospheric Research Parallel Climate Model
- NDVI - Normalised Difference Vegetation Index
- NEP - Net ecosystem productivity
- NEPAD - New Partnership for Africa’s Development
- NGO - Non-governmental organisation
- NHT - Northern Hemisphere temperature
- NPP - Net primary productivity
- NSW - New South Wales
- NT - Northern Territory
- NTFP - Non-timber forest products
- NWMP - National Water Management Plan
- NZ - New Zealand
O
- ODA - Official Development Assistance
- OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OND - October, November, December
P
- PAHO - Pan-American Health Organization
- PAL - Pathfinder AVHRR Land
- PDF - Probability density function
- PDI - Power dissipation index
- PDO - Pacific Decadal Oscillation
- PDSI - Palmer Drought Severity Index
- P-E - Precipitation-evaporation
- PEAC - Pacific ENSO Applications Center
- PFT - Plant functional types
- PIA - Participatory integrated assessment
- PI-GCOS - Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System
- P-IND - Pre-industrial
- PM - Particulate matter
- ppb - Parts per billion
- ppm - Parts per million
- PPP - Purchasing power parity
- PRA - Participatory rural appraisal
Q
- Qld - Queensland
R
- RCM - Regional Climate Model
- RRA - Rapid rural appraisal
- RSLR - Relative sea-level rise
S
- SACZ - South Atlantic Convergence Zone
- SAP - Structural adjustment programme
- SAS - Storyline and simulation
- SBW - Spruce bud worm
- SCAPE - Soft Cliff and Platform Erosion (model)
- SD - Statistical downscaling
- SDSM - Statistical downscaling model
- SEAFRAME - Sea-level fine resolution acoustic measuring equipment
- SIDS - Small Island Developing States
- SLR - Sea-level rise
- SM - Supplementary material
- SoCAB - South CoastAir Basin (California)
- SON - September, October, November
- SPCZ - South Pacific Convergence Zone
- SRES - Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
- SST - Sea surface temperature
- SWE - Snow water equivalent
T
- TAR - Third Assessment Report (of the IPCC)
- TBE - Tick-borne encephalitis
- TEJ - Tropical Easterly Jet
- TEK - Traditional ecological knowledge
- TGICA - Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and ClimateAnalysis
- THC - Thermohaline circulation
- TOGA - Tropical Ocean-GlobalAtmosphere
- TOPEX - Ocean Topography Experiment
- TWA - Tolerable windows approach
U
- UHI - Urban heat-island
- UK - United Kingdom
- UKCIP - United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme
- UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
- UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- US - United States (ofAmerica)
- USEPA - United States Environmental Protection Agency
- UVR - Ultraviolet radiation
V
- VBD - Vector-borne disease
- VOC - Volatile organic compound
W
- WA - Western Australia
- WAIS - West Antarctic ice sheet
- WAMU - West African Monetary Union
- WBD - Water-borne disease
- WCRP - World Climate Research Programme
- WE - Western Europe
- WG - Working Group (of the IPCC)
- WHO - World Health Organization
- WMO - World Meteorological Organization
- WNV - West Nile virus
- WTO - World Trade Organization
- WWW - World Weather Watch
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