Glossary of acronyms
AAC Atmospheric Action Centres
ACSYS Arctic Climate System Study
AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme
BCC Basal Cell Carcinoma
BRE Building Research Establishment (Watford, UK)
CERN Chinese Ecological Research Network
CSM Climate System Monitoring (Project)
ECN Environmental Change Network (UK)
ENSO El Nino/Soudiern Oscillation
FAO Food and Agriculmre Organisation
FOE Friends of the Earth
GCM General Circulation Model
GCOS Global Climate Observing System
GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System
GHG Greenhouse Gas(es)
GIS Global Information System
GISS Goddard Institute of Space Studies
GOOS Global Ocean Observing System
IBP International Biological Programme
ICSU • International Council of Scientific Unions
IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
IGOSS Integrated Global Ocean Services System
IHP International Hydrological Program
nAASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
ILO International Labour Office
INC Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee
IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
IOC International Ozone Commission
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
LICC Landscape-ecological Impact of Climate Change
MAB Man and the Bioshphere .
MINK Missouri-Iowa-Nebraska-Kansas
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
SAT Surface Air Temperature
see Squamous Cell Carcinoma
TEMA Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment
UNCED United Nations
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
USDOE . United States Department of the Environment
US EPA United States Environmental Protection Authority
US NSF United States
WCDP World Climate Date Programme
WCI World Coal Institute
WCRP World Climate Research Programme
WMO World Meteorological Organization