AATSR |
Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
ABRACOS |
Climate Datasets from Seven Observation Sites in
Brazil |
ACCP |
Accelerated Canopy Chemistry Program |
AERONET |
Aerosol Robotic NETwork database |
AFC |
Available Field Capacity |
ARM |
Atmospheric Radiation Monitoring |
ARNEWS |
Acid Rain National Early Warning System |
ARS |
Agricultural Research Service |
ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
ASSOD |
Assessment of the Status of human-induced Soil Degradation in
South and Southeast Asia |
ATBD |
Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document |
ATSR |
Along Track Scanning Radiometer |
AVHRR |
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer |
BASIN |
Biosphere Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network Database |
BEPS |
Boreal Ecosystem Productivity Simulator |
BLM |
Bureau of Land Management |
BNPP |
Below-ground Net Primary Productivity |
BOREAS |
Boreal Ecosystem - Atmosphere Study |
BRDF |
Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function |
BSRN |
Baseline Surface Radiation Network |
C |
Carbon |
CANIF |
CArbon and NItrogen cycling in Fores ecosystems |
CARBOEUROPE |
A cluster of projects to understand and quantify the carbon
balance of Europe |
CAS |
Chinese Academy of Sciences |
CCSR |
Centre for Climate System Research |
CDIAC |
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center |
CEH |
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology |
CEOS |
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
CESBIO |
Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere |
CFS |
Canadian Forest Service |
CGCMI |
Coupled General Circulation Model I |
CGIAR |
Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research |
CGPM |
Conférence Générale of the Comité
International des Poids et Mesures. |
CH4 |
Methane |
CIAT |
International Center for Tropical Agriculture |
CIFOR |
Center for International Forestry Research |
CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
CNES |
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales |
CO |
Carbon monoxide |
CO2 |
Carbon dioxide |
COBRA |
CO2 Budget and Rectification Airborne
study |
CONUS-SOIL |
Multi-layer Soil Characteristics |
COP |
Conference of Parties |
COST E2l |
Contribution of forests and forestry to mitigate greenhouse
effects |
CSIR |
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research |
CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation |
CSIRO-MK2 |
CSIRO Atmospheric Research Mark 2 climate model |
DAAC |
Distributed Active Archive Centre |
DANI |
Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland |
DARD |
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (Northern
Ireland) |
DBH |
Diameter at Breast Height |
DDC |
Data Distribution Centre |
DEM |
Digital Elevation Model |
DETR |
Department of Environment Transport and the Regions (United
Kingdom) |
DGVM |
Dynamic Global Vegetation Model |
DIC |
Dissolved Inorganic Carbon |
DISS |
Data and Information Systems and Services |
DMSP |
Defence Meteorological Satellite Program |
DOC |
Dissolved Organic Carbon |
DOE |
Department of Energy |
DTED |
Digital Terrain Elevation Data |
DUNNE |
Global distribution of plant-extractable water capacity of
soil |
EC |
European Community |
ECMWF |
European Center for Medium-range Weather Forecasting |
ECN |
Environmental Change Network |
EDGAR |
Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research |
EMDI |
Ecosystem Model Data Intercomparison |
ENSO |
El Niño/Southern Oscillation |
ENVISAT |
Europe's Environment Satellite |
EO |
Earth Observation |
EOS |
Earth Observing System |
EOSDIS |
Earth Observing System Data and Information System |
EPA |
Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.A.) |
EROS |
Earth Resources Observation Systems |
ERS |
European Research Satellite |
ESA |
European Space Agency |
ESB |
European Soil Bureau |
ESD |
Environmental Sciences Division |
ESIR |
European Society for Isotope Research |
ESRI |
Environmental Systems Research Institute |
ESSP |
Earth System Science Pathfinder |
EU |
European Union |
EU-MMC |
EU-Monitoring Mechanism Committee |
EUROSTAT |
Statistical Office of the European Commission |
FACE |
Free Air Enrichment Experiment |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations |
FAOSTAT |
FAO statistical databases |
FAPAR |
Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active
Radiation |
FASIR |
Fourier-Adjustment, Solar zenith angle corrected, Interpolated
Reconstructed |
FC |
Forestry Commission |
FIDS |
Forest and Insect Disease Survey |
FIFE |
First ISLSCP Field Experiment |
FIMCI |
Forest Intensive Monitoring Coordinating Institute |
FLUXNET |
Flux Network |
FRA |
Forest Resources Assessment |
GAIM |
Global Analysis Integration and Modelling |
GCIRC |
Global Change International Research Center |
GCM |
General Circulation Model |
GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
GCP |
Global Carbon Project |
GCTE |
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems |
GEF |
Global Environment Facility |
GEWEX |
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment |
GFDL |
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory |
GGHYDRO |
Global Hydrographic Data |
GHAAS |
Global Hydrological Archive and Analysis System |
GHCN |
Global Historical Climatology Network |
GHG |
Greenhouse Gas |
GHOST |
Global Hierarchical Observing Strategy |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
GISS |
Goddard Institute for Space Studies |
GLASOD |
GLobal Assessment of SOil Degradation |
GLCCD |
Global Land Cover Characteristics Database |
GLCTS |
Global Land Cover Test Sites |
GLFC |
Great Lakes Forestry Centre |
GLOBALHUBS |
Global Quality Control for Long-Lived Trace Gas
Measurements |
GLOBALVIEW |
Cooperative Atmospheric Data IntegrationProject |
GLOBE |
Global Land One-Km Base Elevation |
GOFC-GOLD |
Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics |
GOOS |
Global Ocean Observing System |
GPCC |
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre |
GPCP |
Global Precipitation Climatology Project |
GPPDI |
Global Primary Production Data Initiative |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
GRID |
Global Resource Inventory Database |
Gsa |
Greenhouse gas and Sulphate aerosol |
GSFC |
Goddard Space Flight Center |
GT NET |
Global Terrestrial Network |
GTOPO 30 |
Global 30 Arc-Second Elevation data set |
GTOS |
Global Terrestrial Observing System |
GTZ |
German Technical Co-operation |
H2 |
Hydrogen |
HadCM2 |
The Hadley Centre's Second Generation Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere
GCM |
HAPEX-Sahel |
Hydrology Atmosphere Pilot Experiment in the Sahel |
HCDN |
Hydro-Climatic Data Network |
HiProGen |
High Level Information Product Generation and Formatting of
Specific Applications |
HRPT |
High Resolution Picture Transmission |
HYDE |
History Database of the Global Environment |
HYDRA |
HYDrologic Routing Algorithm |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
IAV |
InterAnnual Variation |
ICP |
International Co-operative Programme on assessment and
monitoring of air pollution effects on forest |
ICSU |
International Council for Science |
IFC |
Intensive Field Campaign |
IGAD |
Intergovernmental Authority of Development |
IGBP |
International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme |
IGBP-DIS |
International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme Data and
Information System |
IGCO |
Integrated Global Carbon Observations |
IGFA |
International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change
Research |
IGOS-P |
Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership |
IHDP |
International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
Environmental Change |
IIASA |
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
IITA |
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture |
ILTER |
International Long Term Ecological Research |
IOBFS |
International Organization of Biological Field
Studies |
INRA |
National Institute for Agronomic Research |
IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
IPCC-DDC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Data Distribution
Centre |
ISIS |
Integrated Surface Irradiance Study |
ISLSCP |
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology
Project |
ISO |
International Standards Organization |
ISRIC |
International Soil Reference and Information Centre |
ISSS |
International Society of Soil Science |
ITASA |
Information Technology Association of Southern
Arizona |
IUSS |
International Union of Soil Science |
JRC-EI |
Joint Research Centre - Environment Institute |
JRC-ESB |
Joint Research Centre - European Soil Bureau |
LAI |
Leaf Area Index |
LAINET |
LAI Validation Sites |
LASUR |
LAnd SUrface Reflectances |
LBA |
Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment |
LFDB |
Large Fire DataBase |
LIDET |
Long-Term Decomposition Experiment Team |
LOICZ |
Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone |
LPV |
Land Products Validation |
LSPIM |
Land Surface Processes and Interactions Mission |
LTER |
Long Term Ecological Research |
LUCF |
Land Use Change and Forestry |
LULUCF |
Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry |
MAB |
Man And the Biosphere programme |
MAFF |
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
MERIS |
Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer |
MISR |
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer |
MLURI |
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute |
MODIS |
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer |
MODLAND |
MODIS Land Group (NASA EOS) |
MOZIAC |
Measurement of OZone on Airbus In-service AirCraft |
N |
Nitrogen |
NADP/NTN |
National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends
Network |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NASDA |
National Space Development Agency of Japan |
NCAR |
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
NCEAS |
National Centre for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis |
NDVI |
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
NEP |
Net Ecosystem Productivity |
NEWS |
Network of Ecosystem Warming Studies |
NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPP |
Net Primary Productivity |
NRCS |
National Resources Conservation Service |
NSA |
Northern Study Area (BOREAS) |
NSD |
National Soils Database (New Zealand) |
NSDB |
National Soil Data Base (Canada) |
O2 |
Molecular Oxygen |
OBFS |
Organization of Biological Field Stations |
OGCM |
Oceanic General Circulation Model |
ORNL |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
OTTER |
Oregon Terrestrial Transect Ecosystem Research |
OVNI |
Optimised Vegetation Normalised Index |
P |
Phosphorus |
PCM |
Parallel Climate Model |
PFC |
Pacific Forestry Centre |
PFT |
Plant Functional Types |
PIK |
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
QA/QC |
Quality Assurance/Quality Control |
RIVDIS |
Global River Discharge |
RIVM |
Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu |
RMSE |
Root Mean Square Error |
RUE |
Radiation Use Efficiency |
SAFARI |
Southern African Regional Science Initiative |
SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
SBSTA |
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technical Advice |
SeaWiFS |
Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view sensor |
SI |
Systeme International (International System of
Units) |
SIO |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
SLC |
Soil Landscape of Canada |
SNF |
Superior National Forest |
SOC |
Soil Organic Carbon |
SOILH2O |
Global Soil Moisture Data Bank |
SOM |
Soil Organic Matter |
SOTER |
World Soil and Terrain Database |
SOVEUR |
Mapping of Soil and Terrain Vulnerability in Central and
Eastern Europe |
SPOT |
Système Probatoire d'Observation Terrestre |
SRTM |
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
SSA |
Southern Study Area (BOREAS) |
SSLRC |
Soil Survey and Land Research Centre |
STATSGO |
State Soil Geographic Database |
TBFRA |
Temperate and Boreal Forest Resources Assessment |
TCC |
Terrestrial Carbon Cycle |
TCO |
Terrestrial Carbon Observation |
TCOS Siberia |
Terrestrial Carbon Observing System - Siberia |
TEMS |
Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites |
TOPC |
Terrestrial Observation Panel for Climate |
TRAGNET |
United States Trace Gas Network |
UCAR |
University Center for Atmospheric Research |
UN |
United Nations |
UN-CCC |
United Nations Convention on Climate Change |
UN-CCD |
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification |
UN-CPB |
United Nations Convention to promote and protect
biodiversity |
UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
UN-ECE |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization |
UNFCCC |
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change |
UNITUS |
Universita dellá Tuscia - Viterbo |
UNL |
University of Nebraska Lincoln |
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
USFS |
United States Forestry Service |
USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
USSR |
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
VCC |
Vegetation Cover Conversion |
VCF |
Vegetation Continuous Fields |
VCL |
Vegetation Canopy Lidar |
VEMAP |
Vegetation/Ecosystem Mapping & Analysis Project |
VOC |
Volatile Organic Carbon |
WCRP |
World Climate Research Programme |
WDCGG |
World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases |
WGCV |
Working Group on Calibration and Validation |
WISE |
World Inventory of Soil Emissions |
WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
WOCAT |
World Overview of Conservation Technologies |
WRI |
World Resources Institute |