There are many websites which are commonly referenced at ClimateAudit.org. They are listed and linked to below.
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AAAS American Academy of Arts and Sciences AAD Australian Antarctic Division, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Government AADC Australian Antarctic Data Centre, AAD AAM Atmospheric Angular Momentum data, BADC, Met Office UK AARI Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russian Federation AAS American Astronomical Society AASC American Association of State Climatologists AC Arctic Council, Tromsø, Norway ACEX Arctic Coring Expedition 302, ECORD ACIA Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, UAF ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union ACPC Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate Initiative, iLEAPS ACRIM Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor ACRP Atmospheric Composition Research Program, FRCGC, JAMSTEC ACSYS Arctic Climate System Study, World Climate Research Programme ADEOS-II Advanced Earth Observation Satellite-II, JAXA ADGB Atmospheric Dynamics Group Bologna, Department of Physics, University of Bologna, Italy ADS Astrophysics Data System, SAO/NASA AERONET AErosol RObotic NETwork, GSFC, NASA AGAGE Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment, NASA & CSIRO AGCM Atmospheric General Circulation Modeling, A Participatory History, AIP AGGI Annual Greenhouse Gas Index, NOAA AGO Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of Climate Change, Australian Government AGU American Geophysical Union AHICA ACSYS Historic Ice Chart Archive (1553 -2002), World Climate Research Programme AIDJEX Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment Bulletin, PSC, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washingon, USA AIMP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project, PCMDI, LLNL AIMS Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australian Government AINA Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Canada, & University of Alaska, USA AIP American Institute of Physics AIRS Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder, JPL, NASA Dr. Akasofu's website Dr. Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Emeritus Professor of Physics, IARC Founding Director Algerie Meteo Office National de Meteorologie d’Algerie ALISON Alaska Lake Ice and Snow Observatory Network, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks AMAP Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, Arctic Council, Tromsø, Norway AMB Australian Meteorological Bureau AMOC Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Program, JSOST AMOS Australian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society AMQUA The American Quaternary Association AMS American Meteorological Society AMSR Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS, JAXA/EORC AMSR-E Data Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer –E Sensor Data,from the NASA Aqua Satellite, NSIDC ANDRILL ANtarctic geological DRILLing AO Solar Adaptive Optics Project, NSO AOM Atmosphere-Ocean Model, GISS, NASA AOML Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA AON Arctic Observing Network, SEARCH AOS Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA APCC Asia Pacific economic cooperation Climate Center APDRC Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center, IPRC APEX Arctic Palaeoclimate and its EXtremes, IASC APS American Physical Society AR4 IPCC Working Group 1: The Physical Basis of Climate Change ARA Analyse du Rayonnement Atmosphérique (Atmospheric Radiation Analysis), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, CNRS/IPSL Arctic ROOS Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System, Nansen Environmental & Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway ARCTOS Arctic marine ecosystem research network ARCUS Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, Fairbanks, Alaska ARGO part of the integrated global observation strategy, GCOS/GOOS ARM Atmosphere Radiation Measurement Program, Department of Energy, USA ARO Arctic Research Office, NOAA arXiv Open access archive, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York, USA AS Académie des Sciences, Institut de France, Paris, France ASA American Statistical Association ASD Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy ASI Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASLO American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Wisconsin, USA ASOF Arctic / Subarctic Ocean Fluxes, SEARCH, ARCUS ASOFW Arctic / Subarctic Ocean Fluxes West, SEARCH, NOAA, NSF ASTER Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, JPL, NASA ASTER GDS Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, Ground Data System, ERSDAC ASTIS Arctic Science and Technology Information System, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, Canada ATR Association for Tree-Ring Research ATS Applications Technology Satellite, Image Collection, The Schwerdtfeger Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA ATSE The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ATST Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, NSO AURA Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, NSF AVHRR_Data Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Data, NSIDC AVISO Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data, CLS, CNES, France AWI Alfred-Wegener-Institut fur Polar und Meeresforschung (Exploration of the Sea), Germany
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Bad Astronomy which became prominent in the contest for Best Science Blog of 2007. BADC British Atmospheric Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK BAS British Antarctic Survey BBCC The Bert Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Sweden BBSO Big Bear Solar Observatory, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA BC Biology Cabinet Organisation, Nasif Nahle’s Website BCC Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration BCCR Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway BEST Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, Berkeley, California, USA BIM Baltic Icebreaking Management, HELCOM BIOS Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences BMRC Bureau of Meteorological Research Centre, Australia BODC British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK BOM Bureau of Meteorology, Australian Government BPRC Byrd Polar Research Center at The Ohio State University, USA BRAT Basic Radar Altimetry Toolbox, ESA BRS Bureau of Rural Sciences, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australian Government BSP Baltic Sea Portal, SYKE / FMI
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CAB Climate Analysis Branch, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA CABI an international scientific publishing organisation, formerly known as the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Wallingford, UK CADIS Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service, AON CAG U.S. Climate at a Glance, NCDC, NOAA CALIPSO Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation, NASA & CNES CAMEX-4 The 4th Convection And Moisture Experiment, NASA CARS CSIRO Atlas of Regional Seas (Australia) CAS Climate Analysis Section, NCAR CAT Climate Analysis Team, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter, UK CAWCR The Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, CSIRO & BOM CCCma Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis CCGG Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group, GMD, ESRL, NOAA CCGG-Trends Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, GMD, ESRL, NOAA CCI Climate Change Institute, The University of Maine, USA CCIN Canadian Cryospheric Information Network, Canadian Federal Government CCRC Climate Change Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia CCSM Community Climate System Model, UCAR CCSP US Climate Change Science Program CCSR Center for Climate System Research, The University of Tokyo, Japan CCSR Center for Climate Systems Research, The Earth Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA CDAAC COSMIC Data Analysis and Archive Center, UCAR CDAS Climate Data Assimilation System, Climate Prediction Center, NCEP, NOAA CDCD Canadian Daily Climate Data, NCDIA, Environment Canada CDIAC Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, ORNL, USA CDMP Climate Database Modernization Program of the National Climatic Data Center, NOAA CdS Club du Soleil CEDAR Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions, NSF CEH Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, NERC, UK CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites CERES Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System, NASA CERFACS European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation, France CERN Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Switzerland CESM Community Earth System Model, UCAR CETP Centre d'Etudes des Environnements Terrestre et Planétaires, IPSL, France CFCAS Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Ottawa, Canada CGAM Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, National Centre for Atmospheric Science at Reading University, UK CGD Climate & Global Dynamics Division, ESSL, NCAR CGIP Canadian Glacier Inventory Project, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Universitetet I Oslo, Norway CICOR Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research, WHOI, USA CIMSS Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, SECC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA CIRA Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, USA CIRES Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, USA CIS Canadian Ice Service, Environment Canada CLAMP 2005 Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program, Open University, UK CliC The Climate and Cryosphere Project, Norway Climate Explorer A web application to investigate Climate Data, Observations, (Re)analyses and Model output, KNMI CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predicability,WCRP CLIWOC Climatological Database for the World's Oceans (1750-1850), Spain CLOUD Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets, CERN CLS Collecte de Localisation Satellite, CNES, France CNES Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, France CNRM/GMME Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques / Groupe de Météorologie de Moyenne Echelle (Meso-Scale Meteorology Division) France CNRS Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France COADS Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set, NOAA/NCDC COAPS Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Codiac Archive on the EOL data server, NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory COLA Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, IGES, Maryland, USA COMNAP The Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia CONAE Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (National Space Activities Commission), República Argentina CONICET Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, República Argentina COOP Cooperative Observer Program, NOAA CoRA Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, Colorado, USA CORDIS Community Research & Development Information Service, Activities of the European Union - Research and Innovation CORRAL Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks, a Joint Information Systems Committee funded project, UK CORSIKA COsmic Ray SImulations for KAscade , Germany COSIM Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modeling, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate, UCAR COSMO Consortium for Small-scale Modeling, CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) CP Climate of the Past, Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union CPC Climate Prediction Center, NOAA CPD Climate of the Past - Papers in Open Discussion, EGU CPO Climate Program Office, NOAA CRCES The Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, (NASA & NOAA) Columbia, Maryland USA CRICYT Centro Regional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnológicas, Mendoza, Argentina CRN US Climate Reference Network, NOAA CRREL Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Polar Research and Engineering, US Army Corps of Engineers CRSEM Centre for Remote Sensing & Environmental Monitoring, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK CRU Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK CryoSat-2 ESA’s Earth Explorers Ice Mission, European Space Agency CSCR Center for Sun-Climate Research, DNSC, Copenhagen, Denmark CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia CSR Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, USA CSRC Climate System Research Center, Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA CT The Cryosphere Today, Polar Research Group, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA CT2010 Carbon Tracker, Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, NOAA CT-Asia Carbon Tracker Asia, Global Environment System Research Laboratory, NIMR CT-Europe Carbon Tracker Europe, Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands CTIO Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Chile CWC The Climate, Water, and Carbon Program at The Ohio State University, USA
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DAAC Distributed Active Archive Centers, Earth System Science Data and Services, NASA DAMOCLES Developing Arctic Modelling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies, A European Integrated Project DAMTP Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK DDC IPCC Data Distribution Centre, WMO DGFI Deutsche Geodätische ForschungsInstitit (German Geodetic Research Institute) Munich, Germany. DHMZ Državni HidroMeteorološki Zavod (Croatian State Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia DISCOVER Distributed Information Services for Climate and Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research, ITSC, UAH DIVERSITAS Biodiversity and Society, an international programme of biodiversity science. DLR Deutches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center) DMI Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut / Danish Meteorological Institute DMSP Defense Meterological Satellite Program, USA DNMI Det Norske Meteorologiske Institutt / Norwegian Meteorological Institute DNSC Danish National Space Center, Copenhagen, Denmark DNV Det Norske Veritas, Oslo, Norway Dome A Dome Argus Automatic Weather Station, Austalian Antarctic Division Dome C Concordia Base, Scientific Research on High Antarctic Plateau, Programma Nazionale Ricerche in Antartide, Italy DPC Danish Polar Centre, Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation, Copenhagen, Denmark DRI Desert Research Institute, Nevada, USA DSRS Dundee Satellite Receiving Station, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK DTU Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (Technical University of Denmark) Climate Change Technologies, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service), Offenbach, Germany
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EAS Eurasian Arctic Sub-office, International Polar Year, AARI, St Petersburg, Russian Federation EAS School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, USA EC Environnement Canada - Environment Canada ECA&D European Climate Assessment & Dataset, KNMI, The Netherlands ECCO Estimating the Circulation & Climate of the Ocean, WOCE ECD Energy Citations Database, Office of Scientific & Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy EC-Earth EC-EARTH: developing a European Earth System model based on ECMWF modelling systems, KNMI, The Netherlands ECliPS Empirical Climate Prediction System, Climate Logic, Colorado, USA ECMWF European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ECORD European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling ECRU Environmental Change Research Unit, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland ECSA Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association, Hosted by Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, UK EdGCM Educational Global Climate Modeling, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA EDHS ECS (EOSDIS Core System) Data Handling System, NASA EGGS the eggs, Online Newsletter & Information Service of the European Geosciences Union. EGU European Geosciences Union ELSA Eifel Laminated Sediment Archive, Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany ENSEMBLES ENSEMBLE-based Predictions of Climate Changes and their Impacts, ERC Sixth Framework Programme, EU ENSMP l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris, Centre de Géosciences - Equipe Géostatistique, Fontainebleau, France ENVSIL Stable Isotope Laboratory, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK EOG Earth Observation Group, NOAA/NGDC EOL NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory EOP Earth Orientation Parameters, l’Observatoire de Paris, France EORC Earth Observation Research Center, JAXA EOS Earth Observing System, NASA EOS Helmholtz Integrated Earth Observing System, GFZ, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany EOS-Webster Digital Library of Free Earth Science Data, University of New Hampshire, USA EPB European Polar Board, ESF EPICA European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica EPS Ensemble Prediction System, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts EPS Environmental Products System, OSDPD, NOAA ERA-40 The ERA-40 Archive at NCAR (1957-2002) ERBE Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, NASA ERSDAC Earth Remote Sensing Data Analysis Center, Tokyo, Japan ERSST Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, NCDC, NOAA ESA European Space Agency : Protecting the Environment ESDIS Earth Science Data and Information System Project, NASA ESF European Science Foundation ESMF Earth System Modeling Framework, UCAR, USA ESO Earth Science Office, NASA ESO European Southern Observatory, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere ESPERE Environmental Science Published for Everbody Round the Earth, Climate Encyclopaedia. ESRC Environmental Sciences Research Centre, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada ESRL Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA ESRL/PSD Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, NOAA Research ESS Department of Earth System Science, School of Physical Sciences, University of California Irvine, USA ESSC Earth System Science Center, PennState, USA ESSL The Earth & Sun Systems Laboratory, NCAR ESSP Earth Systems Science Partnership, DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP & WCRP EUMETSAT European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites Ev-K2-CNR Everest-Karakorum2-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, High Altitude Scientific and Technological Research Organisation, Nepal EVSC Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia, USA
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FACE Free-Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Data Management System, ORNL, USA FAEC Fundación Argentina de Ecología Científica, (Argentinean Foundation for a Scientific Ecology) FAS Federation of American Scientists FASCODE FAST Atmospheric Signature CODE, USA FD Global Surface and Atmospheric Radiative Fluxes, ISCCP, GISS, NASA FGDC The Frozen Ground Data Center. The International Permafrost Association Global, Geocryological Data (GGD) system, NSIDC FMA Research Forensic Meteorology Associates Research Inc., Colorado, USA FMI Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland FNMOC Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, USA FOAM The Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA FRCGC Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC FSU Met Florida State University Meteorology Department, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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GAIM Global Analysis, Integration and Modelling, IGBP GAO SPB The Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo, Russian Federation GAP Government Accountability Project, USA GAW Global Atmosphere Watch, WMO GAWSIS Global Atmosphere Watch Station Information System, by QA/SAC Switzerland GCAG Global Climate At a Glance, NOAA/NCDC GCMD Global Change Master Directory, Discover Earth science data and services, GSFC, NASA GCOS Global Climate Observing System, Met Office, UK GCOS Global Climate Observing System, WMO GCP The Global Carbon Project, ESSP GCRP US Global Climate Research Program GDEM Global Digital Elevation Model, ERSDAC, METI Japan & NASA GEC Geospace Electrodynamic Connections Mission, NASA GECC UK Global Environmental Change Committee GEF Global Environmental Facility, United Nations Development Programme GeJ Geoscience e-Journals, Access Portal hosted by Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France GeodIS Geodesy Information System, DGFI GEOSummit Greenland Environmental Observatory Summit Camp, NSF & Danish Commission for Scientific Research, Greenland GERB Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget, EUMETSAT GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment, WCRP, WMO GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA GFZ Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (German Research Centre for Geosciences), Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany GGFC Global Geophysical Fluids Center, IERS GHCN Global Historical Climatology Network, NOAA/NCDC GHRC Global Hydrology Resource Center, NASA GISP2 Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2, University of New Hampshire, USA GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA GISTEMP GISS Surface Temperature Analysis GI UAF Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks GLA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres, GSFC, NASA, USA GLERL Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, NOAA GLIMS Global Land Ice Measurements from Space, NSIDC GLTRS Glenn Technical Reports Server, NASA GMAO Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, GSFC, NASA GMD Global Monitoring Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA GNIP Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation, Water Resources Programme, Division of Physical and Chemical Sciences, International Atomic Energy Agency GNS Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand GOA Greening of the Arctic, IPY 2007-2009, Alaska Geobotany Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks GOCE Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer, ESA GODAE Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment, UK Met Office GODAS Global Ocean Data Assimilation System, NCEP, NOAA GOES Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, NASA GOM Glossary of Meteorology GONG Global Oscillation Network Group, NSO GOOS Global Ocean Observing System, IOC GOS Global Observing System, WMO GOSAT Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite, JAXA GPCP Global Precipitation Climatology Project, GEWEX, WCRP GPM Global Precipitation Measurement mission, GSFC, NASA GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, CSR, University of Texas at Austin, USA GRAS SAF GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding, Satellite Application Facility, DMI, EUMETSAT GRDC Global Runoff Data Centre, Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde (Federal Institute of Hydrology), Koblenz, Germany GRID Global Resource Information Database, United Nations Environment Programme GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library, Arendal, Norway GRL Geophysical Research Letters, AGU GRUAN GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network (hosted by DWD), Global Climate Observing System, WMO GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA GSL Global Snow Lab, RUCL, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA GSTA Global Surface Temperature Anomalies, NOAA/NCDC GTOS Global Terrestrial Observing System, FAO, UN GVP Global Volcanism Program (Worldwide Holocene Volcano and Eruption Information), Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. USA
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HAARP High frequency Active Auroral Research Program, University of Alaska, USA HAD MET Office Hadley Centre, UK HadCRUT3 Met Office Hadley Centre observations dataset, UK HADOBS Met Office Hadley Centre observations database, UK HamOCC Hamburg Ocean Carbon Cycle Model, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Meteorologie, Germany HAO High Altitude Observatory, ESSL, NCAR HAPEX The Hydrology-Atmosphere Pilot EXperiment in the Sahel, 1990-1992, CESBIO, IRD and CNES HAW Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany HELCOM Helsinki Commission, Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission, Helsinki, Finland HEPL Hansen Experimental Physics Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA HESS Hydrology and Earth System Sciences; An Interactive Open Access Journal of the European Geosciences Union HKO Hong Kong Observatory, Climate Change Resources, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. HU The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel HURDAT Atlantic Basin HURricane DATabase, NOAA HYCOM HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model for Data Assimilative Modeling, NOPP
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I3RC Intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes, GSFC, NASA IABP International Arctic Buoy Programme, University of Washington, USA IAC Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain IACETH Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich, Switzerland IADV Interactive Atmospheric Data Visualisation, GMD, ESRL, NOAA IAGA International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy, IUGG IAI Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. INPE, São Paulo, Brazil IAMG International Association for Mathematical Geology, Canada IANIGLA Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, (Argentine Institute of Nivology, Glaciology and Environmental Sciences), CRICYT, Mendoza, Argentina IAP Institute of Atmospheric Physics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences IAPMW Institute of Applied Physics: MicroWave Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland IAPSO The International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans IARC International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA IASC International Arctic Science Committee, Sweden IBEX Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission, NASA ICCAS Institute of Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences ICDP International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICECAP International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (Many of the leading scientists skeptical of the AGW orthodoxy post here). ICESat Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite, GSFC, NASA ICG Ice Core Gateway, NOAA/NCDC ICMMG Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB, Russian Academy of Sciences ICOADS International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set, NOAA ICOS Integrated Carbon Observation System, Europe ICREA Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) Barcelona, Spain ICSC International Climate Science Coalition, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ICSU International Council of Science, Paris, France ICTA Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Autonomous University of Barcelona) Barcelona, Spain IDN International Directory Network, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, GSFC, NASA IERS International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, l’Observatoire de Paris, France IERS International Earth Rotation and Reference System Service, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Cbkg), Germany IfK GKSS Institut für Küstenforschung (Institute for Coastal Research), Geesthacht, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany IfM Institut für Meereskunde der Universität Hamburg (Institute for Oceanography of the University of Hamburg) Germany IFS Integrated Forecast System, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts IGAC International Global Atmospheric Chemistry, NOAA IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences IGES Institute of Global Environment and Society, Maryland USA IGRA Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive, NOAA/NCDC IGS International Glaciological Society, UK IHDP International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. IIF International Institute of Forecasters IITM Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Mahārāshtra, India IJIS IARC-JAXA Information System, (International Arctic Research Center - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA iLEAPS Integrated Land Ecosystem/Atmosphere Process Study, University of Helsinki, Finland IMAU Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht, Netherlands IMCS Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA IMS Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Cleveland, Ohio, USA IMSC International Meetings on Statistical Climatology, CCCma INGV Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy INIMS The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK INM RAS Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences INPE Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. INQUA International Union for Quaternary Research INSTAAR INSTitute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA INSU Institut national des sciences del’univers, CNRS, France IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO IODE International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO IODP Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany IODP-USIO Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, United States Implementing Organization IOOS Integrated Ocean Observing System, The National Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations, Washington, USA IOP Institute of Physics, London UK IO RAS P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia IOTD Image Of The Day, Earth Observatory, NASA IPA International Paleolimnology Association IPA International Permafrost Association IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, WMO/UNEP IPEV Institut Paul Emile Victor (Institut polaire français), France IPM InterPlanetary Medium database, Institute for Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy SB RAS, Yakutsk Scientific Center SB RAS, Russian Federation IPRC International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hawai‘i USA IPS Ionospheric Prediction Service (The Australian Space Weather Agency), BOM, Australian Government IPSL Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, France IPY International Polar Year 2007-2008, ICSU/WMO IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France IRI The International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University in the City of New York, USA IRI/LDEO The International Research Institute for Climate and Society / Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Climate Data Library IRMB Institut Royal Météorologique de Belgique (see also RMIB Department of Observations) IRO Iowa Robotic Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA ISAC Influence of Solar Activity Cycles on Earth’s Climate, European Space Agency ISAS Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, NASA ISGI International Service of Geomagnetic Indices, hosted by CEPT ISPM Independent Summary for PolicyMakers of the IPCC Fourth Asssessment Report (Working Group I), Fraser Institute ISPRS International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ISTP International Solar-Terrestrial Physics, NASA, ESA, ISAS ITF African InterTropical Front, CPC, NOAA ITRDB International Tree-Ring Data Bank, NOAA/NCDC ITSC Information Technology and Systems Center, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUGG International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, ICSU IUP Institut für Umweltphysik & Institut für Fernerkundung (ife); Institute of Environmental Physics & Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany IUSS International Union of Soil Sciences IZMIRAN Puskov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation, Russian Academy of Sciences
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JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JCDAS JMA Climate Data Assimilation System, Japan Meteorological Agency JGOFS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, IGBP JISAO Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington, USA JMA Japan Meteorological Agency JMSJ Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, MSJ JOSS Joint Office for Science Support, UCAR; NCAR & UOP JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA JRA-25 Japanese 25-year ReAnalysis Atlas and JMA Climate Data Assimilation System (JCDAS), Japan Meteorological Agency JSER Japan Society of Energy and Resources, Osaka, Japan JSOST Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology, Office of Science and Technology, Policy, US Administration JTWC Joint Typhoon Warning Center, US Navy
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KASCADE Karlsruhe Shower Core and Array Detector, Germany KDM Konsortium Deutsche Meeresforschung (German Marine Research Consortium) KNMI Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands KTH Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology) Stockholm, Sweden KVERT Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team, Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Far Eastern Division of RAS (IVS FED RAS), Russian Federation
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LAADS Web MODIS Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System, GSFC, NASA LASP Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, USA LCD Lycée Classique de Diekirch, Luxembourg LCLUC Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program, Earth Sciences Division, Science Mission Directorate, NASA LCRE Laboratoire de Climatologie, Risques, Environnement, Université Jean Moulin Lyon, France LDEO Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, City of New York, USA LEGOS Laboratoire d’études en géophysique et océanographie spatiales, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France LEL Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Research, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK LGGE Le Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l’Environnement, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France LIPI Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California for the US Department of Energy LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, France LMI / NLSI Landmælingar Íslands / National Land Survey of Iceland LOCO Long-Term Ocean Climate Observations, CLIVAR, NIOZ Long Paddock Climate Management Information for Rural Australia, Queensland Government, Australia LPI Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA, Houston, Texas, USA LRC Langley Research Center, NASA LSA SAF Land Surface Analysis, Satellite Applications Facility, EUMETSAT LSO Learmonth Solar Observatory, IPS, Western Australia LSTG MODIS Land Surface Temperature Group, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara LTRR Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, USA Lubos Motl Quantum Physics guy who often comments on CA LUSTIA Finnish Tree-Ring Research Project, METLA, Finland
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MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany MBL Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, USA MCDDA Marine and Coastal Data Directory of Australia, CSIRO MDI Michelson Doppler Imager (SOHO), Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, SOI MEI Multivariate ENSO Index, NOAA MERRA Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications, GMAO, GSFC, NASA METAFOR Common METAdata FOR Climate Modelling Digital Repositories METLA (Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry), Finnish Forest Research Institute, Vantaa, Finland METHC Met Office Hadley Centre, UK MFRSR Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer, NSDL MI Marine Institute, Fhoras na Mara, Dublin, Ireland MICINN Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Ministry of Science and Innovation), Madrid, Spain Millennium European climate of the last millennium, ERC Sixth Framework Programme, EU MINOS Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search, Fermilab, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy MISU Meteorologiska Institutionen Stockholms Universitet, (Department of Meteorology), Stockholm University, Sweden MITgcm MIT General Circulation Model, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA MITP Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation MLO Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, NOAA MLSO Mauna Loa Solar Observatory, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR MMM Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology, ESSL, NCAR MODIS MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer: Rapid Response System, NASA MODTRAN4 MODerate spectral resolution atmospheric TRANSsmittance algorithm and computer model, US Air Force MOL Monsoon On Line, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology MOST MOdel Shopping Tool, OCEANS MPI-M Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany MRI Meteorological Research Institute, Japan MSJ Meteorological Society of Japan MSSL Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK MSSM Manual of Synoptic Satellite Meteorology, DHMZ, FMI, KNMI, ZAMG, supported by EUMETSAT MTSAT JMAs Meteorological Satellite (Longitude 140 degrees East) MWO Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, California, USA
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NAMMA NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses NARP Nordic Arctic Research Programme 1999 - 2003, Nordic Council of Ministers NARR North American Regional Reanalysis, NCEP NAS National Academy of Sciences, USA NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA NATE Neutral Atmosphere Temperature Experiment, NASA Nature Reports Nature Journal, Climate Change News NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA NCAS National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Natural Environment Research Council, UK NCASI National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Canada NCC National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration NCC National Climate Centre, NIWA, New Zealand NCDC National Climatic Data Center, NOAA NCDIA National Climate Data and Information Archive, Environment Canada NCE Northern Climate ExChange, Northern Research Institute of Yukon College. NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA NCODA Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation, FNMOC NCSP National Communication Support Programme, GEF, UNDP NDBC National Data Buoy Center, NOAA NEEM North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project, Københavns Universitet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark NEESPI Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme external project, Hydrology Science and Services Corporation NEMOC Naval European Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Rota, Spain NEODAAS NERC Earth Observation Data and Analysis Service, Natural Environment Research Council, UK NERSC Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, affiliated with the University of Bergen, Norway NESDIS National Environmental, Satellite, Data, & Information Service, NOAA NGDC National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA NGRIP North Greenland Ice core Project, Centre for Ice and Climate, Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark NHC National Hurricane Center, NOAA NHES New Hope Environmental Services, Inc. Virginia, USA NIC National Ice Center, NOAA NILU Norsk institutt for luftforskning (Norwegian Institute for Air Research) Kjeller, Norway NIMR National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, Korea NIOZ Koninklijk Nederland Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), Texel, Netherlands NIPCC Climate Change Reconsidered: The Website of the Nongovernmental Panel on Climate Change NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand NMC National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration NOAA National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, USA NOC National Oceanographic Centre, NERC, UK NOCS National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK NODC National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA NOGAPS U. S. Navy's Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System Model NOHRSC National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, NOAA NOMADS National Operational Model Archive & Distribution System, NCDC, NOAA NOPP National Oceanographic Partnership Program, Washington D.C. USA NORDKLIM Nordic co-operation within climate activities, hosted by SMHI, Sweden NORDMET Nordic co-operation in meteorology, hosted by SMHI, Sweden NOW New and Old Worlds Database of fossil mammals, Department of Geology, University of Helsinki, Finland NPClime Inventory and Monitoring Climate and Weather Project, National Parks Service, US Department of the Interior, USA NPEO North Pole Environmental Observatory, PSC, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washingon, USA NPI Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA NRB Northern Research Basins working group, International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO NRC National Research Council, USA NRCS Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture NRL Naval Research Laboratory, US Navy NSDL The National Science Digital Library, NSF NSF National Science Foundation, USA NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, USA NSO National Solar Observatory, USA NSPO National SPace Organisation, Taiwan NSS National Statistical Service, Australian Government NSSTC National Space Science and Technology Center, NASA NSSTC (UAH) The National Space Science & Technology Center (University of Alabama in Huntsville) USA NTRS NASA Technical Reports Server NTU Kuo Research Group, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan NTUA National Technical University of Athens, ITIA (Greek for willow tree – not an acronym) Hydrology Research Team, Greece NWPI Northern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, Russia NWRA NorthWest Research Associates, Washington State, USA NWS National Weather Service, NOAA
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OAFLUX Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Fluxes for the Global Oceans, WHOI OAR Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, NOAA O&SI SAF Ocean & Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility, EUMETSAT OCEANS European Network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystem Analysis OCMIP Ocean Carbon-Cycle Model Intercomparison Project, IGBP/GAIM & IGBP/JGOFS OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Washington, USA OI SST Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis, NOAA OLR Outgoing Longwave Radiation, NOAA OMI Ozone Monitoring Instrument, KNMI OMSZ – HMS Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat - Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest, Hungary ONI Oceanic Nino Index, Climate Prediction Center, NOAA OPP Office of Polar Programs, NSF ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT Battelle for the US Department of Energy OSCAR Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real time, NOAA OSDN Ocean Drilling Stratigraphic Network, Research Center for Marine Geosciences at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany OSDPD Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NOAA OSEI Operational Significant Event Imagery, NOAA Satellite and Information Service. OSO Office of Satellite Operations, NOAA OSTI Office of Scientific & Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy OSTST Ocean Surface Topography Science Team, AVISO
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PAGES Past Global Changes, University of Bern, Switzerland Paleo Paleoclimatology, NOAA, NCDC Paleo List The Paleoclimate Discussion List, NOAA Paleoclimatology, NCDC PALSEA PALeo-constraints on SEA-level rise - a PAGES/IMAGES working group, University of Bristol, UK PANGAEA Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data, WDC-MARE, AWI & MARUM PARCS Paleoenvironmental ARCtic Sciences, NSF; Hosted by NCDC, NOAA PATMOS-x AVHRR Pathfinder Atmospheres – Extended, CIMSS PCMDI Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, LLNL PDO The Pacific Decadal Oscillation, JISAO PDS Planetary Data System, NASA P&G Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics Unit, incorporating The Stockholm Paleomagnetic Laboratory, Torekov, Sweden. See also Enheten för paleogeofysik och geodynamik (The former Department of Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics), Stockholm University, Sweden PhOD Physical Oceanography Division, AOML, NOAA PIC Polar Information Commons, IPY PIK Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Potsdam, Germany PIPS Polar Ice Prediction System, Department of Oceanography Naval Postgraduate School, US Navy PLATES Plate Tectonic and Geologic Reconstructions Research Project, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, USA PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA PMG Paleoclimate Modeling Group, University of Michigan, USA PMOD-WRC Physikalisch-Meteorlogisches Observatorium Davos - World Radiation Center, Switzerland PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNRA Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italian Antarctic Research Programme ) POGO Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans PolarLink The Portal to Polar Links, International Polar Year 2007-2008 POM The Princeton Ocean Model, AOS, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Ponder the Maunder Kristen Brynes Science Foundation PRChallenge Paleoclimate Reconstruction Challenge, PAGES, University of Bern, Switzerland PRIDE Puerto Rico Dust Experiment, GSFC, NASA PRISM PRogram for Integrated Earth System Modeling, Europe PRL Physical Review Letters, APS Prometheus: The Science Policy Weblog by R. Pielke Jr, a CU professor and an occasional CA commenter. PSB Product Systems Branch, OSDPD, NOAA PSC Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, USA PSD Physical Sciences Division, ESRL, NOAA PSMSL Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level, ICSU, NOC, BODC PYRN Permafrost Young Researchers Network, International Permafrost Association
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QRC Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, USA
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RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Space Science & Technology Department, STFC, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK RATPAC Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate, NOAA/NCDC RAWS Remote Automated Weather Stations, US Forest Service READER REference Antarctic Data for Environmental Research, Meteorology, British Antarctic Survey REFIR-PAD Radiation Explorer in the Far InfraRed - Prototype for Applications & Development, IFAC, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy REO Resources in Earth Observation, The science of remote sensing. Case studies, data and information for education and developing countries, CEOS RISA Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments, CPO, NOAA RKA Russian Federal Space Agency, ROSCOSMOS, Moscow, Russia RMetS Royal Meteorological Society, UK RMIB Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Department of Observations: Remote Sensing from Space RMTRR Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Inc. Colorado, USA RSC Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK RSMAS Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, Florida, USA RSPSoc Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, UK RSS Remote Sensing Systems, California USA RTOFS Real-Time Ocean Forecast System (Atlantic) EMC Marine Modeling & Analysis Branch, NCEP, NOAA RUCL Rutgers University Climate Lab, New Jersey, USA
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SABER Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, TIMED, NASA SACP4 South African Coastal Paleoclimate | Paleoenvironment | Paleoecology | Paleoanthropology, Arizona State University, USA SAGE Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment II, ERBE, NASA SAGES Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society, hosted by The University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences SAIt La Società Astronomica Italiana, Firenzie, Italy SAMS The Scottish Association for Marine Science, University of the Highlands and Islands, Oban, Argyll, Scotland. SAO Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA SAR Introduction to the Second Assessment Report IPCC 1995 SASNET Swedish South Asian Studies Network, Lund University, Sweden SAWS South African Weather Service SBA Special Bureau for the Atmosphere, GGFC, IERS SBO Special Bureau for the Oceans, GGFC, IERS SCAR Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, ICSU SCICEX Scientific Ice Expedition 1993-1998, Polar Science Center, APL, University of Washington ScienceBits Nir J. Shaviv’s Science Blog SCNAT Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences SCOR Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research, ICSU SDO Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA SEARCH Study of Environmental Arctic Change, ARCUS SECCHI Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation, US Navy SEI Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden SEM GOES Space Environment Monitor, NGDC, NESDIS, NOAA SGMN Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network SGO Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, Finland SHEBA Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (1997-1998) SHINE Solar Heliospheric & Interplanetary Environment, NSF SIDC Solar Influences Data Analysis Center, at the Royal Observatory of Belgium SIL The Stable Isotope Laboratory, School of Environmental Sciences, The University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK SIL Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory – Paleoclimatology, University of Saskatchewan, Canada SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, USA SKY The SKY experiment, DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark SMHI Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden SMN Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina SMOS Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission, ESA SNAP Satellite Navigation & Positioning Laboratory, School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, University of New South Wales, Australia. SNO Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Department of Physics, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada SO&P Simulations, Observations & Palaeoclimatic data, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, UK SOCC State of the Canadian Cryosphere, CCIN SODA Simple Ocean Data Assimilation, CGAM SOEST School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA SOHO Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, NASA SOI Southern Oscillation Index, The Long Paddock, Queensland Government, Australia SOLIS Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun, National Solar Observatory, USA SORCE SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment, University of Colorado, USA SoyFACE Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA SPASE Space Physics Archive Search and Extract Consortium SPDF Space Physics Data Facility, GSFC, NASA SPIDR Space Physics Interactive Data Resource, National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA SPPI Science and Public Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. USA SPSLCMP South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project, BOM SSD Satellite Services Division, NESDIS, NOAA SSEC Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA SST Sea Surface Temperature Charts, OSDPD, NOAA STEL Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan STEREO Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, NASA STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, UK STP Solar – Terrestrial Physics, NGDC, NOAA SVS Scientific Visualization Studio, GSFC, NASA SWICS Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer, Ulysses Solar Polar Mission, ESA/NASA SWIPA Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic, AMAP SWPC Space Weather Prediction Center, NWS, NOAA SYKE Suomen ympäristökeskus (Finnish Environment Institute), Helsinki, Finland
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TACC Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin TACE Tropical Atlantic Climate Experiment, CLIVAR, WCRP TAO Département Terre-Atmosphère-Océan de L'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean Array, National Data Buoy Center, NOAA TAO Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA TAR Third Assessment Report IPCC 2001 TCD Theoretical Climate Dynamics group, DAOS, UCLA TCSP Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes mission, NASA TGG Tropical Glaciology Group, University of Innsbruck, Austria TOGA Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere program, NCDC, NOAA TOPAZ Towards an Operational Prediction system for the North Atlantic European coastal Zones, NERSC, Bergen, Norway TRACE 2008 Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology; Annual Conference of the ATR, April 2008, Zakopane, Poland TRL Tree-Ring Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, NASA/JAXA TRR Tree-Ring Research Abstracts, APT Online, Allen Press TSR Tropical Storm Risk, MSSL, University College London, UK TUNDRA Arctic Feedbacks to Global Warming: Tundra Degradation in the Russian Arctic 1998-2000, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland TWP-ICE Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment, CAWCR, Australian Government
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UAF University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA UAH University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric Science Department, USA UARS Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, GSFC, NASA UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA UCD MCC University College Dublin, Meteorology & Climate Centre, UCD School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin, Ireland UCLA University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, California, USA UCM Universidad Complutense de Madrid: Departamento de Analisis Geografico Regional y Geografia Fisica, Spain UIUC Arctic Climate Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA UKCIP UK Climate Impacts Programme Ulysses The Ulysses Mission, Exploring Space over the Sun's Poles, ESA/NASA UNEP United Nations Environment Programme UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNIBE Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Uni-Hamburg Remote Sensing - Research Activities, IfM, Universität Hamburg, Germany UNIS Universitetssenteret på Svalbard (The University Centre in Svalbard), Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway UOP UCAR Office of Programs, The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research USGCRP US Global Change Research Program USHCN United States Historical Climatology Network, NOAA/NCDC USO Udaipur Solar Observatory, Physical Research Laboratory, Department of Space, Government of India USRA Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, Maryland, USA UTIG The University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Texas UV-Global Global UV Index Forecast Information, CPC, NWS UWDAS University of Washington Department of Atmospheric Sciences, USA
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VAMOS Variability of the American Monsoon Systems, NCAR, UCAR, NOAA ViRBO Virtual Radiation Belt Observatory, NOAA/NGDC Visible Earth A catalog of NASA images and animations of our home planet, EOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center VISPA Väisälä Institute for Space Physics and Astronomy, Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland VOCALS VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study, WCRP, CLIVAR, VAMOS, GEWEX Program VSO Virtual Solar Observatory, NSO
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WAGN West Antarctic GPS Network project, UTIG University of Texas at Austin, PGF University of Hawaii School of Ocean Science and Technology & CERI University of Memphis. WAIS Divide West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core, University of New Hampshire, USA WCDMP World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme, WMO WCP World Climate Programme, WMO WCR World Climate Report Blog WCRP World Climate Research Programme, WMO WDC World Data Center System, ICSU WDCG World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases, WMO WDC-MARE World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, AWI & MARUM WDCP World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, NOAA/NGDC WDC-RSAT World Data Center for Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, DLR (German Aerospace Center) WGMS World Glacier Monitoring Service, Universität Zürich, Switzerland WHOI Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA WISE Western Institute for the Study of the Environment, USA WMO World Meteorological Organisation, Switzerland WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment 1990-2002, NOC, Southampton, UK WOCE World Ocean Circulation Experiment, Global Data Resource, NODC, NOAA WOUDC World Ozone and Ultraviolet Radiation Data Centre, WMO (operated by Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada) WRC Weather Research Center, Inc. Houston, Texas, USA WRCC Western Regional Climate Center, DRI, Nevada, USA WRF Weather Research & Forecasting Model, USA WRMC-BSRN World Radiation Monitoring Center – Baseline Surface Radiation Network, hosted by AWI WWA Western Water Assessment, Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments (RISA), National Climate Service, NOAA WWIS World Weather Information Service, WMO WWLLN World Wide Lightning Location Network, Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, USA WWW World Weather Watch Programme, WMO
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ZAMG ZentralAnstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik (Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics), Vienna, Austria ZMAW Zentrum für Marine und Atmosphärische Wissenschaften (Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences) University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
