LIST OF ACRONYMS

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AAN Asian AWS Network

AARRP Applied Atmospheric Resources Research Program

ACSYS Arctic Climate System Study

ADEOS Advanced Earth Observing Satellite

AGCM Atmospheric General Circulation Model

AIT Asia Institute of Technology

AMI Advanced Microwave Instrument

AMIP Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project

AMSU Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit

APN Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research

AVHRR Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

AWS Automatic Weather Station

BAHC Biosphere Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle

BALTEX Baltic Sea Experiment

BRRAA Bureau of the Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation

BSRN Baseline Surface Radiation Network

CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences

CANAE Code for Aggregating Nested Atmosphere and Environment

CAO Central Aerological Observatory

CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences

CCSR Center for Climate System Research (University of Tokyo)

CERES Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System

CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability Programme

CMA Chinese Meteorological Administration

COARE Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment

CREQ Cryoshpere Research on Qingzang Plateau

CRL Communications Research Laboratory

CU Chulalongkorn University

CWR Center for Water Research (University of Western Australia)

DAAC Distributed Active Archive Center

DEM Digital Elevation Model

DHM Department of Hydrology & Meteorology, Nepal

DID Department of Irrigation and Drainage

DMSP Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

DPRI Disaster Prevention Research Institute (Kyoto University)

EA Environmental Agency

ECMWF European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts

EERS European Remote Sensing Satellite

EGAT Electric Generation Authority of Thailand

ENSO El Nino and Southern Oscillation

EORC Earth Observation Research Center

ERC Environmental Reseach Center (University of Tsukuba)

ERS Earth Resources Satellite

ETO Extended Time Observation

4DDA Four-Dimensional (4D) Data Assimilation

4-DDA 4DDA

FFPRI Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

FRIM Forestry Research Institute Malaysia

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FY Fiscal Year

FY-2 Feng Yun -2

GAIN GAME Archive and Information Network

GAME GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment

GAME-T GAME Tropics

GAW Global Atmospheric Watch

GCIP GEWEX Continental-scale International Project

GCM General Circulation Model

GCTE Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems

GEBA Global Surface Energy Balance Archive

GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

GIS Geographic Information System

GISP GAME-ISP

GLI Global Imager

GMS Geostationaly Meteorological Satellite

GOALS Global Ocean Atmosphere Land System Program

GPS Global Positioning System

GRDC Global Runoff Data Centre

GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center

GTS Global Telecommunications System

GWE Global Weather Experiment

HDP Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme

HUBEX Huai River Basin Experiment

IFO Intensive Field Observation

IGBP International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme

IGS International GPS service for Geodynamics

IHAS Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Sciences (Nagoya University)

IIS Institute of Industrial Science (University of Tokyo)

IMD India Meteorological Department

IMG Interferometric Monitor for Greenhouse Gases

IMH Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology

INSAT Indian Satellite for Meteorology, Communication and Broadcasting

IOP Intensive Observing Period

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IR Infrared

IS Initial System

ISCCP International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project

ISP International Science Panel

J-SAR JERS-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar

JCC Joint Coordination Committee

JERS-1 Japanese Earth Resources Satellite-1

JEXAM Japanese Experiment on Asian Monsoon

JFY Japanese Fiscal Year

JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

JSM Japan Spectrum Model

KMA Korea Meteorological Administration

KMITL King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang

KMITT King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Thonburi

KORMEX Korean Monsoon Experiment

KKU Khon Kaen University

KU Katsesaert Univerisity

LAI Leaf Area Index

LANDSAT Land Resource Technology Satellite

LBA Large scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia

LDD Land Development Department

LIGG Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology

LIPAP Lanzhou Institute of Plateau Atmospheric Physics

LST Local Standard Time

MAGS Mackenzie Etude GEWEX Study

MESSC Ministry of Education, Scinece, Sports, and Culture

MESSR Multispectral Electronic Self-Scanning Radiometer

ML Mixing Layer

MMS Malaysia Meteorological Service

MONEX Monsoon Experiment

MOS-1 Marine Observation Satellite-1

MRI Meteorological Research Institute

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASDA National Space Development Agency of Japan

NC The Japan National Committee for GAME

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research

NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NES Northern Eurasian Study

NIED National Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies

NIO National Institute of Oceanography

NMC National Meteorological Center

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRCT National Research Council of Thailand

NWP Numerical Weather Prediction

OCTS Ocean Color Temperature Scanner

OI Optimum Interpolation

OLR Outgoing Longwave Radiation

PAM III Portable Automated Mesonet III

PBL Planetary Boundary Layer

PILPS Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

POP Prephase Observation Period

PPI Plan Position Indicator

PR Precipitation Radar

PWRI Public Works Research Institute

QBO Quasi-biennial Oscillation

QC Quality Control

QXPMEX Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Meteorological Experiment

RADARSAT Canadian Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite

RAMS Regional Atmospheric Modelling System

RAS Russian Academy of Science

RASC Radio Atmospheric Science Center

RFD Royal Forestry Department

RID Royal Irrigation Department

RS Remote Sensing

SVISSR Stretched Visible and Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer

SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar

SAT Sonic Anemometer-Thermometer

SCSMEX South China Sea Monsoon Experiment

SiB Simple Biosphere Model

SiBUC Simple Biosphere Model including Urban Canopy

SMMR Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer

SOI Southern Oscillation Index

SPG Science Promotion Group

SRB Surface Radiation Budget

SSG Scicence Steering Group

SSM/I Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

SST Sea Surface Temperature

STA Science and Technology Agency

START System for Analysis, Research and Training

TBD to be decided

TDR Time Domain Reflectometry

TEACOM Temprate East Asia Regional Committee for START

TIPEX Tibetan Plateau Hydrometeorological Experiment

TM Thematic Mapper

TMD Thai Meteorological Department

TMI TRMM Microwave Imager

TOGA Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere Program

TOMS Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer

TOVS TIROS-n Operational Vertical Sounder

TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

UTC Universal Time Coordinated

VCP Voluntary Cooperation Program

WCRP World Climate Research Programme

WDC World Data Center

WG Working Group

WMO World Meteorological Organization

WSR Weather Service Radar

WWW World Wide Web

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