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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