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Appendix G


Acronyms and Abbreviations

CGPS continuous Global Positioning System
CMIP 3 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3
CO2 carbon dioxide
CO-OPS Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
   
DCW Digital Chart of the World
DOFs degrees-of-freedom
DORIS Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite
   
ENSO El Nñno-Southern Oscillation
   
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Administration
GCM general circulation model
GIA glacial isostatic adjustment
GLIMS Global Land Ice Measurements from Space
GLM generalized linear model
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS Global Positioning System
GRACE Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
   
IB inverse barometer
InSAR interferometric synthetic aperture radar
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
   
lidar light detection and ranging
   
MBT mechanical bathythermograph
MTJ Mendocino Triple Junction
   
NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NGS National Geodetic Survey
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC National Research Council
   
PDO Pacific Decadal Oscillation
PSMSL Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level
   
RMS root mean square
   
SLA sea-level anomaly
SLE sea-level equivalent
SLP sea-level pressure
SOPAC Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center
SWH significant wave height
   
USACE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USGS U.S. Geological Survey
   
VLM vertical land motion
   
WGI World Glacier Inventory
   
XBT expendable bathythermograph
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