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List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
AISC
Assessment and Information Services Center
ANC
Acid neutralizing capacity
ARM
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (Program)
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
BOREAS
Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study
CalCOFI
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation
CDIAC
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
CD-ROM
Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CEES
Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences
CIAD
Climate Impact Assessment Division of NOAA's Assessment and Information Services Center
CODATA
Committee on Data for Science and Technology
DAAC
Distributed Active Archive Center
DBMS
Data Base Management System
DDRP
Direct/Delayed Response Project
DOE
Department of Energy
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
EROS
Earth Resources Observing System
ERP
Episodic Response Project
ESD
Environmental Sciences Division
FCMA
Fisheries Conservation and Management Act
FIFE
First ISLSCP Field Experiment
FSDB
Forest Science Data Bank
GIS
Geographic Information System
GOES
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
ICSU
International Council of Scientific Unions
IGBP
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program
ILWAS
Integrated Lake-Watershed Acidification Study
ISLSCP
International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project
LTER
Long-Term Ecological Research (Program)
MAGIC
Model of Acidification of Groundwater in Catchments
NADP
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
NAPAP
National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NDVI
Normalized Data Vegetation Index
NMFS
National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NSF
National Science Foundation
NSWS
National Surface Water Survey
ORNL
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
OSTP
Office of Science and Technology Policy
PC
Personal computer
QA
Quality assurance
QC
Quality control
USAID
U.S. Agency for International Development
USNC
U.S. National Committee
WAIS
Wide Area Information Servers
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
