CWC - Changing Water Cycle
AGCM – Atmospheric General Circulation Model
AOGCM – Atmosphere-Ocean General Circualtion Model
AOPP – Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics (University of Oxford)
BADC – British Atmsopheric Data Centre
BGS – British Geological Survey
BOINC – Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
CEH – Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
CMIP5 - Coupled model intercomparison project
CPDN – Climate Prediction Dot Net
ECMWF – European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (Reading)
FSL – FMRIB Software Library
HiGEM - High resolution global environment modelling
IPPC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (WMO)
ISCCP – International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
ITCZ – Intertropical Convergence Zone
JULES – Joint UK Land Environment Simulator
LWEC - Living With Environmental Change
MOHC – Meteorological Office Hadley Centre (UK)
MRI – Meteorological Research Institute
NCEO – National Centre for Earth Observation (UK)
NERC – Natural Environment Research Council
OGCM – Ocean General Circulation Model
PDRA – Post-Doctoral Research Assistant
PI – Principal Investigator
PRECIS – Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies (Hadley Centre, UK Meteorological Office)
UKCA – United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosol (National Centre for Atmospheric Sceice and UK Met Office Model)
UNFCC – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change