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Air Pollution and Turbulence: Modeling and Applications
ENSO
El Niño/Southern Oscillation; A large-scale multi-year fl uctuation
in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system in the southern and equatorial Pacifi c region
GOSAT
Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite; Japanese mission, scheduled
for 2009
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United
States)
OCMIP
Ocean Carbon Modeling Intercomparison Project
OCO
Orbiting Carbon Observatory (Crisp et al., 2004); Proposed satellite mission, failed on launch, February 2009
SCIAMACHY Scanning Imaging Absorbtion spectroMeter for Atmospheric
ChartograpHY. (European Space Agency)
SOI
Southern Oscillation Index; A measure, defi ned in terms of
monthly-mean pressure differences across the Pacifi c, of the
atmospheric component of ENSO
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
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