Abbreviations Used in Captions

Abbreviations Used in Captions

AAAS AVHRR NDVI CLIVAR CMAP CNES COLA CPC DAAC ECMWF ERS-2 GOES GSFC HadISST IGES IPCC JAWS MODIS NASA NCAR NCEP NIMROD NOAA NTIS PACS PRISM QuikSCAT RADARSAT RAINEX SeaWiFS SMRP SST TMI TOMS TOPEX UCAR WHOI

American Association for the Advancement of Science Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer Normalized Difference Vegetation Index International Programme on Climate Variability and Predictability CPC Merged Analysis and Prediction Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (the space agency of France) Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Climate Prediction Center Distributed Active Archive Center European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting European Remote-sensing Satellite Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (NOAA) Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) Hadley Centre’s Sea-Ice and Sea Surface Temperature data set Institute of Global Environment and Society Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Joint Airport Windshear Studies project Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (NASA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Center for Atmospheric Research National Centers for Environmental Prediction Northern Illinois Research on Downbursts project National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Technical Information Service Pan American Climate Studies Pacific Regional Information System Quick Scatterometer Canadian remote sensing satellite Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Change Experiment Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor Satellite and Mesometeorology Research project Sea Surface Temperature Tropical Microwave Imager Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Ocean Topography Experiment University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute

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