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Aug 8th, 2018 at 7:25am
 
The use of acronyms has meant that environment discussion is hard to follow.
Some people even make up their own acronyms
in order to sound clever.


UHI - An urban heat island  is an urban area or metropolitan area that is significantly warmer
than its surrounding rural areas due to human activities.

GSM - Grand Solar Minimum - Grand solar minima and maxima
Grand solar minima occur when several solar cycles exhibit lesser than average activity for decades or centuries. Solar cycles still occur during these grand solar minimum periods but are at a lower intensity than usual. Grand solar minima have shown some correlation with global and regional climate changes.

AGW - Anthropogenic global warming -  human induced climate change.

According to Monk -
TSI stands for Total Solar Infoliation or the amount of sunlight receive at TOA  - Top of Atmosphere.
I couldn't find this with Google - maybe Monk made it up?.

TSI stands for Total solar Irradiance.
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Reply #1 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 6:53pm
 
I've updated the original post as promised.

Please feel free to add more environment acronyms as needed.
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Reply #2 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 8:04pm
 
I've deleted all the off topic posts including my own.
Greggy - stop posting your nonsense here.
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Reply #3 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 8:38pm
 
SST -   Sea Surface Temperature.
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Reply #4 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 9:06pm
 
PDO, ADO, IDO, DO -


Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Ocean Decadal Oscillations and the Arctic DO.
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Reply #5 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 9:09pm
 
ENSO  -  El Nino/Southern Oscillation  cycle
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Reply #6 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 9:15pm
 
OHC - Historic Ocean Heat Content (OHC) .

OHCA - Calculations of OHC anomalies.
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Reply #7 - Aug 8th, 2018 at 9:27pm
 
RAMA -

The Research Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) was designed to study the Indian Ocean’s role in the monsoons.  One third of the world population depends on monsoon driven rainfall for agricultural production, so improving our understanding and ability to predict the monsoons has been a longstanding objective of the international scientific community. RAMA, the newest tropical buoy array, was initiated in the traditionally data sparse Indian Ocean in 2004 following deployment of successful pilot scale arrays by Japan and India.  RAMA has since grown through the formation of new partnerships that at present include Indonesia, China, the USA, and the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem (BOBLME) program.
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PIRATA

Atlantic Ocean - PIRATA
Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Atlantic

PIRATA was designed to study ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Atlantic that affect regional weather and climate variability on seasonal, interannual and longer time scales. Ocean-atmosphere interactions in this region influence the development of droughts, floods, severe tropical storms and hurricanes, with impacts felt by millions of people in the Americas and Africa.  PIRATA was first established in the mid-1990s and has undergone expansions and enhancements since 2005 to improve its utility for ocean and climate research and forecasting.  To reflect these improvements in design, the original PIRATA acronym was changed in 2008 from "Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic"  to "Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic".  PIRATA is supported by France ((IRD, Meteo-France, CNRS and IFREMER), Brazil (INPE and DHN) and the USA (NOAA)
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TAO/TRITON


Pacific Ocean - TAO

Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO)

The TAO/TRITON Array was designed to better understand and predict climate variations related to El Niño and the Southern Oscillation (ENSO).  ENSO, the warm phase of which we refer to as El Niño and the cold phase La Niña, represents the strongest year-to-year climate fluctuation on the planet. ENSO events significantly disrupt normal patterns of weather variability, affecting agriculture, transportation, resource management, energy production, and the lives of millions of people around the globe. ENSO also affects Pacific marine ecosystems and commercially valuable fish stocks such as tuna and anchovy.  TAO/TRITON was built over the 10 year period 1985-94 and is presently supported by the USA (NOAA/National Weather Service / National Data Buoy Center) and Japan (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology).
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ITCZ

Inter Tropical Convergence Zone

Acronym of ITCZ is "Inter Tropical Convergence Zone". It is a zone of low pressure area near the equator where the convergence of two easterly winds originating from the both northern and southern hemispheres.


https://www.quora.com/Meteorology-What-does-the-ITCZ-stand-for

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Acronym of ITCZ is "Inter Tropical Convergence Zone".

It is a zone of low pressure area near the equator where the convergence of two easterly winds originating from the both northern and southern hemispheres. The excessive heat absorbed at the surface over the tropical oceans is transferred to the lower troposphere through evaporation then transported to higher altitudes through convection and latent heat release and to higher latitudes through the Hadley circulation. This is the zone of enhanced convection, cloudiness and rainfall. the ITCZ plays an important role in the  atmospheric energy balance and earth's climate, because the enhanced cloudiness associated with this convective system contributes significantly to the planetary albedo , absorptivity  and transmissivity of the incident solar radiation.
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