| AECO |
Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators |
| ALOS |
Advanced Land Observing Satellite |
| AMSR |
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer |
| APECS |
Association of Polar Early Career Scientists |
| APPLICATE |
Advanced Prediction in Polar regions and beyond: Modelling, observing system design and LInkages associated with ArctiC ClimATE change |
| ARC MFC |
Arctic Monitoring Forecasting Centre |
| ArcMBA |
Arctic Missio Benefit Analysis |
| ARCSAR |
Arctic and North Atlantic Security and Emergency Preparedness Network |
| ARICE |
Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium |
| ASIP |
Automatiserede havisprodukter for grønlandske farvande |
| ASSW |
Arctic Science Summit Week |
| C3S |
Copernicus Climate Change Service |
| CALM/TSP |
Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring Network – |
| CARRA |
Copernicus Arctic Regional ReAnalysis |
| CIRFA |
Centre for Integrated Remote Sensing and Forecasting for Arctic Operations |
| CliC |
Climate and Cryosphere |
| CLIVAR |
Climate variability and predictability |
| CLMS |
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service |
| CMEMS |
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service |
| CMIP |
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
| CMUG |
Climat Modelling User Group |
| COMNAP |
Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs |
| CSA |
Coordination and Support Action |
| DIAS |
Data and Information Access Services |
| DLR |
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center) |
| ECV |
Essential Climate Variable |
| EEA |
European Environment Agency |
| EGNSS |
European Global Navigation Satellite Systems |
| EIS |
European Ice Services |
| EMSA |
European Maritime Safety Agency |
| EO |
Earth Observation |
| EOEP |
Earth Observation Envelope Program |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ETSI |
Expert Team on Sea Ice |
| EUMETSAT |
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites |
| FO |
Financial Officer |
| FYI |
First year ice |
| GA |
General Assembly |
| GCOS |
Global Climate Observing System |
| GCW |
Global Cryosphere Watch |
| GEOCRI |
GEO Cold Regions |
| GEOSS |
Global Earth Observation System of Systems |
| GHG |
Greenhouse Gas |
| GLO MFC |
Global Monitoring and Forecasting Center |
| GOS |
Global Observing System |
| GPR |
Ground Penetrating Radar |
| GTN-P |
Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost |
| HPCM |
High Priority Candidate Mission |
| IAATO |
International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators |
| IASC |
International Arctic Science Committee |
| ICES |
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea |
| ICOS |
Integrated Carbon Observation System |
| IHO |
International Hydrographic Organization |
| IICWG |
International Ice Charting Working Group |
| IICWG-DAWG |
IICWG Data Assimilation and modelling Working Group |
| IMO |
International Maritime Organization |
| IMR |
Institute of Marine Research (Norway) |
| INTAROS |
Integrated Arctic observation system |
| INTERACT |
International Network for Terrestrial Research and Monitoring in the Arctic |
| IOC |
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission |
| IOS |
Integrated Observing System |
| IPY |
International Polar Year |
| JAXA |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| JCOMM |
Joint Commission on Marine Meteorology |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| KEPLER |
Key Environmental monitoring for Polar Latitudes and European Readiness |
| LEAR |
Legal Entity Appointed Representative |
| MDA |
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates |
| MST |
Management Support Team |
| MYI |
Multi-year ice |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NORP |
Northern Oceans Region Panel |
| NVE |
Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate |
| NWS |
National Weather Service (USA) |
| OSI SAF |
Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility |
| OSI TAC |
Ocean and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Center |
| PAB |
Project Advisory Board |
| PM |
Programme Manager |
| PO |
Programme Office |
| PPP |
Polar Prediction Project |
| PSTG |
Polar Space Task Group |
| QND |
Quantitative Network Design |
| RPAS |
Remote Piloted Airborne Systems |
| SALIENSEAS |
Enhancing the Saliency of climate services for marine mobility Sectors in European Arctic Seas |
| SAON |
Sustaining Arctic Observing Networks |
| SaR |
Search and Rescue |
| SAR |
Synthetic Aperture Radar |
| SC |
Steering Committee |
| SCAR |
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research |
| SEDNA |
Safe maritime operations under extreme conditions: the Arctic case |
| SEOM |
Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions |
| SICCI |
Sea Ice Climate Change Initiative |
| SIDARUS |
Sea Ice Downstream Services for Arctic and Antarctic Users and Stakeholders |
| SIMIP |
Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project |
| SIOS |
Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System |
| SPICES |
Space-borne observations for detecting and forecasting sea ice cover extremes |
| TEP |
Thematic Exploitation Platform |
| TL |
Task Leader |
| TPM |
Third-Party Mission |
| UiO |
University of Oslo |
| USGS |
United States Geological Survey |
| UWB |
Ultra Wideband |
| WEF |
World Economic Forum |
| WGI |
Integrated Working Group |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |
| WP |
Work Package |
| WPL |
Work Package Leader |
| WWRP |
World Weather Research Programme |
| YOPP |
Year Of Polar Prediction |
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