Climate change acronyms

A

• AAU - Assigned amount unit
• AMO - Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
• AO - Arctic oscillation

  C

• CDM – Clean Development Mechanism is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment to invest in projects that reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in their own countries.
• CDR - Carbon dioxide removal
• CER – Certified emission reductions
• CFC - Chlorofluorocarbon
• CF₄ - Tetrafluoromethane
• CH₄ - Methane
• COP - Conference of the Parties
• CO₂ - Carbon dioxide
• C₂F₆ - Hexafluoroethane

  E

• ENSO - El Niño-Southern Oscillation

  G

• GCM - General Circulation Model or global climate model
• GFDL - Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
• GHG - Greenhouse gas
• GWP - Global-warming potential

  H

• HCFC - Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
• HFC - Hydrofluorocarbon
• H₂O - Water vapor

  I

• IPO - Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

  N

• NAPA – National Adaptation Programme of Action.
• NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research
• NF₃ - Nitrogen trifluoride
• N₂0 - Nitrous oxide

  O

• OHC - Ocean heat content
• O₃ - Ozone

  P

• PDO - Pacific decadal oscillation

  R

• REDD – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation mechanisms use market/financial incentives to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation.

  S

• SST - Sea surface temperature
• SF₆ - Sulfur hexafluoride

  T

• TEWI - Total equivalent warming impact

  U

• UHI - Urban heat island

  W

• WMO - World Meteorological Organization