International infrastructure supporting and linking data requirements for ACRE and the surface-observations-only reanalyses it is supporting

Acronyms

ACRE

Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over Earth

AOPC

Atmosphere Observation Panel for Climate

CDMP

Climate Database Modernization Program of NCDC

CDSI

Climate Data Support Initiative

CIRES

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

ECSN

European Climate Support Network

eGY

Electronic Geophysical Year

GCOS

Global Climate Observing System

GLOBE Program

Worldwide network of students, teachers, and scientists working together to study and understand the global environment

ICOADS

International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set

IEDRO

International Environmental Data Rescue Organisation

ISPD

International Surface Pressure Data Bank

Met Office

Hadley Centre for Climate Change, Met Office

NCDC

NOAA National Climatic Data Center

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

OOPC

Ocean Observation Panel for Climate

QCCCE

Queensland Climate Change Centre of Excellence)

RECLAIM

RECovery of Logbooks And International Marine data

SIGN

Signatures of Environmental Change in the Observations of the Geophysical Institutes (Portuguese instrumental data project)

SPWG

GCOS AOPC/OOPC Surface Pressure Working Group

WMO

World Meteorological Organisation (http://www.wmo.ch/)

WMO DARE

WMO Data Rescue Project