| ADP |
Approximate Dynamic Programing |
| AGCM |
Atmospheric General Circulation Model |
| AMOC |
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation |
| AOD |
Aerosol Optical Depth |
| AOGCM |
Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model |
| BOAT |
Barkley’s Ocean Anomalies and Trends |
| CAM4 |
Community Atmospheric Model, version 4 |
| CAM5 |
Community Atmospheric Model, version 5 |
| CCS |
Carbon Capture and Storage |
| CDF |
Cumulative Distribution Function |
| CDR |
Carbon Dioxide Removal |
| CEDM |
The Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making |
| CESM |
Community Earth System Model |
| CLM4 |
Community Land Model, version 4 |
| CMIP |
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project |
| CMIP3 |
Coupled Model Intercomparision Project, Phase 3 |
| CMIP5 |
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, Phase 5 |
| CMN |
College of Menominee Nation |
| CReSIS |
Center for Remote Sensing for Ice Sheets, an NSF STC |
| CRF |
Climate Response Function |
| DICE |
Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and Economy |
| DISCCRS |
Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research |
| DOE |
United States Department of Energy |
| DSSAT |
Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer |
| EBM |
Energy Balance Model |
| EIA |
U.S. Energy Information Agency |
| EMIC |
Earth-System Model of Intermediate Complexity |
| ENTICE |
Endogenous Technological Change in the DICE Model |
| ESD |
Empirical/Statistical Downscaling |
| ESM |
Earth System Model or Earth System Modeling |
| ESSP |
Penn State’s Earth and Space Science Partnership |
| FAO |
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization |
| FUND |
The Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation, and Distribution (an integrated assessment model) |
| GAMS |
General ALgebraic Modeling System |
| GCAM |
Global Change Assessment Model |
| GCM |
Global Climate Model or General Circulation Model |
| GeoMIP |
Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project |
| GHG |
Greenhouse Gas |
| GIS |
Greenland Ice Sheet |
| GLDAS |
Global Land Data Assimilation System |
| GLISA |
Great Lakes Integrated Science Assessment |
| GrIS |
Greenland Ice Sheet |
| GTO |
Global Teleconnection Operators |
| HADCM |
Hadley Centre Coupled Model |
| HadCRUT |
A gridded dataset of monthly mean near-surface air temperature observations compiled by the Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia |
| IAM |
Integrated Assessment Model |
| ICAM |
Integrated Climate Assessment Model |
| ICOLD |
International Comission on Large Dams |
| IEA |
International Energy Agency |
| IPCC |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| ISGM |
Integrated Global System Model |
| IWREC |
International Water Resource Economics Consortium |
| KSS |
Knowledge Systems for Sustainability |
| LGM |
Last Glacial Maximum |
| MAGICC |
Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Induced Climate Change |
| MCMC |
Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| MORDM |
Multi-Objective Optimization to Robust Decision Making |
| MPSGE |
Mathematical Programming System for General Equilibrium Analysis |
| MTE |
Multi-Tree Ensemble |
| NLDAS |
North American Land Data Assimilation System |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| OHC |
Ocean Heat Content |
| PAESTA |
Pennsylvania Earth Science Teachers Association |
| PCA |
Principal Components Analysis |
| PDF |
Probability Density Function |
| piControl |
Pre-industrial control simulations |
| PIAMDDI |
Program on Integrated Assessment Development, Diagnostics, and Intercomparison |
| PIG |
Pine Island Glacier |
| PNA |
Pacific North America |
| PNAS |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |
| POMDP |
Partially-Observable Markov Decision Process |
| PRISM |
Parameter-elevation Relationships on Independent Slopes Model, a high resolution temperature and precipitation dataset |
| R |
An open-source programming language for statistical computing |
| RAND |
Research and Development Corporation |
| RCM |
Regional Climate Model |
| RCP |
Representative Concentration Pathway |
| RDM |
Robust Decision Making |
| RICE |
Regional Integrated Climate-Economy Model |
| RISE UP |
Research Integrity in Science and Engineering at University Park |
| SAT |
Surface Air Temperature |
| SCRiM |
The Network for Sustainable Climate Risk Management |
| SDI |
Sustainable Development Institute the College of Menominee Nation |
| SICOPOLIS |
Simulation Code for Polythermal Ice Sheets |
| SLR |
Sea Level Rise |
| SNEaSy |
Simple Nonlinear Earth System Model |
| SPiCE |
Science and Policy in the Climate studies Exchange |
| SRM |
Solar Radiation Management |
| SRN |
Sustainability Research Network |
| SSP |
Shared Socioeconomic Pathway |
| SST |
Sea Surface Temperature |
| STC |
Science and Technology Center |
| STEM |
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics |
| THW |
Thwaites Glacier |
| UQ |
Uncertainty Quantification |
| USDA |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| UVic |
University of Victoria Earth System Climate Model |
| ViMM |
Values-informed Mental Models |
| WAIS |
West Antarctic Ice Sheet |
| WMO |
World Meteorological Organization |