Acronym
Full Name
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UNFCCC
United Nations Framework
OPP
Convention on Climate Change
NSF)
USA
United States of America
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USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
PACE
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Office of Polar Programs (of US
Polynyas in a Changing Arctic
Environment
WG
Working Group (of IASC)
PAG
Pacific Arctic Group
WCRP
World Climate Research Program
PAN
Polar Archaeology Network
WMO
World Meteorological Organization
PCSP
Polar Continental Shelf Program
WWFN
World Wildlife Fund for Nature
WWW
World Wide Web
(Canada)
PI
Principal Investigator
PP
Permanent Participant (of the
Arctic Council)
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Russian Academy of Science
RRT
Roots, Rogne, and Taagholt
(report)
SAO
Senior Arctic Official
SAON
Sustaining Arctic Observing
Network
SBE
Shelf Basin Exchange (working
Group)
SCANNET
[Scandinavian Network of field
research groups]
SCAR
Scientific Committee on Antarctic
Research
SCOR
Scientific Committee on Oceanic
Research
SEARCH
Study of Environmental Arctic
Change
SIRRO
Siberian River Run-Off (project)
SOOS
Southern Ocean Observing
System
SWIPA
Snow, Water, Ice, and Permafrost
in the Arctic
-----------------------------------------------------------UARCTIC
University of the Arctic
UK
United Kingdom
UN
United Nations
UNEP
United Nations Environment
Programme
UNESCO
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization
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