Acronyms

ABC-UNEP: Atmospheric Brown Clouds - United Nations Environmental Program

ACTRIS: Aerosols, Clouds, and Trace gases Research InfraStructure Network

AWS: Automatic Weather Station

CEOP-AEGIS: Coordinated Asia-European long-term Observing system of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau hydro-meteorological processes and the Asian-monsoon systEm with Ground satellite Image data and numerical Simulations

CMCC: Centro EuroMediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici

CMIP5: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5

CNR-DTA: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Dipartimento Terra e Ambiente

CNR-ISAC: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienze dell’Atmosfera e del Clima

CNR-IGG: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse

CORDEX: Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

DISAT-UNIMIB: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e del Territorio, Università di Milano Bicocca

DRIHM: Distributed Research Infrastructure for Hydrometeorology

ECRA: European Climate Research Alliance

EMODNET: European Marine Observation and Data Network

ENEA-UTMEA: Environment and Energy Modeling Technical Unit of the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

EU-EUSAAR: European Union - European Supersites for Atmospheric Aerosol Research

EU-ACCENT: European Union - Atmospheric Composition Change: the European Network

FP7: 7th Framework Programme

GAW: Global Atmosphere Watch

GCOS: Global Climate Observing System

GEO/GEOSS: Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GEWEX: Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

GIIDA: Gestione Integrata e Interoperativa dei Dati Ambientali

GMES: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

HKKH: Hindu-Kush – Karakorum – Himalaya

HyMeX: Hydrological Cycle in Mediterranean Experiment

IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency

ICIMOD: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

ICOS: Integrated Carbon Observation System

ICTP: The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics

IGS: International Glaciological Society

ILTER: International Long Term Ecological Research

IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

INGV – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia

JPI: Joint Programming Initiative

JRP: Joint Research Programme

LFA-UMSA: Atmospheric Physics Laboratory of the Institute of Physical Research at University of San Andrés

MeteoMet: Metrology for Meteorology

MIUR: Ministry for University and Research

NASA-AERONET: US National Aeronautics and Space Administration - AErosol RObotic NETwork

NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research

TERRABITES: Terrestrial Biosphere in the Earth System

UNEP: United Nations Environmental Program UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

WCRP-CEOP: World Climate Research Programme-Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observation Project

WHO: World Health Organization

WMO: World Meteorological Organization