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| Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CADIS | see AON-CADIS |
| CALM | Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring of WMO |
| CAgM | Commission of Agricultural Meteorology of WMO |
| Cap-Net | Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management, an associated programme of GWP |
| CARIB HYCOS | Caribbean Hydrological Cycle Observing System, belongs to WHYCOS |
| CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992 |
| CBS | Commission for Basic Systems of WMO |
| CCCMA | Canadian Center for Climate Modelling and Analysis, University of Victoria, Canada |
| CCM2 | River and Catchments Database for Europe |
| CCPWF | CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food |
| CEB | Chief Executives Board for Coordination of the UN System |
| CEH | British Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Wallingford |
| CEN | Comité Européen de Normalisation (European Committee for Standardization) |
| CEOP-GHP | Coordinated Energy and Water Cycle Observations Project, a project of GEWEX, renamed to GHP |
| CEOP 2001-2006 | Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period 2001-2006, intercepted in the new CEOP |
| CEOS | Committee on Earth Observation Satellites |
| CESR | Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany |
| CGCM1 | first generation Coupled Global Climate Model of CCCMA |
| CGIAR | Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research |
| CGMW | Commission for the Geological Map of the World |
| C-GTOS | Coastal GTOS, a panel of GTOS |
| Chad HYCOS | Lake Chad Hydrological Cycle Observing System, belongs to WHYCOS |
| CHy | Commission for Hydrology of WMO |
| CIC | Caribbean Island Component of the CARIB HYCOS |
| CICOS | Commission Internationale du Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha |
| CIDI | Center for International Disaster Information |
| CIIFEN | Centro Internacional de investigaciones para el fenómeno El Niño (International Center for Research on El Niño) |
| CILSS | Comité Permanent Inter Etats de lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel) |
| CIMO | Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation of WMO |
| CIPMS | Commissions Internationales pour la Protection de la Moselle et de la Sarre (Internationale Kommissionen zum Schutz der Mosel und der Saar) |
| CIPR | Commission Internationale pour la Protection du Rhin (Internationale Kommission zum Schutz des Rheins) |
| CliC | Climate and Cryosphe, a core project of WCRP |
| CLIVAR | Climate Variability and Predictability, core project of WCRP |
| CNES | Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (French government space agency) |
| COADS | Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set |
| CODATA | Committee on Data for Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary scientific committee of ICSU |
| CODIS | Community Research & Development Information Service |
| COLA | US Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies |
| Congo HYCOS | Congo basin Hydrological Cycle Observing System, belongs to WHYCOS |
| CPPA | Climate Prediction Program for the Americas, a CSE of GEWEX, formerly GAPP |
| CPWC | Co-operative Programme on Water and Climate, formerly DWC |
| CREW | Center for Research on Environment and Water |
| CRU | Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia |
| CryOS | Cryosphere Observing System of IGOS |
| CSD | UN Commission on Sustainable Development |
| CSDGM | Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata of FGDC |
| CSIRO | Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CSIRO MK2 | global coupled ocean-atmosphere-sea-ice model of CSIRO |
| CSRC | Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, US |
| CT-MTDCF | Coordination Team on Migration to Table-driven Code Forms of WMO, merged in ET-CBS |
| CUAHSI | US Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. |
| CUAHSI HIS | CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System |
| CWC | UNECE Capacity for Water Cooperation Project |