Just found this resource, thank you for the attribution.
Email me if you would like a copy of my current list.

Philip

http://www.madison.com/wsj/topstories/318978

evanjones (22:05:23) :

What means TOBS, SHAP, FILNET ?

Heads up! These are not in the Glossary and they definitely should be.

TOBS = Time of Observation bias. Depending on what 24-hour periods you use, you can get some very interesting distortions of the data. The TOBS correction fixes this.

SHAP = Station History Adjustment Program. This adjusts for station moves or urban creep. (Or else it doesn’t!) Bad/Incomplete SHAP is at the heart of the surface station problems.

FILNET = A program that fills in a station’s missing data by means of an interpolation algorithm. A subject of great controversy. One of the great advantages of automated collection of data is that it cuts out the “human element” and (in theory) leaves no gaps in the data record.

When I was in the Air Force, it meant the Continental U. S., including Alaska. The Coterminous (equally Conterminous, both ending in ‘ous’) meant the lower 48. Don’t know whether Alaska is included or not in meteorological usage, but that makes the difference.

Thank You.

(THWBE) An alternate to the greenhouse effect…

Genic is from verb geno in Greek, meaning giving birth

Anthropogenic = given birth by man or technically speaking, man generated

By the way, Greco says that driving an electric car does not do any good to environment unless you re-charge it using solar power.

Actually, if you re-charge it using the electricity plug, you may be doing more harm to environment that when using conventional ICE car.

Greco says your blog is anthropo-eccentric

Greco

REPLY: See my about page for what I’ve done with solar power

Lazy poet that I am, it would be nice if I could click on a acronym in a comment and see its definition. Also, big words. I wonder if there is a program that might automatically do that?

Some people are never satisfied :)

Love your site.

REPLY: I Can’t help with the automated acronyms, but I do have a glossary link at the top of the page.

As for “big words”, how about “Milankovitch Pleistocene climate variation” ;-)

If you want large text, hold down the CTRL key and turn your center mouse scroll wheel and you’ll be able to make the text bigger or smaller.

Or if you don’t have a mouse wheel use the key combination CTRL and + or CTRL and – to change size.

NIPCC Non-governmental International Panel on Climate Change
NACC (US) National Assessment of Climate Change
CCSP (US) Climate Change Science Program

There’s a pile of statistics terminology that deserves a nod as well.

I found another one you may want to include: GHCN.

By the way: even though the list probably looks nicer and more organised in its current arrangement, wouldn’t you agree that it would be more convenient for lay readers (like myself) to merge the two parts of the glossary into one big list? – Or has my layziness (sorry) really gotten to my head on this one?

REPLY: Thanks, will add.

Dang.

Still a good idea.

COOP
HADCRU
NESDIS
CRN (Jonathan)

And maybe even “WUWT”!