Acronyms

AAWS: Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations

AIRS: Aeromatic Information Retrieval System (Database)

AWS: Automatic Weather Station

CERES: Cloud and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System

CF: Climate and Forecast Conventions and Metadata

GCNet: Greenland Climate Network

IMAU: Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research

JAWS: Justified Automated Weather Station

MERRA: Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications

POLENET: The Polar Earth Observing Network

PROMICE: Programme for Monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet

RIGB: Retrospective Iterative Geometry-Based

SCAR: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research