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Calvin cycle photosynthetic pathway, often used by plants in higher latitudes and altitudes Hatch-Slack photosynthetic pathway, often used by plants in sunnier, warmer environments Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate Model Intercomparison Project (project under &GAIM;) &ISO; country code for Canada <I>ca</I>, circa, from the Latin, a word meaning 'approximately', 'about' or 'around' calcium, an alkaline earth element California (US state) Canada cluster analysis, a multivariate statistical method correspondence analysis, a multivariate statistical method cellular automata Canadian Archaeological Association. See &LINK001; Central Arid Asia (component of &START;) Canadian Arctic Archipelago Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute. See &LINK002; Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution Canadian Association of Geographers. See &LINK003; colour alteration index, used to assess alteration of microfossils from lithified contexts calibrated calendrical calculated calculated calcareous calcified Circum-polar Active Layer Monitoring (activity of &IPA;) career and life management crassulacean acid metabolism, one of the pathways through which plants fix carbon dioxide central age model Central Asian Multidisciplinary Environmental Linkages (informal research co-operative) central Atlantic magma province central Atlantic magmamatic province prefix for &AMS; radiocarbon dates produced at Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California (USA) Canadian Quaternary Association. See &LINK004; Canadian Soil Information System (Canada, Federal, Agriculture and Agrifood Canada). See &LINK005; Canadian Association of Palynologists. See &LINK006; Common Agricultural Policy, of the &EU; Circumpolar Arctic PaleoEnvironments (project, formerly called &PALE;, task under Focus II of &IGBP; - &PAGES;) Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment - concerned with ecosystems and human health Canadian Association of Provincial and Territorial Archaeologists census agricultural region (used by Statistics Canada) Central Africa Republic Carbon Dioxide Intercalibration Experiment (&IGAC; activity) Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. See &LINK007; classification and regression trees Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (project, Canada). See &LINK043; Council for British Archaeology. See &LINK008; central business area, of a large city or urban area Christmas bird count Canadian Botanical Conservation Network (Canada). A joint project between Environment Canada, the Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton, Ontario, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. See &LINK009; citrate-bicarbonate-dithionite, an extraction agent for iron oxides from soils Central Business District of a large city or urban area Convention on Biological Diversity, of the &UNEP;, came into force on December 29 1993 China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite Program Canadian Biodiversity Information Network. See &LINK010; coal bed methane &ISO; country code for Cocos (Keeling) Islands canonical correspondence analysis, a multivariate statistical method Canadian Carographic Association. See &LINK011; Climate Change Action Fund (Canada, Federal funding) Coastal Change Analysis Project (US, &NOAA;, Federal project) Crop Condition Assessment Program (maintained by Statistics Canada) Canadian Climate Centre Committee on Climatic Changes and the Ocean calcium compensation depth carbonate compensation depth colony collapse disorder, a condition affecting honeybee colonies in North America Canadian Council on Ecological Areas. See &LINK046; Canadian Coast Guard Ship Canadian Circumpolar Institute (research institute, based at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). See &LINK012; Canadian Conservation Institute (located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Canada Centre for Inland Waters (Canadian Federal agency, located in Burlington, Ontario, Canada) community climate model carbonate concentration mechanisms cloud condensation nuclei Canadian Climate Normals Canadian Climate Program (Canada, Federal) Cities for Climate Protection cryptocrystalline quartzite, often used in archaeology to describe rock used for tool-making Canadian Climate Research Network Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing crypto-crystalline silicate census consolidated sub-division (used by Statistics Canada) carbon capture and storage carbon capture and sequestration Canadian Coastal Science and Engineering Association. See &LINK013; community climate system model Chicago Climate Exchange, carbon dioxide emissions trading forum cadmium, a transition element Conservation Data Centre (Canada, three centres have been established, one each in British Columbia, Quebec, and Saskatchewan) Canadian Drought Code &IATA; airport code for Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris, France Clean Development Mechanism, part of Kyoto Protocol Christian era or common era, the 'politically correct' version of A.D. Christian era or common era, the 'politically correct' version of A.D. cerium, a transition element cumulative effects assessment cation exchange capacity Commission of the European Community cosmic exposure dating, an experimental dating technique Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society Climates and Environments of the Last Interglacial in the Arctic (project) Centre d'étude nordiques (based at Laval University, Quebec, Canada) Chief Executive Officer, of a company or organization Committee on Earth Observation Satellites Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System, one of the five observation instruments on &NASA;'s &EOS; Terra spacecraft Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation. See &LINK044; Byname for Organization Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire, originally Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire Chinese Ecological Research Network Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, maintained by Environment Canada (Department, federal). See &LINK047; &ISO; country code for The Democratic Republic of the Congo Canada Department of Agriculture (Federal Goverment department) &ISO; country code for Central African Republic californium, a radiocative element Canadian Forces Base continental flood basal province(s) Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. See &LINK045; chlorofluorocarbons Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences. See &LINK014; Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences continuous flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry Cape Floral Kingdom (South Africa) Chief Financial officer, of a company or an organization call for proposals call for papers Canadian Forest Service (Canadian Federal agency) &ISO; country code for Congo Canadian Geoscience Council. See &LINK014; Coupled General Circulation Models Canadian Global Change Program. Contact at &LINK015;. See &LINK016; or &LINK017; Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research Canadian Geomorphology Research Group. Contact at &LINK018;. See &LINK019; Canadian Geotechnical Society Canadian Geophysical Union. See &LINK020; &ISO; country code for Switzerland Canadian Honey Council. See &LINK021; Climate-Hydrology-Ecosystems Interrelations in Mountainous Regions (interdisciplinary action plan for mountain research, sponsored by &BAHC;) Canadian Heritage Information Network. See &LINK022; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, the four most common elements in the universe &ISO; country code for Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) confidence interval(s) contour interval(s) compression ignition, type of engine running on diesel fuel Council for Independent Archaeology (U.K.). See &LINK023; Center for International and Environmental Research (Oslo, Norway). See &LINK024; Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, based at University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada airport code for Cedar Rapids Airport, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Canadian Ice Database Canadian International Development Agency carbon isotope excursion crossover immunoelectrophoresis, a method for detecting proteins from blood residues Centre for International Forestry Research Canadian Institute of Mining Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paléozoique Chief Information Officer, of a company or an organization Canadian Institute for Research in Atmospheric Chemistry carbon isotope excursion Confederation of Independent States Commonwealth of Independent States, of former Soviet Union <I>Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences</I>. See &LINK025; &ISO; country code for Cook Islands &ISO; country code for Chile cathodoluminescence chlorine, a halogen element climate-leaf analysis multivariate program, used in palaeobotany to derive estimates of temperature and precipitation from the size and shape of fossil angiosperm leaves Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (&UN; entity) Climate and Cryosphere (project under &WCRP;) Climate Prediction and Agriculture (project coordinated by &START; and sponsored by &IGBP;, &WCRP;, and &IHDP;) Climatic Mapping of Australia and New Zealand. See &LINK026; Climate Prediction and Agriculture (component of &START;) Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, Analysis and Prediction (project) Climates of the Past Climate Variability and Predictability (&WCRP; project). See &LINK027; Climate Database for the World Oceans (funded by the European Union, 2001-2003). See &LINK028; Chinese Loess Plateau Chinese Lake Status Data Base (&PAGES;) &ISO; country code for Cameroon curium, a radioactive element cosmic microwave background Canadian Museum of Civilization (located in Hull, Quebec, Canada). See &LINK029;. Canadian Meteorological Centre Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (&NOAA;, USA) carbonaceous mass fraction (the ratio of the mass of carbonaceous material to the total aerosol mass) Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, federal agency climate moisture index cold month mean temperature Canadian Museum of Nature (located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). See &LINK030; Carnegie Museum of Natural History (located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. See &LINK031; common mid-point catchment management plan culturally-modified tree(s) &ISO; country code for China Canadian Nature Federation. See &LINK032; Central North Pacific Centre National de Recherche Météorologiques (France) Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (France). See &LINK033; &ISO; country code for Colombia Colorado (US state) cobalt, a transition metallic element comprehensive ocean-atmosphere data set Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (component of &TOGA; / &WCRP;) Cosmic Background Explorer, &NASA; satellite, launched in 1989 Canadian Options for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Computer Oriented Geological Society. See &LINK034; Cooperative Holocene Mapping Project Centre for Ocean, Land and Atmosphere collectivités d'outre-mer, or overseas collectivities. Administrative division for some former overseas territories of France. Coastal Marine Project (&UNESCO;) conglomerate carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulphur, elements involved in earth's biogeochemical cycles constrained single-link clustering, a numerical technique for zonation, used in pollen analysis. Chief Operating (or Operational) Officer, of a company or an organization certificate of recognition Circulation Obviation Retrofit Kit, an instrumentation and sampling system used by &ODP; Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada Committee on Space Research Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries continental polluted air mass chloroplast &DNA; central pattern generator Colorado Plateau - Land Use History Northern Arizona. See &LINK035; Core Project Office (each &IGBP; Core Project has a CPO) Core Project Planning Committee continuous plankton recorder Collegium Palynologicum Scandinavicum climatic pointer year(s), used in tree-ring research to identify years of particularly extreme events that affect tree growth &ISO; country code for Costa Rica chromium, a transition metallic element cation-ratio dating cloud radiative forcing collaborative research group(s) prefix for radiocarbon dates produced by Centre de recherches Géodynamiques (France) cultural resource management chemical remanent magnetization, a term used in palaeomagnetic studies Cape Roberts Project (European Community, focuses on ice sheets and climate) Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (US Army agency) See &LINK036; constant rate of supply Canadian Remote Sensing Society Cryospheric System to Monitor Global Change in Canada (contribution to &GEWEX;) &ISO; country code for the former Czechoslovakia caesium or cesium, an alkali metal element Canadian Space Agency (Federal) Canadian Standards Association. See &LINK037; Canadian Society for Coal Science and Organic Petrology Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists. See &LINK038; Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Climate System History and Dynamics (project) Climate Severity Index (an assessment of the climate of a place, determined with respect to human comfort. Index designed by Environment Canada) Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia). See &LINK039; Classification Society of North America. Devoted to the scientific study of classification and clustering. See &LINK040; Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists corporate social responsibility corrected survivorship score cyclic steam stimulation (method for recovering oil and bitumen from tar sands) Crop Science Society of America. See &LINK041; Canadian Society of Soil Science Cenomanian-Turonian Connecticut (US state) consolidated tailings combined tailings, residue from oil sands processing cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, a chemical sometimes used in DNA analysis closed time-like curve, a term used in general relativity and cosmology &ISO; country code for Cuba copper, a transition metallic element, the name comes from cuprum in Latin &ISO; country code for Cape Verde coefficient of variation curriculum vitae (a summary of major career events and achievements) change vector analysis Cascade Volcano Observatory (component of &USGS;). See &LINK042; Canadian Well Logging Society Canadian Water Resources Association. prefix for radiocarbon dates produced at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Canadian Wildlife Service, a federal agency &ISO; country code for Christmas Island &ISO; country code for Cyprus &ISO; country code for Czech Republic Coastal Zone Colour Scanner (&NASA;)