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		<description>estradiol, a natural steroid</description>
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		<description>environmental assessment</description>
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	<word value="EAIS" search="EAIS">
		<description>East Antarctic Ice Sheet</description>
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	<word value="EAM" search="EAM">
		<description>East Asian Monsoon</description>
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	<word value="EAPG" search="EAPG">
		<description>European Association of Petroleum Geologists</description>
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		<description>Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage, &ESF; program</description>
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		<description>European Atlantic Seaboard Project</description>
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		<description>energy balance models</description>
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	<word value="ec" search="EC">
		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ec.html">
			&ISO; country code for Ecuador
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	<word value="EC" search="EC">
		<description>extratropical cyclone</description>
		<description>European Community</description>
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		<description>enhanced coal bed methane</description>
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	<word value="ECHAM" search="ECHAM">
		<description>European Centre/Hamburg Model (one of the climate models)</description>
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		<description>European International Project on Climate and Hydrological Interactions between Vegetation, Atmosphere, and Land Surfaces (component of &BAHC;)</description>
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		<description>electrical conductivity measurement(s)</description>
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		<description>European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts</description>
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		<description>equivalent dose</description>
		<description>external diameter</description>
		<description>exterior diameter</description>
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		<description>energy-dispersive x-ray analysis</description>
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		<description>electronic distance measurement EDS</description>
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		<description>ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (chelating agent)</description>
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		<description>energy-dispersive x-ray analysis</description>
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	<word value="ee" search="EE">
		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/en.html">
			&ISO; country code for Estonia
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		<description>Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication</description>
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		<description>environmental earth science(s)</description>
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		<description>exclusive economic zone, defines jurisdiction over sea-bed resources</description>
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		<description>England finder, a specially-marked slide used for re-locating microfossil specimens in slide mounts</description>
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		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/eg.html">
			&ISO; country code for Egypt
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	<word value="EGIG" search="EGIG">
		<description>International Glaciological Expedition to Greenland</description>
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	<word value="EGU" search="EGU">
		<description>European Geosciences Union</description>
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	<word value="eh" search="EH">
		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wi.html">
			&ISO; country code for Western Sahara
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	<word value="EH" search="EH">
		<description>Early Holocene</description>
		<description>environmental history</description>
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		<description>ecological integrity</description>
		<description>evaporation-inflow ratio</description>
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	<word value="EIA" search="EIA">
		<description>environmental impact assessment</description>
		<description>Early Iron Age</description>
		<description>Energy Information Administration (USA, federal agency)</description>
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		<description>East Iceland Current</description>
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	<word value="EID" search="EID">
		<description>Eastern Irrigation District (HQ in Brooks, Alberta, Canada)</description>
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	<word value="EIG" search="EIG">
		<description>Environmental Integrity Group</description>
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	<word value="EIM" search="EIM">
		<description>electronic information management</description>
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	<word value="EIP" search="EIP">
		<description>Elk Island Park (National Park, in central Alberta, Canada)</description>
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		<description>European IGAC Project Office</description>
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		<description>environmental impact statement</description>
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		<description>European Ice-Sheet Model Intercomparison project</description>
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		<description>economies in transition</description>
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		<description>equilibrium-line altitude, the level on a glacier at which accumulation and ablation are in balance</description>
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		<description>Experimental Lakes Area (Canada, Federal project, administered by Department of Fisheries and Oceans). See &LINK001;</description>
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		<description>European Lake Coring Project</description>
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		<description>European Lake Drilling Program. See &LINK002;</description>
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	<word value="ELF" search="ELF">
		<description>extremely low frequency (of electromagnetic energy)</description>
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	<word value="ELISA" search="ELISA">
		<description>enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay</description>
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	<word value="ELOISE" search="ELOISE">
		<description>European Land-Ocean Interaction Studies</description>
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	<word value="ELSA" search="ELSA">
		<description>Eifel laminated sediment archive, activity under &DEKLIM;</description>
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	<word value="EM" search="EM">
		<description>electromagnetic</description>
		<description>environmental monitoring</description>
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	<word value="EMAN" search="EMAN">
		<description>Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (Canada, Federal, Environment Canada). See &LINK003;</description>
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	<word value="EMCO" search="EMCO">
		<description>Ecological Monitoring Co-ordinating Office (Canada, Federal, Environment Canada)</description>
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	<word value="EMH" search="EMH">
		<description>Early Middle Holocene</description>
		<description>Early Mid-Holocene</description>
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	<word value="EMIC" search="EMIC">
		<description>Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity</description>
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		<description>European Macroseismic Scale, for denoting intensity of earthquakes</description>
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	<word value="ENA" search="ENA">
		<description>eastern North America</description>
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		<description>European North Atlantic Margin</description>
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		<description>ecological niche model</description>
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		<description>European Network for Research in Global Change (&CEC;). See &LINK004;</description>
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		<description>El Ni&ntilde;o-Southern Oscillation</description>
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	<word value="E/O" search="E/O">
		<description>Eocene/Oligocene boundary</description>
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	<word value="E-O" search="E-O">
		<description>Eocene-Oligocene Boundary</description>
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	<word value="EOB" search="EOB">
		<description>Eocene-Oligocene Boundary</description>
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	<word value="EOEC" search="EOEC">
		<description>Emergence of European Communities, an archaeological project. See &LINK005;</description>
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	<word value="EOF" search="EOF">
		<description>empirical orthogonal function(s), an alternative terminology for PCA (principal components analysis)</description>
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	<word value="EOI" search="EOI">
		<description>end of input (e.g., in a computer program)</description>
		<description>expression of interest</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EOR" search="EOR">
		<description>enhanced oil recovery</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EOS" search="EOS">
		<description>Earth Observing System (US, &NASA; project)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EOSDIS" search="EOSDIS">
		<description>EOS Data Information System (US, &NASA; project). See &LINK006; for information on Distributed Data Centers</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EOY" search="EOY">
		<description>end of year</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPA" search="EPA">
		<description>Environmental Protection Agency (US Federal agency). See &LINK007;. Also has a section on &LINK008;. </description>
		<description>European Palaeontological Association</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPC" search="EPC">
		<description>European Palaeoclimate and Man Project (deals with human influence on European climate since early Neolithic times)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPD" search="EPD">
		<description>European Pollen Database</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPIC" search="EPIC">
		<description>Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPICA" search="EPICA">
		<description>European Programme for Ice Coring in Antarctica (component of &PAGES;)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPILOG" search="EPILOG">
		<description>Environmental Processes of the Ice Age, Land, Ocean, Glaciers</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPMA" search="EPMA">
		<description>electron probe microanalysis</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPN" search="EPN">
		<description>European Phenology Network (funded by the European Commission). See &LINK009;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPOCH" search="EPOCH">
		<description>European Programme for Climatology and Natural Hazards</description>
		<description>European Programme on Climate and Hazards (&CEC;)</description>
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	<word value="EPPC" search="EPPC">
		<description>European Palaeobotanical and Palynological Conference (international conference, meets every four years)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EPS" search="EPS">
		<description>expressed population signal</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EQ" search="EQ">
		<description>environmental quality</description>
	</word>
	<word value="er" search="ER">
		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/er.html">
			&ISO; country code for Eritrea
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	</word>
	<word value="Er" search="ER">
		<description wikipedia="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erbium">
			erbium, a transition metallic element
		</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ERBE" search="ERBE">
		<description>Earth Radiation Budget Experiment</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ERI" search="ERI">
		<description>Electrical Resistivity Imaging, a remote sensing technique</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EROEI" search="EROEI">
		<description>energy return on energy investment</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ERS" search="ERS">
		<description>European Research Satellites</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ERV" search="ERV">
		<description>extended &lt;I&gt;R&lt;/I&gt;-value, a term used in palynology</description>
		<description>endogenous retrovirus</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EQF" search="EQF">
		<description>eolian [sic] quartz flux</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EQMal" search="EQMAL">
		<description>European Quaternary Malacologists. See &LINK010;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="es" search="ES">
		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sp.html">
			&ISO; country code for Spain
		</description>
	</word>
	<word value="Es" search="ES">
		<description wikipedia="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsteinium">
			einsteinium, a transition metallic element
		</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESA" search="ESA">
		<description>Ecological Society of America</description>
		<description>Equatorial South America (component of START)</description>
		<description>European Space Agency</description>
		<description>Environmentally Sensitive Area(s) (UK)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESCAP" search="ESCAP">
		<description>Economic Soil Commission - Asia Pacific (&UN;)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="E-SCAPE" search="E-SCAPE">
		<description>the Edmonton component of the &SCAPE; project. See &LINK011;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESCs" search="ESCS">
		<description>Ecological Science Co-operatives, formerly Ecological Science Centres (Canada, Federal, Environment Canada)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESE" search="ESE">
		<description>Earth Science Enterprise (&NASA;)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESEM" search="ESEM">
		<description>environmental &SEM;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESF" search="ESF">
		<description>European Science Foundation. See &LINK012;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESH" search="ESH">
		<description>Earth System History (a project of &USGCRP;)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESR" search="ESR">
		<description>electron spin resonance (an experimental dating technique)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESS" search="ESS">
		<description>earth system science</description>
		<description>evolutionarily stable strategy</description>	
	</word>
	<word value="ESSE" search="ESSE">
		<description>Earth System Science Education. See &LINK013;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESSP" search="ESSP">
		<description>Earth System Science Partnership, between &IGBP;, &WCRP;, &IHDP;, and &DIVERSITAS; See &LINK014;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ESTOC" search="ESTOC">
		<description>European Station for Time-Series in the Ocean, Canary Islands</description>
	</word>
	<word value="et" search="ET">
		<description factbook="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/et.html">
			&ISO; country code for Ethiopia
		</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ET" search="ET">
		<description>evapotranspiration</description>
		<description>effective temperature</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ETH-" search="ETH-">
		<description>prefix for &AMS; dates produced by Eiden&ouml;ssische Technische Hochschule (Zurich, Switzerland)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ETIs" search="ETIS">
		<description>environmental tolerance indices</description>
	</word>
	<word value="ETM" search="ETM">
		<description>Eocene Thermal Maximum</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EU" search="EU">
		<description>European Union</description>
		<description>&Eacute;tats-Unis (United States)</description>
	</word>
	<word value="Eu" search="EU">
		<description wikipedia="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium">
			europium, a transition metallic element
		</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EUG" search="EUG">
		<description>European Union of Geosciences. See &LINK015;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EU-OCEANS" search="EU-OCEANS">
		<description>EURopean network of excellence for OCean Ecosystems ANalysis, funded by &EC;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="Euromam" search="EUROMAM">
		<description>European Quaternary Mammal Research Association. See &LINK016;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EUROSTART" search="EUROSTART">
		<description>European Planning Committee for &START;</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EWE" search="EWE">
		<description>extreme weather event</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EWG" search="EWG">
		<description>Energy Watch Group</description>
	</word>
	<word value="EXPRESSO" search="EXPRESSO">
		<description>Experiment for Regional Sources and Sinks of Oxidants (&IGAC; activity)</description>
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