List of acronyms

AARI

Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (St.Petersburg, Russia)

BSIM

Baltic Sea Ice Meeting

CIS

Canadian Ice Service (Ottawa, Canada)

CMM

former WMO Commission for Marine Meteorology

DMI

Danish Meteorological Institute (Denmark, Copenhagen)

FIMR

Finnish Institute of Marine Research (Finland, Helsinki)

JCOMM

Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

JMA

Japan Meteorological Agency (Tokyo, Japan)

NIC

National Ice Center (Washington DC, USA)

NSIDC

National Snow and Data Center/WDC-A for glaciology (Boulder, CO, USA)

SMHI

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Norrkoping, Sweden)

SGSI

former WMO CMM Sub-group on sea ice

WDC

World Data Center

WMO

World Meteorological Organization