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List of acronyms and abbreviations
| Abbreviation |
Description |
| ALADIN | Aire Limitée Adaptation Dynamique développement INternational |
| AR5 | Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| ARPEGE | Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle |
| BELSPO | Belgian Science Policy |
| CLM | Community Land Model |
| CMIP5 | Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 |
| CNRM | Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques |
| COHERENS | Coupled Hydrodynamical-Ecological Model for Regional and Shelf Seas |
| CORDEX | COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment |
| COSMO | COnsortium for Small-scale MOdeling |
| DI | Drought Index |
| ECC | Ensemble Copula Coupling |
| ECMWF | European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts |
| ERA-Interim | Global atmosperic reanalysis data from 1979 |
| GCM | Global Climate Model |
| GNSS | Global Navigation Satellite System |
| HI | Heat Index |
| H-Res | High Resolution |
| IFS | Integrated Forecast System of ECMWF |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| ISBA | Interactions between Soil, Biosphere, and Atmosphere |
| IWV | Integrated Water Vapor |
| LAM | Limited Area Model |
| LBC | Lateral Boundary Condition |
| LIM | Local-Impact Model |
| MEGAN | Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature |
| MOHYCAN | MOdel of HYdrocarbon Emissions from the CANop |
| MOS | Model Output Statistics |
| MPI | Max Planck Institute |
| NWP | Numerical Weather Prediction |
| RCM | Regional Climate Model |
| RCP | Representative Concentration Pathway |
| SISVAT | Soil Ice Snow Vegetation Atmosphere Transfer |
| SURFEX | SURface EXternalisée, surface model from Météo-France |
| TEB | Town Energy Balance |
| UHI | Urban Heat Island (effect) |
| UTCI | Universal Thermal Climate Index |
| VMM | Vlaamse Milieu Maatschappij or Flemish Institute for Environment |
| WG | Working Group |
| WI | Wetness Index |
| ZTD | Zenith tropospheric Total Delay |