Atmosphere
Theme commentary
Tom Beer, Michael Borgas, Willem Bouma, Paul Fraser, Paul Holper and Simon Torok
CSIRO Atmospheric Research
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, 2006
Acronyms and abbreviations
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| ADR | Australian Design Rule |
| AGO | Australian Greenhouse Office |
| BOM | Bureau of Meteorology |
| CFCs | Chlorofluorocarbons |
| CUEs | Critical Use Exemptions |
| EESC | Equivalent Effective Stratospheric Chlorine |
| HFCs | Hydrochlorofluorocarbons |
| IDRO | Insurance Disaster Response Organisation |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| NEPM | National Environment Protection Measure |
| NGGI | National Greenhouse Gas Inventory |
| NPI | National Pollutant Inventory |
| ODP | Ozone Depletion Potential |
| ODS | Ozone Depleting Substance |
| PAH | polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons |
| PFCs | Perfluorocarbons |
| Pg | Petagrams (1015 g = 1012 kg = 109 tonne) |
| PM | particulate matter |
| ppm | parts per million |
| SOE | State of the Environment |
| UV | Ultraviolet |
| VOC | Volatile Organic Compounds |