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Abbreviation Meaning (if any) Description

AET Actual Evapotranspiration

CATCHMOD Catchment Model UK water balance model

CLUAM Climate and Land-Use Allocation

Model

CGCM2 Canadian Global Coupled Model GCM from the Canadian Centre for

Climate Modelling and Analysis

CSIRO2 Commonwealth Scientific and

Industrial Research Organisation

GCM from the CSIRO in Australia

EARWIG Environment Agency Rainfall and

Weather Impacts Generator

Model that generates weather data
from downscaled GCMs in the
United Kingdom

ECHAM4 European Centre Hamburg Model GCM developed by the Max Planck

Institute

GCM General Circulation Model Model used for understanding and

predicting global-scale climate

GLUE Generalised Likelihood

Uncertainty Estimation

Technique for investigating model
uncertainties

HadCM3 Hadley Centre Coupled Model GCM from the Hadley Centre, UK

Meteorological Office

HBV Hydrologiska Byråns

Vattenbalansavdelning

Scandinavian hydrological model

HER Hydrologically Effective Rainfall Rainfall potentially available to

recharge rivers

HIRHAM - RCM developed for Europe by a

number of meteorological institutes

INCA Integrated Catchment Model Suite of catchment models

developed at the University of
Reading for N, P, etc.

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on

Climate Change

International Organisation for
assessing Climate Change

MAGIC Model of Acidification of

Groundwater in Catchments

Acidification model, dealing mostly
with soil and surface water (in spite
of the title)

MIKE-11 Named after the model author Hydrological model from the

Danish Hydrological Institute

MPI Max Planck Institute German Research Institute

NAM - Rainfall-run-off model used with

MIKE-11

RCM Regional Climate Model Model used for understanding and

predicting climate at a smaller scale
than a GCM

PET Potential Evapotranspiration

SDSM Statistical Downscaling Model UK model used for downscaling

GCMs

SRES Special Report on Emission

Scenarios

IPCC report, which defined a
number of standard greenhouse
gas emission scenarios

TRANS Transport Hydrochemical model used with

MIKE-11

Acronyms defined in the text and not used again are not covered in the table.