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Term	Description
NAQDS	National Air Quality Data Service
NCRIS	National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
NEII	National Environmental Information Infrastructure
NEMSR	The National Environmental Monitoring Sites Register provides a consolidated view of Australia's environmental monitoring sites. It can be accessed via an interactive mapping tool, or programmatically through URL end points. See www.neii.gov.au/nemsr.
NEOMR	National Environmental Observing Methods Register
NERP	National Environmental Research Programme
NESP	National Environmental Science Program
NetCDF	Network Common Data Form is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data
NEVS	National Environmental Vocabulary Service
NGO	Non-Government Organisation
NICTA	National Information Communication Technology Australia
NPEI	National Plan for Environmental Information
NRCan	Natural Resources Canada
NRM	Natural Resource Management
NSS/ESA	National Statistical Service and Essential Statistical Assets
numerical model	a software code for calculating a mathematically-complex model of a physical system (e.g., the climate system)
numerical simulation	the process of executing a numerical model and the output data produced
NZSDI	New Zealand Spatial Data Infrastructure