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Acronyms/Abbreviations
This List of Acronyms and other Abbreviations was compiled from the coral, coral reef, marine tropical ecosystems, and related peer-reviewed literature, grey literature, and other written and electronic reports, including e-mail messages. The terms on the list number nearly 3,600 (as of February 2010) and continue to grow on a daily to weekly basis. CoRIS invites readers to suggest additional acronyms and abbreviations via coris.metadata@noaa.gov or coris@noaa.gov.
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Acronyms A - Z Pages
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| W&W | Weather and Water |
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| WA | Western Australia |
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| WAAS | Wide Area Augmentation System |
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| WAF | Water Accommodated Fraction |
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| WAFWA | Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies |
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| WAG | Widely Attended Gathering |
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| WAMSI | Western Australia Marine Science Institution |
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| WAN | Women's Aquatic Network |
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| WAPA | War in the Pacific National Historical Park (Guam) |
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| WAVCIS | Wave-Current Information System |
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| WB | World Bank |
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| WB/GEF-CRTR | World Bank / Global Environment Facility Coral Reef Targeted Research & Capacity Building for Management Program |
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| WBCDWG | World Bank Coral Disease Working Group |
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| WBD | White-Band Disease |
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| WBD1 | White Band Disease Type 1 |
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| WBD11 | White Band Disease Type11 |
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| WCA | Watershed Condition Assessment |
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| WCC | Windward Community College (HI) |
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| WCC-3 | World Climate Conference - 3 |
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| WCED | World Commission on Environment and Development |
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| WCGOP | West Coast Groundfish Observer Program |
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| WCMC | World Conservation Monitoring Center |
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| WCMD | Wildlife Conservation and Management Department |
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| WCOS | West Coast Observing System (NOAA) |
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| WCP | World Climate Program |
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| WCPA | World Commission on Protected areas |
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| WCPFC | Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission |
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| WCPO | Western and Central Pacific Ocean |
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| WCR | Wider Caribbean Region |
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| WCRP | World Climate Research Program |
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| WCS | Wildlife Conservation Society |
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| WCS | World Conservation Strategy |
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| WDC | World Data Center |
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| WDC-A Oceanography | World Data Center-A for Oceanography (Washington, D.C.) |
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| WDCS | Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society |
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| WDFW | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife |
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| WEC | World Ecotourism Conference |
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| WECAFC | Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission |
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| WERA | Wellen Radar |
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| WERI | Water and Environmental Research Institute (of the Western Pacific) (UOG) |
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| WESPAC | Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council |
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| WESTPAC | Western Pacific Fishery Regional Management Council |
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| WET | Water Education for Teachers |
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| WFGB | West Flower Garden Banks |
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| WFN | Whitley Fund for Nature |
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| WFO | Weather Forecasting Office |
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| WFOV | Wide Field of View |
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| WFS | West Florida Continental Shelf |
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| WFS-HYCOM | West Florida Shelf Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model Domains (RSMAS) |
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| WG | Working Group |
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| WGDEC | ICES-NAFO Joint Working Group on Deep Water Ecology |
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| WGECO | Working Group on Ecosystem Effects of Fishing Activities |
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| WGL | Leibniz Association (Germany) |
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| WGS | Whole Genome Shotgun sequences |
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| WGS | Whole Genome Sequencing |
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| WH | White House |
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| WHAP | West Hawaii Aquarium Project |
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| WHC | World Heritage Convention |
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| WHFC | West Hawaii Fisheries Council |
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| WHIP | Whale Habitat Informatics Project |
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| WHMSI | Western Hemisphere Migratory Species Initiative |
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| WHO | World Health Organization |
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| WHOI | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
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| WHPO | WOCE Hydrographic Program Office |
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| WHRFMA | West Hawaii Regional Fisheries Management Area |
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| WHS | World Health Survey |
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| WHS | World Heritage Site |
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| WHYCOS | World Hydrological Cycle Observing System |
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| WIDECAST | Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Recovery Team and Conservation Network |
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| WIDECAST | Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network |
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| WIGOS | World Integrated Global Observing System |
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| WIO | Western Indian Ocean |
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| WIO-COMPAS | Western Indian Ocean Certification of Marine Protected Area Professionals |
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| WIOMSA | Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association |
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| WMA | Wildlife Management Area |
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| WMDW | Western Mediterranean Deep Water |
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| WMNP | Watamu Marine National Park (Kenya) |
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| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
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| WMR | West Mariana Ridge |
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| WOA | World Ocean Atlas (NOAA) |
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| WOA09 | World Ocean Atlas 2009 |
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| WOC | World Ocean Council |
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| WOC | World Ocean Conference |
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| WOC | Washington, Oregon and California |
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| WOCE | World Ocean Circulation Experiment |
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| WOD | World Ocean Database (NOAA) |
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| WOI | Western Oslofjord Inlet |
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| WON | World Ocean Network |
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| WOOD | World-wide Ocean Optics Database |
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| WoRMS | World Register of Marine Species |
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| WP | White Plague |
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| WP11 | White Plague 11 |
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| WP111 | White Plague Type 111 |
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| WPA | Wildlife Protection Act |
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| WPacFIN | Western Pacific Fisheries Information Network (NOAA/PIFSC) |
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| WPC | Watershed Planning Committee (Guam) |
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| WPCF | Water Pollution Control Federation |
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| WPCRI | Western Pacific Coral Reef Institute (UOG) |
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| WPD | World Porifera Database |
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| WPFMC | Western Pacific Fishery Management Council |
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| WPGM | Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (AGU) |
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| WPO | Western Pacific Ocean |
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| WPRFMC | Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council |
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| WPSMP | Western Pacific Seagrass Monitoring Program |
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| WPTI | Wildlife Preservation Trust International |
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| WPTRC | Western Pacific Tropical Research Center (UOG) |
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| WPx | White Pox Disease |
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| WQ | Water Quality |
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| WQPP | Water Quality Protection Program |
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| WR | Wildlife Research (FWC Florida) |
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| WRAPS | Waste Reduction Afloat Protects the Sea (DoD) |
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| WRAS | Web Reef Advisory System |
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| WRF | Weather Research and Forecast (NOAA) |
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| WRI | World Resources Institute |
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| WRP | Wetlands Reserve Program |
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| WRRI | Water Resources Research Institute (USGS) |
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| WS | Wildlife Sanctuary |
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| WS | Withering Syndrome |
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| WS | White Syndrome Disease |
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| WSA | World Seagrass Association |
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| WSC | Working Science Consultancies |
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| WSER | Western Sambo Ecological Reserve |
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| WSF | Water-Soluble Fraction |
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| WSIS | World Summit on the Information Society |
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| WSNP | Washington Slagbaai National Park (Bonaire) |
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| WSSD | World Summit on Sustainable Development |
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| WTO | World Trade Organization |
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| WTP | Willingness to Pay |
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| WTR | Wave and Tide Recorder |
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| WTSS | Whole Transcriptome Shotgun Sequencing |
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| WTSS | Whole Transcriptome Shotgun Sequencing |
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| WTW | Watamu Turtle Watch (Kenya) |
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| WW | Windward |
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| WW2BW | White Water to Blue Water Initiative |
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| WWA | Western Water Assessment (CIRES/NOAA) |
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| WWB | Westerly Wind Burst |
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| WWF | Worldwide Fund for Nature |
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| WWF | World Wildlife Fund |
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| WWF-SI | World Wildlife Fund - Solomon Islands |
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| WWMD | World Water Monitoring Day |
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| wwPDB | Worldwide Protein Data Bank |
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| WWTP | Wastewater Treatment Plant |
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| WWW | World Wide Web |
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| WWW | World Weather Watch |
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