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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center Aconrms and Abbreviations
Category: General technical and industrial > Acronyms
Date & country: 10/09/2007, USA
Words: 3682


WRC
acronym: World Radiation Center

WRD
acronym: Water Resources Division (USGS and DOI)

WRDD
acronym: Water Resources Development Department (MAW)

WRI
acronym: World Resources Institute (Washington, D.C.)

WRR
acronym: World Radiometric Reference

WRRC
acronym: Water Resources Research Center

WS
acronym: wind speed

WSC
acronym: Water Survey of Canada

WSI
acronym: whole-sky imager

WSMC
acronym: Western Space and Missile Center

WST
acronym: Whitecap simulation tank

WTH
acronym: whole-tree harvest

WTR
acronym: Western Test Range (NASA)

WUA
acronym: weighted usable area

WVR
acronym: water vapor radiometer

WWB
acronym: Women's World Banking

WWF
acronym: World Wildlife Fund

WWO
acronym: Waste Water Outflow

WWSP86
acronym: Winter Weddell Sea Project 1986

WWW
acronym: World Weather Watch (WMO)

WWW
acronym: World Wide Web

XBT
acronym: expendable bathythermograph (oceanography)

XCTD
acronym: Expendable Conductivity Temperature Depth (probe)

XDR
acronym: external data representation

XIE
acronym: X-ray Imaging Experiment

XMM
acronym: X-ray Multi-mirror Mission

XRD
acronym: X-ray diffraction

year
acronym: (do not abbreviate this word)

yr
acronym: year (spell out)

ZEEI
acronym: Exclusive Economic Zone of Indonesia

ZPC
acronym: zero point of change (hydrous iron and aluminum oxides)

A.D.
acronym: anno Domini

A-S
acronym: Arakawa-Schubert

A-SAR
acronym: Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar

A-SCAT
acronym: Advanced scatterometer

b.a.u.
acronym: business as usual (scenario)

b-w
acronym: black and white

C.V.
acronym: coefficient of variation (math)

C-A
acronym: Coarse/Acquisition GPS signal structure

C-MACCS
acronym: Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation

C3AT
acronym: Ch3 Albedo Test (AVHRR)

D.C.
acronym: District of Columbia

D-H
acronym: deuterium/hydrogen (ratio)

e.g.
acronym: exempli gratia (for example) use only in parentheses or footnotes, followed by a comma)

E-GDP
acronym: Ratio of energy consumption to gross domestic product

E-GNP
acronym: Ratio of energy consumption to gross national product

E-LIDAR
acronym: experimental lidar

G-1
acronym: Gulfstream-1 (airplane)

G-7
acronym: Group of Seven (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States

H-1211
acronym: Halon 1211; CBrClF2

H-1301
acronym: Halon 1301; CBrF3

H2
acronym: hydrogen

H2O
acronym: water

H2O2
acronym: hydrogen peroxide

I-O
acronym: input/output

L-C
acronym: land cover

M-region
acronym: Maunder region

N-C
acronym: Nitrogen-carbon ratio

N2
acronym: nitrogen

N2O
acronym: nitrous oxide

N2O-N
acronym: Nitrous oxide nitrogen trace gas emission ratio

N2O5
acronym: nitrogen pentoxide, nitric anhydride

o.d.
acronym: outside diameter

O-N
acronym: oxygen-to-nitrogen ratio

O2
acronym: (normal) molecular oxygen

O3
acronym: ozone

P-Code
acronym: GPS precision transmission code

P-R
acronym: productivity/respiration

R-C
acronym: Residue Crop ratio

R-V
acronym: research vessel

r2
acronym: coefficient of determination (statistical)

s.d.
acronym: standard deviation

S-GCOS
acronym: Space-Based Global Change Observation System

T-C
acronym: Temperature/Conductivity sensor chains on drifters

T-P SWT
acronym: TOPEX/Poseidon Science Working Team

T-S
acronym: Temperature/Salinity

U.K.
acronym: United Kingdom (preferred over 'UK'; use as adjective only; spell out as noun)

U.S.
acronym: United States

U.S.A.
acronym: United States of America

U.S.S.R.
acronym: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (now Russian Federation)

V-PDB
acronym: international scale for expressing C and O isotopic composition relative to PDB carbonate

X-SAR
acronym: X-Band synthetic aperture radar