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Alphabet Soup (Glossary of Terms)

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Organisations

AIMS - Australian Institute of Marine Science

GBRMPA - Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Programs

RRAP - Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program

LTMP - Long-Term Monitoring Program A program managed by AIMS involving the long-term survey of hundreds of reefs in the Great Barrier Reef annually since 1985. It is the longest continuous temporal record of change in reef communities at this spatial scale.

General Climate Science

RCP - Representative Concentration Pathway
Argument for ADRIA load_domain and run_scenarios

SSP - Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

Interventions

MCB - Marine Cloud Brightening

SRM - Solar Radiation Management (see Marine Cloud Brightening)

Models

ADRIA - Adaptive Dynamic Reef Intervention Algorithms

C~Scape

ReefMod

ReefMod is a coral ecology model developed at the University of Queensland with more than 20 years of development history. The original ReefMod model was written in MATLAB. ReefMod has been ported to C++ to address issues and concerns around computational efficiency. This port is referred to as the ReefMod Engine (RME).

CoCoNet

Coral Community Network model developed at CSIRO.