| Acronym | Meaning |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project |
| RIFT | Resin Infusion Under Flexible Tooling [plastics Molding] |
| VBM | Valence-band Model (in Electronic Structure Calcns.) |
| CAB | Cellulose Acetate Butyrate |
| BPT | Best Practical Technology |
| PEMS | Predictive Emission Monitoring System |
| ROMP | Restricted Open-shell Moeller-Plesse |
| ECAP | Equal Channel Angular Pressing |
| NIES | National Institute For Environmental Studies (Japan) |
| MS | Multiple Scattering |