| Acronym | Meaning |
| LTER | Long Term Ecological Research |
| ECMO | Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation |
| ANTS | 8-aminonaphthalene-1 |
| AMO | Alternant Molecular Orbital |
| FACS | Fluorescence Atom-coincidence Spectroscopy |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| GARP | Global Atmosphere Resesarch Project |
| CCN | Cloud Condensation Nucleus |
| NLLSF | Non-linear Least Square Fitting |
| MR-RWA | Many Resonance-rotating Wave Approxn. |