| Acronym | Meaning |
| CEAREX | Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment |
| WKB | Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (phase-shift Formula For Potential Scattering) |
| OPPT | Office Of Pollution Prevention And Toxics (US EPA) |
| SERODS | Surface-Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage |
| SAR | Simulated Acidic Rain |
| MET | Multichannel Eikonal Theory (in Atom Electron-impact Excitation) |
| MAFID | Moment Analysis Of Fluorescence-intensity Distribution |
| PEIA | Programmatic Environmental Impact Analysis |
| OPM | Optimized Potential Model |
| NTP | National Toxicology Program |