| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSRS | Subtracted Shifted Raman Spectroscopy |
| POC | Particulate Organic Carbon |
| AEZ | Alkaline Earth Zeolite |
| AQMD | Air Quality Management District |
| DLM | Diffuse Layer Model (of Adsorption) |
| HPA | Hybridization Protection Assay |
| TTO | Transient Tracers In The Ocean |
| SRR | Standardized Relative Risk |
| PIF | Photochemically-induced Fluorescence |
| SLF | Slater-Laguerre (hydrogenic-type Wave) Function |