| Acronym | Meaning |
| CIBL | Convective Internal Boundary Layer |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation Satellite |
| ACERC | Advanced Combustion Engineering Research Center |
| EGM | Electron Gas Model |
| PSS | Perturbed Stationary State |
| GUGA | Graphical Unitary Group Approach |
| PRE | Proton Relaxation Enhancement |
| SKPM | Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy |
| UKMO | United Kingdom Meteorological Office |
| CP | Chemically Pure |