| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMBIENS | Atmospheric Mass Balance Of Industrially Emitted And Natural Sulfur |
| PIRG | Public Interest Research Group |
| KCS | K-matrix Centrifugal Sudden (in Mol.-scattering Theory) |
| SASA | Solvent-accessible Surface Area |
| DQ | Drawing Quality |
| ARAT | Avion De Recherche Atmospherique Et Teledetection |
| ADAS | Acid Deposition Assessment Staff |
| VRIOSA | Vibrational/rotational Infinite-order Sudden Approximation |
| GIXD | Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction |
| ASPERA | Analyzer Of Space Plasma And Energetic Atoms (Mars Express Spacecraft) |