| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARIBIC | Civil Aircraft For Remote Sensing And In Situ Measurements In Troposphere And Lower Stratosphere Based On The Instrumentation |
| XFA | X-ray Fluorescence Analysis |
| GPEF | Generalized Potential Energy Function |
| KPLS | Kernel Partial Least Squares |
| MS X(ALPHA) | Multiple-scattering X(alpha) Exchange Method |
| AMOS | Australian Meteorological And Oceanographic Society |
| CCPPA | Coupled-cluster Polarization-propagator Approxn. |
| AIEE | American Institute For Electrical Engineers |
| OSIRIS | Optical Spectrograph And IR Imaging System |
| ZLS | Zeeman Laser Scattering |