| Acronym | Meaning |
| WSOC | Water-soluble Organic Carbon |
| NIMS | Near-IR Mapping Spectrometer |
| SPE | Solid Phase Epitaxy |
| HGF | Hermite Gaussian Function |
| TDPAD | Time Differential Perturbed Angular Distribution |
| NEAR | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous |
| FWM | Four-wave Mixing |
| CAPE | Convective Available Potential Energy |
| WWAP | World Water Assessment Programme |
| SUPER | Subarctic Pacific Ecosystem Research Program |