| Acronym | Meaning |
| CARIBIC | Civil Aircraft For Remote Sensing And In Situ Measurements In Troposphere And Lower Stratosphere Based On The Instrumentation |
| NIWA | National Institute For Water And Atm. Research [New Zealand] |
| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
| STE | Septic Tank Effluent |
| VA-HOMO | Vibrationally Active HOMO |
| VTE | Vertival Tube Exchanger |
| CXMS | Conversion X-ray Mossbauer Spectroscopy |
| MOVB | MO-valence Bond |
| MOSQITO | Modeling Of Stormwater Quality Including Tanks And Overflows |
| CARPT | Computer Automated Radioactive Particle Tracking |