| Acronym | Meaning |
| PFZ | Polar Frontal Zone |
| RMCL | Recommended Maximum Contaminant Level |
| SBZ | Surface Brillouin Zone |
| SPA | Scintillation-proximity Assay |
| BRC | Basic Regulatory Control |
| DEC | Department Of Environmental Conservation |
| DIPPR | Design Institute For Physical Property Data |
| DEMS | Differential Electrochemical Mass Spectrometry |
| ACRE | Automatic Climatological Recording Equipment |
| SDQ-MBPT | Single-double-quadruple Excitation Many-body Perturbation Theory |