| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASA | At. Sphere Approxn. |
| CEPS | Chemically Enhanced Primary Sedimentation |
| STEP | Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project |
| APTI | Air Pollution Training Institute |
| CVA | Characteristic Vector Analysis |
| FIRE | Flame Infrared Emission |
| UCCD | (spin) Unrestricted Coupled Cluster (with) Double (excitations) |
| SCAR | Scientific Committee On Antarctic Research |
| PDA | Phase Doppler Analysis |
| CD ROM | Compact Disk Read Only Memory |