| Acronym | Meaning |
| RTA | Rapid Thermal Annealing |
| NOAA | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
| AAETA | Atomic Spectroscopy With Electrothermal Atomization |
| ECAE | Equal Channel Angular Extrusion |
| CCM2 | Community Climate Model Version 2 |
| SPMD | Solar Powered Membrane Distillation |
| SRAPW | Scalar Relativistic Augmented Plane Wave |
| SSCPA | Single-site Coherent-potential Approximation |
| LCN | Light Cracked Naphtha |
| GOCART | Georgia Tech/Goddard Global Ozone Chem. Aerosol Radiation And Transport Model |