| Acronym | Meaning |
| OEBR | Optical Edge Bead Removal |
| SUMO | Small Ubiquitin-related Modifier |
| PSLC | Polymer-stabilized Liquid Crystal |
| SBH | Schottky-barrier Height |
| SHADOZ | Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozone Sounding Program |
| DWBC | Deep Western Boundary Current |
| SCOPE | Scientific Committee On The Problems Of The Environment |
| GDC | Global Drifter Center (of WOCE Data System) |
| DCMD | Direct Contact Membrane Distillation |
| SOCO | Second-order Correlation Orbital |