| Acronym | Meaning |
| TDGC/MS | Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography/mass Spectrometry |
| SOMBT | Spin-orbital Many-body Theory |
| ALRSS | Advanced Land Remote Sensing System |
| CCRM | Coupled-channel Reactance Matrix (in Atom Surface Scattering) |
| SFE | Stacking Fault Energy |
| SET | Single Electron Transistor |
| RUSTIC | Risk Of Unsaturated/saturated Transport And Transformation Of Chemical Concentrations |
| SAT | Sulfuric Acid Trihydrate (polar Stratosphere Cloud Aerosol) |
| GAGE | Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
| MCNDO | Modified Complete Neglect Of Differential Overlap |