| Acronym | Meaning |
| ORV | Optical Retardation Velocity |
| OESO | Ordnance Environmental Support Office (Navy) |
| MPCA | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |
| SMOGSTOP | Statistical Model Of Ground-level Short Term Ozone Pollution |
| EAS | Exposure Assessments |
| UVCS | UV Coronagraph Spectrometer |
| BTE | Boltzmann Transport Equation |
| PMIRRAS | Polarization Modulation Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy |
| MCEB-NEV | Multiconfigurational Energy Bound-natural Eigenvalue Method |
| NCC | Near-centerline Concn. |