| Acronym | Meaning |
| LIPM | Laser Integrating Plate Method |
| LCO | Light Cycle Oil |
| PVC | Pigment Volume Concentration |
| STS | Sequence-tagged Site |
| TOVS | TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| MARS | Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines |
| EOM | Extractable Organic Matter |
| ACIL | American Council Of Independent Laboratories |
| OLO | On-line Optimization |
| EBB | Electronic Bulletin Board |