| Acronym | Meaning |
| HFD | Hartree-Fock-dispersion (type Of Intermol. Potential) |
| CMP | Capacitively Coupled Microwave Plasma |
| SDCPA | Site-dependent Coherent Potential Approxn. |
| CRHF | Complex-restricted Hartree-Fock |
| NICMOS | Near-IR Camera And Multiobject Spectrometer |
| FAST | Fast Atom Sample Tester |
| TNS | 6-p-Toluidino-2-naphthalenesulfonic Acid |
| ERL/GB | Environmental Research Laboratory Gulf Breeze |
| OPW | Orthogonalized Plane Wave |
| DICE | Dynamic Integrated Climate-economy Model |