| BBW | Blainville’s beaked whales |
| BFW | blue and fin whales |
| BMSWV | bull male sperm whale vocalizations |
| BOWV | Balaenoptera omurai whale vocalizations |
| BW | blue whale |
| DP | distinctive peak |
| DSCV | down-swept contour vocalizations |
| ES | echolocation signals |
| EMD | empirical mode decomposition |
| FMTUC | frequency-modulated tonal up-chirp |
| HHT | Hilbert–Huang transformation |
| HT | Hilbert transform |
| HW | humpback whale |
| HWV | humpback whale vocalization |
| IMF | intrinsic mode function |
| IF | instantaneous frequency |
| KW | killer whales |
| LFS | low-frequency sounds |
| MS | marginal spectrum |
| PAMS | passive acoustic monitoring system |
| RF | residual function |
| R-type | resident-type |
| SW | sperm whale |
| TF | time–frequency |