| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBF | Scientific Balloon Facility |
| IEEE | Institute Of Electrical And Electronic Engineers |
| ASP | Advanced Stokes Polarimeter |
| LEST | Large Earth-Based Solar Telescope |
| DBZ | Decibles |
| EOFS | Empirical Orthogonal Functions |
| MICRO-SCALE | N/A |
| PICS | Positive Ion Composition Spectrometer |
| MMD | Mass Median Diameter |
| PPP | Parallelizing PreProcessor |