| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICA | International Central Archive |
| PA/CCC | Payload Accommodations/Carrier Control Center |
| NOVAM | Navy Oceanographic Vertical Aerosol Model |
| DCLS | Data Collection Location System |
| IRC | International Radiation Commission |
| PSAC | President's Science Advisory Committee |
| FASINEX | Frontal Air-Sea Interaction Experiment |
| AL | Albuquerque Field Office |
| GIMMS | Global Inventory And Monitoring And Modeling Study |
| NATS | NCAR Aircraft (or Airborne) Telemetry System |