| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACDA | Arms Control And Disarmament Agency |
| ASAP | Aerospace Safety Automation Program |
| NARE | North Atlantic Regional Experiment |
| GHB | Goddard Handbook |
| BAM | Berkeley Abstract Machine |
| ABB | Asea Brown Boveri |
| AOC | Area Of Contamination |
| ALADIN | Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument |
| CASAC | Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee |
| DOPLID | Doppler Lidar |