| Acronym | Meaning |
| IFA | Intensive Flux Array |
| CAFE | Corporate Average Fuel Economy |
| DC | Dublin Core--metadata |
| ACGIH | American Conference Of Governmental Industrial Hygienists |
| MOPITT | Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere |
| DNS | Direct Numerical Simulation |
| NGT | NASA Ground Terminal |
| TGCM | Thermospheric General Circulation Model |
| AMU | Aqueous Makeup |
| IUGS | International Union Of Geological Sciences |