| Acronym | Meaning |
| UAC | United Aircraft Corporation |
| CACGP | Commission On Atmospheric Chemistry And Global Pollution |
| HIRRLS | High Resolution Research Limb Sounder |
| SAFARI | Southern African Fire-Atmospheric Research Initiative |
| NDVI | Normalized Difference Vegetation Index |
| TIE-GCM | Thermosphere/Ionosphere/Electrodynamics General Circulation Model |
| BIOMASS | Biological Investigations Of Marine Antarctic Systems And Stocks |
| METAPPS | Meteorological Applications Task Force |
| LAMBADA | Amazon Basin Experiment |
| EOL | Earth Observing Laboratory (formerly ATD) |