| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERSC | Environmental Remote Sensing Center (IES) |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| AMSU | Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (EOS) |
| LASER | Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| IES | Institute For Environmental Studies (UW) |
| ATOVS | Advanced TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder |
| EUMETSAT | EUropean Organization For The Exploitation Of METeorological SATellites |
| CRAS | CIMSS Regional Assimilation System |