| Acronym | Meaning |
| ESSCO | Environmental Science & Services Corporation |
| SPIRES | Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System |
| PAGE | Program For The Advancement Of Geoscience Education |
| PSPT | Precision Solar Photometric Telescope |
| SDBE | Shear-Directed Balloon Experiment |
| TUTT | Tropical Upper-tropospheric Trough |
| ECA | Earth-crossing Asteroids |
| PROFS | Program For Regional Observing And Forecasting Services |
| SAM | Subsynoptic Advection Model |
| NOC | Naval Oceanographic Command |