| Acronym | Meaning |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation Service |
| EMAP | Environmental Monitoring And Assessment Program |
| ACB | Air-operated Circuit Breaker |
| EXABYTE | Boulder-based Computer Company |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer |
| ILSS | Integrated Logistics Support System |
| PV | Potential Vorticity |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems |
| AQD | Air Quality Digest |
| HIS | High-resolution Infrared Sounder |