| Acronym | Meaning |
| IRI | International Research Institute For Climate Prediction |
| PICS | Positive Ion Composition Spectrometer |
| BNSC | British National Space Centre |
| JETDLAG | Part Of EUROTRAC |
| ENVISAT | European Environmental Satellite |
| ADATS | Automated Data Acquisition And Transfer System |
| ASRC | Atmospheric Sciences Research Center |
| GMCC | Geophysical Monitoring For Climatic Change |
| RPN | (Division De) Recherche En Precision Numerique |
| VEMAP | Vegetation And Ecosystem Modeling And Analysis Project |