| Acronym | Meaning |
| USAP | United States Antarctic Program |
| TIME-GCM | Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere-Electrodynamic General Circulation Model |
| ALEXIS | Array Of Low-energy X-ray Imaging Sensors |
| ACB | Air-operated Circuit Breaker |
| ACE | Accelerated Computing Environment |
| DWB | Library |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
| SSSF | Surface Sounding Systems Facility |
| NAO | North Atlantic Ocean |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |