| Acronym | Meaning |
| AP | Attached Payload |
| BCD | Binary-coded Decimal |
| SAM | Subsynoptic Advection Model |
| AOL | Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR |
| EAG | Environmental Assessments Group |
| SHF | Super High Frequency |
| MAB | Man And The Biosphere Program |
| PDU | Power Distribution Unit |
| MSF | Magnetic Flux Structures |
| ETA | A Subsidiary Of Control Data Corporation That Manufactures Supercomputers |