| Acronym | Meaning |
| GOTS | GALE Oceanographic Temperature Studies |
| EUROTRAC | European Experiment For Transporting And Transforming Environmentally Relevant Trace Construction In The Troposphere |
| AMRV | Advanced Maneuvering Re-entry Vehicle |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| REREX | Remote Read-out Experiment |
| LSD | Large-scale Dynamics |
| NLTE | Non Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
| RF | Radio Frequency |
| IAPSO | International Association Of Physical Sciences Of The Ocean |
| EOSP | Earth Observing Scannign Polarimeter |