| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICE | Intercomparison Experiment |
| MASP | Multi-angle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe |
| EQS | Equatorial Scatter |
| M-ANL | Argonne National Laboratory |
| SCATT | Scatterometer |
| AOM | Annual Operating & Maintenance |
| GOESTAP | N/A |
| STEP | Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Project |
| BAMEX | Bow Echo And Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment |
| TIPMEX | Tibetan Plateau Meteorological Experiment |