| Acronym | Meaning |
| EERL | Eastern Environmental Radiation Lab |
| GNU | GNU's Not UNIX (a Recursive Acronym) |
| TEB | Tropical Experiment Board |
| ESL | Earth Sciences Laboratories |
| AIRS | Advanced Infared Studies |
| VAI | High Positive Vorticity |
| EPL | Electron Prototype Lab |
| TROPEX | Tropical Experiment |
| AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| CAALS | Consortium On Automated Standards |