| Acronym | Meaning |
| PI/TL | Principal Investigator/Team Leader |
| DA | Deka |
| IUPAP | International Union Of Pure And Applied Physics |
| RAMOS | Remote Automatic Meteorological Observing Station |
| ESM | Earth Systems Model |
| SPAWAR | Space And Naval Warfare Systems Command |
| MMD | Mass Median Diameter |
| EOB | Executive Office Building |
| LAMMR | Large Antenna Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
| FBI | Federal Bureau Of Investigation |