| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATST | Advanced Technology Solar Telescope |
| USWRP | United States Weather Research Program |
| EOL | Earth Observing Laboratory (formerly ATD) |
| EMI | Electromagnetic Radiation Interference |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| JEM | Joint Environmental Monitoring |
| BAMEX | Bow Echo And Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment |
| BIATEX | Part Of EUROTRAC |
| SDS | Solar Disk Sextant |
| IIASA | International Institute For Applied Systems Analysis |