| Acronym | Meaning |
| OUASS | Omega Upper Atmospheric Sounding Systems |
| FOB | Facilities Operations Branch |
| MAG | Magnetosphere Currents/Fields |
| ABB | Asea Brown Boveri |
| AEGIS | Atmosphere Ecosystem Gas Interchange Study |
| SSCE | Surface Ship Cloud Effects Project |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| SEL | Space Environment Laboratory |
| BLP | Boundary Layer Profiler |
| MCS | Mesoscale Convective System |