| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| WSGC | Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium |
| ABI | Advanced Baseline Imager |
| IRIS | Infrared Radiation Interferometer Spectrometer (1960s) |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| METEOSAT | METEOrological SATellite (European) |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS) |
| RAOB | RAdiosonde OBservation |
| IES | Institute For Environmental Studies (UW) |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |