| Acronym | Meaning |
| NHC | National Hurricane Center |
| IAPSO | International Association Of Physical Sciences Of The Ocean |
| CARB | California Air Resources Board |
| AL/SPD | AL Special Programs Division |
| JEM | Joint Environmental Monitoring |
| SLED | Single Large Expensive Disk |
| ICE | Isoprene Canopy Experiment |
| METAPPS | Meteorological Applications Task Force |
| GPP | Gross Primary Productivity |
| PDM | Pulse Duration Modulation |