| Acronym | Meaning |
| GFE | Government Furnished Equipment |
| BAO | Boulder Atmospheric Observatory |
| N-ROSS | Naval Research Oceanographic Satellite System |
| ALERT | Automated Local Evaluation In Real Time |
| SW/HW | Software/Hardware |
| AIDA | Archive 1 Data Analyzer |
| ELVIS | ELectromagnetic Very Weak Instabilities Saturated |
| PD | Positive Definite |
| WBGT | Wet Bulb Globe Temperature |
| FTIR | Fourier Transformed Infrared |