| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERBI | Earth Radiation Budget Instrument |
| UMIST | University Of Manchester Institute Of Science And Technology |
| PACJET | Pacific Land-falling Jets Experiment |
| MSIS | Mass Spectrometer And Incoherent Scatter |
| VAS | VISSR Atmospheric Sounder |
| SZOLD | Skewed Zeroth Order Logaorithmic Distribution Function |
| CCF | Central Computing Facility |
| PSIG | Pounds Per Square Inch Gage |
| GPP | Gross Primary Productivity |
| EBR-II | Experimental Breeder Reactor II |