| Acronym | Meaning |
| L-DEO | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| BEMC | Boulder Emergency Management Center |
| PIFM | Practical Improved Flux Method |
| IPU | Instrument Processor Unit |
| TUTT | Tropical Upper-tropospheric Trough |
| EES | Earth & Environmental Science |
| PEACE | DOD Atoll-drilling Program For Coral Core Sample |
| NNMI | Nonlinear Normal Mode Initialization Software |
| EROS | Earth Resources Observation System |
| PRECP | Program On Nonlinearity Of Acid Precipitation Process |