| Acronym | Meaning |
| TCP | Technology Commercialization Program |
| TCZ | Tropical Cloud Zone |
| GALE | Genesis Of Atlantic Lows Experiment |
| ARIS | Airborne Research Instrumentation System |
| SSC | Scientific Steering Committee |
| AMOS | Automatic Meteorological Observation System |
| GENESIS | Global Environmental And Ecological Simulation Of Interactive Systems |
| TIMS | Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner |
| SW/HW | Software/Hardware |
| ALE | Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian |