| Acronym | Meaning |
| IIT | Illinois Institute Of Technology |
| HEIFE | Heihe Basin Field Experiment |
| FOB | Free On Board |
| MASI | Middle Atmosphere Science Initiative |
| EFT | Enhanced Forecaster Tools |
| IFD | Indirect Flare Detector |
| AMOS | Automatic Meteorological Observation System |
| LAGEOS-2 | Laser Geodynamics Satellite-2 |
| ASTEX | Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment |
| TDM | Three-dimensional Time-varying Mesoscale Model |