| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALAPCO | Association Of Local Air Pollution Control Officials |
| ADARS | Aircraft Data Acquisition And Recoding System |
| UAO | Upper Atmosphere Observatory |
| GHOST | Global Horizontal Sounding Technique |
| RPI | Rensselaer Polytechnec Institute |
| PIPOR | Program For International Polar Ocean Research |
| AGS | Alternating-gradient Synchrotron |
| BSU | Beam Steering Unit |
| BAO | Boulder Atmospheric Observatory |
| SPEC | Scientific Programs Evaluation Committee |