| Acronym | Meaning |
| SBF | Scientific Balloon Facility |
| SSB | Soaring Society Of Boulder |
| PCAS | Passive Cavity Aerosol Spectrometer |
| ODE | Ordinary Differential Equation |
| ISRIC | International Soil Reference And Information Centre |
| BIP | Balloon-borne (instrument) Platform |
| ICSI | International Commission On Snow And Ice |
| SST | Scalable Spectral Tool |
| PIPOR | Program For International Polar Ocean Research |
| FRMAC | Federal Radiological Monitoring And Assessment Center |