| Acronym | Meaning |
| TMS | Thermatic Mapper Simulator |
| PDM | Pulse Duration Modulation |
| DAS | Data-Acquisition System |
| TOPEX/POSEIDON | Ocean Topography Experiment |
| NMFS | National Marine Fisheries Service |
| RPS | Ranked Probability Score |
| IUPS | International Union Of Physiological Sciences |
| G- IV | Gulfstream IV |
| C | A Programming Language Used Extensively In Systems Software |
| ISMP | In-Situ Measurements Project |