| Acronym | Meaning |
| GEF | Global Environmental Facility |
| PSE | Polar Sunrise Experiment |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| GAMP | Global Atmospheric Measurements Program |
| ARO | Army Research Office |
| TREC | Tracking Radar Echoes By Correlation |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| FPMD | Facilities And Property Management Division |
| OSO | Orbiting Solar Observatory |
| TB | Terabytes |