| Acronym | Meaning |
| APR | Automatic Pressure Relief |
| ELVIS | ELectromagnetic Very Weak Instabilities Saturated |
| AAR | Affirmative Action Representative |
| GAMETAG | Global Atmospheric Measurements Experiment On Tropospheric Aerosols And Gases |
| EDP | Electronic Data Processing |
| GCP | GEWEX Continental-Scale Project |
| M-SRI | Stanford Resource Institute |
| NETS | Network Engineering And Telecommunications Section |
| ICITA | International Cooperative Investigation Of The Tropical Atlantic |
| FOV | Field Of View |