| Acronym | Meaning |
| TROPAL | Tropical Alert Group |
| FICS | Facility Information And Control System |
| AMS | Accelerator Mass Spectrometer |
| BARRNET | Bay Area Regional Research Network |
| ALT | Altimeter |
| ATV | Ariane Transfer Vehicle |
| OPLE | OMEGA Position And Location Experiment |
| RIB | Research Internet Backbone |
| MSLP | Mean Sea-level Pressure |
| HDGCP | Human Dimensions Of Global Change Program |