| Acronym | Meaning |
| LSI | Large Scale Integration |
| NSSFC | National Severe Storms Forecast Center |
| HIAPER | High-Performance Instrumented Airborne Platform For Environmental Research |
| LRIR | Limb Radiance Inversion (or Infrared) Radiometer |
| NOC | Network Operations Center |
| CAS | Commission For Atmospheric Science |
| ALERT | Automated Local Evaluation In Real Time |
| TDLAS | Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy |
| IFD | Indirect Flare Detector |
| DIA | Direct-interaction Approximation |