| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATLID | Atmospheric LIDAR |
| AWU | Atomic Weight Unit |
| CASAC | Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee |
| OU | University Of Oklahoma |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary-coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| BACER | Biological & Climatological Effects Research |
| TOGA COARE | The Tropical Ocean And Global Atmosphere Program's Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment |
| ASHOE | Airborne Southern Hemisphere Ozone Experiment |
| NEWS | NOAA Earth Watch Service |
| IDI | Instrumentation Development And Intercomparisons |