| Acronym | Meaning |
| APS | American Physical Society |
| AFI | Atomic Industrial Forum |
| EM-SCATTERING | Electromagnetic Scattering |
| MPI | Max Planck Institute |
| CDP | Community Data Portal |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol |
| ESML | Earth Science Markup Language |
| AXBT | Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |
| SPRINT | Sorted Position Radar Interpolator |
| AA | Assistant Administrator |