| Acronym | Meaning |
| LIE | Line Islands Experiment |
| MAPS | Multiple Aircraft Positioning System |
| ALOHA | Airborne Lidar Observations And Hawaiian Airglow |
| SAMS | Stratospheric And Mesospheric Sounder |
| NTRANS | Metacode Translator |
| NCP | Network Control Program |
| GEO 2000 | National Science Foundation's Geosciences Beyond 2000 |
| SICIMS | Selected Iron Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (or Spectrometer |
| ND | Near-dedicated |
| UCARIP | UCAR Intellectual Property |