| Acronym | Meaning |
| NRCC | National Research Council Of Canada |
| PSC | Polar Stratospheric Cloud |
| EDUCOM | A Consortium Of Industrial Organizations And University Computing Administrators |
| AO | Annotated Outline |
| AGA | Automatic Gas Analyzer |
| RIDGE | Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiment |
| MBT | Miscellaneous Budget Transactions |
| USWRP | United States Weather Research Program |
| LRU | Laser Recording Unit |
| SAV | State-of-the-atmosphere Variable |