| Acronym | Meaning |
| BASIS | Battelle Automated Search Information System |
| ESSC | Earth System Science Committee |
| FLIP | Floating Instrument Platform |
| GCE | Part Of EUROTRAC |
| CBO | Congressional Budget Office |
| NESDIS | National Earth Satellite Data And Information System |
| MCCS | Mesoscale Convective Complexes |
| NAC | NCAR Administrators Committee |
| ACD | Atmospheric Chemistry Division |
| IR-RAD | Infrared Radiometer |