| Acronym | Meaning |
| IGB | International Geophysical Bulletin |
| CAT | Clear Air Turbulence |
| PSC | Polar Stratospheric Cloud |
| SIRIS | Stratospheric Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer |
| USFS | United States Forest Service |
| STP | Standard Temperature And Pressure |
| B&P | Budget And Planning Office |
| MKS | Unit Of Force Replaced By Newtons |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| TOPEX/POSEIDON | Ocean Topography Experiment |