| Acronym | Meaning |
| GOES | Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite |
| LASA | Lidar Atmospheric Sounder And Altimeter |
| ERG | External Review Group |
| TASI | Time-assingment Speech Interpolation |
| RAOB | Radiosonde Observation |
| CASP | Canadian Atlantic Storms Project (or Program) |
| IUTAM | International Union Of Theoretical And Applied Mechanics |
| MLOPEX | Mauna Loa Photochemistry Experiment |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IFEOS | International Forum On Earth Observations Using Space Station Elements |