| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAA | Clean Air Act |
| ERICA | Experiment On Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones In The Atlantic |
| MADER | Management Of Atmospheric Data For Evaluation And Research |
| APEN | Air Pollution Emissions Notice |
| NASN | National Air Surveillance Network |
| LFC | Large Format Camera |
| PDE | Partial Differential Equation |
| FIRE | First ISLSCP Regional Experiment |
| KSA | Ku-band Single Access |
| FTSC | FSL Technical Steering Committee |