| Acronym | Meaning |
| CAP | CGD Advisory Panel |
| EACR | Environmental Area Characterization Report |
| FE | Front-end |
| ALEC | American Legislative Exchange Council |
| MSISR | Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar |
| EMACS | An On-line Text Editor Distributed As Part Of The GNU Package Of UNIX Software |
| L2D2 | Lightweight LORAN Digital Dropsonde |
| HPD | Hourly Precipitation Data |
| ANARCHE | (The Atlanta) Aerosol Nucleation And Real-time Characterization Experiment |
| AED | Atomic Emission Detector |