| Acronym | Meaning |
| ADM | Administrative Services Section |
| EIB | Environmental Improvement Board |
| MCC | Mesoscale Convective Complex |
| UVDM | Ultraviolet Double Monochromator |
| HIS | High-resolution Infrared Sounder |
| GFLOPS | Gigaflops |
| MLSO | Mauna Loa Solar Observatory |
| RATS | Real-time Aircraft Tracking System |
| TKE | Turbulent Kinetic Energy |
| OPAL | Opacity Project At Livermore |