| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| AIDA | Archive 1 Data Analyzer |
| GBDS | GARP Basic Data Set |
| AOL | Airborne Oceanographic LIDAR |
| NPC | National Processing Centers |
| AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
| HDF | Hierarchical Data Format |
| NSIDC | National Snow And Ice Data Center |
| AOO | Anticipated Operational Occurrence |
| ISOS | International Southern Ocean Study |