| Acronym | Meaning |
| EPOP | European Polar Orbiting Platform |
| CATI | Colorado Advanced Technology Institute |
| MASP | Multi-angle Aerosol Spectrometer Probe |
| TKW | Turbulence Kinematic Energy |
| PDM | Pulse Duration Modulation |
| MONTBLEX | Monsoon Trough Boundary Layer Experiment |
| PCNFS | Personal Computer Network File System |
| ASTEX/MAGE | Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment/Marine Aerosol And Gas Exchange |
| ERACF | Environmental Radiation Ambient Monitoring System |
| PDE | Partial Differential Equation |