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Glossary and Terminology
AART
Addressable Asynchronous Receive Transmit
ABLS
Australian Balloon Launch Station (Victoria)
ACE
Advanced Composition Explorer
ACER
Advanced Collar Electronics
ADS-B
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
AEC
Atomic Energy Commission
AEF
Aerospace Engineering Facility (Kirkland AFB)
AFB
Air Force Base
AFCRL
Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories
AGU
American Geophysical Union
AIT
Assembly, Integration and Test
ALTA
Adaptable Lighter Than Air (DARPA)
AMFL
Aeromedical Field Laboratory (AMFL)
ANITA
Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (U of Hawaii)
AOE
Academy of Opto-Electronics (China)
APD
AstroPhysics Division (NASA Hdq)
ARHAB
Amateur Radio High Altitude Balloon
ARO
Atmospheric Research Observatory (South Pole)
ARTCC
Air Route Traffic Control Centers (FAA)
ASTHROS
Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral
Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths
ATAL
Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer
ATC
Air Traffic Control
ATIC
Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter
BACCUS
Boron and Carbon Cosmic rays in the Upper Stratosphere
BARREL
Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses
BALS
Balloon Assisted Launch System (BALS)
BATAL
The Balloon measurement campaign of the ATAL
BDC
Brewer Dobson Circulation
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. von Ehrenfried, Stratospheric Balloons, Springer Praxis Books,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68130-2