Acronyms

ACE - Advanced Composition Explorer
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange (a text file format)
CDF - Common Data Format (a binary file format)
CME - Coronal Mass Ejection
EUVI - Extreme UltraViolet Imager (part of the SECCHI suite on STEREO)
eV - electron Volt
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
GMU - George Mason University
GSFC - NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center
HET - High Energy Telescope (an IMPACT instrument)
IDL - Interactive Data Language
IGPP - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (at UCLA)
IMPACT - In-situ Measurements of Particles and CME Transients
IRAP - L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie
keV - kilo electron Volt
L0 - Level 0 data processing
L1 - Level 1 data processing
L2 - Level 2 data processing
LASCO - Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (on the SOHO spacecraft)
LET - Low Energy Telescope (an IMPACT instrument)
MAG - Magnetometer (an IMPACT instrument)
MeV - Mega electron Volt
MLSO - Mauna Loa Solar Observatory
OMP - Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées
PAD - Pitch Angle Distribution
PLASTIC - Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (a STEREO instrument)
SAMPEX - Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer
SDO - Solar Dynamics Observatory
SDO-AIA - Solar Dynamics Observatory - Atmospheric Imaging Assembly
SECCHI - Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (imaging suite on STEREO)
SEP - Solar Energetic Particles
SEPT - Solar Electron Proton Telescope (an IMPACT instrument)
SIT - Suprathermal Ion Telescope (an IMPACT instrument)
SOHO - Solar and Helipspheric Observatory
SPEDAS - Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software
SPRG - Space Physics Research Group
SSC - STEREO Science Center
SRL - Space Research Laboratory, Caltech
SSL - Silver Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California - Berkeley
STE - Suprathermal Electron Telescope (an IMPACT instrument)
STEREO - Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory
SWE - Solar Wind Experiment (a WIND instrument)
SWEA - Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (an IMPACT instrument)
SWPC - Space Weather Prediction Center
UCB - University of California - Berkeley
UCLA - University of California - Los Angeles
UNH - University of New Hampshire
UTC - Coordinated Universal Time