| Acronym | Meaning |
| IRCAT | Infrared Radiometer To Detect (CAT) Horizontal Temperature Gradients |
| EM | Engineering Model |
| MFM | Standard Hard Drives |
| RHI | Range-height-indicator |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| IST | Instrument Support Terminal |
| AFSAS | Air Force Director For Strategic Force Analysis |
| SCOPE | Scientific Committee On Problems Of The Environment |
| BAMS | Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society |
| MLS | Microwave Limb Sounder |