| Acronym | Meaning |
| AAP | Atmospheric Analysis And Prediction Division |
| ERS-II | European Research Satellite |
| TWERLE | Tropical Wind |
| FMFIA | Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act |
| NROSS | Naval Remote Ocean Sensing System |
| VNIRO | Russian Federal Research Institute Of Fisheries And Oceanography |
| AWU | Atomic Weight Unit |
| PISP | Polar Ice Sheet Program |
| VLSI | Very Large Scale Interface |
| MMD | Mass Median Diameter |