| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALJ | Administrative Law Judge |
| MGA | Meteorological And Geoastrophysical Abstracts |
| RI# | Richardson Number |
| ETA | A Hydrostatic Model That Employs The Eta Vertical Coordinate |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| APPA | American Public Power Association |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| INU | Inertial Navigation Unit |
| FSS | Facilities Support Services |