| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACP | Acoustic Doppler Profilers |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| UCSD | University Of California At San Diego |
| NOAASIS | NOAA Satellite Information System |
| SRON | Space Research Organization Of The Netherlands |
| NDSC | Network For Detection Of Stratospheric Change |
| TA# | Taylor Number |
| DADS | Data Archive And Distribution System |
| MM5 | Fifth-generation Mesoscale Model |
| GLOMAC | Part Of EUROTRAC |