| Acronym | Meaning |
| FCM | Federal Coordinator For Meteorological Services And Supporting Research |
| VRR | Visual Radio Range |
| ASAP | Ariane Structure For Auxiliary Payloads |
| VEMAP | Vegetation And Ecosystem Modeling And Analysis Project |
| NRC | National Research Council |
| FORTELL | Not An Acronym |
| ASCENT | Atmospheric Sounding |
| DCVZ | Denver Convergence Vorticity Zone |
| BOMEX | Barbados Oceanographic And Meteorological Experiment |
| AMSOC | American Miscellaneous Society |