| Acronym | Meaning |
| AER | AWIPS Forecast Preparation System |
| ESD | Electronic System Division |
| D/RADEX | Digital Radar Experiment |
| TUTT | Tropical Upper-tropospheric Trough |
| ADC | Analog-to-digital Converter |
| FGCMS | Fast GC / MS = Fast Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry |
| MARC | Machine Readable Cataloging |
| FX | FSL's X-window Workstation |
| CCM2 | Community Climate Model Version 2 |
| CARB | California Air Resources Board |