| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALPA | Airline Pilots Association |
| JAWOP | Joint Automated Weather Observing Program |
| SCM | Solar Constant Monitor |
| PIBALS | Pilot Balloons |
| AIS | Advanced Isotope Separation |
| CAPE | Convection And Precipitation/Electrification Experiment |
| UNICOS | Unix Cray Operating System |
| OLR | Outgoing Longwave Radiation |
| MTTR | Mean Time To Repair |
| TOPEX | Topographic Ocean Experiment |