| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAC | NCAR Administrators Committee |
| CAD | Coronary Artery Disease |
| NWRC | National Weather Records Center |
| AMWG | Atmosphere Model Working Group |
| AADT | Average Annual Weekday Traffic |
| ELSCAM | Electra Scalar Measurements |
| HIRS | High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder |
| SYNOPS | Synoptic Ocean Prediction Study |
| ESM | Earth Systems Model |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |