| Acronym | Meaning |
| GFY | Government Fiscal Year |
| DAT | Data Acquisition Test |
| MNP | Microcom Network Protocol |
| VNIRO | Russian Federal Research Institute Of Fisheries And Oceanography |
| MMS | Microscale Meteorology Section |
| NENA | NOAA's Northeast-North Atlantic 2004 |
| IACOMS | International Advisory Committee On Marine Sciences |
| NWRC | National Weather Records Center |
| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (or Collider) |
| FOF | Field Observing Faciltilty |