| Acronym | Meaning |
| FCOM | Federal Coordinators Office Of Meteorology |
| GLRS | Geodynamics (or Geoscience) Laser Ranging System |
| IWC | Ice Water Content |
| MGA | Meteorological And Geoastrophysical Abstracts |
| AAS | Acid Addition System |
| ESML | Earth Science Markup Language |
| FLTOP | Federal Lease To Ownership Program |
| AFS | Auxiliary Feedwater System |
| MAPCON | A Routine Developed By Unidata For Contouring NPS Gridded Data On A Background Map From NetCDF Files |
| NIDS | NEXRAD Information Dissemination Service |