| Acronym | Meaning |
| ITR | Institute Technical Reports |
| MODD | Meteorological And Omega Data Digitizer |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| ADAACS | Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Centers |
| EP | Electrical Power |
| SCO | Subcarrier Oscillators |
| ADVISAR | All Digital Video Imaging System For Atmospheric Research |
| TGCM | Thermospheric General Circulation Model |
| DID | Data Item Description |
| ACG | Advanced Computing Group |