| Acronym | Meaning |
| FNAL | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
| ROSE | Rural Oxidants In The Southern Environment |
| DOD | Digital Optical Disk |
| RMS | Root-mean-square |
| BOMAP | Barbados Oceanographic And Meteorological Analysis Program |
| MOCD | Magneto-optics Compact Disk |
| VHS | Video-Home System |
| BPS | Baud-per-second |
| SLPA | Sea-Level Pressure Anomaly |
| EDP | Electronic Data Processing |