| Acronym | Meaning |
| TDWR | Terminal Doppler Weather Radar |
| DYCOMS-II | Dynamics And Chemistry Of Marine Stratocumulus |
| WORMTOMS | WORM To Mass Storage System |
| ALBM | Air-launched Ballistic Missile |
| XMDSL | X Window Interface Distributed Software Library |
| ABLE | Amazon Boundary Layer Experiment |
| EPICS | Energetic Pion Channel And Spectrometer |
| LBN | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory |
| ODW | Omega Dropwindsonde |
| JMOF | Joint Meteorological Observing Facility |