| Acronym | Meaning |
| MCA | Moist Convective Adjustment |
| SUNRISE | Radiative Input From The Sun To The Earth Program |
| ARINC | Aeronautical Radio |
| EEMOC | European EMOC |
| TEB | Tropical Experiment Board |
| DSN | Defense Switched Network |
| AIMR | Airborne Imaging Microwave Radiometer |
| AVS | Application Visualization System |
| NOMAD | Navy Oceanographic Meteorological Device |
| SMSC | Shared-Memory Supercomputer Systems |