| Acronym | Meaning |
| STD | Salinity |
| STERAO | Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments |
| CCD | Charge-Couple Device |
| ACB | Air-operated Circuit Breaker |
| FRG | Federal Republic Of Germany |
| ASOS | Automated Surface Observing System |
| TOPS | Transcendental Operating System |
| G-M | Gent-McWilliams Parameterization Scheme |
| ACOS | Advanced Coronal Observing System |
| NWS | National Weather Service |