| Acronym | Meaning |
| ALP | Assemble Language Preprocessor |
| NWSFO | National Weather Service Forecast Office |
| AESA | Atmospheric Effects Of Stratospheric Aircraft |
| AWSMSC | Air Weather Service Master Station Catalog |
| APA | Administrative Procedures Act |
| SEASAT | Sea Satellite |
| ADDE | Abstract Distributed Data Environment |
| AAS | American Astronomical Society |
| BER | Bit Error Rate |
| ISS | Integrated Sounding System |