| Acronym | Meaning |
| BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
| ESSL | Earth & Sun Systems Laboratory (formerly ATD) |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| MFM | Standard Hard Drives |
| MAPCON | A Routine Developed By Unidata For Contouring NPS Gridded Data On A Background Map From NetCDF Files |
| KP | Geomagnetic Planetary Index |
| ECP | Engineering Change Proposal |
| NEXRAD | Next Generation Weather Radar |
| ALARA | As Low As Reasonably Achievable |
| IPM | Interpersonal Messaging |