| Acronym | Meaning |
| OECD | Organization For Economic Cooperation And Development |
| SDF | Shared Data Facility |
| EISCAT | European Incoherent Scatter Radar System |
| AST | Algorithm Support Team |
| AMSR | Advanced Microwave Sounding Radiometer |
| G- IV | Gulfstream IV |
| MOCD | Magneto-optics Compact Disk |
| WX | Weather |
| KB | Kilobyte (s) |
| ABAQUS | Finite-element Computer Code |