| Acronym | Meaning |
| FAL | Frontier Airline |
| BAO | Boulder Atmospheric Observatory |
| NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer |
| SVHS | Super Video-home System |
| PPP | Parallelizing PreProcessor |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational |
| GDAS | Global Data Assimilation System |
| MCS | Mesoscale Convective System |
| DTSA | Defense Technology Security Administration |
| HPA | High Power Amplifier |