| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFP | Advanced Flexible Processor |
| EERL | Eastern Environmental Radiation Lab |
| GVHRR | Geostationary VHRR |
| NVAP | NASA Water Vapor Project |
| GATE | Global Atmospheric Research Programme Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| NICI | Negative Ion Chemical Ionization |
| PAS | Platform Analysis System |
| NETCDF | Network Common Data Form |
| DRMS | Data Record Management System |