| Acronym | Meaning |
| PDM | Pulse Duration Modulation |
| ISO | International Standards Organization |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| SCATT | Scatterometer |
| ESDIM | Earth System Data And Information Management |
| EGD | Effluent Guidelines Division |
| NEPA | National Environmental Policy Act |
| VOCS | Volatile Organic Compounds |
| ARPA | Archaeological Resources Protection Act |
| GOM | Global Observations And Modeling Project |