| Acronym | Meaning |
| GCM | General Circulation Model |
| TCP | Transport Control Protocol |
| EFEDA | European Field Experiment In Desertification-Threatened Area |
| GRP | Geophysical Research Program |
| NSFNET | National Science Foundation Network |
| WSP | Winter Storm Program |
| G&A | General And Administrative |
| VMS | Virtual Memory Systems |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| ONERA | Office National D'Etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales |