| Acronym | Meaning |
| SGI | Silicon Graphics Inc. |
| CCCO | Committee For Climatic Change And The Ocean |
| KDP | Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate |
| PCM | Parallel Climate Model |
| GPP | Gross Primary Productivity |
| ASW | Antisubmarine Warfare |
| DMDS | DiMethyDiSulfide |
| CCRI | Climate Change Research Initiative |
| PARS | Paralleled-processing Applied Research Systems |
| IAGW | International Acoustic Gravity Waves |