| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOC | Area Of Concern |
| FWQC | Federal Water Quality Criteria |
| MSS | Mass Storage System |
| NCIS | Nadir Climate Interferometer Spectrometer |
| REU | Research Experiences For Undergraduates |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| SOFAR | Sound |
| CDS | Computing |
| DFDR | Digital Flight Data Recorder |
| MCTEX | Maritime Continent Thunderstorm Experiment |