| Acronym | Meaning |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite |
| ESSA | Environmental Science Services Administration (preceded NOAA) |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc-Read Only Memory |
| COMSAT | COMmunications SATellite |
| MSG | Meteosat Second Generation |
| WINCE | WINter Cloud Experiment |
| LAKE-ICE | Lake-Induced Convection Experiment |
| HZ | Hertz |
| FSL | Forecast Systems Laboratory (a NOAA ERL) |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |