| Acronym | Meaning |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time (repl. By UTC) |
| UFO | Unidentified Flying Object |
| COMET | Cooperative Program For Operational Meteorology Education And Training (NOAA And UCAR) |
| TES | Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (EOS) |
| CRAS | CIMSS Regional Assimilation System |
| ESOC | European Satellite Operations Center |
| ERBS | Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| LASER | Light Amplification By Stimulated Emission Of Radiation |
| VISIT | Virtual Institute For Satellite Integration Training (NWS) |
| GEOSAT | GEOdetic SATellite |