| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASIS | American Society For Industrial Security |
| DEWS | Doppler Electronic Weather Sensor |
| CCF | Central Computing Facility |
| MPI | Message Passing Interface |
| TING | Thermosphere-Ionosphere Nested Grid Model |
| MAC | Medium Access Control |
| SST | Scalable Spectral Tool |
| C++ | An Object-oriented Programming Language Based On C |
| ALAPCO | Association Of Local Air Pollution Control Officials |
| CBO | Carrier Balloon/Omegasonde |