| Acronym | Meaning |
| SSD | Cray's Solid-state Storage Device On The CRAY X-MP/48 Computer |
| MISR | Multiangle Imaging Spectroradiometer |
| WGNE | Working Group On Numerical Experimentation |
| PAM | Portable Automated Mesonet |
| ANL-E | Argonne National Laboratory-East |
| GTCSM | Global Tropospheric Chemistry Systems Model |
| DF | Direction Finding |
| MAPS | Measurement Of Air Pollution From Satellites |
| AFP | Apple File Protocol |
| SDSD | Satellite Data Services Division |