| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCNS | Concerned Citizens For Nuclear Safety |
| CD | Compact Disk |
| EOF | Empirical Orthogonal Function |
| MARS | Meteorological Airborne Radar Data System |
| HIS | High-resolution Interferometer Sounder |
| SUDOOS | Sun/UNIX DICOMED Online Operating System |
| G- IV | Gulfstream IV |
| PCMS | Process And Change Management System |
| NOPS | Nimbus Observations Processing System |
| DCAR | Data Collection Analysis Request |