| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATST | Advanced Technology Solar Telescope |
| CAMEX | Coastal AMOS (Experiment) |
| NOIC | National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center |
| DEM | Digital Elevation Model |
| ACV | At-completion Variance |
| NPI | North Pacific Index |
| GRM | Geopotential Research Mission |
| MLO | Mauna Loa Observatory |
| PASJ | Publications Of The Astronomical Society Of Japan |
| ULTRIX | UNIX-based Operating System For Digital Equipment Corporation Computers |