| Acronym | Meaning |
| DCA | Washington National Airport |
| IDEA LAB | Interactive's Digital Environmental Analysis Lab |
| HVPS | High-volume Precipitation Spectrometer |
| FIRE | First ISLSCP Regional Experiment |
| RO | Solar Radius |
| ESPIRIT | European Strategic Programme For R&D In Information Technology |
| SEAC | (National Bureau Of) Standards Eastern Automatic Computer |
| GWC | Global Weather Center |
| FIRS | Fourier Transform Infrared Sounder |
| USSDM | Unidata System For Scientific Data Management |