| Acronym | Meaning |
| APPA | American Public Power Association |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| BAMEX | Bow Echo And Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment |
| MAG | Magnetosphere Currents/Fields |
| MRI | Minority Research Initiation |
| GDC | GARP Data Center |
| MILOX | Mid-Latitutde Ecosystem And Photochemical Oxidants |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| SDS | Solar Disk Sextant |
| PPU | Peripheral Processor Unit |