| Acronym | Meaning |
| JTA | Job Table Area |
| CCIG | Cloud Climate Interactions Group |
| ECSA | Early Career Scientists Assembly |
| POP | Parallel Ocean Program |
| JASON | Group Of Physicists At Stanford That Study Various Projects And Are Funded By Government Defense Money |
| IHOP | International H2O Project |
| WATOX | Western Atlantic Ocean Experiment |
| FR | Full Resolution |
| NICI | Negative Ion Chemical Ionization |
| NWSTC | National Weather Service Telecommunications |