| Acronym | Meaning |
| STORM | Stormscale Operational And Research Meteorology |
| AKP | Atmospheric Kinetics Project |
| ACC | Antarctic Circumpolar Current |
| AIP | Additions In Progress |
| UCLA | University Of California At Los Angeles |
| IEA | International Energy Agency |
| OLE | Object Linking And Embedding |
| UCSB | University Of California At Santa Barbara |
| GARP | Global Atmospheric Research Program |
| IBM RT | The IBM RISC Technology Computer System |