| Acronym | Meaning |
| PIRAC | PC-based Integrated Radar Acquisition Card |
| ISRIC | International Soil Reference And Information Centre |
| NGS | National Geodetic Survey |
| F/P-INT | Fabry Perot Interferometer |
| LOWL | Low Degree Oscillations Experiment |
| ACP | Acoustic Doppler Profilers |
| ACDWG | Atmospheric Center Of Data Working Group |
| BDU | Bus Data Unit |
| FTSC | FSL Technical Steering Committee |
| MADIS | Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System |