| Acronym | Meaning |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| GRIP | Greenland Ice Project |
| NECHE | Northeast Colorado Hail Experiment |
| UNICOS | Unix Cray Operating System |
| CDE | Common Desktop Environment |
| OGCM | Ocean General Circulation Model |
| LAMPS | Limited-Area Mesoscale Prediction System |
| NWSTC | National Weather Service Telecommunications |
| AW | Annual Worth |
| BPS | Baud-per-second |