| Acronym | Meaning |
| APCA | Air Pollution Control Association |
| MPDATA | Multidimensional Positive Definite Advection Algorithm |
| BFPQ | Block Floating Point Quantizer |
| PRAIRE | Polarization Radar Illinois Rainfall Experiments |
| PGGA | Permanent GPS Geodetic Array |
| MONEX | Monsoon Experiment |
| JAWS | Joint Airport Weather Studies |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| PEPPI | Photometric Eclipse Polar Plume Imager |
| OFS | Office Of Field Project Support |