| Acronym | Meaning |
| PPU | Peripheral Processor Unit |
| C/D | Integrated Phase C And Phase D Contract |
| IWGGCDM | International Working Group On Global Change And Data Management |
| OLE | Object Linking And Embedding |
| NARE | North Atlantic Regional Experiment |
| MCV | Mesoscale Cyclonic Vortex |
| BAMEX | Bow Echo And Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) Experiment |
| INO | Institute For Naval Oceanography |
| SHIRE | Southern Hemisphere Infrared Experiment |
| ETH | Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule |