| Acronym | Meaning |
| SAR-C | SAR-C Band |
| OPP | Office Of Polar Programs |
| OO | Object Oriented |
| ORD | Office Of Research And Development |
| GAL | Galileo |
| ALEC | American Legislative Exchange Council |
| EFF | Experimental Forecast Facility |
| AMOS | Automatic Meteorological Observation System |
| ERICA | Experiment On Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones In The Atlantic |
| RCM | WSR-88D Radar Coded Message |