| Acronym | Meaning |
| DAT | Data Acquisition Test |
| AEROCE | Air Ocean Exchange Experiment |
| SHEBA | Surface Heat Budget Of The Arctic Ocean |
| NWSFO | National Weather Service Forecast Office |
| AWFTF | Aviation Weather Forecasting Task Force |
| USGCRP | United States Global Change Research Program |
| CAE | Computer Aided Engineering |
| NFCR | Narrow Cold-frontal Rainbands |
| STEM | Scanning-transmission Electron Microscope |
| SMAGS | SPAN/MASnet Gateway Server |