| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAC | NCAR Administrators Committee |
| CAL/VAL | Calibration/Validation |
| IERS | International Earth Rotation Service |
| NCOM | NCAR CSM Ocean Model |
| UCAR | Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft |
| WSDDM | Weather Support To Deicing Decision Making |
| CCARS | Computer Controlled Automatic Rain Sampler |
| BINET | Bistatic Doppler Radar Receiver Network |
| ADO | Associate Director For Operations |
| EMAD | Equatorial Middle Atmosphere Dynamics |