| Acronym | Meaning |
| QC | Quality Control |
| ICO | Interagency Committee On Oceanography |
| MIP | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| SMMR | Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer |
| IPEI | Ionospheric Plasma And Electrodynamics Instrument |
| SNMP | Simple Network Management Protocol |
| DR | Discrepancy Report |
| TRANET | Tracking Network |
| SLPA | Sea-Level Pressure Anomaly |
| QNH | Quasi-nonhydrostatic Model |