| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERA | Energy Reorganization Act |
| NSF | National Science Foundation |
| AO | Annotated Outline |
| DWS | Dropwindsonde |
| CCSM-2 | Community Climate System Model ลก 2nd Generation |
| OWWS | Office Of World Weather Systems |
| ACFM | Actual Cubic Feet Per Minute |
| MAN | Metropolitan Area Network |
| EUROTRAC | European Experiment For Transporting And Transforming Environmentally Relevant Trace Construction In The Troposphere |
| AFOSR | Air Force Office Of Scientific Research |