| Acronym | Meaning |
| RPC | Remote Procedure Call |
| PIN | Power Input |
| NRCC | National Research Council Of Canada |
| DB | Division Burden |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| HVPS | High-volume Precipitation Spectrometer |
| INTEX | NASA's Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment |
| TECAMS | Technical Conference On Automated Meteorological Systems |
| AAA | American Arbitration Association |
| ARWG | Atmospheric Radiation Working Group |