| Acronym | Meaning |
| NWSOP | National Winter Storms Operations Plan |
| DNP | Division Of Nuclear Physics |
| FIRS | Fourier Transform Infrared Sounder |
| IDOE | International Decade Of Ocean Exploration |
| PIBALS | Pilot Balloons |
| ICAR | International Cooperation In Aviation Research |
| JERS-1 | Japanese Earth Resources Sensing Satellite 1 |
| ILEC | International Lake Environment Committee |
| BATS | Biosphere-atmosphere Transfer Scheme |
| JASIN | Joint Air-Sea Interaction Experiment |