| Acronym | Meaning |
| WSDDM | Weather Support To Deicing Decision Making |
| IPC | Instrument Processing Center |
| EUROTRAC | European Experiment For Transporting And Transforming Environmentally Relevant Trace Construction In The Troposphere |
| AWACS | Airborne Warning And Control System |
| AMPE | Automated Message Processing Exchange |
| RDF | Radio Direction Finding |
| UI | Unit Of Issue |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| MAP | Mesoscale Alpine Project |
| ERS-1 | European Remote Sensing Satellite 1 |