| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERBE | Earth Radiation Budget Experiment |
| ICAMR | Interdepartmental Committee On Applied Meteorological Research |
| SAO | Surface Airways Observation |
| FIS | Financial Information System |
| FACE | Also Known As FACE '75 |
| DIC | Dissolved Inorganic Carbon |
| SCCM | Single-column CCM |
| OAS | Organization Of American States |
| VLA | Very Large Array |
| SOLRAD | NASA Satellite |