| Acronym | Meaning |
| PI | Principal Investigator |
| TIPMEX | Tibetan Plateau Meteorological Experiment |
| MILNET | Military Network |
| CAI | Computer-aided Instruction |
| PRC | People's Republic Of China |
| PERL | Practical Extraction And Report Language |
| NURE | National Uranium Resource Evaluation |
| JAWS | Joint Airport Weather Studies |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| ESSA | Environmental Science Services Administration |