| Acronym | Meaning |
| NTN | National Telecommunications Network |
| CCMS | CCM0B |
| GIMMS | Global Inventory And Monitoring And Modeling Study |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| ISG | Immersion Sensing Group |
| LAWS | Low Altitude Wind Shear |
| JMRNSC | Joint Meteorological Rocket Network Steering Committee |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| ASIWPCA | Association Of State & Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators |
| ISLSCP | International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project |