| Acronym | Meaning |
| HESS | Health |
| BASC | Barrow Arctic Science Consortium |
| GENESIS | Global Environmental And Ecological Simulation Of Interactive Systems |
| OFCM | Office Of The Federal Coordinator For Meteorology |
| BRI | Basic Rate Interface |
| MRF | Medium-Range Forecast |
| DBSS | Directed Balloon Sounding System |
| HIPPI | High Performance Parallel Interface |
| BFPQ | Block Floating Point Quantizer |
| GRM | Geopotential Research Mission |