| Acronym | Meaning |
| AVARS | Aircraft Vertical Accelerometer Reports |
| WVR | Water Vapor Radiometers |
| AF | Auxiliary Feed |
| C&DH | Command And Data Handling |
| APD | Advanced Planning Division |
| FLOP | Floating Point Operations |
| JERS-1 | Japanese Earth Resources Sensing Satellite 1 |
| EFEDA | European Field Experiment In Desertification-Threatened Area |
| T-LAPS | Terminal LAPS |
| OPENDAP | Open-source Project For A Network Data Access Protocol |