| Acronym | Meaning |
| NVAP | NASA Water Vapor Project |
| GOM | Global Observations And Modeling Project |
| HPPI | High Performance Parallel Interface |
| BX | Base Exchange |
| TUTT | Tropical Upper-tropospheric Trough |
| VLF | Very Low Frequency |
| BSD UNIX | Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX |
| MB | Millibar |
| DSAA | Defense Security Assistance Agency |
| SMI | Solar Magnetism Initiative |