| Acronym | Meaning |
| H/W | Hardware |
| SPIRES | Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System |
| DDD | Wind Direction |
| GARDIAN | GBL Point Defense System |
| SCD | Scientific Computing Division |
| NOSC | Naval Ocean Systems Center |
| IA | International Angstrom |
| TASI | Time-assingment Speech Interpolation |
| ESSIS | Earth System Science Information System |
| DEBITS | Deposition Of Biogeochemical Important Trace Species |