| Acronym | Meaning |
| AGARD | Advisory Group For Aeronautical Research And Development |
| USTAR | UCAR Scientist's Technical Areas Of Research |
| SUNYA | State University Of New York |
| MIPS | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| U MASS | University Of Massachusetts |
| INPA | Instituto Nacional De Pesquisas Da Amazonia |
| HB | Hard Black |
| SESAME | Second European Stratospheric Arctic And Mid-Latitude Experiment |
| CCSF | Colorado Computational Science Fair |
| TROMEX | Tropical Meteorology Experiment |