| Acronym | Meaning |
| ECS | EOSDIS Core System |
| FAME | Florida Area Mesoscale Experiment |
| MIP | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| RASS | Radio Acoustic Sounding System |
| ICITA | International Cooperative Investigation Of The Tropical Atlantic |
| WFO-ADVNCED | The Key Element Of The WFO-Advanced Program Is The Forecaster Workstation Used To Demonstrate Many AWIPS Functions In Support Of The Modernized NWS Weather Forecast Office Operations |
| IAG | Instrumentation Advisory Group |
| SCATT | Scatterometer |
| ADI | Air Defense Initiative |
| D/L | Downlink |