| Acronym | Meaning |
| MIPS | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| PA | Position Angle |
| CCP | Clouds In Climate Program |
| BOMAP | Barbados Oceanographic And Meteorological Analysis Program |
| ADAACS | Affiliated Distributed Active Archive Centers |
| NDVI | Greeness Index From Satellites |
| MWG | Meteorological Working Group |
| U.S./JC | United States/Japan Cooperation |
| PETA | People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals |
| AEOS | Analytic Equation-of-state |