| Acronym | Meaning |
| NCC | National Climate Center |
| GRIB | Grid In Binary |
| OC | Operational Capability |
| TTO | Transient Tracers In The Ocean |
| PEACE | DOD Atoll-drilling Program For Coral Core Sample |
| FTS | Fourier Transform Spectrometer |
| ICPM | International Commission On Polar Meteorology |
| NSC | Network Systems Corporation |
| WRF | Weather Research And Forecast |
| SPL | SLATEC Plotting Library |