| Acronym | Meaning |
| APG | Aberdeen Proving Ground |
| AFOSR | Air Force Office Of Scientific Research |
| UMP | Upper Mantle Project |
| NOMP | Navy Ocean Modeling And Prediction Program |
| AHS | Automated Highway System |
| AO | Arctic Oscillation |
| AER | Average Evoked Response |
| LSU | Louisiana State University |
| SAV | State-of-the-atmosphere Variable |
| EEPROM | Electronically Eraseable And Programmable Read Only Memory |