| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMO | Advanced Munitions Office |
| DICOMED | Online Graphics Recorder Used At NCAR For Producing Microfilm And Microfiche Output |
| FDM | Full-depth Model |
| M-SRI | Stanford Resource Institute |
| AXBT | Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
| ARL | Army Research Laboratory |
| EFTC | European Fluorocarbon Technical Committee |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| CCU | Cooler Control Unit |