| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPN | NOAA Profiler Network |
| ASTERIX | French Acronym For ELDORA |
| PVC | Permanent Virtual Circuit |
| IRI | Interagency Research Internet |
| SPACE | Satellite Precipitaion And Cloud Experiment |
| Y/C | Luminance/Chrominance |
| LANTEX | Lantau Experiment |
| MCA | Moist Convective Adjustment |
| SPRINT | Sorted Position Radar Interpolator |
| TRMM | Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission |