| Acronym | Meaning |
| MWG | Meteorological Working Group |
| AHF | Advanced Hadron Facility |
| NCMC | Non-Classical Mesoscale Circulations |
| GEM | Global Environmental Multiscale Model |
| ESG | Empirical Study Group |
| CBERS | China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite |
| BASC | Barrow Arctic Science Consortium |
| AWU | Atomic Weight Unit |
| QSO | Quasi-stellar Object |
| TIWEX | Tropical Institute (or Instability) Wave Experiment |