| Acronym | Meaning |
| AID | Air Inlet Damper |
| GTG | GARP Task Group |
| ITVM | Integration |
| AMS | Aerial Measurement Station |
| IA | International Angstrom |
| OS/2 | A Multitasking Operating System Developed By IBM For Its PC-class Computers |
| GLOBEC | Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics |
| GCTE | Global Change And Terrestrial Ecosystems |
| CCSF | Colorado Computational Science Fair |
| TROMEX | Tropical Meteorology Experiment |