| Acronym | Meaning |
| AMC | Army Materiel Command |
| ITPR | Infrared Temperature Profile Radiometer |
| IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| FX-ALPHA | FSL X-window AWIPS-Like Prototype For Hydrometeorological Applications |
| ESSIS | Earth System Science Information System |
| TCSM | Tropospheric Chemistry Systems Models |
| ITVM | Integration |
| ENEA | Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Lo Sviluppo Dell' Energia Nucleare E Delle Energie Alternative |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| GVHRR | Geostationary VHRR |