| Acronym | Meaning |
| F | Frequency |
| IDEAS | Instrumentation Development And Education In Airborne Science |
| PRE-STORM | Preliminary Regional Experiment-STORM |
| PCWG | Polar Climate Working Group |
| N-AWIPS | National Centers Advanced Weather Interactive Processing Systems |
| TOS | Tiros Operational Satellite |
| 3CPO | Cloud Chemistry And Cloud Physics Organization |
| NCDC | National Climatic Data Center |
| CAT | Clear Air Turbulence |
| EDS | Environmental Data Service |