| Acronym | Meaning |
| OWWS | Office Of World Weather Systems |
| DVM | Dynamic Vegetation Model |
| ALWAS | Advanced Low-Level Wind Shear Alert System |
| ARISTOTELES | Applications And Research Involving Space Technologies Observing The Earth's Field From Low Earth Orbiting Satellite |
| WOTAN | Wind Observations Through Ambient Noise |
| ACD | Advanced Conceptual Design |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| AASE | Airborne Arctic Stratospheric Expedition |
| ESTEC | European Space Research And Space Technology Centre |
| WSDDM | Weather Support To Deicing Decision Making |