| Acronym | Meaning |
| OEA | Office Of External Affairs |
| STORM | Stormscale Operational And Research Meteorology |
| ICMUA | IAMAS Commission On The Meteorology Of The Upper Atmosphere |
| SDSC | San Diego Supercomputing Center |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identification System |
| FIRE | First ISLSCP Regional Experiment |
| ATEX | Atlantic Tradewind Experiment |
| (C3) | Command |
| AVARS | Aircraft Vertical Accelerometer Reports |
| ORSTOM | Institut Francais Pour Le Developpment En Corporation |