| Acronym | Meaning |
| PRAIRE | Polarization Radar Illinois Rainfall Experiments |
| CB | Cumulonimbus |
| QG | Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis |
| GIMMS | Global Inventory And Monitoring And Modeling Study |
| TERAFLOPS | Trillions Of Arithmetic Operations Per Second |
| STERAO | Stratosphere-Troposphere Experiments |
| BIT | Binary Digit |
| NEXUS | Navaid-based Upper- Air Sounding System |
| CCC | Cray Computer Corporation |
| BRITE | Basic Research In Industrial Technologies Europe |