| Acronym | Meaning |
| NS | Nanoseconds |
| FEP | Front End Processor |
| CCC | Canadian Climate Centre |
| DLESE | Digital Library For Earth System Education |
| CDED | Core Dynamics And The Earth's Dynamo |
| ATLAS | Airborne Tunable Laser Absorption Spectrometer |
| DC | Dublin Core--metadata |
| NCAR/UCAR | National Center For Atmospheric Research |
| SETA | Satellite Electrostatic Triaxial Accelerometer |
| NASCOM | NASA Communications Network |