| Acronym | Meaning |
| PSPT | Precision Solar Photometric Telescope |
| QNH | Quasi-nonhydrostatic Model |
| QJRMS | Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society |
| REGCM | Regional Climate Model |
| GTN | Germantown |
| MLO | Mauna Loa Observatory |
| GISMOS | Global Incoherent Scatter Measurements Of Substorms |
| NARE | North Atlantic Regional Experiment |
| QG | Quasi-Geostrophic Analysis |
| MICR | Magnetic Ink Character Reader |