| Acronym | Meaning |
| ASHAA | Asbestos In Schools Hazard Abatement Act |
| FPS | Foot-pound Second System Of Measurements |
| MM4 | Mesoscale Model |
| HIPPI | High Performance Parallel Interface |
| HDGEC | Human Dimension Of Global Environment Change |
| CCT | Computer-compatible Tape |
| ETC | Estimate Time To Complete |
| PBYTE | Petabyte (1015bytes) |
| ULAFOS | UCAR And Lower Atmospheric Facilities Oversight Section |
| ACC | Antarctic Circumpolar Current |