| Acronym | Meaning |
| ATST | Advanced Technology Solar Telescope |
| FLOPS | Floating Point Operations Per Second |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corporation |
| ITM | Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere |
| MRI | Meteorological Research |
| PDF | Probability Density Functions |
| AOS | Archive And Operations System |
| AWRDF | Advanced Weapons Radiochemical Diagnostics Facility |
| ARMAR | Airborne Rain Mapping Radar |
| SCAR | Special Committee For Antarctic Research |