| Acronym | Meaning |
| MFM | Standard Hard Drives |
| NEXUS | Next-generation Upper-air Sounding System |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology |
| PDS | Platform Data System |
| CALCRUST | Consortium For Study Of The California Crust |
| NIES | National Institute Of Environmental Science |
| GOSIP | Government Open Systems Interconnect Protocol |
| DQA | Data Quality Assessment |
| DDE | Dynamic (or Direct) Data Exchange |
| CCM | Community Climate Model |