| Acronym | Meaning |
| BIBEX | Biomass Burning Experiment |
| AFSAS | Air Force Director For Strategic Force Analysis |
| CCC | Cray Computer Corporation |
| TES | Transequatorial Scatter |
| ISNAR | International Service For National Agricultural Research |
| GSWM | Global Scale Wave Model |
| TEXMEX | Tropical Experiment Over Mexico |
| TOA | Top Of The Atmosphere |
| BAMS | Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society |
| GAGE | Gulf-Stream Atmospheric Gradient Exchange |