| Acronym | Meaning |
| VISSR | Visible And Infrared Spin-Scan Radiometer |
| KLOC | Kilolines (103) Of Code |
| MSLP | Mean Sea-level Pressure |
| GLERL | Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab |
| DTF | Development And Test Facility |
| ICAMR | Interdepartmental Committee On Applied Meteorological Research |
| NIC | Network Interface Card |
| MCIDAS | Man-computer Interactive Data Access System |
| AWIPS-90 | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System For The 90's |
| UNIX | A Computer Operating System Developed By AT&T And Modified Extensively By The University Of California At Berkeley |