| Acronym | Meaning |
| EMU | Electromagnetic Units |
| BASC | Board On Atmospheric Sciences And Climate |
| BSDI | Berkeley Software Design |
| AXBT | Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |
| NAO | North Atlantic Ocean |
| BCD | Binary-coded Decimal |
| NSRDS | National Standard Reference Data System |
| POSIX | Portable Operating System Interface For Computer Environments |
| TMD | Thailand Meteorological Department |
| ASTER | Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission And Reflection Radiometer |