| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEIC | National Earthquake Information Center |
| LASA | Lidar Atmospheric Sounder And Altimeter |
| DLD | Digital Loran Dropwindsonde |
| MOA | Memorandum Of Agreement |
| CADRE | Center For Analysis Of Dynamics Of Atmospheric Regions |
| BSDI | Berkeley Software Design |
| FSK | Frequency Shift Key(ing) |
| LSI | Lunar Science Institute |
| PPP | Parallelizing PreProcessor |
| BACH | Biosphere-atmosphere-chemistry |