| Acronym | Meaning |
| WX | Weather |
| USERC | United States Environmental And Resources Council |
| IBM AT | IBM Advanced Technology Personal Computer |
| PSC | Polar Stratospheric Cloud |
| FDDA | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| ACT | Atmospheric Chemical Transformations |
| DFW | Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport |
| QCMS | Quality Control Monitoring System |
| ALE | Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian |
| NOGAPS | U.S. Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System |