| Acronym | Meaning |
| GIPS | Billions Of Instructions Per Second |
| EACR | Environmental Area Characterization Report |
| HIPPI | High Performance Parallel Interface |
| HRDI | High Resolution Doppler Interferometer |
| SSBLIM | Snow Shading Boundary Layer Interaction Measurement |
| NSFF | NSF Funded |
| DR | Discrepancy Report |
| ACC | Abnormal Condition Control |
| EOFS | Empirical Orthogonal Functions |
| VIMHEX | Venezuela International Meteorological And Hydrological Experiments |