| Acronym | Meaning |
| HAPEX | Hydrological Atmospheric Pilot Experiment |
| MARC | Middle Atmosphere Responses To Changes |
| MPDATA | Multidimensional Positive Definite Advection Algorithm |
| SMART-RADAR | The Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research And Teaching Radar |
| FDA | Food And Drug Administration |
| IIPS | Interactive Information And Processing Systems [for Meteorology |
| GEMPAK | General Meteorological Package |
| GPS/MET | GPS Meteorological Satellite |
| SG | Semigeostrophic |
| AXBT | Air-Deployed Expendable Bathythermographs |