| Acronym | Meaning |
| AQSM | Air Quality Simulation Model |
| AWDAAS | Automatic Weather Data Acquisition And Archiving System |
| IRS | Information Retrieval Service |
| MCV | Mesoscale Cyclonic Vortex |
| SAVE | Stratospheric Aerosol Validation Experiment |
| JAWS | Joint Airport Weather Studies |
| SSC | Superconducting Super Collider |
| WVF | Water Vapor Flux |
| IBM RT | The IBM RISC Technology Computer System |
| CBO | Carrier Balloon/Omegasonde |