| Acronym | Meaning |
| AFSC | Air Force Systems Command |
| WARN | Weather-Auto Relay Network |
| USJGOFS | United States Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |
| BLP | Boundary Layer Profiler |
| IIPS | Interactive Information And Processing Systems [for Meteorology |
| CACM | Communications Of The ACM |
| WMS | World Magnetic Survey |
| PMS | Platform Management System |
| WGNE | Working Group On Numerical Experimentation |
| PRECIP | Processing Of Emissions By Clouds And Precipitation |