| Acronym | Meaning |
| JWG | Joint Working Group |
| CAT | Coordinated Analysis Of The Thermosphere |
| DRPN | Division De Recherche En Precision Numerique |
| ATLID | Atmospheric LIDAR |
| GFLOPS | Gigaflops |
| LERC | Lewis Research Center |
| ESRO | European Space Research Organization |
| GINI | GOES Ingest & NOAAPORT Interface |
| EFTC | European Fluorocarbon Technical Committee |
| REGCM | Regional Climate Model |