| Acronym | Meaning |
| GEWEX | Continental-Scale Project |
| SSD | Cray's Solid-state Storage Device On The CRAY X-MP/48 Computer |
| DORIS | Doppler Orbitography & Radiopositioning Integrated By Satellite |
| IDCS | Image-dissector Camera System |
| EURAM | European Research In Advanced Materials |
| OSSA | Office Of Space Science And Applications |
| MPOA | Multi-Protocol Over ATM |
| TUTT | Tropical Upper-tropospheric Trough |
| CAT | Coordinated Analysis Of The Thermosphere |
| SG | Semigeostrophic |