| Acronym | Meaning |
| FTSC | FSL Technical Steering Committee |
| JASON | Group Of Physicists At Stanford That Study Various Projects And Are Funded By Government Defense Money |
| EPC | Emergency Planning Commission |
| POP | Photochemical Oxidation And Products |
| IRCAT | Infrared Radiometer To Detect (CAT) Horizontal Temperature Gradients |
| NAT | Nitric Acid Trihydrate |
| CAB | CCSM Advisory Board |
| TOPEX | Topographic Ocean Experiment |
| SSD | Cray's Solid-state Storage Device On The CRAY X-MP/48 Computer |
| ATLANTA-ANARCHE | Atlanta Aerosol Nucleation And Real-time Characterization Experiment |