| Acronym | Meaning |
 | SIE | Scale Interation Equipment |
 | FSL | Forecast Systems Laboratory |
 | OEA | Office Of External Affairs |
 | MLO | Mauna Loa Observatory |
 | AO | Arctic Oscillation |
 | AEC | Associate Enforcement Counsel |
 | PCM | Parallel Climate Model |
 | PLDS | Pilot Land Data System |
 | NGTG | NCAR GARP Task Group |
 | MAPCON | A Routine Developed By Unidata For Contouring NPS Gridded Data On A Background Map From NetCDF Files |