| Acronym | Meaning |
| NACOA | National Advisory Committee On Oceans And Atmosphere |
| PACX | Private Automatic Computer Exchange |
| NGDC | National Geophysical Data Center |
| DRPN | Division De Recherche En Precision Numerique |
| DOPLIGHT | Doppler And Lightning Program |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| GAC | Global Atmospheric Chemistry |
| FAO | Food And Agriculture Organization |
| TIROS | Thermal Infrared Observational Satellite |
| PILPS | Program For Intercomparison Of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes |