| Acronym | Meaning |
| WRP | Weather Research Program |
| SMSC | Shared-Memory Supercomputer Systems |
| FWPCA | Federal Water Pollution Control Act |
| ET | Evapotranspiration |
| QJRMS | Quarterly Journal Of The Royal Meteorological Society |
| CAG | Carcinogen Assessment Group |
| AIS | Accumulator Injection System |
| JCL | Job Control Language |
| NHRE | National Hail Research Experiment |
| JGOFS | Joint Global Ocean Flux Study |