| Acronym | Meaning |
| FDM | Full-depth Model |
| CAS | Cooperative Application Satellite |
| STOL | Short Takeoff And Landing |
| LSD | Large-scale Dynamics |
| GCMC | Global Climate Modeling Group |
| MAPCON | A Routine Developed By Unidata For Contouring NPS Gridded Data On A Background Map From NetCDF Files |
| MSISR | Millstone Hill Incoherent Scatter Radar |
| BAMS | Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society |
| ISR | Individual Schedule Request |
| BANSHEE | Beam Accelerator For Novel Super High Energy Electron |