| Acronym | Meaning |
| ICSU | International Council Of Science |
| ACF | Automatic Control Feature |
| IRLS | Interrogation & Reading Location System |
| ELVIS | Export Licensing Voice Information System |
| AWIPS | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System |
| PRMS | Precipitation Runoff Modeling System |
| THREDDS | Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services |
| GB | Gigabits |
| TIDI | TIMED Doppler Interferometer |
| SAR | Subcommittee On Atmospheric Research |