| Acronym | Meaning |
| NAS | National Airspace System |
| BCS | Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer |
| JONSWAP | Joint North Sea Wave Project |
| AMR | Advanced Microwave Radiometer |
| BAPMON | Baseline Air Pollution Monitoring Network |
| WSMR | White Sands Missile Range |
| DIS | Defense Intelligence Service |
| AGASP | Arctic Gas And Aerosol Sampling Program |
| MTA | Message Transfer Agent |
| G-M | Gent-McWilliams Parameterization Scheme |