| Acronym | Meaning |
| OCME | Oceanographic Community Modeling Effort |
| EIS | Environmental Impact Statement |
| ADL | Alexandria Digital Library |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| GMCC | Geophysical Monitoring For Climatic Change |
| LDS | Loral Defense Systems |
| FEST | Fronts Experiment Systems Test |
| GAGE | Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
| CAST | Chinese Academy Of Space Technology |
| RDA | Remote Database Access |