| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOM | Annual Operating & Maintenance |
| NGO | Non-Government Organizations |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| CAA | Clean Air Act |
| AR | Administrative Requirement |
| PDT | Product Development Team |
| CCSM | Community Climate System Model |
| C2F3CL3 | CFC-113 |
| EOF | Empirical Orthogonal Function |
| HCSN | High-Capacity Satellite Network |