| Acronym | Meaning |
| FLOP | Floating Point Operations |
| ACM | Association For Computing Machinery |
| ERDA | Energy Research And Development Administration |
| F77 | FORTRAN77 |
| IDOE | International Decade Of Ocean Exploration |
| GEO 2000 | National Science Foundation's Geosciences Beyond 2000 |
| RO | Solar Radius |
| SIPRI | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
| MRF | Medium-Range Forecast |
| ARGOS | Data Collection And Location System |