| Acronym | Meaning |
| NWS | Naval Weather Service |
| WGNE | Working Group On Numerical Experimentation |
| SSB | Single Sideband |
| MMD | Mass Median Diameter |
| FOS | Flight Operations Segment |
| DAWG | Data Assimilation Working Group |
| INSTEP | Indonesian Seas Flow Through Experiment |
| TECC | Tropospheric Effects Of Cloud Chemistry Program |
| IIPS | Interactive Information And Processing Systems [for Meteorology |
| FFDCA | Federal Food, Drug, And Cosmetic Act (US) |