| Acronym | Meaning |
| AOML | Atlantic Ocean Meteorological Laboratory |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| NSCAT | NASA Scatterometer |
| STEPS | Severe Thunderstorm Electrification And Precipitation Study |
| DBSS | Directed Balloon Sounding System |
| MIP | Millions Of Instructions Per Second |
| XANADU | Software Name |
| ENEA | Comitato Nazionale Per La Ricerca E Lo Sviluppo Dell' Energia Nucleare E Delle Energie Alternative |
| GISMOS | Global Incoherent Scatter Measurements Of Substorms |
| ICAMR | Interdepartmental Committee On Applied Meteorological Research |