| Acronym | Meaning |
| EERU | Environmental Emergency Response Unit |
| ASTHO | Association Of State & Territorial Health Officials |
| EODC | Earth Observation Data Centre |
| CBL | Convective Boundary Layer |
| AGS | Alternating-gradient Synchrotron |
| KOSAMP | Kuwait Oil-Fire Smoke Atmospheric Measurements Program |
| AMS | Army Map Service |
| IWGDMGC | Interagency Working Group On Data Management For Global Change |
| WGNE | Working Group On Numerical Experimentation |
| ULTRIX | UNIX-based Operating System For Digital Equipment Corporation Computers |