| Acronym | Meaning |
| CCOPE | Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment |
| BMFT | Bundesminsterium Fur Forschung Und Technologie |
| IAD | Dulles International Airport |
| DMMR | Distributed-Memory Microprocessor Systems |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems |
| STACS | Subtropical Atlantic Climate Studies |
| WFO | Weather Forecast Office |
| RGSP | Review Of Geophysics And Space Physics |
| AFB | Atmospheric Fluidized Bed |
| PD | Positive Definite |