| Acronym | Meaning |
| DRGS | Direct Read-out Ground Station |
| NAWAU | National Aviation Weather Advisory Unit |
| UI | Unit Of Issue |
| AAOE | Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment |
| FATS | Forward Area Target Surveillance System |
| MKS | Meter-kilogram-second System Of Measurement |
| IGY | International Geophysical Year |
| MDR | Manually Digitized Radar |
| SLT | Semi-Lagrangian Transport |
| SPAN | Space Physics Analysis Network |