| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPN | NOAA Profiler Network |
| JOI | Joint Oceanographic Institutions |
| NSFNF | Non-NSF Non-funded |
| F | Forad |
| CDS | Coronal Doppler Spectrometer |
| APA | American Planning Association |
| ESDIM | Earth System Data And Information Management |
| VIMHEX | Venezuela International Meteorological And Hydrological Experiments |
| HRDI | High Resolution Doppler Interferometer |
| SDVR | Single-Doppler Velocity Retrieval |