| Acronym | Meaning |
| ISF | International Symposium On Forecasting |
| UNIX | A Computer Operating System Developed By AT&T And Modified Extensively By The University Of California At Berkeley |
| ALE/GAGE | Atmospheric Lifetime Experiment/Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| F77 | FORTRAN77 |
| BCS | Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer |
| IEIS | Integrated Earth Information Server |
| AEA | Atomic Energy Authority |
| IASPEI | International Association Of Seismology And Physics Of The Earth's Interior |
| HVPS | High-volume Precipitation Spectrometer |