| Acronym | Meaning |
| NPG | Naval Proving Ground |
| TIPMEX | Tibetan Plateau Meteorological Experiment |
| SWCP | South West Cooperative Program |
| SCEP | Study Of Critical Environmental Problems |
| NASCAS | NAS Committee On Atmospheric Sciences |
| GGEM | Gravity Gradiometer Explore Mission |
| UNAVCO | University NAVSTAR [not An Acronym] Consortium |
| AMOS | Automatic Meteorological Observation System |
| PBYTE | Petabyte (1015bytes) |
| DES | Data Encryption Standard |