| Acronym | Meaning |
| LAC | Local Area Coverage |
| APLJHU | Applied Physics Laboratory John Hopkins University |
| MSLP | Mean Sea-level Pressure |
| APS | Array Processing System |
| ODP | Ocean Drilling Program |
| ASTEX | Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment |
| EMO | Environmental Management Office |
| WKD | Wallace-Kratohvil Distribution |
| SSD | Cray's Solid-state Storage Device On The CRAY X-MP/48 Computer |
| IRIS | Incorporated Research Institutions For Seismology |