| Acronym | Meaning |
| NATS | NCAR Aircraft (or Airborne) Telemetry System |
| NRCC | National Research Council Of Canada |
| DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| GEOSAT | Geodesy Satellite |
| MRI | Minority Research Initiation |
| IFR | Instrument Flight Rules |
| B SCALE | Synoptic Scale Ranging From 100 To 1 |
| PACS | Pan-American Climate Studies |
| HIGH-SLIP | Or High Slip |
| ISOS | International Southern Ocean Study |