| Acronym | Meaning |
| POES | Polar Operational Environmental Satellite |
| ALE | Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| HDS | High-resolution Data Service |
| OMO | Office Of Meteorological Observations |
| LAPS | Local Area Prediction System |
| ARRL | Amateur Radio Relay League |
| RDR | Radar |
| SCATT | Scatterometer |
| AL/FPMD | AL Facilities Planning & Maintenance Division |