| Acronym | Meaning |
| FIPS | Federal Information Processing Standard |
| GATE | Global Atmospheric Research Programme Atlantic Tropical Experiment |
| ACF | Acid Concentrator Feed |
| BAC | Budgeted Cost At Completion |
| GSWM | Global Scale Wave Model |
| WIMPS | Weakly Interacting Massive Particles |
| GRI | Gas Research Institute |
| ESSA | Environmental Science Services Administration |
| AGFA | Advanced Gust Front Algorithm |
| NDVI | Greeness Index From Satellites |