| Acronym | Meaning |
| NACOA | National Advisory Committee On Oceans And Atmosphere |
| JCP/ PO | Joint Climate Program/Projects Office |
| NCSA | National Center For Supercomputing Applications |
| AWSMSC | Air Weather Service Master Station Catalog |
| BAC | Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry |
| SMOW | Standard Mean Ocean Water |
| ETH | Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule |
| ASM | American Society For Metals |
| ELDORA | Electra Doppler Radar |
| AMI-2 | Active Microwave Instrument 2 |