| Acronym | Meaning |
| PILPS | Program For Intercomparison Of Land Surface Parameterization Schemes |
| AXBT | Expendable Bathythermographs Air Dropped Temperature Device |
| BFPQ | Block Floating Point Quantizer |
| DEAR | Department Of Energy Acquisition Regulation |
| PMIP | Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project |
| HRDL | High-resolution Doppler Lidar |
| PSA | Problem Statement Analyzer |
| BNL | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| RPS | Routine Product Set |
| NPSNET | NASCOM Packet Switched Subnetwork |