| Acronym | Meaning |
| DTF | Data Test Facility |
| OAR | Office Of Atmospheric Research |
| BFPQ | Block Floating Point Quantizer |
| LAMP | Laboratoire Associe De Meteorologie Physique |
| AXAF | Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility |
| FPS | Feet Per Second |
| MLSO | Mauna Loa Solar Observatory |
| SOI | Solar Oscillations Imager |
| METAPPS | Meteorological Applications Task Force |
| AP | Administrative Procedure |