| Acronym | Meaning |
| OCME | Oceanographic Community Modeling Effort |
| IAU | International Astronomical Union |
| ESFU | Enhanced Standard Format Unit |
| PAM | Portable Automated Mesonet |
| SPL | SLATEC Plotting Library |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration |
| MSI | Maximum Strategy |
| DART | Data Assimilation Research Testbed |
| ALBURT | Albuquerque Budget Reform Task |
| WGNE | Working Group On Numerical Experimentation |