| Acronym | Meaning |
| USPHS | United States Public Health Service |
| SSM/R | Special Sensor Microwave Radiometer |
| AWC | Aviation Weather Center |
| TDM | Three-dimensional Time-varying Mesoscale Model |
| SSC | Superconducting Super Collider |
| DICOMED | Online Graphics Recorder Used At NCAR For Producing Microfilm And Microfiche Output |
| UIL | Upper Interval Limit |
| TOPEX/POSEIDON | Ocean Topography Experiment |
| VUG | Visualization Users Group |
| FE | Front-end |